The Star reported on April 26, 2007 that:
- Cho Seung-Hui practiced shooting at 2 local firing ranges.
- took 9 minutes to kill the 30+ people at Norris Hall.
- fired at least 170 bullets
- police reached floor he’s on 8 minutes after receiving the first 911 call
That means, on average, he fired a shot every 3 seconds.
That dubious honour belongs to Dr Gang Lu PhD, 28 of China who had recently received his doctorate in physics from the University of Iowa. On 1st November 1991 he used a revolver (he was also carrying another pistol) to shoot dead 5 people, then killed himself.
Just before 4 p.m., Lu shot and killed his professor, Christoph Goertz, 47; Linhua Shan, 27; department chair Dwight Nicholson, 44; and Robert A. Smith, 45, an associate professor in the department and Lu’s co-advisor. Shan, like Lu, was from China & had also recently received his PhD in the same subject.
Then, he walked 3 blocks to the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, where he shot and killed T. Anne Cleary, 56, an associate vice president and professor of education. He then shot himself.
According to the university, Lu was angry and jealous that his doctoral dissertation had not received a prestigious academic award. Instead, it was compatriot Linhua Shan who got it, the 1991 D.C. Spriestersbach award for outstanding doctoral dissertation. His dissertation concerned an explanation of the structure of Saturn’s ring system. He was also a member of the theoretical space physics team in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Linhua Shan was not yet 27 when he died
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Testfreaks.com is a review website which will launch within a couple of months and should be on the bookmark of savvy buyers who’d like to do their homework before committing to a purchase.
Consumers generally have the problem of narrowing down their product of choice from the initial sheer number of choices. How would they know that the range of camcorders by company A is the best choice, based on their budget and their requirements? Going straight to the store and asking the salesperson is probably the worst initial move one can make. They could be pressured to purchase a substandard product, just because the salesperson is eager to clear out their old stock. I know, it’s happened to me too.
Testfreaks.com comes to your rescue here. It collects the best reviews from the pros, blogs, forums. There are many categories, including camcorders, cell phones, digital cameras, mp3 players, TVs, home entertainment, personal computers and laptops / notebooks. It goes further than that: it drills down to more details, for example for camcorders, it goes right down to batteries type of media used and brand of camcorder. Hence, if you’d like to find out how a particular model from a particular brand storing movies on hard disks movies fared in the reviews, you’d be in luck.
Hmm… I wonder if they would even review a home theater carpet?
The 2 dogs are really damn good. Bounty on them increased by people on the dark side to RM50K.
Nowadays, I could not find any pirated DVDs or software at all at Sungei Wang or Low Yat.
But if you really want to find them, there are at least 3 shops in Wangsa Maju still openly selling them. Open till 10pm.
But this is no April Fool’s joke. Spotted while riding a taxi Sunday afternoon.
Of all the multinational restaurant chains in the world, a Hooters restaurant will have probably the toughest time breaking into Malaysia.
This American enterprise has 425 restaurants in most states in the US and 19 other countries, including 3 in Asia: China, Singapore and recently, South Korea. Next up: Israel middle of this year. In China, the 4th Hooters restaurant is going to open in Beijing in July, and they plan to have, in all, 10 restaurants there.
The controversy isn’t the food, it’s the policy of the company: targeting male customers, and an all-female waitress staff, dubbed Hooters Girls. There are 200,000 of these girls around. They are selected based on their all-round good looks. You would recognise them by their distinctive uniform: white spandex tank top with the Hooters owl logo and the location name on the front, very short orange running shorts, glossy ultra sheer suntan pantyhose, white socks, and white athletic shoes. Example below is Hooters Girl Ms Melissa Poe:
I learnt two big lessons recently on things related to wordpress:
When hosting a blog on wordpress.com, or any free blog host for that matter, read the TOS first. And don’t even think about breaking them. My piece of advice for everybody else is: don’t host your moneymaking blog at free web/bloghosts. The hammer can fall anytime. In my case, to make matters worse, I didn’t have any backup. But still I had plan C: I managed to salvage most, if not all, of my posts via google cache.
If you have your own hosting, and are running wordpress, be VERY careful with the General Options - Wordpress Address and Blog Address settings. Read the documentation thoroughly before attempting to change any settings there. In fact, I think there should be a big red sentence there to warn unsuspecting wordpress newbies about this. What happened to me: I changed both settings, found they didnt work, and put back the original settings. It didn’t work. My blog lost all its formatting and I could not access the configuration panel. I followed the steps outlined in wordpress codex on how to use myphpadmin to manually change 2 fields (whose entry needs to be changed to the original blog URL) in the wp_options table, but somehow there was an error. So what I did was export the wp_options, change the 2 fields offline then import the table. Of course this time I remembered to back up the existing wp_options table first.
As of now.
I am concentrating mainly on web communities run mainly by Kadazandusuns, so if I missed anything, pls inform. I have not devised a proper requirement to make the list, only that the forums must only allow posting by registered members. Hence sites allowing anonymous posting are automatically disqualified.
Judging from publicly viewable statistics of its forums, the most popular Sabah-based web communities could very well be the following, sorted by number of members (if that number is not available, by number of posts):
Then there’s the Chinese-language web community sabahlife.com, of which I know very little about.
Of course we are some way off the pace set by national-level web communities like jiwang.org which has been running for 10 years, apparently has more than 50,000 registered members, running on 5 separate domains. I took a peek just now and it had almost 400 members online, and that the forum had almost 5,000 threads and more than 80,000 posts.
Most of these Kadazandusun-focused sites offer streaming audio. One blog that I know does is dbos-fm.blogspot.com. Other web forums like the KDCA forum do not attract many people.
Pics taken by yours truly one fine Saturday afternoon.
Feel free to use as wallpaper. No royalties 
But pardon the datestamp, forgot to turn it off.
As the Chairman of the Social & Charity Committee for the State Ministry of Finance Cooperative I have to organise at least a dinner or a family day before June.
One I planned is an annual dinner with a difference: on a yacht/ship/boat or whatever you call it. Got the idea from Smokehead of mysabah.com.
I’ve never organised an annual dinner before - it would be an interesting experience.
For family day, I organised for the cooperative several years ago at Pan Pac. It was — too noisy — I dont think we will ever be allowed back in there again.
I was secretary of the cooperative for several years, but from 2006’s AGM I requested to change due to too many commitments. True, you have people under you but still the time and energy commitment are there. Chairpersons of any committee, the secretary and treasurer are automatically members of the Board of Directors for the cooperative. Being part of the responsible team to chart the activities (investments etc) for a mid-sized cooperative is definitely a challenge.
I am not thinking of going for “reelection” during AGM this year as I’m thinking of concentrating other things.
I went for the post to get more exposure and garner experience in handling a cooperative (and perhaps more importantly, dealing with shareholders) - it’s a stepping stone to greater things, having moved up from being president of my department’s sports and recreation club.
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