An unidentified child carrying an empty plate of food stands outside a house

Ailing 15 year old Hussein Nuru arrived a week ago with his mother, Jamila Ilhoro and baby brother. The family had to walk for 4 hours to get to the Therapeutic Feeding Center. Husseins father, sick at home for the past year, is unable to provide food for the family.

Child hunger

The International Food Policy Research Institute shows that 40 per cent of the world's underweight children under five live in India. Add disadvantaged groups like the poor and women who have a hard time feeding themselves and you get 400 million people. Priests and activists point the finger at corruption and bad governance.

Dozens of illegal slums serving as monuments to misery, neighborhoods with barnyard animals and mucky kids in the streets were no longer the homes of a thrifty working class, but embarrassing eyesores.

Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.

God bring long-term change in the lives of people.

People are literally starving to death. In some cases people have gone searching for food on the mountain and eaten poisonous plants and died.

Through all of this we are reminded that God is in control and our main focus still needs to be on getting the gospel to these people.

A researcher named Kris Kaspersky claims to have found a way to hack into any computer with an Intel processor at its core, independent of the operating system running on the system. Kaspersky claims to have found a way for an attacker to take control of an Intel-based system by using JavaScript and TCP/IP.
For those of you who would like the technical details, here is the basic rundown. Many processors contain bugs, known as errata, which can be exploited using certain instruction sequences and knowledge of how Java compilers work, allowing an attacker to take control of the compiler. As of now, there are plenty of bugs in Intel processors, though they are not noticeable since they do not affect processing abilities, they are a major security risk nonetheless. While some may just crash the system or give full control of the system, some others may attack just Vista, disabling all security restrictions. Manufacturers (like Intel and AMD) try to patch these bugs by providing solutions in the BIOS but sometimes vendors do not implement the latest BIOS, making the system vulnerable. Kaspersky, who opened this can of worms, has promised to tell all but at his terms. These terms are the stage and the nature of the revelation.

Stage:

Hack in the box security conference at Kuala Lumpur

Time:

October

Nature of revelation:

An attack on Intel based computers running the latest patched versions of Windows (XP,Vista,Server 2003,Server 2008), Linux and BSD at the conference and public distribution of the attack code. Well for those of you running Intel computers here's something for you to watch out for in the future

SUN's new 'Datacentre in a Box'
" S E X Y "

an all-weather, indoor/outdoor, instant-on, datacentre inside a shipping container.

It's a simply briliant design - it uses less power, much less space and it's fully recycable and refurbishable, with a commitment from Sun for responsible disposal.

Now they should publish the design as an open standard of some sort, to encourage everyone to make these things so you don't have to be a Sun shop to reap the benefits.

• Project Blackbox will give customers the flexibility to move applications to optimal locations to take advantage of lower energy rates, avoid power outages, and tap cheaper, greener energy.
• Customers who select a configuration with the Sun Fire CoolThreads technology-based servers will save about $1,000 a year per Sun Fire T2000 or Sun Fire T1000 server in energy costs, in addition to cost savings provided by the container's cooling advantage over existing datacenter implementations.
• Sun will extend its electronic waste and hazardous material leadership by taking back Project Blackbox containers and their systems for upgrading, reuse, recycling, or responsible disposal.

Pictory is the newest segment my Blog too .
A pictory is the short form for ”A story in a Picture”.
In this segment we will pick an issue related to our society and discuss it objectively to enhance our comprehension of the world.

It is the kind of line to prick a newspaper editor's conscience. Early in his new book, The End of Poverty, Professor Jeffrey Sachs comments that every day our newspapers could report "more than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty". But it doesn't work that way. The story is too big for the news.

The death of more than 20,000 people on a single day would be one of the most momentous stories of the year - full of heartbreak and horror, particularly as so many of the victims were children.

The headlines would be massive, the news coverage extensive, the analysis compelling and in the days ahead, the letters page would be full of reader feedback.

But because this event happens every day of the year, for complex reasons that are hard to solve, it makes little news.

The problem with worldwide poverty and the unimaginable death toll, is that it is happening everywhere, all the time.

There is no sudden trigger or cause. It is a disaster without a single cataclysmic event. No single site of the tragedy. A mundane horror.

Jimi Hendrix’s torched guitar to sell for £500,000 at auction
July 17, 2008
London, July 17
( The first guitar to ever be torched by late American guitarist Jimi Hendrix is expected to fetch at least 500,000 pounds when it goes under the hammer.
Hendrix torched the guitar during a gig in 1967, when he poured lighter fuel over the 1965 Fender Stratocaster and then lighted it.
While he got treatment for his burns, his pal Tony Garland retrieved the guitar – and it landed up in his garage for 41 years.
Garland had later stored the instrument at his parents’ garage in Hove, East Sussex, where his nephew found it last year.
“The owner had forgotten he had it. When he found it he thought, ‘Bloody hell, I remember what that is.’ He thought it might be worth £10,000,” the Sun quoted rock memorabilia expert Ted Owen as saying.
The guitar, which made history at the Finsbury Astoria, North London, was one of several Hendrix burned and will be auctioned at the Idea Generation Gallery, East London, in September.
Other lots include Jim Morrison’s last notebook and a song-sheet of USA For Africa’s ‘We are the World’ signed by Michael Jackson and Bob Dylan. (ANI)