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Not sure true or false but an article over at Scribd suggests that if you want an insight into somebody’s true personality, then try to catch a glimpse of the way they sleep.

Scientists believe the position in which a person goes to sleep provides an important clue about the kind of person they are.

Professor Chris Idzikowski, director of the Sleep Assessment and Advisory Service, has analysed six common sleeping positions - and found that each is linked to a particular personality type.

• The Foetus: Those who curl up in the foetus position are described as tough on the outside but sensitive at heart. They may be shy when they first meet somebody, but soon relax. This is the most common sleeping position, adopted by 41% of the 1,000 people who took part in the survey. More than twice as many women as men tend to adopt this position.
• Log (15%): Lying on your side with both arms down by your side. These sleepers are easy going, social people who like being part of the in-crowd, and who are trusting of strangers. However, they may be gullible.
• The yearner (13%): People who sleep on their side with both arms out in front are said to have an open nature, but can be suspicious, cynical. They are slow to make up their minds, but once they have taken a decision, they are unlikely ever to change it.
• Soldier (8%): Lying on your back with both arms pinned to your sides. People who sleep in this position are generally quiet and reserved. They don’t like a fuss, but set themselves and others high standards.
• Freefall (7%): Lying on your front with your hands around the pillow, and your head turned to one side. Often gregarious and brash people, but can be nervy and thin-skinned underneath, and don’t like criticism, or extreme situations.
• Starfish (5%): Lying on your back with both arms up around the pillow. These sleepers make good friends because they are always ready to listen to others, and offer help when needed. They generally don’t like to be the centre of attention.

The remainder of those in the poll said the position they fell asleep varied or did not know.

Read the article for more information. I usually sleep in the log position, so I’m easy-going, trusting and gullible… Well, it’s probably bull. Anyway, I can’t imagine how people sleep in the yearner position. On some nights, I prefer to sleep with hands wrapping around my pillow.

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Q: Why do most snooze buttons only give you nine more minutes of sleep?

A: By the time the snooze feature was added in the 1950s, the innards of alarm clocks had long been standardized. This meant that the teeth on the snooze gear had to mesh with the existing gear configuration, leaving engineers with a single choice: They could set the snooze for either a little more than nine minutes, or a little more than 10 minutes. But because reports indicated that 10 minutes was too long, allowing people to fall back into a ‘deep’ sleep, clock makers decided on the nine-minute gear, believing people would wake up easier and happier after a shorter snooze. We’d tend to disagree with that logic, but, then, we must be in the lazy minority. Although today’s digital clocks can be programmed to have a snooze of any length, most stick with nine minutes because that’s what consumers expect.

I didn’t know my snooze button lets me sleep only 9 minutes, that blowed me off totally. I reckon that to increase the snooze timing to at least 90 minutes alright.

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This video is a small excerpt from ZEITGEIST - The Movie, which is available to watch now on Google Video and at ZeitgeistMovie.com. In the excerpt, the author targets Jesus Christ and the Christian religion. It is interesting to note that many Gods, such as Horus and Horus and - erm, I don’t remember - all are born on the December 25, born of a virgin and has some star of the east involved in the story. This is similar to the account of the birth of Jesus Christ. Since there are so many Gods with similar background, it is hard to tell which is right.

Perhaps faith is about choosing your favorite God and then believing and worshipping it. What do you think of the above video?

There are numerous sources suggesting that Jesus Christ is not born on the December 25 and that day is just to commemorate his birth. Finally, as a small little footer print - I am a Christian.

This is so true. Today’s music are loud and it’s starting to a little annoying at times. I love the drums and I often find myself turning up the volume just to hear the drumbs. In the past, this wasn’t even required.

I also noticed music from a decade ago sounded softer than today’s too. Check out the following video for an explanation.

If music producers continue to just do this, one day, music would just go worse and worse. Reclaim your volume control! You control your volume. Not the artist, not the producer!

Well, this is something that is known and acknowledged in the whole industry.

I quote from Wikipedia:

As of 2007, most consumer hard drives are defined by their gigabyte-range capacities. The true capacity is usually some number above or below the class designation. Although most manufacturers of hard disks and Flash disks define 1 gigabyte as 1,000,000,000 bytes, the computer operating systems used by most users usually calculate a gigabyte by dividing the bytes (whether it is disk capacity, file size, or system RAM) by 1,073,741,824. This distinction is a cause of confusion, especially for people from a non-technical background, as a hard disk with a manufacturer rated capacity of 40 gigabytes may have its capacity reported by the operating system as only 37.2 GB, depending on the type of report.

The difference between SI and binary prefixes is logarithmic â?? in other words, an SI kilobyte is nearly 98% as much as a kibibyte, but a megabyte is under 96% as much as a mebibyte, and a gigabyte is just over 93% as much as a gibibyte. This means that a 500 GB hard disk drive would appear as “465 GB”. As storage sizes get larger and higher units are used, this difference will become more pronounced.

Note that computer memory is addressed in base 2, due to its design, so memory size is always a power of two (or some closely related quantity, for instance 384 MiB = 3Ã?227 bytes). It is thus convenient to work in binary units for RAM. Other computer measurements, like storage hardware size, data transfer rates, clock speeds, operations per second, etc., do not have an inherent base, and are usually presented in decimal units.

As an example, take a hard drive that can store exactly 140Ã?109 or 140 billion bytes after formatting. Generally, operating systems calculate disk and file sizes using binary numbers, so this 140 GB drive would be reported as “130.38 GB”. The result is that there is a significant discrepancy between what the consumer purchased and what their operating system says they have.

Some consumers feel short-changed when they discover the difference, and claim that manufacturers of drives and data transfer devices are using the decimal measurements in an intentionally misleading way to inflate their numbers, though these measurements are the norm in all fields other than computer memory. Several legal disputes have been waged over the confusion. See Binary prefix â?? Legal disputes.

The basis of the problem is of course that the official definition of the SI units is not well known, and some legal settlements include directions for manufacturers to use clearer info, e.g. by stating a hard disk’s size in both GB and GiB.

Thus:

When you purchase 160GB, which is 160,000,000,000 bytes.

You take 160,000,000,000 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 to be roughly equals to 149.0116119384765625 GB. This amount is reported by the operating system.

And look how much you seemed to be shortchanged:

160 GB - 149.0116119384765625 GB ~= 11 GB

It would be worse for the 320 GB hard disk I intend to purchase, I get 298.023223876953125 GB reported in the Operating System, which is roughly shortchanged of about 22 GB.

This problem has always been there but Western Digital sums it up best by lamenting - Apparently, Plaintiff believes that he could sue an egg company for fraud for labeling a carton of 12 eggs a “dozen,” because some bakers would view a “dozen” as including 13 items.

Wow, quote of the Day!

[I was talking about this to some friends and thought I share with you guys.]

Did you know what would happen if you pee on an electric fence? You probably don’t want to be doing that.

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Several conspiracy theorist think that NASA’s Apollo landings on our moon didn’t happen. You can check out what they have to say about the moon landings.

They give several evidence by deducing the presence of multiple light sources on NASA’s published photograph and claimed that the photographer used a reflector even.

So did United States of America lie to the world? Well, I’ll leave it to you to decide if Apollo actually landed there.

[I didn't really know which category to throw it in so I just dump it into Travel, hahaa...]