Graphics Flaw Creates Hole In Windows
December 31, 2005
Microsoft are fighting against time to fix a previously unknown flaw in its Windows operating system.
Microsoft have placed a noticed about it on their site.
Microsoft said the problem is in the portion of software that renders graphics. It said the code is being used by people who place malicious Windows Metafile images on Web sites.
100 things you didn’t know this time last year
December 30, 2005
BBC News has come up with an impressive list of “100 things we didn’t know this time last year”
Among the funnier ones are:
11. One in 10 Europeans is allegedly conceived in an Ikea bed.
13. Prince Charles broke with an 80-year tradition by giving Camilla Parker Bowles a wedding ring fashioned from Cornish gold, instead of the nugget of Welsh gold that has provided rings for all royal brides and grooms since 1923.
20. The Queen has never been on a computer, she told Bill Gates as she awarded him an honorary knighthood.
33. Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has only been in an English pub once, to buy his wife cigarettes.
Mariah Carey has the best selling CD of 2005
December 30, 2005
It’s official, Mariah Carey’s ‘The Emancipation of Mimi’ is the top selling CD
of 2005, narrowly upstaging 50 Cent’s ‘The Massacre’
Carey’s “The Emancipation of Mimi†sold 290,000 copies in the week ending Dec. 25, according to figures released Wednesday by Nielsen SoundScan. That brings her total to 4.86 million copies on the year, compared to 4.83 million for 50’s “The Massacre,†which came out in March.
2 Year old child gets Drunk!
December 29, 2005
I didn’t even think it was ever possible!
But appreantly that’s just what happened!, a toddler was taken to the hospital, where tests revealed he was legally intoxicated, with a blood-alcohol content of 0.094 percent, the sheriff’s office said. In New York, a driver is considered drunk with an alcohol content of 0.08 percent or greater.
A 37-year-old man, Juan Reyes, has been charged with child endangerment.
Tori Spelling engaged…….again
December 29, 2005
In October, actor-writer Charlie Shanian filed for divorce from Spelling, a little more than a year after they were married.
But now Tori ,32, is engaged yet again, this time to Actor Dean McDermott,39, as he
proposed to her on christmas eve 2005.
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