As the economic might of Japan faces up to the global banking crisis, a single cat has boosted the finances of a small Japanese city by millions of dollars, according to a study.
Tortoiseshell Tama is the “stationmaster” of the unmanned Kishi train station where she was born and raised on the provincial Kishigawa Line.
But it is not her labours on the platform which have seen the cash rolling in.
It is rather Tama’s irresistible charm which has brought tourists flocking in their thousands to the western city of Kinokawa to see the feline worker patrolling in the uniform of her office - a Wakayama Electric Railway cap.
With 55,000 more people having used the Kishigawa Line than would normally be expected, Tama’s contribution to the local economy is calculated to have reached as much as Y1.1 billion ($A13.5 million) in 2007 alone, Read the rest of this entry »
A huge explosion ripped through part of the heavily guarded Marriott Hotel in Pakistan’s capital on Saturday. Many people, including foreigners, were seen running out, some of them stained with blood.
There was no immediate word on casualties at the site, which is a favorite place for foreigners to stay and is heavily guarded. Ambulances rushed to the scene, where a fire also burned. Read the rest of this entry »
They are starting Yahoo Hack Day again. They call it, “The hack is back!. Do you want to request an invite to Open Hack 2008, September 12-13? Sign up at www.hackday.org. Hope you can join us at Yahoo! HQ in Sunnyvale. We don’t mind if you code all night. ” Read the rest of this entry »
Just though about checking Odesk and its down for 45 mins.
oDesk down for maintenance
We expect our normal weekly maintenance window to be a little longer than normal to accommodate some additional database maintenance tasks. oDesk.com will be down from approximately 1:15AM GMT to 1:45AM GMT on Thursday, September 11th. Read the rest of this entry »
Yeah I am singing this song written by Ahmad Faraz, as he is no more in this world and this song really resembles the situation. Ab ke hum bichrey tau shayad Kabhi Khabon main Milain
Ahmad Faraz is considered as one of the greatest modern Urdu poets of the present times. Born as Syed Ahmad Shah in 1934, he breathed his last at a hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan Read the rest of this entry »
Feb. 27, 2008 — The urge to cuddle and coo when presented with a baby turns out to be an innate response prompted, at least in part, by the structure of an infant’s face, according to new research that actually shows how this baby love process works in adult brains.
The finding could explain many behaviors, including why adults connect with babies, why most parents immediately gravitate to their kids and why many men appear to be attracted to women with baby-like features. Read the rest of this entry »
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has asked all the ISPs in Pakistan to block YouTube and yeah its in effect from Today. I am a fan of YouTube and I use it for watching Tutorials about the things I like, fun videos, information, literature and no need to mention music. Read the rest of this entry »
So sad; my friend Naseer Mughal just got a mobile SMS news flash message announcing a bad news. “Artist Gulgee and his wife Murdered”. I couldn’t beleive the news but it was one of the Pak Government cellular companies Ufone and I had to beleieve it. I just did a quick type in my Firefox’s address bar, yeah the famous ( yet notorious to our so-called liberal and democratic Islamic Republic of Pakistan ) Geo News adress www.geo.tv and yeah this news was the latest one in their sidebar. The details are as follows. These details are taken from the Geo TV and I take no responsibility for any misinformation. Read the rest of this entry »
According to the news resource, “The hosted blogging service, which has 14 million users worldwide, was purchased from San Francisco’s Six Apart.”
One-year-old Russian online media company SUP on Monday announced that it has acquired LiveJournal — a hosted blogging service that counts millions of users in the U.S. and around the world. SUP bought the service from Six Apart, a San Francisco-based startup that began offering LiveJournal in 2005 after acq
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As the economic might of Japan faces up to the global banking crisis, a single cat has boosted the finances of a small Japanese city by millions of dollars, according to a study.
