Violent Crimes : UK worse than South Africa ?

Very interesting article from the DailyMail in the UK.

South Africa has lost it’s first position as the most violent country in the world.

It has been overtaken by the UK and Austria, and now only takes 3rd place according to this survey.

I still wonder how exactly they do these surveys.

but this statement also explains much better as well:

“violent crime, while in other countries it will only be logged if a person is physically injured.

There are also degrees of violence. While the UK ranks above South Africa for all violent crime, South Africans suffer more than 20,000 murders each year - compared with Britain’s 921 in 2007.”

That said, the murders in South Africa is absolutely past scary.

Wonder if the UK is getting more violent because most South Africans are moving there.

Starcraft 2 : NO LAN SUPPORT ?

This is rediculous, Blizzard announced yesterday, that they will not be supporting LAN in their upcoming much anticipated sequel to Starcraft, Starcraft 2 which hopefully will still be released in 2009.

Living in a country where bandwidth does not come cheap, it is appalling that Blizzard has made us fall in love with Starcraft, and now take it away from us, just by making you play online, where it will mean us forking out a lot of money out of our pockets to play for FREE on their Battlefield.net server.

One of the reasons why they made this decision is bacause of piracy, but I think this make the “hackers/crackers” to target Blizzard software for making these decisions.

If this will continue and Blizzard does continue with the implementation of their plan, they will be loosing a lot of respect from their client base, and loosing loyal players (and buyers) of Starcraft.

This is my #FAIL for today.

Sex in the City VS The Matrix

Classic!

Rethink Speed when Developing

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For more check out the original article at The Official Google Blog.

Wedding Anniversary

Wow, what a day.

Spent most of my day today with Cindy celebrating our 4th wedding anniversary. Amazing how time flies, and how wonderful it is to have your own family to love an cherish.

Thanks for an Amazing 4 years BABES !