The Events Category Archive

Welcome to the Events archives. The posts are listed in chronological order. Click the post title to read more.

April 1st, 2008

Search the future with Google

Google Australia launched gDay today, a new search engine that allows users to search a day in advance of real time:
Google spiders crawl publicly available web information and our index of historic, cached web content. Using a mashup of numerous factors such as recurrence plots, fuzzy measure analysis, online betting odds and the weather forecast [...]

March 18th, 2008

Earth Hour

On 31 March 2007, more than 2 million Sydney businesses and households turned off their lights for one hour, Earth Hour, creating a powerful global message that it’s possible to take action on climate change. Earth Hour inspired the world and in 2008, other major cities will be joining us to take a stand.
This [...]

March 14th, 2008

I feel older

My birthday is coming up end of the month. I feel older already.
Have you noticed how people tend to care less about birthdays as they grow older? There is a point in everyone’s lives when they stop celebrating birthdays - things get really dull. I know this sucks but it happens.
I still like birthdays, not [...]

February 29th, 2008

Sometimes, a hug is all we need.

Free hugs is a real life controversial story of Juan Mann, a man who’s sole mission was to reach out and hug a stranger to brighten up their lives. In this age of social disconnectivity and lack of human contact, the effects of the Free Hugs campaign became phenomenal.
As this symbol of human hope [...]

February 25th, 2008

Test drive

What: New Audi A4
Where: Polus Mall, Cluj Napoca, RO
When: Yesterday
Event organized by Autoworld and Polus Center.
Things I enjoyed: design, quality look&feel, seating comfort, smooth automatic transmission.
The car handles great, especially in turns, and you can really feel the kick when you slam your foot on the acceleration. The test course was designed to really [...]