| Swede leads Qatar Masters
Swede Johan Edfors shot a scintillating six-under-par 66 to take a two-shot lead after the second round of the $US2.5 million ($A2.84 million) Qatar Masters on Saturday. Edfors, who was tied for the third place in a pack of six players on 69 at the end of the first round on Friday, blazed a birdie trail at the Doha Golf course on a day when the chill caught many by surprise. He hit the best score of the tournament so far, which included seven birdies and a bogey on the fourth hole. Enjoying a purple patch on the front nine, he picked up successive birdies on the fifth, sixth and seventh holes to set himself up nicely for the rest of the tournament with an aggregate of nine-under-par 135. Trailing Edfors by two shots were South African Charl Schwartzel and England's Lee Westwood on seven-under-par 137, while Sweden's Alexander Noren, South African Anton Haig, Englishmen Ross McGowan and David Howell were in third place a shot behind.
Bedside stories
Thank you so much, Finnish researcher Maria Jonsdottir and your team of psychologists for these revelations. What a relief for us older persons who have, until now, been mocked and assumed to be losing our marbles. We even believed it ourselves, it happens so often. I listen to my answering machine messages, I press delete, the messages have gone, but so has the memory, within seconds. Same with call waiting. Who called? Who did I promise to ring back? Haven't a clue. I look up a word in a glossary, I reach the glossary, I've forgotten the word. But it doesn't matter any more, because the darling Ms Jonsdottir says so. The brain is at fault, says she, but there's nothing wrong with the brain. Memory loss isn't a sign of decrepitude, it's just a normal "storage failure" or "action slip".
Lessons from Big Auto's disastrous missteps
Traditionally I've been bullish about emerging technology in cars. Automotive audio, video and navigation are not subject to the limits of battery power, infrastructure and consumer indifference that stymie the rollout of new products like digital televisions and video-over-cellular services. In cars, new technology works. Consumers see the value, and they are willing to pay. But that is the after-market. At the automotive mothership that is the factory production line, the tech news is far grimmer. Carmakers play the role of innovators - there is much talk here about new power plants and improved navigation and multimedia - but from a technological perspective, it's mostly smoke and mirrors. Today's cars sport cool gadgets and spiffy bodies, but inside they have the same old internally combusted engines and roll on the same old rubber tires.
CHICAGO CENTRAL: First-Look Pix, Specs & Analysis
This monster is the big-rig equivalent of a Harley-Davidson dresser, though it's closer to a private jet than an 18-wheeler inside—and gets 5 to 15-percent more fuel efficiency thanks to its aerodynamic design.FACELIFT: 2009 Acura RL Stays Tech-Heavy Inside, Gets Bolder OutsideCOMPLETE COVERAGE: 2008 Chicago Auto Show .
Denial and the coming “data meltdown”
IT Project Failures Latest Post | Last 10 Posts | Archives Previous Post: "Enterprise software won't get you laid" Next Post: How would you make an enterprise software blog sexy? Denial and the coming "data meltdown" Posted in: IT issues CIO issues Risk Availability and reliability Subodh Bapat, Sun Microsystems eco-computing vice president, believes we'll soon see the first world-class data center meltdown. According to News.com: "You'll see a massive failure in a year," Bapat said at a dinner with reporters on Monday. "We are going to see a data center failure of that scale." "That scale" referred to the problems caused by the worm created by Cornell grad student Robert Morris Jr. in 1988.
Ton-up electric Reliant Robin offered for '09
Californian electrocar firm ZAP has brought down a veritable ink storm in the British press lately regarding its planned new 156mph Alias electric sports "car". The Blighty-side hackswarm could be accounted for by the facts that the car is a) a three-wheeler, allowing (nay, necessitating) Trotters Independent Traders references, and b) has involvement from Lotus. The news in this case is that ZAP reckon they can get the car from drawing board to road by 2009, which has given rise to incredulity from serious motor-tech analysts. .
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