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A three-year-old boy has used his mother’s computer to buy a £9,000 car on an internet auction site.

Jack Neal’s parents only discovered their son’s successful bid when they received a message from eBay about the Barbie pink Nissan Figaro.

Here’s something I found quite amazing, a three year old managed to login to his mom’s pc and since ebay was auto logged in, was able to successfully order a car on ebay using the BUY NOW option.

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I found the below articles to be very resourceful and surely learned a lot from them so I thought why not publish it here as well

Why Top Employees Quit

It’s like clockwork. Every year a portion of our top talent decides it’s time to move on. Once those bonus or holiday checks are cashed, the flood gates open and the resignation letters start flowing in.

I work in a large company and this is a problem that we have with our IT and Sales groups in particular. I reached out a to a few peers with other companies (one is an IT exec and one is actually a Group President) and as an exercise, we took a bunch of historical data and started identifying the factors that led to the annual exodus. We focused only the top 20% of the employees from a performance standpoint. It’s not that the remaining 80% is unimportant, however, from a productivity, growth, and brainpower perspective, the top 20% of any group is critical. Moreover, these are the employees that are very difficult to replace.

To do this, we reviewed notes from exit interviews, cross referenced annual reviews and ultimately came up with 178 voluntary terminations from people that would have been considered in the top 20%.

50+ Ways a Manager can get Employees to Quit

A month ago I shared some specific ways to get ahead at work. For me it worked, I got promoted within my IT group and was actually bumped up 2 spots. As I mentioned in that post, I was promoted directly by a VP (my boss’ boss), which was unusual. Since then my boss was let go basically because anarchy broke out in the group and people were quitting daily. However, it got me thinking. What if I didn’t have a VP that recognized my efforts? When does the atmosphere at work get so backstabbing and bureaucratic, that there is no good process to overcome it? What if a star employee wants to grow but management doesn’t know what to do or how to take advantage of the enthusiasm and motivation?

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I’m an old TechTV Fan and this is an old episode of TSS (TheScreenSavers) after the G4 takeover of techtv before Kevin and Alex left/fired from the show. Take a look, very cool.
(do not try this at home )

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If you’re a big southpark fan or just want to play around and be creative, then this is the perfect site for you to spend some of your free time http://www.sp-studio.de/

Here’s something I created myself:

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Today is the day!

Talk Like A Pirate Day is this coming Tuesday, September 19th. Founded by two guys in 1995 and popularized by humorist Dave Barry’s syndicated column in 2002, this bizarre occasion probably would’ve been a one-ff if it weren’t for the Internet’s appetite for ridiculous humour. The page explains how to talk like a pirate and lists pirate vocabulary.

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Strange Cluds
Just stumbled accross this link, there are numerous strange clouds here including dozens of pictures and few videos!

Strange Cluds

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This is a very interesting article with many steps of instructions and tips on how how to make a sale or future sale during a lunch.

Too often, salespeople think getting a lunch appointment is the victory, and they forget to make the sale. Big mistake.

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I found this article to be very interesting and being in the IT/Hosting industry this surely caught my attention
Also being a rock/metal fan but generally open to all genres of music including jazz/blues/pop and so on as well.

It’s official… Techies are a breed apart. According to new research, IT staff are twice as likely as other staff members to wear a heavy metal T-shirt and carry a Maglite and a Leatherman. They are also 34% more likely to wear a ponytail, 63% more likely to wear black jeans; and 32% less likely to wear clean clothes every day.

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The Clock is the winner of the 2005 Ig Nobel Prize for Economics.

The Ig Nobel Prize, is an hysterical award for real accademic research.
According to Wikipedia, The Ig Nobel Prizes are a parody of the Nobel Prizes and are given each year in early autumn — around the time the recipients of the genuine Nobel Prizes are announced — for ten achievements that “first make people laugh, and then make them think.” Organized by the scientific humor journal Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), they are presented by genuine Nobel Laureates at a ceremony at Harvard University.

A few Ig Nobel Prizes include:

ECONOMICS
The Vatican, for outsourcing prayers to India.

PEACE
Charl Fourie and Michelle Wong of Johannesburg, South Africa, for inventing an automobile burglar alarm consisting of a detection circuit and a flamethrower.

BIOLOGY
C.W. Moeliker, of Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam, the Netherlands, for documenting the first scientifically recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck.
[REFERENCE: “The First Case of Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard Anas platyrhynchos (Aves: Anatidae)” C.W. Moeliker, Deinsea, vol. 8, 2001, pp. 243-7. Photographs can be viewed at ]

MANAGED HEALTH CARE
The late George and Charlotte Blonsky of New York City and San Jose, California, for inventing a device (US Patent #3,216,423) to aid women in giving birth — the woman is strapped onto a circular table, and the table is then rotated at high speed.

NUTRITION
John Martinez of J. Martinez & Company in Atlanta, Georgia, for Luak
Coffee, the world’s most expensive coffee, which is made from
coffee beans ingested and excreted by the luak (aka, the palm
civet), a bobcat-like animal native to Indonesia.

FLUID DYNAMICS: Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow of International University Bremen, Germany and the University of Oulu, Finland; and Jozsef Gal of Loránd Eötvös University, Hungary, for using basic principles of physics to calculate the pressure that builds up inside a penguin, as detailed in their report “Pressures Produced When Penguins Pooh — Calculations on Avian Defaecation.”

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Hi,

Today we’ve completed the upgrade of all existing shared hosting customers’ packages. You should now see 10 times the storage and bandwidth when you login to cPanel. We value our customer base and our customers loyalty to us throughout the past months and years of our long journey. We’ll continue to add new features & scripting options (new: sitebuilder) + upgrade our packages for both existing and new customers while keeping the price the same. This is our way of saying thank you

Have fun and please contact us if you see any problems.

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