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21 February 2008

OMG! What a mess!


I have received an email attachment recently from a friend. I was shocked to see the picture. I couldn’t believe my eyes to see such a disastrous scenario, the good news are these electric and telecommunication cables are still functioning and in use.

09 February 2008

A freeware Standalone audio encoder


This audio encoder is an audio transcoding tool nased on MediaCoder. It capable of decoding almost all popular formats of audio files as well as audio stream in video files and encodes them with all its supported (and even some not claimed supported) audio encoders. It is equipped with CUE Sheet and DVD/VCD/CD support and many additional features, audio enthusiasts can convert all their favorite music freely to any format on-the-fly and in batch.
Features :-

· Supports almost all popular audio formats
· Converts audio track in video files
· Converts audio track of DVD/VCD/CD
· Converts nework streaming audio
· Batch and on-the-fly audio transcoding
· Supports CUE Sheet and M3U playlist
This audio encoder also supports DSP plug-ins that Winamp supports. There you are, now all of you music rippers out there can now mix up some good tunes for your audio devices.

Check out their website to download the software and for more info at :

MediaCoder

FREE PDF FILES TO WORD DOC CONVERTER

How many of you have ever wish that you can edit your pdf files by converting them into the MSoffice Word doc? Sometime it is necessary to edit pdf files that you have downloaded or perhaps you receive from a friends. But to simply edit pdf files is not so easy since you need to have the relevant pdf program. Look no further, this program called PDF to Word Doc Converter will do the trick and save your day. You can learn and download the program at
HelloPdf or you can click Download Now




I have included the following steps to get you going straight away. It easy and very useful. Try it yourself.
1) Open Free PDF to Word Doc Converter.
2) Click the left-top button to open the source PDF file. The input PDF file and the output Doc file's paths will be shown in the edit boxes.
3) Select the options you want to use, in the "General Options" group.
4) If you want to open the output doc file automatically after conversion, check the "Open Document for editing" checkbox. Select the doc reader which can be Windows WordPad or the default Windows program such as MS Word, Open Office Doc Writter.
5) Click the "Convert to Word Document" button to start converting PDF to Word.

06 February 2008

Climatic Changes

(Alternative theory)

Ever read about the dramatic changes in climate these past few years? The New Straits Times, Sat Feb 2nd 2007 reads “Britain battered by blizzards” and John Matthews, from a Fleetwood Royal Navy vessel describes the Irish Sea as ‘horrendous’. The same goes for China which experiences the worst winter weather in 50 years. Situation was so bad that 105 million people were affected. Out of these 64 were killed, many were stranded due to transport problems, many were sick or injured especially during the Chinese New Year rush to get home, food was running out, electricity and fuel affecting many more.

In other parts of the world, Australia is hit by unusually heavy floods and so is Jakarta, Indonesia. Saudi Arabia saw sudden high rainfalls flooding and even snowfalls in some places. Something which never happened in history before.

There has also been a rise in seismic activities all around the world these past few years. All occurring along the ring of fire that snakes through most of South Asia towards Japan and the rest of the world.

Not only has the weather gone haywire but sea creatures are being found not in their usual habitat. Barracudas’ were fished of Britain’s coast and the garfish, usually found in colder waters was fished recently in Malaysia’s rivers.

What is happening to our Earth I wonder?

THEORIES BEHIND CLIMATIC CHANGES

Some of the theories behind climatic changes are

1. Variations in the Earth's orbital characteristics.
2. Atmospheric carbon dioxide variations.
3. Volcanic eruptions
4. Variations in solar output.
5. Large-Scale Ocean Current Conveyor Belt
6. Earth Albedo

I will not go into scientific detail on each and every one of these. For those who are interested, please refer to the websites listed in the references below and others that you may find on the internet.

References:
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Causes_of_climate_change
http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/lia/possible_causes.html
http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/7y.html

The recent climatic change has been commonly blamed on increased carbon-dioxide gas emissions causing the polar ice to melt at an abnormally higher rate than before (Readers Digest Jan 2008: The Facts about global warming) but I have an alternative theory, a bit far fetched but a theory never the less.

I prefer a combination of theory no. 1 (Variations in the Earth's orbital characteristics) above and no. 2 (Large-Scale Ocean Current Conveyor Belt). I suspect that the Tsunami that hit the coast of Banda Aceh, Indonesia on the 26th December, 2004 is the main culprit. The underwater earthquake that triggered this major event shook our world like no one alive has seen before. According to the Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia;-

With a magnitude of between 9.1 and 9.3, it is the second largest earthquake ever recorded on a seismograph. This earthquake had the longest duration of faulting ever observed, between 8.3 and 10 minutes. It caused the entire planet to vibrate as much as 1 cm (0.5 inches)[1] and triggered other earthquakes as far away as Alaska.

With a magnitude this big, there is a huge possibility that the Earth’s Axis might have been affected. Even a minor change can and will affect the Earths climate as noticed during the past few years. I am not in the position to prove this scientifically at the moment but friends and relatives have notice a slight change in the position of the rising sun in the place where they have lived for the past 20 – 30 years. It is minimal but noticeable. The theory behind the tilt affecting the climate is that the Earth’s tilt changes every 41,000 years and can deviate between 22.5 to 24.5 degrees. Unfortunately, with the earthquake of Indonesia, known by the scientific community as the ‘Great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake’, there might have been an advanced change in the tilt unnoticed by many.

When the Earth’s tilt changes, well so does the world’s ocean flow. Which in return affects the climate even more (and sends fishes in the wrong direction of the world which explains why some fish species are found far away from their normal breeding grounds). Should there be a major volcanic eruption in the near future, this will affect the climate even more.

World’s Ocean Current Flow.

References:

1. http://www.eoearth.org/article/Causes_of_climate_change
2. http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/lia/possible_causes.html
3. http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/7y.html
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_tsunami
5. www.redcross.org/images/pdfs/TRP2YrReport.pdf


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