BMW announce F1 withdrawal

BMW will end their involvement in Formula One racing at the end of the current season, as to restructure its motorsport activities.

BMW became Formula One entrants in 2006 after taking over the Swiss Sauber team. The company said the decision to withdraw stems from a desire to dedicate more resources to developing new, sustainable road car technologies.

BMW’s original Formula One involvement began in the 1980s as an engine supplier. With Brabham from 1982 to ’85, the company clinched eight Formula One victories and one world title, courtesy of Nelson Piquet in 1983. Following a final win with Benetton in 1986, BMW were absent from F1 competition until 2000 when they began supplying engines to Williams, taking 10 victories over the following five years.

In 2006 the company took over the Sauber team and enjoyed a positive first season as a fully-fledged works entry, finishing fifth in the constructors’ championship, with two podium finishes. The team went from strength to strength in 2007, occupying the ‘best of the rest’ slot behind Ferrari and McLaren. Scoring in all 17 races, BMW Sauber eventually finished second in the standings, behind Ferrari.

Last year, the team became championship contenders, with driver Robert Kubica clinching the team’s first pole position in Bahrain and then a maiden win at the Canadian Grand Prix. However, they have found they going a lot tougher this season and have scored just eight points to date.

Ferrari planning to substitute Michael Schumacher for Felipe Massa

Ferrari announced on that they plan to draft in Michael Schumacher to replace the injured Felipe Massa at forthcoming Grands Prix, until Massa is able to race again.

The seven-times world champion, who retired from Formula One racing at the end of 2006, will undergo a special training programme over the next few days to confirm he is fit enough to compete in next month’s European Grand Prix.

Schumacher has not driven Ferrari’s current F60 in anger and last tested for the Italian team, with whom he won five world titles, back in April 2008.

Dr. M (Che Det) joined Lim Kit Siang's blog

I was surprised to see a familiar face on Lim Kit Siang’s blog when I visited the site this afternoon. Just to confirm, I clicked on the thumbnail, boom, it was our ex-PM, Dr. Mahathir a.k.a Che Det. He joined the blog on 22/7/2009. What a surprise!!

After he was in office for 22 years and 108 days and retired for 5 years and 264 days, he finally realized that he needs to listen to other people and understand their thinking? Or he is merely spying into opposition political issues? Or he just wants to know how people criticize him?

C’mon! Don’t just be the follower of Lim Kit Siang, let’s join DAP now!

Massa crashed in Hungarian Grand Prix

Ferrari’s Felipe Massa will not race in Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix following his high-speed qualifying crash at the Hungaroring, the team have confirmed. Massa was airlifted to AEK Hospital in Budapest, where he is in a stable condition.

Felipe was conscious at the arrival at the hospital. He had suffered a cut on his forehead, concussion and a bone lesion of the skull. Massa underwent surgery to treat these conditions, the outcome of which was positive. He will now remain under observation in intensive care.

The Brazilian speared off the track and into the tyre wall at Turn 4 late in the Q2 session after a rear damper spring that had come loose from the Brawn car of Rubens Barrichello struck his helmet.

Medics were quickly in attendance and the start of Q3 was delayed as they extricated him. After initial examinations at the medical centre, Massa, eighth fastest in Q2, was transferred to hospital for further treatment.

GeoCities is closing on October 26, 2009.

GeoCities started off as a web hosting service founded by David Bohnett and John Rezner in late 1994.

This was one of the earliest company to offer users the ability to develop free home pages and hosted on their servers.

In January 1999, near the peak of the dot-com bubble, GeoCities was purchased by Yahoo! for $3.57 billion in stock, with Yahoo! taking control on May 28. The acquisition proved extremely unpopular; users began to leave en masse in protest at the new terms of service put out by Yahoo! for GeoCities. The terms stated that the company owned all rights and content, including media such as pictures. Yahoo! quickly reversed its decision.

While GeoCities proved a popular site for newcomers to Web design in the late 1990s due to its free service, the site has gradually become obsolete with the ever-decreasing cost of hosting a personal website. Most GeoCities sites that were popular in the late 1990s are no longer active and have long since been abandoned for other options.

Lately, Yahoo! sent out an email, reminding its users of the site closure.

Thanks to Yahoo!, for killing another great company with great ideas!

Discovering the web: Explore the world of Google search

There's a bunch of YouTube videos showing how we can use Google's different features!

Click: Explore Google Search

換湯不換藥的BING

當微軟(Microsoft)遇上谷歌(Google)，還是一貫地以不屑的眼神，以為谷歌小弟弟只不過是另一個網景(Netscape)。這也太小看谷歌了吧！

當谷歌頭也不回地往前沖時，這時微軟的光頭老爺爺才覺悟，谷歌這小伙子可是壯志少年了呀！

微軟的光頭老爺爺以為當下用戶個個傻頭傻腦，還買微軟這一套，換換包裝再上路！

MSN Search 追不上，換個 Windows Live Search ，不行再換個 Bing ！我提議呀，不然用 Rubbish ，比較好聽嘛！

Gmail is now out of beta.

Gmail is now out of beta. "Beta" has been removed from the logo!

Google Chrome OS, the answer to Microsoft-free computing experience!

When everyone thought that Android is the answer Google trying the OS market, Google surprised us with the new OS named Chrome OS.

Poor Microsoft, it gets hit many times since Google incorporated. First Google dominates the search engine market. Then Google enters the Web-based e-mail market. Android invades Windows Mobile's turf. And then Google jumps into the browser market with Chrome. And now, Google has upped the ante yet again with its plans for a new operating system based on Google Chrome.

The new operating system will be an open-source OS initially geared toward netbooks, Google announced in a blog posting, and will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.

I love to hear this. If Apple can't kill Microsoft, I hope Google will.