Earthquake in Kashmir

Pakistani men stride past a crack in a road in Balakot, a mountain village that was largely leveled by October 8′s massive earthquake.

The Kashmir region, where the quake occurred, is among the world’s most seismically active areas. Here, the tectonic plate that includes India is slowly forcing its way into the European continent, pushing up the Himalaya mountains and sparking the occasional earthquake as it goes.

Melbourne Towers

Melbourne Towers from the beautiful Yarra river

Bu(ll)sh(it) Protector ?

Bill Moyer, 73, who served in Korea and Vietnam , and in the post WWII occupation of Germany was seen wearing a “Bullshit Protector” flap over his ear while President George W. Bush addresses the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Idaho on last tuesday.

Great idea bill :)

Hidden Windows Applications

To run any of these apps go to Start > Run and type the executable name (ie charmap).

WINDOWS XP HIDDEN APPS:

1. Character Map = charmap.exe (very useful for finding unusual characters)
2. Disk Cleanup = cleanmgr.exe
3. Clipboard Viewer = clipbrd.exe (views contents of Windows clipboard)
4. Dr Watson = drwtsn32.exe (Troubleshooting tool)
5. DirectX diagnosis = dxdiag.exe (Diagnose & test DirectX, video & sound cards)
6. Private character editor = eudcedit.exe (allows creation or modification of characters)
7. IExpress Wizard = iexpress.exe (Create self-extracting / self-installing package)
8. Microsoft Synchronization Manager = mobsync.exe (appears to allow synchronization of files on the network for when working offline. Apparently undocumented).
9. Windows Media Player 5.1 = mplay32.exe (Retro version of Media Player, very basic).
10. ODBC Data Source Administrator = odbcad32.exe (something to do with databases) (more…)