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Oil Standard a web browser plug-in that converts all prices from $ Dollars into the equivalent value in barrels of crude oil. When you load a web page, the script seamlessly inserts converted prices into the page. Visit Oil Standard

'Shirley Bassey Mixed Up' is a collaborative biography: an illustrated biography of the legendary diva, where the reader helps to 'mix' the illustrations online, using Internet searches.

Nobody touches Big Brother's Apple.
The Chinese- Taiwan-USA global capita join venture soap, creates and pushes bizarre processes. Picture and text speaks enough, I hope the reader can imagine between the lines. Here some extracts:
Apple recently announced almost $5bn in revenue for its last quarter.

The chinese plant supports 200,000 employees, less than 15% of which work on making the iPod, and 32,000 staff live on-site at the plant.

Let's say, I have apples. A lot of apples. And I want to have a pear. What would I do? I would look out for someone who has a lot of pears and then trade an apple for a pear. This concept works fine, as long as the opposite is actually interested in my apples. But what if the my trading partner is actually looking for bananas? This makes the situation a bit more complex.

The solution to this would be, that you introduce some kind of "medium" that just bears value but other than that, there is nothing more to it. We've done it, we call it "money".

Need an overview of all time zones around the world. You can have it. The QClock gives you a nice google map of all the timezones, even with a nice world shadow overlay!

Useful if you have friends scattered all around the world.

By chance I started to use Joomla. (Soon it will be up and running, i hope so) As soon as the Joomla platform was set up, I began my plugins/components/modules hunting for the site customisation. It was such an enjoyable beginning. Massive plugins/components/modules were found and they all seemed useful to me. Anyway I installed community builder as my first component- a little struggle but works fine. Secondary I tried gallery2 bridge, as I am building a gallery for the site and this component seemed to be exactly what i need. It turned out to be a 3hrs struggle and troubles remained unsolved... a mysterious configuration terminated the whole process, as well as my enthusiasm. Their demo site is down, I dont even get to see how well it works. There is no clear instruction, not direct indication, I felt totally lost in a desert called Joomla plugin.

I am an old Hindustani fan by nature and try hard not to miss each weekend's edition of the FT, not to forget that the KILLER COKE campaign caught my attraction, for sentimental reasons. Working in an institution where after hours, if you miss to get your Pellegrino at Sainsbury’s, some magic system forces you to a pilgrimage to the shiny Coke machine. Which by the way I hit as much as possible, always when I pass; why sentimental, seeing how much students and Universities joined this campaign, and in my college? They are so much Coke machines like cows toddle on an proper Austrian meadow. But reading about this very dubious centre the second time in Jo Johnson’s article “ Giving the Goliaths a good kicking”, motivated me to write about.