You’ve probably heard that Microsoft offered $46 billion for buying Yahoo!. I bet people at Yahoo! are thinking about this quite seriously, even though it most likely won’t happen. While US might not do anything to stop it, European Union is all over this.

Why Microsoft wants Yahoo? Simply because, even with tens of thousands of employees they have, no one can create a good search engine. Their Live Search is struggling! Yahoo on the other side - can find stuff - and besides Google, is the only other big player in the Search Engine business. SE is a money making machine through ads - that’s the whole point behind the idea.

Now, for our laughs, and for Yahoo execs trying to keep their cool, here are some tips. The guy actually makes sense too

Last night Sali and I watched Australian Open Finals and a very nice game between Ana Ivanovic and Maria Sharapova.

This was a fun game to watch. I, of course, love Ana and was cheering like crazy for her to win, and Sali - being a good Russian girl she is - was cheering for her Maria

Ana lost, but it’s all right. She is getting better and better with every match she plays. She is going to be #1 this year I am sure of it! Ana, if you can hear: YOU CAN DO IT [and you know it]

Oh, also, even though I do not care much about men’s tennis, Federer “got SERBED” HAHAAHAHA - Go Djokovic! It’d be great to see him win the Australian Open!

Interested in tennis, or Ana, visit AnaIvanovic.com

This new year (2008), got off to a very strong start for me. I’m being quite busy with current projects. Clickapost.com is almost ready for the first public beta and ACI is requiring some upgrades to the Grants Administration system I created for them.

While all this is great, I wish I had some more time for writing on my blogs. This one in particular since for many people it’s the only source of information about me :). Sorry guys, phone and emails are swamped with work-related stuff that I cannot even make it through to read all of other emails I get

Other blogs are suffering too though; I just started the NeedToKnowBlog.com and I already do not have enough time to write the articles. I guess after some time it will live up, but for now - it’s slow.

I did have time to write a nice little review of MacBook Air. I was sincerely looking forward to a new Apple notebook and I had no idea what disappointment I was going into while watching the Keynote this year. Dammit Apple! At least the stock price is back where it belongs: $130… with this kind of product, you really do not deserve $200 - at least not know.

Hopefully next year brings us a Real MacBook Air (Take 2), with FireWire, faster drives, ExpressCard, etc… Then, maybe, I’ll buy it - for now - MacBook Pro is the Law as they would say in my country [zakon ;)]

Cheers!

The other day while I was in the shower (where I usually get crazy ideas, especially the ones that involve buying another domain name), I decided to create another blog which will provide everyone with information about the best stuff on the Internet.

Over there, you will find links and blog posts about the best of the best. From on-line shopping, to gadgets, to tutorial sites: I will cover every single aspect and provide the visitors with the tips, links and more information. No more need to search around!

Also, I will use it to explain the basic things most newcomers to the On-line world should know, from choosing an email address, to what blogs are, how to create your own blog, what RSS feeds are, and more… It should be a great source of information for all, especially the elderly who wish to learn more

Head over to NeedToKnowBlog.com and check it out…

If you are interested in a bunch of medical stuff, my lovely Sali has a blog of her own @ EasilyForgotten.info

And funny really

Willie "Pete" Williams served 22 years for a crime he did not commit. What world we live in? He’s now 45 … "According to the Innocence Project, only 45 percent of those exonerated by DNA evidence have been financially compensated. He expects some compensation from Georgia, although the state has no law guiding such cases." - In my opinion he should be getting no less that 1 million for stupid people screwing up his life! He spent the best years of his life in prison - even 1M is too little to ask.

[He] had no idea when he was pulled over by police that the criminal justice system was about to steal away half his life.

Willie "Pete" Williams, 45, spent half of his life behind bars for a 1985 rape he did not commit.
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Sitting in the flashing glow of Atlanta squad car lights along Georgia State Road 400, the 23-year-old part-time house painter didn’t know police were looking for a rapist who had struck nearby three weeks earlier.

Police questioned — and then arrested Williams, triggering a series of mistaken witness identifications that led to his unjust conviction for rape, kidnapping and aggravated sodomy.

It was 1985 and Williams was sentenced to serve 45 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. "I felt betrayed. … I felt like these people had taken my life for something I didn’t do. I felt like I was being treated unfairly. … I felt very, very angry towards everybody," said Williams last week, a free man after nearly 22 years behind bars.

Source: CNN

So far, DNA evidence has directly exonerated 208 wrongly convicted people in the United States, according to the Innocence Project. It’s unknown how many prisoners now locked up in American jails could be freed by new testing of DNA evidence.

I love airplanes and I simply cannot wait to get a chance to fly on the new Airbus A380. Just look at it’s wings - it almost resembles a beautiful bird

The commercial flights have started with the first Singapore Airlines flight from Singapore to Sydney completed today!

Too busy working today. Issues with PHP and unserialize() function. For some odd reason it is not returning my serialized array back the way it’s suppose to. I tried everything but no help, and it’s just a regular array… O well, I’ll store data in XML format then - it’s better in the long run anyway. Here’s a message for PHP on how to commit suicide:

Vlade just got his blog up and running and he managed to crash one of my shared servers with the visits he got

He wrote a great article about the upcoming games titled: PC Games We Just Can’t Wait For. Great review with description, trailers, photos, etc. All you need pretty much.

It seems Digg users thought it was cool too; since couple of minutes ago (since I got the server back on line), he’s is featured on the Front Page! Congrats Mate!

Now - a note about Digg: With great power comes great responsibility! Most of people’s sites these days, unless they are hosted on Blogger or some huge servers with "unlimited" resources are NOT made for Digg! When a story becomes popular thousands of hits can come through in a very short period of time. Couple of times it happened to me to loose over 50GB of bandwidth in just a matter of minutes! Thank God I limit my own site’s bandwidth

Digg: Since you already have big-ass servers and a lot of resources, and are making a lot of money thanks to all of us, how about integrating some kind of Mirroring, so as soon as the post becomes Popular - you offload people’s servers and redirect to an internal mirror? Heck, if you’d even make it just a random call with clicks being randomly distributed to mirror or to the original location - it’d still save a lot of trouble for a lot of people. Just a thought… Maybe Kevin gets to read it and do something!

I was editing a movie couple of minutes ago and I just loved the way my car looked in it. I sent the picture to Vlade who made me post it on-line

"I’m feeling lucky" plate frame was bought from not so known Google Store. They have all kinds of fun stuff you can get there. I especially liked the Google Gym Towels (which they do not have any more by the way)!