April 2, 2008 by MelakaToday
| On a clear day, the view from the top will take in the Middle East, North Africa and the Indian Ocean - providing you’ve a head for heights. |
Plans for a mile-high tower in the Saudi Arabian desert have been unveiled by the billionaire owner of London’s Savoy Hotel.
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At 5,250ft, the Ł5billion project, masterminded by two British engineering consultancies, will be twice as high as its nearest rivals, skyscrapers under construction in Dubai and Kuwait, and almost seven times as high as the Canary Wharf tower in London’s Docklands.
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It is being planned for a new city near the Red Sea port of Jeddah. Behind the scheme is 51-year-old Prince al-Walid bin Talal, who bought the Savoy for Ł1.25billion in 2005.
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The plan gives the Middle East a clear lead over Asian countries and the U.S., who have vied in the past to construct the world’s tallest buildings.
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None of the other skyscrapers under construction, including New York’s Freedom Tower on the World Trade Centre site, will exceed 2,296ft.
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March 15, 2008 by MelakaToday
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” - Henry Miller
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain
“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” - Miriam Beard
“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” - Bill Bryson
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” - Robert Frost
“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.”
“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” - Paul Theroux
“A wise traveler never despises his own country.” - Carlo Goldoni
 1. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” - Mark Twain
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2. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” - St. Augustine |
6. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” - Jack Kerouac |
7. “He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” - Moorish proverb |
8. “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” - Dagobert D. Runes |
9. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” - John Steinbeck |
10. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” - Lin Yutang |
13. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” - Robert Louis Stevenson |
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March 15, 2008 by MelakaToday
Pi(Ď€) appears where you least expect it.
Coincidentally, Pi Day is also the birthday of Albert Einstein, who no doubt knew more than a little about pi. Pi Day celebrants, usually children with an enthusiastic teacher and a varying degree of personal interest in the subject, learn about pi, circles, and, if they’re lucky, eat baked pies of various sorts.
| It’s Pi Day, a celebration of the mathematical ratio that man has been trying to unlock for millennia. But why are we driven to find the answers behind it? |
As we’re all taught at school, pi represents the number you get when you divide the distance around a circle (its circumference) by the distance across (the diameter).
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The rough ratio of pi 3.14 gives us the date for Pi Day. March 14, or 3/14 in American dating style, makes sense for a celebration of this famous constant.
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| Pi, more commonly known by the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet, is the most widely-known mathematical constant in the world. |
| Pi conjures a sense of mystery, so the symbol makes regular appearances in popular culture - it’s the secret code in both Alfred Hitchcock’s Torn Curtain and the Sandra Bullock vehicle The Net. |
| the great mathematician Archimedes worked tirelessly to discover the ratio |
Pi can be found in the design of the pyramids at Giza |
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March 15, 2008 by MelakaToday
“According to human rights organizations more than 4,000 gay men and women have been hanged in Iran since the revolution in 1979. Homosexuality is considered illegal in Iran.”
The flight that will take young Medhi Kazemi
from Amsterdam to London, from where he will be deported to
Iran, is booked for tuesday february 26th. Everyone Group is
appealing to the European Union to overrule the British
government’s decision, and grant the 19-year-old political
asylum. |
Medhi is an Iranian homosexual who in November
2005 left Teheran to go and study in London. He was forced
to apply for asylum to the British Home Office after the
discovery, by the Iranian authorities of his homosexual
relationship with another boy, who had already been
sentenced to death and executed in April 2006. |
“We invite civil society to express its
indignation towards the actions of the British Government,
aimed at undermining the values of freedom and dignity of
the individual”. |
say the representatives
of EveryOne |
| Two gay men being executed in Iran |
| Picture courtesy of Homan, the Iranian Gay, Lesbian, Bi-Sexual and Transgender Organization. Yeah, a blog from those people who don’t exist |
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March 12, 2008 by MelakaToday
An Italian team of archaeologists unearthed the bowl in the 1970s from a burial site in Iran’s Burnt City, but it was only recently that researchers noticed the images on the bowl tell an animated visual story. |
| The oldest cartoon character in the world is a goat leaping to get the leaves on a tree. |
| The Burnt City (Shar-i Sokhta) is a site in Iran that dates to about 2600 BC, and has seen some decades of investigation. |
| Some researchers claimed the tree on the bowl to be the Assyrian Tree of Life, but the bowl dates to a period before the Assyrian civilization. |
Bugs Bunny has nothing to worry about yet, if you ask me. |
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March 7, 2008 by MelakaToday
Create good, solid RSS feeds for newsreader syndication.
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Ensure that your blog page design works on — at least — Microsoft Internet Explorer and Firefox for Windows and Macs.
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Let customers know about what products and services you offer along with pricing guidelines.
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Have a professional create your layout — it’s a small price to ensure you have a standards compliant site that is accessible to the most people.
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Get a relevant and easy to remember URL address and site name.
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Don’t clutter your blog with a lot of ads and other diversions — people mostly want to see what they came to see. Make sure they can see it easily.
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Refrain from using animations or anything that requires the user to install a plug-in.
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Avoid a black background — it’s almost always wrong for a business site.
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Do not make the creation of revenue more important than the blog itself. If you are going for revenue, do not let it interfere with the delivery or content of your blog.
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March 6, 2008 by MelakaToday
(Media Conference Statement (2) by DAP Ipoh Timor parliamentary candidate Lim Kit Siang at Ipoh Timor Ops Centre on Wednesday, 5th March 2008)
IGP should suspend Segamat OCPD for using force on seven-month pregnant woman DAP candidate in Labis to demonstrate police respect for women dignity and rights. |
The Johore police called an unprecedented 1.30 am press conference in Johore Baru yesterday morning to give their version of the scuffle over a mike between the Segamat OCPD Supt Abd Majid Mohd Ali and the seven-month pregnant woman DAP candidate for Labis Teo Eng Ching in Labis on Monday at about 2.30 pm during my 24-hour four-state 11-stop election whistlestop tour. |
This is a reflection of the power of the internet for immediately after the scuffle in Labis at about 3 pm, the Internet was abuzz with reports of a police officer in a scuffle with a seven-month pregnant DAP parliamentary candidate which resulting in her being hospitalized, creating concerns about the health and welfare of both the mother and the unborn child. |
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