My PC was on the whole night (as usual) and when I woke up this morning at about 6.20am to switch it off, i saw one of my friend’s Facebook status on the screen.. “…hhhmmm, Michael Jackson dies of possible cardiac arrest…“.

Aik?

I google for the news.. YES. I’m not dreaming. He’s dead. R.I.P . A shocking news early in the morning. Sigh.

Not to say I’m a Big Fan of MJ, but I used to listen to his songs  since i was a lil’ kid.  Still remember “Beat It” & “Billie Jean” and also his moonwalk. A trademark.

Legend.

And this is one of my favourite song, Heal The World…

“.. Heal The World Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough For The Living
Make A Better Place For You And For Me..”

Rest in Peace, MJ.

michael jackson, rip, heal the world, billie jean, beat it

The latest version of Mozilla Firefox web browser, Firefox 3 released today. I’ve tried the beta version of Firefox 3 before in my Ubuntu (Hardy Heron) and what i can say, it’s not good enough. Few plugins/add-ons were not compatible (i dunno why Ubuntu 8.04 set Firefox 3 Beta as their default browser). Also a bit lagging when you open multiple tabs. Yea, i consider all that since it was a beta version. However it has improved! Still rocking lar, i must say. Much Better than IE7.

I’m sure this latest version of Firefox is getting better. Download for free. Hey! Don’t forget to spread the word about the Download Day, a mission to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours!

Woot! I’m going to..

Update:

Extra reading : http://me.zestful.org/2008/06/first-look-at-firefox-3/

firefox 3, Guinness World Record, download day, mozilla

1a.m. is launching the very own 1a.m. Academy, a place where talents are groomed to be at their best, where new ones are discovered, and taught by experienced facilitators, integrating the message of excellence, with full fledged facilities provided but at an affordable price.

1a.m. Academy is dedicated in bringing forth positive music that will revolutionize and impact the future of the music industry. Inspiring transformation that will surface a new standard of creativity that is set apart, creating tracks of opportunities for a new generation of people combined with creative elements.1a.m. Academy is officially launched in June 2008, introducing courses like Music Production, Church Sound Production and Play-By-Ear as well as our instrumental classes and vocal classes. Come and learn from the best, check out our amazing range of courses and instruments classes that is offered, either learning a new or just improving your skills, let them help you to be at your best!

Contact 1am Academy for more information!

1am, music, positive music

Serious stuff dude…

The new price of petrol is RM2.70 per litre beginning midnight tonight,
it was announced a moment ago by Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs
Minister Datuk Shahrir Samad. Diesel will go up by RM1 per litre while
the price for ULG 92 per litre went up by 74 sen. The 78 sen hike or 40
per cent increase for the ULG 97 petrol is still below the antiticpated
RM4 per litre price projected earlier and among the cheapest in Asia.

[Source : NST]

This is no good..

KUALA LUMPUR: Budget airline AirAsia will introduce check-in baggage fees from April 21.

The move is to defray rising fuel costs, said group chief executive officer Datuk Tony Fernandes.

The baggage fees are RM3 per bag (for online check-in) and RM5 per bag (for airport check-in).

Let say baggage fee = RM5 per bag..

Excess baggage (per kg) = ____ ?

Via : The Star

air asia, baggage fee, datuk tony fernandes, low cost carriage

Woooot! Just another superb project from Google. They hired Codeweavers to make Photoshop CS and CS2 work better under Wine. A good news I must say for all Linux users as Google & Codeweavers are working hard to improve Wine for Adobe Photoshop in Unix platform. Yah as we know.. There are quite number of people who use “Photoshop” as an excuse not to switch to Linux 100% (including myself) . I still prefer dual-boot because of this single reason.

What is Wine, anyway?

Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix.Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris.

Thanks Google for this Open Source project! Wooot!

Extra Reading:
Google behind Photoshop’s new Linux compatibility
Google funds Photoshop-on-Linux work
Photoshop works better than ever in Linux, Thanks to Google

adobe, codeweaver, crossover, cs2, linux, Open Source, photoshop cs, wine