Tea Break

Job website monster.com has been attacked and the personal data of hundreds of thousands stolen…eeek

What’s the world coming to when parents think the best name for their child is @. Fortunately the Chinese authorities stepped in, but seemingly only because it would ruin their ID card naming system!

Scientists claim that it may be possible to build a time machine at some point in the future. Doubters like Steven Hawking, who claim that if time travel were possible, people from the future would already have visited us may have to readdress their claims, with the new theories.

Spammer gets 30 years for selling prescription drugs. A spammer has been been sentenced to 30 years porridge for flogging more than $24 million in prescription drugs through his illegal on line pharmacy.

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The Nation of Kazakhstan might claim that it is not the country portrayed in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. But its Interweb policy seems to gainsay this.

Yes it is for real and there’s even a website for it! There is a day for women, a day for children, even day for festooning a hedgehog in bacon fat, but today is the the eighth annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. The celebration day for under-appreciated sysadmins was started in 1999 by IT professional Ted Kekatos.

Something a bit different from our usual Tea break articles.
Top Gear star Richard Hammond abandoned his Porsche 911 in floods to run 16 miles home for his daughter’s fourth birthday. Hammond had been driving from London to his home in Herefordshire on Friday when he became stuck in traffic caused by flooding in the area.

After a mammoth 12-hour journey, the presenter abandoned his Porsche 911 Carrera in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, at 3am on Saturday morning and ran home.