just thinking out loud

The SSC Ultimate Aero is currently the fastest car in the world as verified by the Guiness Book of World Record beating Bugati Veyron for only couple of mph

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SSC Ultimate Aero, top speed is 257 mph, watch the video below.

To date, Ferrari FXX is the most expensive car I have seen so far and the current price is £1,210,000. Top speed is 217mph.

Well, they said that the most expensive car really was the 1931 Bugati Royale which was sold for 8,700,000 dollars in 1987, about 20 years ago.  You can read the report here.

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“Today, we begin again the work of remaking America.”

I saw this video on youtube and I was moved to tears. Who wouldn’t be? I first got to hear about Connie Talbot late last year while browsing through X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent videos on youtube.

I regret missing to watch her live on tv. Well, thanks to technology and youtube, now we can watch movies and tv programs we missed.

Anyway, I was blown away by Connie’s incredible voice and this blind Korean girl just made me spellbound and I don’t know but I can’t stop the tears falling watching her play so well at such a young age and with sight impediment.

Isn’t that the cutest thing? Found it again through a fellow twitter and I just thought I must have to share it.

Well, if a picture paints a thousand words, need I say more?

O hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

By the way, just a few more comments about what I feel about this photo. I think it sends a powerful message especially for people who felt like trapped in their situation that there is a way out.

Never give up. Try and try until you die. Oops, sorry, I mean until you succeed. As long as you are alive, there is hope.

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My, doesn’t he look so charming?

Hmm…I’m kinda riding with the wind right now. I first received this update from John Chow on twitter and I just thought it would be good to blog about it before it becomes a history.

Also today, Cadillac introduces the new presidential limo.

Wow, as much as being popular and having the world at your command, the next best thing to becoming a US president is to own one a limo. (Well, that’s just my unsolicited opinion.)

Anyway, how can one not but wonder at this beautiful creation?

My, I’m drooling with admiration. You can view the other images by clicking on the image or just go here .

According to yahoo news, the best way to beat ID fraud is to “Smash your PC with a hammer”. What? Did you say hammer? Yes, and make sure every bit it is irreparable especially the hard drive.  Because PC is like a safety vault where people keep some highly valuable information, ID theft could buy old PCs where they can gain access to the former owner’s personal information like credit cards used for online shopping. According to Which?, a review and comparison site, merely deleting data is not enough as fraudsters could still retrieve them in the hard drive.

It’s funny how a couple of days ago I actually thought to myself, what if my laptop is stolen and then they can get access to my accounts e.g paypal, alertpay, and other sites because I use firefox and save all passwords so I won’t forget them. Losing a password is not as dangerous as someone else finding it. If you lose it, you can retrieve it again but if someone found it then you’re in big trouble.

The same is true with personal information that’s kept in the hard drive. So the best way to destroy information in your computer is to destroy the hard drive itself.

Daniel Tammet is the boy with the incredible brain. He can recite all the 22,500 numbers of a pi after the decimal point flawlessly. He says he sees the numbers so technically, he doesn’t think to make calculations which is out of this world.

Apart from being able to do the most complicated mathematical problems, he also can learn a language in just a week. Incredible, isn’t it?

It’s so amazing how powerful a brain can be. Unfortunately, not all of us are gifted with such abilities like Daniel Tammet and the other savants.

But it’s also interesting to point that savant and autism have a strong link.

A couple of interesting headlines I found on yahoo news today:

Children ‘elope’ to sunny Africa

As young as six and seven year old, a pair from Hanover, had it all planned perfectly. They were going to Africa to get married and to make it binding even brought the girl’s five-year old sister as a witness. Kids really say (do) the darndest things eh? 

Boy, 6, Tries to drive to school

Not wanting to miss his school breakfast or gym class, an unnamed boy from Virginia, drove their For Taurus to get to school when he missed his school bus. With his father already gone to work and mom too sleepy to help him get ready, the boy decided to take the matter in his own hands.

Boy of four shoots baby sitter 

Another youngster who made a headline today was a four-year old boy from Ohio who got angry with his babysitter for stepping on his foot. He took his father’s shotgun and shot his nanny in the arm and side.Oh, boy! Oh boy!