just thinking out loud

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.

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.

Here’s condolences to John Travolta and his family for the passing of his teenage son, Jett, on January 2 while on a holiday in their house in the Bahamas. The boy was said to have had seizure in the bathroom and hit his head in the bathtub. He was taken to the hospital and was declared dead by the Rand Memorial Hospital in the island resort. He had a history of having seizures but really life is not ours to keep as long as we want to.

It’s a sad start of the year for John Travolta, his wife Kelly Preston and their family and I wish them love and comfort especially in their time of bereavement.

My husband is a huge, huge fan of organic stuff from fruits and vegetables to toothpaste to skin care products. He would always be attracted if a product is labeled “Organic”.  Since we eat almost anything organice, one time I told him that rice is not organic because farmers need fertilizers to boost their production. But that was just my “intelligent” observation.

Finally, today on the news I found an article to back up my claim. Farmers in the southern Philippines are resorting to organic fertilizers in the form of decomposed water lilies with other natural stuff which they discovered to be more beneficial not only to their crops but to the soil as well and on top of that it is more cost-effective than chemical fertilizers.

Unbelievable but true. A fisherman’s boat capsized and he needed a miracle to save his life. Well, miracle he did ask and a miracle he did get.

It must be a thrilling and never-to-get experience for Ronnie Dabal when a group of dolphins came to his rescue when all hopes were gone. It’s like a fantasy story. Imagine around 30 dolphins escorting you to shore making sure you hit home safely guiding you all the way through to make sure nothing harms you along the way. That was really very sweet of them dolphins to do that with the help of their brother/sister whales.

Read the whole story here.

Last Friday, December 12, I went to Woolworth while hubby renewed his driver’s license next door. I didn’t know it was the start of their closing-down sale. For costumers, it is really a welcome treat on this time of the year, Christmas, especially in the midst of a financial crisis across the country. But for Woolworth and their staff, it is the most unwelcome fact.

Well, I managed to find a couple of really useful items that I had been wanting to buy for months, a laundry bag for sensitive clothing, a CD and player case, and a CD marker.

I was a little confused though because there was a section that is not on discounted, not even 5% off.  I kept thinking if they will sell them to another shop in bulk rather than selling it one by one to shoppers.

Anyway, it’s really sad that one of Britain’s oldest establishment is closing down.

I thought it was phenomenal that in a town in Tanzania lots of Albinos in the community. According to the news it is caused by a substance in the fish that these people eat. But that is not what I am focusing this blog into. Accordingly, these Albinos are hunted by witchcraft because they believe that that blood of these albinos are a poweful formula for a spell. In this world of scientific awareness and technology at its peak there is still a place where ancient traditions exist. It is very heart-breaking how these Albinos are hunted. A women describes how they live in fear. When they go home they fear of being attacked and having their arms cut off. When they go to bed they fear of not waking up the next day. Technically speaking they fear to be alive. Somehow, the government is doing something to protect this helpless community.

The search is on for the missing or stolen rare Scottish coin collection that’s worth about £500,000.  They are offering a £50,000 reward for the person who could give an information to their whereabout.

Some of the coins were said to be as old as 900 years and they were amassed for a period of 50 years.

I’m just wondering how the thieves managed to steal them. For sure they took a great deal of a strategy on how to do their crime. Makes me think of Ocean’s 11, 12 and 13 and the Entrapment and many more that I haven’t watch or wouldn’t care to watch. Such movies give people idea how to rob.

Well, according to the news, these coins can’t be sold in the markets because they are so well-known.

Wow, this is really good news. A few months ago when fuel prices started surging up it seemed that the rays of hope are shutting off one by one. Thankfully, amid all these gloom even a single ray of hope is most welcome.

Finally, the price of fuel is starting to go down to less than a pound again just in time for winter when people have to spend more on their heating system. At least I see that there is a bit of a balance here.

A couple of weeks ago I also read in the news that some grocery stores here in the UK are starting to rollback their prices ever since the price of petrol started to decrease. Credit crunch might still be here but at least there is something good to focus on to.

Can you believe this?

A teenager was arrested cycling on the motorway and when apprehended claimed that she didn’t know it was against the law.

On another incident in the same country a mother was stopped by police because she was cycling with her naked 18-month baby in the child seat in temperatures of just 11 degrees Celcius. She was a lawyer herself and defended that she was just respecting her child’s wish who didn’t want to get dressed!

Ayayay!!! Ignorance of the law excuses no one..