Spent my Sunday at Sunway Lagoon with my office colleagues. My camera was in the locker the whole time so the only moment I managed to capture was Mr. Tiger  on the way out.

Anyways, it was a fun and tiring day and to top it off I fell for a sales trick by Sunway. The wrist band provided had a RM10 refundable deposit on it which I had not idea of. On the way out a sales girl ask me to return the wrist band in exchange for a free watch. What happened to my RM10? Stepping out of the gift store a tour guide walked up to me saying I should have said “no” to the free watch and gone to the ticket counter instead for my RM10. Damn……

This was the scene at the petrol kiosk near my housing estate in Cheras.

I did not fuel up and so did many of my friends. We tried our luck at kiosks around but all of them had piles of cars waiting to fuel up. It just wasn’t worth it.

Waiting in line for hours just to save 30 bucks is not me. I’m gonna eventually have to follow the new increased price moving forward so instead, I decided to not smoke for 3 days to cover my loses.

Think green for nature and your pocket. I know many don’t agree with me on this but this is just my opinion.

This is the latest webcast from Google titled “Google Factory Tour of Search”. It’s centered around where Google currently is and where it plans to go in the near future. Google’s latest service Google Health is also introduced in the webcast.

Some of the topics I found especially interesting.

1. Universal search.
2. Enhanced image search.
   • Image recognition.
3. New cluster.
   • Finance news.
   • Visualizing finance news.
   • Global finance news.
4. Experimental search.
5. Google trends.
6. Google Map.
   • Street View (Freakin cool!!)
   • Local search
   • Live edits
7. Google Health
   • Open platform
8. QA session

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Here are some screen shots to support my previous post about Fedora 9 “Sulphur”.

1. GNUMAN.org
2. The Coding Studio

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A spanking new release of Google Earth is out. The latest 4.3 release comes with Photo Realistic 3D modeling for buildings, “Swoop navigation” for an improved navigation experience, “Light and shadow” to catch sunrise and sunset from anywhere and finally the popular “Street View” which was previously a Google Maps only feature.

Now something to excite Linux users, Google Earth is now available for Linux. Not on WINE as but as a native application based on Qt and openGL. I’m yet to try it but for those who have I have heard nothing but good reviews with some minor glitches.

However Google Earth for Linux currently only supports the i386 architecture and seems to only work with 32bit processors.

The embedded video speaks for itself.

Download the latest Google Earth