Pluto is now Officially Downgraded

Sorry had to search on this before posting as it was rumoured for some time and has even been Quoted on many spoof reportsbut it is now Official following the resolution by the IAU Pluto will be the bench mark for a new and growing class of planet called Plutons or whick Pluto will now be a part

for more from IAU here is the link

BBC News report

so now there is 12 planets in our solar system .. listed as follows Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Charon and 2003 UB313.

The Planet of Pluto was orriginally named by an 11 year old in 1930.. This link is from NASA and contains an interview with Venetia Phair

Battery Recalls – Apple and Dell

Following on From Dells historic battery recall .. Apple have Followed suit and have also issued a Recall

Please read the following pages for your respective machines

Dell

Apple – Page not appearing for me ..but here is the page from zdnet

amazing to see that sony have not issued a recall on the batteries used in their own laptops as of yet

So who are you really

whether it is homer or somthing else this blog has it all

blog link

ever wonder what your blog was worth

well here is a nice little api that will tell all

link is here on Business opportunities weblog

on a totally side note .. heres how to make a shirt out of a dollar bill

and here is some more Money Origami you can run up while waiting in a queue

Interviews ..

Acidentally browsed on to this and went .. Excellent well needed .. so here are 50 questions that are asked in interviews and some good answers to go with it ..

AOL Makes a woopsey .. data released..

it was only last sept when news was released about Maureen Govern was to become Chief Technology Officer with AOL..

having started with Bell in 1978 and moved onto motorola and then Convergys Corporation it was announced today that effective immediately she will be stepping down from this role.

Why you may be wondering.. have a read of some of the following articles relating to the personal data stored by 650,000 AOL users that was released last week

from Blog search at news.com which mentions possible FTC non compliance

Some of the fall out can be seen in this article about an AOL subscriber More from USATODAY.COM on this subscriber

Google says it could not happen to us .. but considering the amount of data google stores from desktop searches to each of their products .. it does not really bare thinking about

it is amazing when searching aol they have already removed her personal page on the whoswho where as john mckinley is still mentioned as “overseeing this area” of aol.

.. I could keep on going with pages on this subject but will conclude with this page which took me .. one google search to find

Bush Approved Surveilance Halted ..

The warrantless Internet and telephone surveillance program
authorized by the Bush administration violates the U.S. Constitution
and must cease immediately, a federal judge ruled Thursday

for more read this article entitled “Federal judge orders halt to NSA spy program | over on  ZDNet”

Long over due that Governments and Large Corporate bodies that invade the privacy of individuals should be held up before their own laws that call this Illegal

Lest we forget on the day .. 6 and 9th Anniversaries ..

When the sixties came I was not even a thought and when woodstock kicked in I was only an expression of the love between my mum and my da .. well thats what he always said and who am I to argue ..

but it is times like these that thoughts of the sixties revolution should come to the fore and we should stand up and be counted ..

it is sad browsing the net and seeing sites like this one Vietnam Generation Journal not being updated on a regular basis ..

so when I was growing up I heard all about woodstock .. martin luther king, malcolm x and other revolutionaries whether you agree with them or not it was a time for social upheaval and questions asked of state and man.. but did we hear of the stories of the forgotten marines (article written by Former Secretary of the Navy James Webb)

in light of what is happening in the middle east, israel and the lebanon, syria , north korea, africa, or where ever in the world it is time eyes were opened.. and mouth started action again .. Vietnam pics and quick snopsis here. another site to browse onto is Stop the War Coalition I suspect if I continued in posting there would be a myriad of sites to post here .. but that was not my point I am just tired of discussing history with a younger misinformed generation with biased views on history .. and as we all know history is writted by the victors and not those that have to survive the carnage left behind

here are some articles for you to read ..

Depleted weapons in the balkans

The Iraqi Fallout

Nagasaki, Hiroshima and related links