What the?


I'm not an online shopping fanatic but sometimes a concerned browser has to do what a concerned browser has to do.

While trying to crawl on some of my favorite sites, something interesting showed up in front of my monitor which eventually gave me the superlative laugh of my day. The subject was a cookbook holder displayed on a famous online shopping site. Yes! It was so beautiful indeed. Made with fiber plastic/glass including the rounded edges. I t looked like the most perfect cookbook holder for the kitchen.

But sad to say ladies and gentlemen, this is the worst online product my eyes have seen. I mean for a cookbook holder to be bought online? For god's sake do we really need this? Shield your cookbook from the attacking tomato sauce? We dont need this!

"The Forbidden Kingdom"



“The Forbidden Kingdom”, a new martial arts film that offers the first collaboration of Hong Kong’s top martial arts stars Jackie Chan and Jet Li. It begins with an American teenager, Jason (Michael Anganaro) who likes to hang out in an old Chinatown pawnshop owned by Old Hop (Jackie Chan’s second role) . Jason then makes an extraordinary discovery from a legendary stick weapon which takes him back to ancient China to join a crew of martial arts masters on a quest to free the imprisoned monkey king.

He is then guided by a drunken master (Chan) and an elegant monk (Li). Both administered a tough training to Jason in order to teach him the skills he needs to learn in order for him to defeat the evil Jade emperor.

The film's fight scenes are stylized, incredible wire work and gravity-defying digital sorcery rather than blood and gore which makes it appropriate for the mythological setting. The story is packed with jokes and references to classic martial arts movies that will delight fans of the genre. Some viewers might have hoped that the long-awaited collaboration by China's top action heroes would be a prestige production like "House of Flying Daggers" or "Crouching Tiger," but there's no shame in making a well-crafted kids movie. On those terms, "The Forbidden Kingdom" is truly a must see.

E-commerce security issues

E-commerce systems are based upon Internet use, which provides open and easy communications on a global basis. However, because the Internet is unregulated, unmanaged and uncontrolled, it poses a wide range of risks and threats to the systems operating on it. The use of the Internet means that your internal IT and e-commerce systems are potentially accessible by anyone, irrespective of their location.Some of the more common threats that hackers pose to e-commerce systems include carrying out denial-of-service (DoS) attacks that stop access to authorised users of a website, so that the site is forced to offer a reduced level of service or, in some cases, ceases operation completely. They are also gaining access to sensitive data such as price lists, catalogues and valuable intellectual property, and altering, destroying or copying it.

For me, i think we should try to regulate our enthusiasm on the power of the internet to globally help the success of our business and affiliations because i believe that the internet is still under development and still needs to enhance the security for its users. Lets just not rely on the internet too much and lets avoid giving important information about our personal lives.

Web Designer

Web Designers are responsible for the layout, visual appearance and usability of a website. This role may overlap with that of a Multimedia programmer and web architect. Using a combination of graphic design skills and technical knowledge of how web pages are created, the work involves:

• liaising closely with a customer or client at the design stage to answer questions such as: why is the site needed? who are the target audience? who are the leading competitors? etc;


• producing a design that will be attractive to the target user, has a logical navigation system and has all the features required;


• writing web pages in a combination of codes, such as hypertext mark-up language (HTML), Javascript, Actionscript, ColdFusion, Java, Perl and Flash, or using code-generating programs, such as Dreamweaver;


• deciding on how images and other material will be digitally optimised and presented for the web;


• ensuring that material on the web site is accessible to all groups including those with disabilities;


• testing the site for functionality in different browsers and at different resolutions;


• fixing errors.

Web designers will have knowledge of graphic design packages such as Fireworks or Photoshop in order to produce basic layout and manipulate images. Skills in cascading style sheets (CSS), e-commerce and server side technologies, such as PHP and Perl, and internet security are also important. As users gain faster access to the internet via broadband, web designers with skills in multimedia and interactivity are likely to be in greater demand.

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