Dries committed a change to CVS with the comment:
This feels good.
What was the change?Before:
define('VERSION', '4.8.0 dev');
After:
define('VERSION', '5.0.0 dev');
Finally, the first non-4.something Drupal in 4 years and 4 months (April 14, 2002).
Richard Orris and Gregg Knaddison have joined pingVision. Both are very capable and active developers in the community. pingVision is expanding fast and is becoming another Lullabot.It deserves to be listed on the dynamics within the Drupal community: where developers are going? page. Congratulations all ...
The CBC is reporting that a Mississauga, Ontario resident has been defrauded of $49,000 in what is known as the black money scam.
The black money scam claims that there are piles of cash that has been dyed black, and needs a special chemical to remove the dye. Of course, money is needed to buy the chemical. A demonstration is made with real money and is convincing enough to dupe the victim into giving money for buying the chemical.
Then after delays, and more money, the victim is left with a pile of black paper stacks and some liquid, and defrauded of his own money.
Although $49,000 is a considerable sum, it pales in comparison with what another man lost: $742,000, as the BBC reported in 2004.
Here is another classifed ads (craiglist) scam that I got in response to listing a computer for sale for a few hundred dollars.
From: richard adelson <richardsonandco@yahoo.ca> hi seller, i am interested in the item you placed online for my son schooling in Nigeria- West Africa. pls let me know how much the goods will cost and the term of payment. thanks.
My reply was as follows:
$237,579, including shipping by FedEx to Nigeria.Payment by cash.
Radio Shack has fired 400 employees by sending them emails. Read the Canadian Press version, and the discussion on Slashdot. This e-firing reminds me of e-divorce for some Muslims.In 2000, and Egyptian court refused to uphold a divorce notice by email. Another scholar from Saudi Arabia agrees that it is hard to prove in court.
It all started with famed Iraqi blogger, Raed Jarrar being forced to take off a T-shirt before boarding a flight. The T-shirt had "We will not be silent" in English and Arabic.One of the officials said that:
... wearing a t-shirt with Arabic script in an airport now is like going to a bank with a t-shirt that reads, “I am a robber.”
Say what? This is absurd and highlights how low the US has descended in its phantom war on terror. The hysteria by the media has succeeded in swaying public opinion against Arabs big time.
As expected, Drupal sites are popping up all over the place.Here are a few random Drupal sites that I ran into while surfing the net for non-Drupal related stuff.
I got this from Dr. M. S.
I would like to ask about the registration fees for an [some citizenship] Girl wants to egister in the second year of the secondary school (Grade 11). Also, the fasilties for aquiring studying Visa to enter Egypt.Thanks
It seems that Gavin Menzies is not the only person who claims that the Chinese discovered the Americas before Columbus.Paul Chiasson, a Toronto architect and amateur archeologist, claims that some ruins at Cape Breton are indeed due to Chinese navigators who circumnavigated around Africa and came to Cape Breton and settled there. He claims that Mi'kmaq natives were culturally influenced by those alleged Chinese navigators too.
A new study shows that tea is mostly beneficial to the health.Tea cuts down the chances for heart attacks, has flouride in it and hence good for teeth, and has antioxidants in it as well, which although not conclusively cancer-preventing, has other benefits.Tea is also a source of fluid. The myth that tea causes dehydration, because of its caffeine content, has been debunked.All this is good news to me, since tea is my main source of fluid. The only downsides are the caffeine content of tea, which is less than coffee, and its prevention of iron absorption if taken around meal times.
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