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You may not think of cell phones as dangerous but as their use rises, so does the risk of fires and other unexpected mishaps. There’ve been scattered reports of cell phones exploding and catching fire and even of cell phones emitting sparks that ignite gasoline fires. In response, the industry and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in USA have issued some safety tips.

Lithium-ion (Li-Ion) batteries, which are commonly found in today�s cellular phones, have a lot of energy in a small package, the commission notes. Li-Ion batteries are more sensitive to physical stress than alkaline batteries found in toys and flashlights and need to be treated with more care.

Neither CPSC nor the cell phone lobbyists made any mention of British researchers’ warnings that children should avoid using cell phones because of the risk of brain tumors from long-term exposure to radio frequency emissions.

Here are the safety tips from the CPSC and the cell phone industry’s lobbying arm:

1. Do not use incompatible cell phone batteries and chargers. Some Web sites and second-hand dealers, not associated with reputable manufacturers and carriers, might be selling incompatible or even counterfeit batteries and chargers. Consumers should purchase manufacturer or carrier recommended products and accessories. If unsure about whether a replacement battery or charger is compatible, contact the manufacturer of the battery or charger.

2. Do not permit a battery out of the phone to come in contact with metal objects, such as coins, keys or jewelry.

3. Do not crush, puncture or put a high degree of pressure on the battery as this can cause an internal short-circuit, resulting in overheating.

4. Avoid dropping the cell phone. Dropping it, especially on a hard surface, can potentially cause damage to the phone and battery. If you suspect damage to the phone or battery, take it to a service center for inspection.

5. Do not place the phone in areas that may get very hot, such as on or near a cooking surface, cooking appliance, iron, or radiator.

6. Do not get your phone or battery wet. Even though they will dry and appear to operate normally, the circuitry could slowly corrode and pose a safety hazard.

7. Follow battery usage, storage and charging guidelines found in the user�s guide.

CPSC handled three recalls last year — the Kyocera Smartphone, Kyocera Slider, K400 and 3200 Series and Verizon Wireless LG-brand cell phones.

“CPSC has received reports of incidents and injuries involving cell phones batteries and chargers in a variety of environments,” said CPSC Chairman Hal Stratton. “CPSC will continue to do its part by investigating and recalling batteries that present a safety hazard, and we ask that consumers do their part by following some basic safety steps in their day-to-day use of cell phone batteries.”

Credit: Consumer Affairs
First published: May 13, 2005 on Consumeraffairs.com

Your Windows box might be running slow for many reasons. Viruses, malwares and other user activities may affect the slowness of your computer

Your computer may be slow because you have inadequate RAM; perhaps your computer’s processor is not fast enough. All things being equal, your computer should not take too long to start-up.

I have done a lot of things in the past to boost the performance of my computer, it works out well, performance is improved but then you realize that, it takes a very long time for windows to start after all you have done.

When you experience this frustration, then this can really work for you. You can also try this out to satisfy your curiosity as well.

The Prefetch Directory

There is a windows directory by name prefetch. This directory stores files that are used to start Windows and other applications. Windows read into the prefetch to cache data that is expected to be requested. As programmes are installed and deleted, some data in prefetch directory become redundant. Some data in the prefetch directory may as well be useless and as data keep piled up, windows keep reading them into cache in the anticipation that they will be used. When it windows keep caching the prefetch directory, it takes longer time for the windows to load, the boot process becomes so slow

When the prefetch directory is empty, you will experience a faster Windows start-up, windows will boot faster with ease. You need to have an administrative privilege to empty the directory.

Method 1

Click on run from the start command and type prefetch. Now the prefetch window displays, delete the entire content of the folder.

Method 2

If you are very comfortable in working in the registry, you can also edit the registry keys.

Within the registry, you can set prefetch to function in several different ways. Prefetch can cache applications, boot up files, both, or you can disable it completely.

Click start, then click run

Type regedit

In the registry editor console, follow these steps

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters\EnablePrefetcher

To improve boot speed, set the following value in the registry to a value of 2.

Now, restart the computer and see access the boot performance

Tonight Minnesota, after 54 hard-fought contests, our primary season has finally come to an end.

Sixteen months have passed since we first stood together on the steps of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois.

Thousands of miles have been travelled. Millions of voices have been heard.

And because of what you said – because you decided that change must come to Washington; because you believed that this year must be different than all the rest; because you chose to listen not to your doubts or your fears but to your greatest hopes and highest aspirations, tonight we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another – a journey that will bring a new and better day to America.

Because of you, tonight, I can stand before you and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States of America.

I want to thank all those in Montana and South Dakota who stood up for change today. I want to thank every American who stood with us over the course of this campaign – through the good days and the bad; from the snows of Cedar Rapids to the sunshine of Sioux Falls.

And tonight I also want to thank the men and woman who took this journey with me as fellow candidates for president.

At this defining moment for our nation, we should be proud that our party put forth one of the most talented, qualified field of individuals ever to run for office.

I have not just competed with them as rivals, I have learned from them as friends, as public servants, as patriots who love America and are willing to work tirelessly to make this country better.

They are leaders of this party, and leaders that America will turn to for years to come.

Made history

And that is particularly true for the candidate who has travelled further on this journey than anyone else.

Senator Hillary Clinton has made history in this campaign not just because she’s a woman who has done what no woman has done before, but because she is a leader who inspires millions of Americans with her strength, her courage, and her commitment to the causes that brought us here tonight.

Senator Obama praised Hillary Clinton for her strength and commitment

I congratulate here on her victory in South Dakota and I congratulate her on the race she has run throughout this contest.

We’ve certainly had our differences over the last 16 months.

But as someone who’s shared a stage with her many times, I can tell you that what gets Hillary Clinton up in the morning – even in the face of tough odds – is exactly what sent her and Bill Clinton to sign up for their first campaign in Texas all those years ago; what sent her to work at the Children’s Defense Fund and made her fight for health care as First Lady; what led her to the United States Senate and fuelled her barrier-breaking campaign for the presidency – an unyielding desire to improve the lives of ordinary Americans, no matter how difficult the fight may be.

And you can rest assured that when we finally win the battle for universal health care in this country, and we will win that fight, she will be central to that victory.

When we transform our energy policy and lift our children out of poverty, it will be because she worked to help make it happen.

Our party and our country are better off because of her, and I am a better candidate for having had the honour to compete with Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Inspired a nation

There are those who say that this primary has somehow left us weaker and more divided.

Well I say that because of this primary, there are millions of Americans who have cast their ballot for the very first time.

There are Independents and Republicans who understand that this election isn’t just about a change of party in Washington, it’s about the need to change Washington.

There are young people, and African-Americans, and Latinos, and women of all ages who have voted in numbers that have broken records and inspired a nation.

All of you chose to support a candidate you believe in deeply.

But at the end of the day, we aren’t the reason you came out and waited in lines that stretched block after block to make your voice heard.

You didn’t do that because of me or Senator Clinton or anyone else.

You did it because you know in your hearts that at this moment – a moment that will define a generation – we cannot afford to keep doing what we’ve been doing.

We owe our children a better future. We owe our country a better future.

And for all those who dream of that future tonight, I say – let us begin the work together.

Let us unite in common effort to chart a new course for America.

Republican agenda

In just a few short months, the Republican Party will arrive in St Paul with a very different agenda.

They will come here to nominate John McCain, a man who has served this country heroically.

I honour, we honour, the service of John McCain, and I respect his many accomplishments, even if he chooses to deny mine.

My differences with him are not personal; they are with the policies he has proposed in this campaign.

Because while John McCain can legitimately tout moments of independence from his party in the past, such independence has not been the hallmark of his presidential campaign.

It’s not change when John McCain decided to stand with George Bush 95% of the time, as he did in the Senate last year.

It’s not change when he offers four more years of Bush economic policies that have failed to create well-paying jobs, or insure our workers, or help Americans afford the skyrocketing cost of college – policies that have lowered the real incomes of the average American family, widened the gap between Wall Street and Main Street, and left our children with a mountain of debt.

It’s not change when he promises to continue a policy in Iraq that asks everything of our brave men and women in uniform and nothing of Iraqi politicians – a policy where all we look for are reasons to stay in Iraq, while we spend billions of dollars a month on a war that isn’t making the American people any safer.

Foreign policy

So I’ll say this – there are many words to describe John McCain’s attempt to pass off his embrace of George Bush’s policies as bipartisan and new.

But change is not one of them.

Because change is a foreign policy that doesn’t begin and end with a war that should’ve never been authorized and never been waged.

I won’t stand here and pretend that there are many good options left in Iraq, but what’s not an option is leaving our troops in that country for the next hundred years – especially at a time when our military is overstretched, our nation is isolated, and nearly every other threat to America is being ignored.

We must be as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting in – but start leaving we must.

It’s time for Iraqis to take responsibility for their future.

It’s time to rebuild our military and give our veterans the care they need and the benefits they deserve when they come home.

It’s time to refocus our efforts on al-Qaeda’s leadership and Afghanistan, and rally the world against the common threats of the 21st century – terrorism and nuclear weapons; climate change and poverty; genocide and disease.

Understanding struggles

That’s what change is.

Change is realising that meeting today’s threats requires not just our firepower, but the power of our diplomacy – tough, direct diplomacy where the president of the United States isn’t afraid to let any petty dictator know where America stands and what we stand for.

We must once again have the courage and conviction to lead the free world.

That is the legacy of Roosevelt, and Truman, and Kennedy.

That’s what the American people demand.

That’s what change is.

Change is building an economy that rewards not just wealth, but the work and workers who created it.

It’s understanding that the struggles facing working families can’t be solved by spending billions of dollars on more tax breaks for big corporations and wealthy CEOs, but by giving a middle-class tax break to those who need it, and investing in our crumbling infrastructure, and transforming how we use energy, and improving our schools, and renewing our commitment to science and innovation.

It’s understanding that fiscal responsibility and shared prosperity can go hand-in-hand, as they did when Bill Clinton was president.

John McCain has spent a lot of time talking about trips to Iraq in the last few weeks, but maybe if he spent some time taking trips to the cities and towns that have been hardest hit by this economy – cities in Michigan, and Ohio, and right here in Minnesota – he’d understand the kind of change that people are looking for.

Maybe if he went to Iowa and met the student who works the night shift after a full day of class and still can’t pay the medical bills for a sister who’s ill, he’d understand that she can’t afford four more years of a health care plan that only takes care of the healthy and wealthy.

She needs us to pass health care right now, a plan that guarantees insurance to every American who wants it and brings down premiums for every family who needs it.

That’s the change we need.

Our children

Maybe if John McCain went to Pennsylvania and met the man who lost his job but can’t even afford the gas to drive around and look for a new one, he’d understand that we can’t afford four more years of our addiction to oil from dictators.

That man needs us to pass an energy policy that works with automakers to raise fuel standards, and makes corporations pay for their pollution, and oil companies invest their record profits in a clean energy future – an energy policy that will create millions of new jobs that pay well and can’t be outsourced.

That’s the change we need.

And maybe if he spent some time in the schools of South Carolina or St Paul, Minnesota, or where he spoke tonight in New Orleans, Louisiana, he’d understand that we can’t afford to leave the money behind for No Child Left Behind; that we owe it to our children to invest in early childhood education and recruit an army of new teachers and give them better pay and more support and finally decide that in this global economy, the chance to get a college education should not be a privilege for the wealthy few, but the birthright of every American.

That’s the change we need in America.

That’s why I’m running for president.

Americans first

The other side will come here in September and offer a very different set of policies and positions, and that is a good thing, that is a debate I look forward to.

It is a debate the American people deserve on the issues that will help determine the future of this country and the future of its children.

But what you don’t deserve is another election that’s governed by fear, and innuendo, and division.

What you won’t hear from this campaign or this party is the kind of politics that uses religion as a wedge, and patriotism as a bludgeon – that sees our opponents not as competitors to challenge, but enemies to demonize.

Because we may call ourselves Democrats and Republicans, but we are Americans first.

We are always Americans first.

Despite what the good Senator from Arizona said tonight, I have seen people of differing views and opinions find common cause many times during my two decades in public life, and I have brought many together myself.

I’ve walked arm-in-arm with community leaders on the South Side of Chicago and watched tensions fade as black, white, and Latino fought together for good jobs and good schools.

I’ve sat across the table from law enforcement officials and civil rights advocates to reform a criminal justice system that sent 13 innocent people to death row.

I’ve worked with friends in the other party to provide more children with health insurance and more working families with a tax break; to curb the spread of nuclear weapons and ensure that the American people know where their tax dollars are being spent; and to reduce the influence of lobbyists who have all too often set the agenda in Washington.

In our country, I have found that this cooperation happens not because we agree on everything, but because behind all the false labels and false divisions and categories that define us; beyond all the petty bickering and point-scoring in Washington, Americans are a decent, generous, compassionate people, united by common challenges and common hopes.

And every so often, there are moments which call on that fundamental goodness to make this country great again.

Our time

So it was for that band of patriots who declared in a Philadelphia hall the formation of a more perfect union; and for all those who gave on the fields of Gettysburg and Antietam their last full measure of devotion to save that same union.

So it was for the Greatest Generation that conquered fear itself, and liberated a continent from tyranny, and made this country home to untold opportunity and prosperity.

So it was for the workers who stood out on the picket lines; the women who shattered glass ceilings; the children who braved a Selma bridge for freedom’s cause.

So it has been for every generation that faced down the greatest challenges and the most improbable odds to leave their children a world that’s better, and kinder, and more just.

And so it must be for us.

America, this is our moment. This is our time.

Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for this country that we love.

The journey will be difficult. The road will be long.

I face this challenge with profound humility, and knowledge of my own limitations.

But I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people.

Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth.

This was the moment – this was the time – when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves, and our highest ideals.

Thank you, Minnesota, God Bless you, and may God Bless the United States of America.”

There have been talks and debates as to the extent to which a malicious code or virus can affect the computer hardware.

The debate is that, some powerful viruses when executed can crash the hardware (Hard disk, BIOS Chip, Memory etc) of the host machine and can never be repaired.

I am aware of the fact that many people have had cause to believe that viruses really destroy hardware especially the hard drive or the BIOS chip!

I disagree entirely in principle to this notion and I intend to raise the arguments for, and against this technically inclined issue so that you can judge for yourself.

As I seek to dissect this issue, I know we can all learn something new from this very important issue [I hope this article would not be too technical, I would not be making myself clear when not making some technical clarifications though]

The Virus effect

When your computer is infected with a virus and your data is corrupted, is the hardware at risk? (I will not explain the types of Viruses and their effects here since they can be ‘goggled’)

Computer virus is a term applied to any program that is designed to damage data stored on a computer system or network. The virus may infect documents, applications or worst of all system files that are essential to the correct running of the computer system.

A virus itself is programme software and has effect basically on software and not hardware. It could have effect on the systems or Application software to execute specific instructions on the hardware.

Virus Fact

People argue that the Virus can affect hardware, because some viruses when they infect, the computer can shut down, restart, even open the CD ROM tray or manipulate other peripherals like the Keyboard! Of course they do, but technically they do not operate on them as you would want to think they do, they instruct the software or drivers to perform. So should those software or device drivers not installed on the System, the virus could be redundant on the System whilst the hardware exist.

There are instances when upgrades from previous system or application software versions have ‘paralyzed’ viruses to malfunction on target computers. Should viruses have effect on hardware; open CD ROM tray, shut down Computers etc., they should do those when the software is upgraded so long as the hardware exist.

What happens is, they are unable to be compatible with the new upgrades signature to make them execute those instructions. I once rendered a computer useless, I asked the user to replace the motherboard of the PC if he still want to use it because a virus have erased the BIOS and displays some funny characters after which it hung. I was stunned.

What BIOS Does

Without the BIOS, the Computer can not function since the Processor on its own do not get to the Hard disk where the Operating System is residing.It is the BIOS which provides the instructions for the POST (power-on self-test).Of course it is the same BIOS that oversee that other chips (Hard drives, Memory, CPU) functions together.

The BIOS Controls the entire functionality of the motherboard. You can imagine! Should a virus get to the BIOS and erase the BIOS. Think about it!

The Computer would be dead.Don’t get me wrong, the BIOS is not hardware; it is a setting or set of instruction programmed by the computer manufacture.

Coming to Basics

When a BIOS is corrupted, does it mean a hardware (Motherboard, Hard drive, BIOS Chip) is damaged? or a software instruction failure!Unfortunately there was little i could do once upon a time and I rendered a Pentium III Computer useless. The motherboard had to be replaced because the BIOS has been erased by a virus. The current was flowing and all other hardware components such as heat sink and fan and power on lead were on but the Computer was dead!

The fact of the matter is that the BIOS Component on some early motherboards with low processor speed (486, Pentium I, II, III) was on board or embedded( on the mother board) so when they are erased by a virus it could not be recovered and you have to replace the motherboard.

Today, nearly all computers manufactured have their BIOS specially designed on Chips based on flash technology which are detached to the motherboard.

The essence of the BIOS Chip is specifically designed to allow the BIOS (which are set of instructions) to be backed up, repaired and analyzed when corrupted or damaged.

These days manufactures have listed for download online, BIOS updates and utilities http://www.wimsbios.com/biosupdates.jsp and it’s making it very useful to bring computers back to life when virus affects the BIOS which was not so some time back, and ignorantly people kept on saying ‘virus has crashed my Computer’, There are also BIOS kits designed to redeem your computer. Since the BIOS is not a hardware, the manufacturer provides software to recover them whiles the chip is still intact.

Conclussion

One known virus that corrupts the Computer BIOS is the Chernobyl virus or the CIH Virus and this has been designed to corrupt older Windows 9x (95, 98, Me) operating systems.In the later part of 1998 the KILL_CIH tool was released by Symantec as the antidote.

Indeed, there would not be a need for a virus removal tool, an anti virus, an antidote, because they don’t repair hardware. Ironically all known Virus have got some sort of antidote even the CIH Virus which erases the BIOS.

I base this argument solely on the Microsoft Windows platform because viruses are platform based, i.e. A Symbian OS, Windows OS, Linux OS, Mac OS Virus can not be transferred to the other to execute.

I am sick and tired of all these websites, social networks blog, vblogs chuchu chacha’s and the rest of them popping up in recent times.

When i was introduced to the Internet about 8years ago, I was hooked up to the most popular site Yahoo mail which still ranks the number 1 website till date. It was an ultimate mail service at that time for me and many subscribers. I had my yahoo chat which I frequently use, and other additional services which were of great benefit to me, yahoo photos and briefcase. What was sweet was the fact that, I could only log on to yahoo.com and access all I need on the internet with my user account.

As if that was not enough, my quest for more free services got me hooked to other mail services such as excite mail, killamail and Hotmail which i know have expired now! ‘I don’t need them anyway’, because all I received were junks and spams from don’t know who’s. I love the internet and the more i got involved with lots of online freebies, I’m like, ‘yeah that’s cool’. I keep following threads from in box to sign up to lots of websites for certain bla bla and these and the gunks were in my I box more than legitimate mail i received and I got to know they could make my Computer because they spy on my computer log files and send them to the programmer, then i started deleting all mails which did i did not know the sender without reading them.

I was not a fun of junks and playing games online, I do what I got to do online, and leave, yeah! I check my yahoo mail, compose a message two, get to yahoo chat or msn messanger, when it’s boring I leave. When i don’t have any programmes to download or any research to make I’m done with the Internet.

I began to use other yahoo services such as yahoo briefcase which has about 30 mb of some of my documents and yahoo photos with unlimited disk space, now Yahoo Inc bought flickr and I have an option to migrate my over 140 pictures to flickr. Flickr was better than yahoo photo by far and I enjoyed the service. The idea of me being able to log into my flickr account with my yahoo account details was the sweetest.

You see I use msn messanger, by Microsoft Corporation. This company owns hotmail, msn, passport.net and msn chat, I have a hotmail account which I forgot the password and I went ahead to create an account for msn messanger, not mail because I preferred yahoo mail, it’s amassing, I’m not able to log onto hotmail or any of Microsoft’s e-mail account except for my passport.net messenger. I have made several reports to them by e-mail in the past and now it’s an error i’m having to accept.

As if that was not enough I keep receiving friend requests to join various freebies and networks which I declined anyway because I was just okay with what I had, Until recently I joined wordpress, I became an overnight addict. I’m now a blogger and it took most of my productive time at workplace reading intersting posts and adding comments. I had wondered why I did not see the need to join blogger.com some three years ago when it was introduced to me! I thought I had missed alot fun.

WordPress became my new freak, then I wanted to add some slide effect to some article I work on, flickr could not do slide and I was introduced to picasa by google, it was so cool I had my slides there, infact picasa was better than flickr, ‘thats what I think’, so i loaded all my photos and joined picasa web album, made some comments, etc. the usual things.

When I added my slides to my article on wordpress, it did not take effect! whops! I was eager to get add my slide on my post so I tried slide.com, and that was real cool!

Slide.com was the real thing, it was compatible with almost everything, i made my slide and embedded on wordpress perfectly. I was so happy I didn’t know what to do with picasa and flickr anymore! I don’t really need their lousy service. Yeah I have had enough with lots of websites.

The good thing in recent time’s the fact that I was introduced to open source and I embraced mozilla firefox because of the tabbed browsing and I don’t have to open so many browsers as i used to do, I hate to use version 5 of microsoft internet explorer, the number 1 sucker.

Now I can browse so many in one firefox window, I’m a fun of facebook, infact facebook occupies my productive man hours than any other website. I recently came across a facebook buddy with 58 groups! ‘what! what the hell do you do in 58 groups’ These sites only waste productivity in my view, people eat flickr, eat skype, eat yahoo messenger and while at it, they’re still hungry for blog.

Spammers take the advantage and recently firefox is having problems with hacker, its not safe to keep passwords in cookies, gmail is under threat, these were more secured.

So what’s all these complains ?

Now I am fed up with all of these things, when I had yahoo alone I could use one account to acess all available services, now I create accounts for so many things almost like a daily routine, I have corporate mail accounts I do not even check them for mails. The fact that I have to always create user accounts here and there and do almost the same thing in other places sucks the more!

I guess you have some suggestions?

There should be a regulator, an open standard for these sites, the web promises to be a big waste of time in the new future, for the fact that 20 most popular websites are social networks! CNN, BBC, Reuters, HP and other resourceful websites do not take prominence these days in our browser history.

Some of these social networks should be able to merge, they do the same thing with no value, some are not clean with lots of pop ups, spies stealing our information. There should be a regulator in these multi-million business if there is, we need to know so that we report complains. Too many sucker online, I’m done

ZimDaily understands that the young deportees were met at Johannesburg International Airport by a visibly infuriated Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri and Rural Affairs Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa. Chihuri’s son Sylvester and Mnangangwa’s son Emmerson were among those deported, the sources said.

Government sources in Harare said the move sent shock waves through government and ruling party circles where there is fear that other Western countries such as the United States, Britain and Canada may take their cue from Australia and deport the dependents of top government and ruling ZANU-PF officials.

Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said last month that the suspension of student visas, an extension of existing sanctions against Zimbabwe, was provoked by President Mugabe’s disregard of democratic principles and human rights.

Australian Prime Minister John Howard called Mr. Mugabe an “undemocratic bully” while briefing the media on talks with opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.

ZimDaily Editor and Campaign Coordinator Munamato Maiswa confirmed today they had received information on the deportation of a number of Zanu-PF officials children from Australia including Gono’s twin daughters and a Son.

The campaign ZimDaily ran for over three months saw Zimbabweans across the globe contributing names of Zanu-PF officials children studying in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia.

In an Exclusive interview broadcast on Australia’s Broadcasting Corporation, ABC in April, Munamato told Wendy Carlisle on the programme Background Briefing that Zanu-PF must practice what it preaches. “If you do no want to have anything to do with the West, why not cut ties with everything western? Send your kids to Chinese Universties.

“There is a law which prohibits anyone in Zimbabwe from externalizing foreign currency for any reason…How are these kids funded ”?, he said. We cannot have a law for a few Zanu-PF zealots and another for everyone. They must lead by example. In any case what is wrong with Zimbabwean Universities? we have opened new state-of-the art Universities in Gweru, Masvingo, and Lupane. Each of the ten or so provinces in Zimbabwe has at least one University? Munamato added.

We did what we could as a portal to contribute to the Zimbabwe Struggle and the struggle continues. One must realize the infinite power of the media and should never undermine or weary the patience of the angry millions.

Munamato also told ZimDaily that they are still lobbying USA and UK governments to follow suit. “We never campaigned for the kids to be harmed. If you read and followed the Fair Deal campaign, it was all about exposing the hypocrisy in those who claim to represent the masses. We are receiving encouraging signals from the USA and talking behind the scenes with the UK officials. We want those causing the suffering of millions to have their kids enjoy the Paradise they have created for everyone.

According to ZimDaily’s Editor, the Fair Deal campaign will be relaunched next week. “Its not over yet until all the seeds of all Zanu-PF crooks are basking in fuel queues in Zimbabwe”, Munamato said.

No pressure is insignificant…pressure is pressure and all of us want a peaceful solution to our crisis. Most of our critics came out fighting and defended the rights of children with all the legal jargon, but as you can see we have prevailed and the fight continues.

Political tension between Zimbabwe and Australia spiked on Monday after Canberra followed through on a recent announcement that it was stepping up sanctions against Harare by deporting eight students who are children of top Zimbabwe officials.

Australian sources said dependents affected include three children of Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono, and offspring of Economic Planning Minister Sylvester Nguni, Science and Technology Minister Olivia Muchena, Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo, and Harare Provincial Governor David Karminzira.

The Zimbabwe National Students Union said it welcomed Canberra’s move.

On the same flight that carried the students back to Africa was opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, whose contacts with top Australian officials in recent days during a visit Down Under drew heated criticism from Harare officials and state media.

Tsvangirai spokesman William Bango said that during the connecting flight between Johannesburg and Harare, Zimbabwe Republic Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri accused Tsvangirai of spurring Australia to deport the students.

Source: zimdaily.com

Last time I saw a list of the 100 oldest domains in existence and I was curious, so I also decided to find out the top 100 popular websites of our time. Yahoo tops the list, but then Google becomes the most popular website of our time! Let’s find out why? be my guest!

1. Yahoo!
Personalized content and search options. Chatrooms, free email, clubs, and pager.
www.yahoo.com

2. Microsoft Network (MSN)
Dialup access and content provider.
www.msn.com

3. Google
Enables users to search the Web, Usenet, and images. Features include PageRank, caching and translation of results, and an option to find similar pages. The company’s focus is developing search technology.
www.google.com

4.YouTube
YouTube is a way to get your videos to the people who matter to you. Upload, tag and share your videos worldwide!
www.youtube.com

5. Windows Live
Search engine from Microsoft.
www.live.com

6.Myspace
Social Networking Site.
www.myspace.com

7. Baidu.com
The leading Chinese language search engine, provides “simple and reliable� search experience, strong in Chinese language and multimedia content including MP3 music and movies, the first to offer WAP and PDAbased mobile search in China.
www.baidu.com

8. Orkut
Social networking and discussion site operated by Google
www.orkut.com

9. Wikipedia
An online collaborative encyclopedia.
www.wikipedia.org

10. Facebook
A social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study, and live around them.
www.facebook.com

11. Hi5
Social networking site offering media sharing, affinity groups, and messaging.
www.hi5.com

12. 腾讯网(http://www.qq.com)
http://www.baidu.com
www.qq.com

13. Rapidshare.com
www.rapidshare.com

14. Blogger.com
Free, automated weblog publishing tool that sends updates to a site via FTP.
www.blogger.

15. Megaupload
Megaupload is a “leading website of the world” for transferring files easily, with complete security and free of charge.
www.megaupload.com

16. Friendster
Friendster is a leading global social network emphasizing genuine friendships and the discovery of new people through friends. Search for old friends and classmates, stay in better touch with friends, share photos and videos, and so much more.
www.friendster.com

17. Yahoo!カテゴリ
有料審査制のディレクトリ。ウェブサービスの形でAPIを公開。
www.yahoo.co.jp

18. Microsoft Corporation
Main site for product information, support, and news.
www.microsoft.com

19. 新浪新闻中心
包括即日的国内外不同类型的新闻与评论，人物专题，图库。
www.sina.com.cn

20. Fotolog.com
Fotolog.com a great online community of interconnected photoweblogs. Make it easy for your friends and family to see what’s up with you by putting your latest, greatest digital photos on the web in a daily journal format.
www.fotolog.net

21. EBay
International person to person auction site, with products sorted into categories.
www.ebay.com

22. Sohu.com Inc.
Produces Chinese language Internet portal and internet communities. (Nasdaq: SOHU).
www.sohu.com

23. Почта@Mail.ru
Полнофункциональная почтовая система. Адресная книга, антивирус. Webинтерфейс, POP3 и WAP. Выбор из 4х доменов.
www.mail.ru

24. Google
Versão brasileira do buscador Google.
www.google.com.br

25. Google.fr
www.google.fr

26. 网易
中国最大的网络社区和门户网站
www.163.com

27. Google UK
The local version of this preeminent search engine, offering UKspecific pages as well as world results.
www.google.co.uk

28. Google
Suche im gesamten Web, in deutschsprachigen sowie in deutschen Seiten. Zusätzlich ist eine Bildersuche, eine NewsarchivSuche (ehemals dejanews) sowie ein Katalog vorhanden.
www.google.de

29. Amazon.com
Amazon.com seeks to be Earth’s most customercentric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Site has numerous personalization features and services including oneclick buying, extensive customer and editorial product reviews, gift registries, gift certificates, wish lists, restaurant and movie listings, travel, and photo processing.
www.amazon.com

. The Internet Movie Database
Features plot summaries, reviews, cast lists, and theatre schedules.
www.imdb.com

31. Flickr
Picture galleries available with social networking, chat, groups, and photo ratings.
www.flickr.com

32. 淘宝网
包括电脑通讯、男士和女士用品、书籍音像、运动用品、游戏装备等商品拍卖，还有相关的社区交流，同时提供支付宝网上交易安全保证系统。
www.taobao.com

33. Google España
Buscador que enfoca sus resultados para este país y a nivel internacional tanto en castellano, catalán, gallego, euskara e inglés.
www.google.es

34. Google Polska
Wyszukiwarka stron WWW, grafiki, grup dyskusyjnych, katalog tworzony na bazie ODP i wzbogacany przy użyciu własnej technologii Google.
www.google.pl

35. Photobucket image hosting and photo sharing

Provides image hosting for auctions, live journals, blogs, message boards, personal websites and online photo albums. Reliable, fast and very simple to use.

www.photobucket.com

36. ImageShack
ImageShack® is a free image hosting solution. It can be used to share pictures with friends, as well as post images on message boards and blogs. It can also be used to direct link images from your personal website or online auction. And best of all, it’s completely free.
www.imageshack.us

37. Skyrock
Social Networking Site
www.skyrock.com

38. Universo Online
Acesso à internet e serviços agregados.
www.uol.com.br

39. Passport.net
www.passport.net

40. 無名小站
Photo Album and Blog 網路相簿及網路日誌
www.wretch.cc

41. TOM.COM
TOM ONLINE(http://www.tom.com)
www.tom.com

42.Яndex

Поисковый сервер для русского сегмента Интернета, разработка компании CompTek.
www.yandex.ru

43. BBC Newsline Ticker
Headline ticker will automatically update throughout the day with the latest news, sport, travel, finance and weather from the BBC. Available for multiple OS platforms.
www.bbc.co.uk

44. Onet.pl
Wiadomości z kraju i ze świata, baza danych firm i instytucji, ogłoszenia, pasaż handlowy, wyszukiwarka i katalog stron, czat, blog, randki, pogoda, konta email i

WWW, kartki pocztowe.
www.onet.pl

45. Google.cn
www.google.cn

46. Craigslist.org
www.craigslist.org

47. Google.com.mx
Buscador que enfoca sus resultados para este país y a nivel internacional tanto en español como en inglés.
www.google.com.mx

48. 雅虎中国
含新闻、资讯、邮箱和搜索引擎。
www.yahoo.com.cn

49. Go
A searchable directory, news, stocks, sports and free email.
www.go.com50. Dailymotion.com
www.dailymotion.com

51. ImageVenue hosting
World s most popular free image hosting for bloggers and message board users.
www.imagevenue.com

52. Allegro
Polski internetowy serwis aukcyjny.
www.allegro.pl

53. Google 日本
多言語対応サーチエンジンの日本版。ウェブ、イメージおよびニュース検索、Usenet掲示板。
www.google.co.jp

. AOL
America On Line’s portal, offering search, shopping, channels, chat and mail.
www.aol.com

55. جوجل السعودية

محرك بحث جوجل مع خدمة تخصيص البحث في المواقع السعودية
www.google.com.sa

56. Google.com.ar
www.google.com.ar

57. Рамблер
Информационно поисковая система с учетом морфологии русского языка.
www.rambler.ru

58. Free
Fournisseur d’accès ADSL et bas débit RTC. Propose la téléphonie et la télévision par ADSL (modem Freebox).
www.free.fr

59. LiveJournal.com
Opensource project. A service for creating and customizing a journal on the web. Download an executable tool to update your journal without being connected to the site. Additional features with paid account.
www.livejournal.com

60. Google Türkiye
Sade yapısıyla etkili sonuçlar veren arama motoru. Hesap makinesi, grafik arama, araç çubuğu gibi hizmetler sunmakta.
www.google.com.tr

61. Badoo.Com
Badoo is a dynamic multilingual social networking site with innovative photo and video features that allows its users worldwide to gain an instant mass audience and interact both locally and globally.
www.badoo.com

62. Wirtualna Polska
Serwisy informacyjne i finansowe, katalog stron internetowych, poczta email i strony WWW, czat, komunikator, randki, gry online, platforma ecommerce.
www.wp63. FC2
コントロールパネルを用意している。CGI、PHP、MySQLに対応。
www.fc2.com

64. Terra
Acesso à internet e serviços agregados.
www.terra.com.br

65. Adult Friendfinder
Personal adverts with pictures and chat. [Membership]
www.adultfriendfinder.com

66. Geocities
15 Mb with 3Gb monthly bandwidth limit. Banner or Popup ads on each page. Browser or FTP uploads. Online editor. CGI scripts: counter and guestbook. URL: ‘http://www.geocities.com/yoursite/’.
www.geocities.com

67. DeviantArt Where Art Meets Application
An online community for art and skin lovers; those who create art and skins and those who adore it. A large collection of Skins, desktop wallpapers, IndyArt, textures, tutorials, poetry, forums and other deviations.
www.deviantart.com

68. WordPress.com
www.wordpress.com

69. Youporn.com
www.youporn.com

70. Googlesyndication.com
www.googlesyndication.com

71. Google India
Indian version of this popular search engine. Search the whole web or only webpages from India. Interfaces offered in English, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi and Tamil.
www.google.co.in

72. Google.ca
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73. Megarotic.com
www.megarotic.com

74. Xunlei.com
www.xunlei.com

75. EBay UK
Person to person online auction site where you can buy or sell new and used items.
www.ebay.co.uk

76. กูเกิลประเทศไทย
Google.co.th
www.google.co.th

77. Google Chile
Buscador que enfoca sus resultados para este país y a nivel internacional tanto en español como en inglés.
www.google.cl

78. Adobe
Provides a range of products for digtal media creation and editing, multimedia authoring, and web development. Site contains extensive documentation and support for all software.
www.adobe.com

79. Ebay
Deutschsprachiger eBayMarktplatz. Kaufen und Verkaufen zu Festpreisen und bei Onlineauktionen.
www.ebay.de

. Globo.com
www.globo.com

81. Netlog.com
www.netlog.com

82. CNN Cable News Network
Includes US and international stories and analysis, weather, video clips, and program schedule.
www.cnn.com

83. Google.com.vn
www.google.com.vn

84. Mixi
ソーシャルネットワークサイト。メッセージ交換、日記、コミュニティ作成、友人紹介機能。
www.mixi.jp

. Google.com.eg
www.google.com.eg

86. 56.com
www.56.com

87. Google
Versione italiana del popolare motore e directory. Utilizza inoltre i dati di ODP.
www.google.it

88. Apple Computer, Inc.
Apple’s main homepage.
www.apple.com

89. Bebo.com
Bebo, the next generation high school and college social network (like MySpace and Facebook), makes it easy for high school and college students to stay in touch with their friends, find long lost friends, and meet new people. Helpful and fun applications make it easy to remember birthdays, share photos, write blogs, read a friend’s blog, discover new interests, and just hang out. Bebo connects your brand with influencers and their circle of friendsyou’ll reach a highly engaged audience w
www.bebo.com

90. VnExpress
Thông tin hàng ngày ở Việt Nam và thế giới. Các chuyên mục khoa học, sức khoẻ, đời sống và giải trí.
www.vnexpress.net

91. Sendspace.com
www.sendspace.com

92. Badongo
Easily Upload Files up to 1GB for Free.
www.badongo.com

93. Xanga
Personal publishing. Free weblogs.
www.xanga.com

94. Fotka.pl
www.fotka.pl

95. Tudou.com (Toodou.com) 土豆网
每个人都是生活的导演。
www.tudou.com

96. 东方财富网
提供股票、证券、基金、财经，国内财经，国际财经，行业研究等。
www.eastmoney.com

97. IG
Acesso a internet e serviços agregados.
www.ig.com.br

98. Veoh.com
Internet Television Peercasting Network
www.veoh.com

99. Mininova
Large searchable torrents directory.
www.mininova.org

100. 香港討論區 Uwants.com
多元化討論區，並提供格價系統、Blog、網上相簿等免費服務。
www.uwants.com

Zimbabwe has been doing fine like any other developing African Country until 5th November, 1997, when the then British secretary of State Clare Short interfered with an existing agreement which was the main grounds for that country to gain independence from the British!
I quote from Clare Short’s letter to Zimbabwean Minister for Agriculture. “I should make it clear that we do not accept that British have a special responsibility to meet the costs of land purchase in Zimbabwe. We are a new government from diverse backgrounds without links to former colonial interests. My own origins are Irish, and as you know we were colonized, not colonizers” this letter to the Government of Zimbabwe is an insult and the cost of this long-lasting consequences.
In 1979, the British government proposed an agreement to the leadership of Zimbabwe, a condition that will make them an independent state. The agreement was that 1. Zimbabwe complies with the Constitution and hold general elections after every 5years. 2. White farmer be made to keep their lands and Britain will pay compensation to subsidize the economy.

This agreement was complied with, the people of Zimbabwe have held elections, and British governments paid compensations dully from 1979, when in 1998, the British government under Tony Blair’s leadership decided to change priorities and withdrew the compensations for Zimbabwe in reference to the letter from Clare Short in 1997.

Now we need to understand that, Zimbabwe has survived from the Constitutional agreements it signed with Britain, and the compensations from Britain annually for development purposes. The Zimbabwean economy is an agro based and it depends on Agriculture to develop. When there is a situation where the land for the countrymen is being taken by (British) White farmers, then the countrymen needs to taken care of. It is in light of this, that when the agreement was breached, Zimbabwe said, well! We are not bound by any contract anymore, lets take our land and give to our own people who can farm and feed the nation, let the white farmers deal directly with Britain.

This is the story of Zimbabwe, the white farmers and Britain thought the land would be bought from them and sold to the blacks, but Mugabe said No!, we would give it to them free. This is why Britain is angry and says Mugabe is breaching the tenants of democracy, human rights and violence.

They then embark on a crusade to destabilized the government, they fund the opposition MDC to rally against the government, make tings difficult to them, give the government a bad image for the world to believe just as the United States did to Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.

The United States would have nothing to do this if Britain were not their friend, they got involved and George Bush is openly declared the US government involvement in sponsoring regime change activities in Zimbabwe, and they base their stands on Human rights and violence.

BBC, CNN and he international media have been polluted, they have been made to defame the government of Zimbabwe and we believed them because they have our ears, I was pressing for regime change in the Zimbabwe elections, for Mugabe to go until now that I got the real story.

All these human rights and violence because the white farmers went abroad wearing rags and asking for tax exemptions as if things were hard for them, they wanted to exploit the Black minority and make money.

Let Africa wake up, let us search for the truth, the Zimbabwe economy is bad, inflation is 4,500%, the government did some bad things, but the real story as to what caused all these messes should be known.

There is no country with such bad treatment in recorded history as Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe have not had a balance of payment since 1998, they have had economic sanctions from development partmers, the Breton-Wood, IMF, World Bank, European Union and America. They have survived for 9 years, no support, no foreign exchange, no love.

If we increase people’s salaries today, you see them doubling the prices of goods in shops as if to say we want to drain every last dollar they have. It is in such ways that we see some industrialists here pushing for regime change and we have to look out for them. So now we are going to make things hard for each other. There is not going to be any more playing, let those in industry, those in commerce, those elsewhere – producers and retailers – take note. The nonsense of escalating prices has got to come to an end immediately,”

We owe it to ourselves and to posterity to guard jealously our hard-won independence. The country is now ours, the land is now ours and the mineral and other natural resources are today ours. Zimbabwe, from that point of view, is not a poor country by any stretch of imagination and ours is now to work hard to turn around the country’s economic fortunes.

And let us be very clear on this one – no one else can do it except ourselves. Even those who might promise that they will give us lots of money if we abide by regime change, in the end will never honour their promises. And who are they, after all, to want to decide for us which way we shall follow; to want to decide for us who shall be our leaders, to want to decide for us what destiny we shall follow?

They don’t understand that they no longer rule Zimbabwe and that we are now Independent. It is no longer Blair’s Zimbabwe; it is now the Zimbabwe of the Mugabes, the Msikas and the Mujurus. It is our, but they don’t want to see it it that way. So they formet a war and that is where these sanctions are coming from.

And now the bushes of this world take up the matter in Washington. They see their buddy Blair crying and say: “We don’t care why he is crying” All they want is to know what they can do for their friend, and hence they too can impose sanctions.

Some don’t understand this and say “remove Mugabe and things will be okay”. And do they are sent to demonise their government. Some accept money thinking that what the British and Americans say will come to pass.

We are our own liberators to the end. We died, suffered and died for our struggle. Brig-Gen Gunda is one of those young men who sacrificed their lives. He’s one of those who came back after a long, very protracted struggle which saw them suffer in the bush, which saw them face the enemy, which saw them also confront the enemy.

Those who declare themselves enemies to us have done so on their own and not becouse we have declared them enemies. but we stand for our right, we stand by that which is ours; our country, our country’s interest. Our Zimbabwe. And we know that through dedication, through sacrifice, through loyalty to the country, our loyalty also to ourselves, we succeed. We will conquer.

Those who lie against us do so in vain. Yes, it may take time for the truth to emerge but you still stand by what is true. You stand by what is true and one day instead of what is commonly known as “might is right”, right will be might. The truth is right and right will be might. So let us be true people, let us be honest people, let us avoid hypocrisy, and let us be true to ourselves and to our people.

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An abridged version of President Mugabe’s speech on the burial of the national hero, Brig-Gen Armstrong P. Gunda, on 27 June