Cool Quotes at Arloo

Do you like to read quotes? Like inspirational, love, motivation or success quotes? Here's is the link where you can find lots of quotes collected by me. They are all hand-picked and personal favourites, Check it out!

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Arloo: The readable digest

I have another blog named Arloo. Arloo is all bout interesting and fun articles about Myanmar and other stuffs. It is updated daily. Want fresh news, articles and opinions? This is the right place.

Among my blogs, it is the most popular now. Maintaining blogs is not an easy task but I really enjoy it. And blogging about my country, Myanmar is even more rewarding. If you have time, just check it out! (Arloo)

Google Earth threatens democracy?

This news about Google Earth has been around the internet for a while already. But you know, it is a sensitive issue. Everybody is talking about Google Earth right now. Even one of my friend (she reads my blog, too) sent me some links and said I might need those links if I want to blog about it. So, here I am writing this post about Google Earth. I think Google Earth is awesome. Its like everybody's fantasy bucause of its detailed pictures taken from the satellite. As you know, we all are curious according to our human nature. Well, Google Earth is so good that even the generals from some countries expressed their concerns. Look at those photos below from Google Earth and you'll know why. (Link) (Thanks to Kham Monn for sending me the links)

Thai air base in Korat | You can see American made jets. Cool, ain't it?

Enter stage right Thailand, which says it may ask Google to "block images of important state buildings vulnerable to attack". Armed forces spokeschap Major General Weerasak Manee-in told Reuters: "We are looking for possible restrictions on these detailed pictures, especially state buildings. I think pictures of tourist attractions should do, not crucial places which could threaten national security."

Well, we went and had a quick shufti at some Thai military installations, and took the opportunity to scour the Earth's surfaces for other Google satellite data which might threaten Our Way of Life. [Read the full article!]

Quotes of the day

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"
-Erich Fromm

"If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance."
-Abraham Lincoln

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
-Robert Frost

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.
-Johnny Carson

Free Computer Books, Tutorials & Lecture Notes

Highly informative and useful information on a whole range of Math/Computer/Networking/IT related topics. (Link)

Largest organism on earth

Wanna know what the largest organism on earth is? It is all here. You'll find largest organism in each category. Interesting! (Link)

The largest organism found on Earth can be measured using a variety of different methods. It could be defined as the largest by volume, mass, height, or length. Some creatures group together to form a superorganism, though this cannot truly be classed as one large organism and is usually only common amongst insects.

Why Men And Women Get Along So Well

Relationships:

First of all, a man does not call a relationship a relationship - he refers to it as "that time when me and Suzie was doing it on a semi-regular basis". When a elationship ends, a woman will cry and pour her heart out to her girlfriends, and she will write a poem titled "All Men Are Idiots". Then she will get on with her life.

A man has a little more trouble letting go. Six months after the break-up, at 3:00 a.m. on a Saturday night, he will call and say, "I just wanted to let you know you ruined my life, and I'll never forgive you, and I hate you, and you're a total floozy. But I want you to know there's always a chance for us". This is known as the "I Hate You/I Love You" drunken phone call, that 99% of all men have made at least once. There are community colleges that offer courses to help men get over this need; alas, these classes rarely prove effective.

Bathrooms:

A man has at most six items in his bathroom - a toothbrush, toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of Dial soap, and a towel from the Holiday Inn.

The average number of items in a typical woman's bathroom is 437. A man would not be able to identify most of these items.

Going out:

When a man says he is ready to go out, it means he is ready to go out.

When a woman says she is ready to go out, it means she WILL be ready to go out, as soon as she finds her other earring, finishes putting on her make-up...


Cats:

Women love cats.

Men say they love cats, but when women aren't looking, men kick cats.

Shoes:

The average man has 4 pairs of footwear: running shoes, dress shoes, boots, and slippers.

The average woman has shoes 4 layers thick on the floor of her closet. Most of them hurt her feet.

Nicknames:

If Gloria, Suzanne, Deborah and Michelle get together for lunch, they will call each other Gloria, Suzanne, Deborah and Michelle.

But if Mike, Dave, Rob and Jack go out for a brewsky, they will affectionately refer to each other as Bullet-Head, Godzilla, Peanut Brain and Useless.

Shopping:

It's no coincidence that L.L. Bean, Sears, and Roebuck were all men. Men don't like to shop. If a man can't foist the job off on some woman, he will grit his teeth and plan the outing as he would a jungle expedition. He wants a map of the store showing where he has to go to get item X in color Y in the correct size, which he doesn't know. Even then it takes him half an hour to get there from the entrance. When he's finally ac- complished his mission, he'll discover that he forgot his checkbook.

Women shop to relax.

Free PHP Tutorial

Recently though, more and more people have been building their own websites and scripting languages have become more important. Because of this, scripting languages are becomming easier to learn and PHP is one of the easiest and most powerful yet.

Click here for the tutorial!

Prankster prints up 50,000 cartoon speech bubbles

This guy has some great ideas! And the results turn out to be genuine thoughts of ordinary people. Ji Lee says, "I printed 50,000 of these speech bubble stickers. I place them on top of movie posters, ads and signs all over New York City. Passers are invited to fill them in. I go back and photograph the results." (Link)

Teenager sentenced to cut off his hand in Nigeria

Nigerian Islamic judges have ordered that a teenager from Niger have his hand cut off after he confessed to stealing a motorbike, court officials said on Monday. The implementation of Islamic law in mainly Muslim northern Nigeria -- and in particular the use of amputation -- has been criticised by Nigeria's federal government and human rights activists. (Link)

I just don't understand why some people in this modern world stick to the rules of ancient times. Its really not good to hear someone being cut off his hand for stealing a motorbike.

Myanmar Short Story Review

This story is based around the relationships problem with a bit of twist and turns. It is a good short story which can keep you reading till the end. Its "Juu" who wrote this story in 1986. Planet-dot-com has it on short story page. (Link)

What is the meaning of BBA?

I thought about some funny meanings of BBA. If you got one that is not in this list, just post it in the comments or shoutbox or e-mail to me.

BBA= Body Builders' Association ?
BBA= Burmese Boedaw Association ?
BBA= Burmese Buddhists Association ?
BBA= Busy Businessmen Association ?
BBA= Burmese Business Association ?
BBA= Bad Boys of Abac ?

The actual meaning is Bachelor of Business Administration.

iPod radio

Oh, boy! just look at that old radios. They look like iPod a lot. I think Apple got an idea from those radio designs. Those radios are the first portable transistor radio which was the Regency TR-1, released in 1954, in many catchy colours. Pretty cool indeed. (Link)

Funny Joke of the day

Getting into Heaven

Three men stand before St. Peter awaiting admission into Heaven. However, St. Peter has been informed that Heaven will only admit 33% of applicants today. The admissions standard: Who died the worst death? So, St. Peter takes each of the three men aside in
turn and asks them about how they died.

First man: "I'd been suspecting for a long time that my wife was cheating on me. I decided to come home early from work one afternoon and check to see if I could catch her in the act. When I got back to my apartment, I heard the water running. My wife
was in the shower. I looked everywhere for the guy, but couldn't find anyone or any trace that he had been there. The last place I looked was out on the balcony.

I found the bastard hanging from the edge, trying to get back in! So I started jumping up and down on his hands, and he yelled, but he didn't fall. So I ran inside and got a hammer, and crushed his fingers with it until he fell twenty-five floors screaming in agony. But the fall didn't kill the asshole. He
landed in some bushes! So I dragged the refrigerator from the kitchen (it weighed about a ton), pulled it to the balcony, and hurled it over the edge. It landed right on the guy and killed him. But then I felt so horrible about what I had done, I went
back into the bedroom and shot myself."

St. Peter nodded slowly as the man recounted the story. Then, telling the first man to wait, he took the second aside.

Second man: "I lived on the twenty-seventh floor of this apartment building. I had just purchased this book on morning exercises and was practicing them on my balcony, enjoying the sunshine, when I lost my balance and fell off the edge. Luckily, I only fell about two floors before grabbing another balcony and
holding on for dear life. I was trying to pull myself up when this guy came running onto what must have been his balcony and started jumping up and down on my hands. I screamed in pain, but he seemed really irate. When he finally stopped, I tried to pull
myself up again, but he came out with a hammer and smashed my fingers to a pulp! I fell, and I thought I was dead, but I landed in some bushes. I couldn't believe my second stroke of luck, but it didn't last. The last thing I saw was this enormous refrigerator falling from the building down on top of me and
crushing me."

St. Peter comforted the man, who seemed to have several broken bones. Then he told him to wait, and turned to the third man.

Third man: "Picture this. You're hiding, naked, in a
refrigerator..."

Funny Joke-Really Good Deed

This guy arrives at the Pearly Gates. He has to wait to be admitted, while St. Pete leafs through his Big Book.

He's checking to see if the guy is worthy of entry or not. Saint Peter goes through the books several times, furrows his brow, and says to the guy, "You know, I can't see that you did lots of good in your life but, you never did anything bad either.

Tell you what, if you can tell me of one REALLY good deed that you did in your life, you're in."

The guy thinks for a moment and says, "Well, there was this one time when I was drivin' down the highway and I saw a Biker Gang assaulting this poor girl. I slowed down my car to see what was going on, and sure enough, that's what they were doing. There were about 50 of 'em torturing this chick.

Infuriated, I got out my car, grabbed a tire iron from my trunk and walked straight up to the leader of the gang. He was a huge guy with a studded leather jacket and a chain running from his nose to his ear. As I walked up to the leader, the Gang formed a circle all around me.

So I ripped the leader's chain off his face and smashed him over the head with the tire iron. Then I turned around and yelled to the rest of them, 'Leave this poor, innocent girl alone, you slime! You're all a bunch of sick, deranged animals! Go home before I teach you all a lesson in pain!"'

St. Peter, extremely impressed, says, "Really? Wow, when did all this happen?"

"Er.. about two minutes ago." (Link)

Learn Linux for Free- Linux Online course lessons

If you have never used a computer before, then these courses are not for you.

The course is designed for use as a self-paced training aid. However, it can also be used in a class environment.

The course is suitable for people who are familiar with computing in general, and would like to "Learn Linux" for the purpose of using it as part of a business information technology (IT) strategy. If you wish to use, or consider using, Linux and have an interest in topics such as Systems Administration, Network Administration, or Systems Engineering, then the courses are for you. (Link | 4Shaw)

How to log on to Windows XP if you forget your password

This article describes how to log on to Windows XP if you forget your password or your password expires and you cannot create a new one. And yes it is from Microsoft website. (Link | 4Shaw)

First Google site in 1997?

Its so fun to see old google in a crappy logo. Google was the pioneer search engine back then. It could search for about 25 million pages. It is very low compared to today's WWW which is billion of pages. (Link | 4Shaw)

Windows Vista in 7 Editions

Microsoft Windows Vista will break down into seven different editions.

Windows Vista Starter Edition: Target for low cost PC. 32-bit version. Allow only three applications to run simultaneously. Does not support network connection.

Windows Vista Home Basic Edition: Aimed at single PC homes, the baseline version of Windows Vista editions.

Windows Vista Home Premium Edition: Include everything from Home Basic edition, as well as home entertainment, Tablet PC, Mobility Center functionality.

Windows Vista Professional Edition: Like Windows XP Pro, Windows Vista Professional is for business use. It include better network protocols support.

Windows Vista Small Business Edition: For small business without IT staff. Superset of Vista Professional Edition, and includes backup, fax and scanning utilities.

Windows Vista Enterprise Edition: Superset of Windows Vista Professional Edition, also include Virtual PC, multilanguage user interface, and Secure Startup/full volume encryption security technologies ("Cornerstone").

Windows Vista Ultimate Edition: Optimized for individual, super set of both Vista Home Premium and Vista Professional Edition. Include Game Performance Tweaker, maybe include Podcast creation utility and online services (music, movies, services and customer care). Aimed for high end users.

Read the details at Windows Vista Product Editions Revealed .

EBay to buy Skype in $2.6 billion deal?

It is really a big deal if you buy a free internet phone software company for billions of dollars.

Making one of its riskiest bets yet, eBay (EBAY) said Monday that it will buy Internet voice service Skype. That could eventually pit eBay against phone companies and VoIP services such as Vonage.
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Buying Skype "is a lot more of a stretch than any of the other acquisitions they've done," says David Edwards, equity analyst at American Technology Research.

EBay will pay $2.6 billion for Skype, which can be used to make free, high-quality voice calls from one computer running Skype software to another, anywhere in the world. Customers need a PC with a microphone. For a fee, Skype users can call regular telephones and vice versa. (Link)