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If you have been following the news recently you would have heard of the fate of Nguyen Tuong Van, a Melbourne man who has been sentenced to death by hanging in Singapore. His crime was trafficking about 400 grams of heroine.

Apparently, the reason he did it was to help pay off a debt for his twin brother. Whatever the reason, I don’t believe the death sentence is the answer. There is something wrong when society can say to a person:

“You are not allowed to live anymore.”

That’s not to say the crime this person has committed is excusable, but when we they as a society make judgement on an individual and take away that person’s right to live, what does that make us them?

Latest:

• UN panel votes to halt executions

Articles:

• Lawyers to tell Nguyen of his fate
• Brothers’ last meeting on death row
• Nguyen case will damage relations: ALP
• Nguyen prepared for death
• The precision of ritual in the gallows’ shadow
• Nguyen’s mother waiting on hug decision
• ‘Barbaric’ to hang him: Ruddock
• The older brother
• PM attacks ‘clinical’ Singapore
• One last touching joke before the end
• Nguyen’s body to be brought home

Related:

• Death penalty reaches grisly milestone in America
• Killer escapes landmark execution
• US carries out 1001st execution
• Schwarzenegger refuses clemency
• Hundreds farewell executed man
• Wrongfully accused: back from brink of death row

Please Santa, may I have one of these for Christmas?

…wistful thinking, since the 20Cup is but a concept car only. *sigh*

Source: Three-Wheeled Racer

It’s been a while, but KIN 0.4.0 is here. There are a number fixes and tweaks:

• Dashboard is now supported
• Added custom settings page
• Should now work in most (if not all) of the major browsers
• WP 2.0 ready

And many more improvements.

Important: Make sure you update to KIN 0.4.4. I have fixed a bug that causes data loss if you use the “global update” function in KIN 0.4.0. So, please update immediately.

Note: The bug was not present in KIN 0.2.0.

Go to the Download page to get your copy!

Isn’t it amazing how the year has flown by. Once again tis the season to be jolly, to reunite with long lost relatives , do that last minute shopping, stuff the stockings, roast the turkey, bake the cookies, pop the bonbons, carve the ham, steal a kiss under the mistletoe, drink a toast and…

…wish everyone a safe and Merry Christmas!

I know Christmas is not over yet. Plenty of eating and drinking to do. A lot of time left for merriment. Maybe a little bit more time than usual this year for fun and laughter.

As it turns out this year includes a leap second. This happens every seven years to account for the slowing down of the Earth’s rotation.

So, for the countdown on New Year’s Eve, it will go a little something like this: “10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0..0? Erm…Happy New Year?”

Hmmm…there could be a little confusion on New Years Eve, but on the up side, that extra second could mean an eternity depending on who you are kissing.

Source: Extra Second Will be Added to 2005

About the same time last year I had planned a trip that would eventually take me to Krabi, Thailand. I was apprehensive about the trip and wasn’t sure whether I should go or not, but it was too late to back out.

I arrived in Krabi around February, after travelling through Vietnam and Cambodia. I stayed at Ao Nang Beach, which sustained some damage during the tsunami disaster, but I was hard pressed to see it, because most of it had already been repaired by the time I got there.

It’s a year on since the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami and I know many people who will be travelling down to the south of Thailand for their holidays. It seems everything there is back to the way it was before the tsunami. People have a way of recovering.

The world showed that it had a conscience and gave a helping hand with unprecedented generosity. The UN have proposed an International Early Warning Programme (IEWP) to lessen the impact of deadly natural disasters.

A system like this could have saved thousands of lives if it had been implemented prior to the tsunami. Let’s hope the system will not need to prove itself anytime soon.

After the recent release of WP 2.0, I thought I’d better make sure KCA was up to scratch.

Apart from some bug fixes, there is now a built-in version checker for the plugin. This feature will notify you of any updates to the plugin. Nifty huh?

With the advent of WP 2.0, I decided to make this version of KCA an even 2.0.0 also.

As usual, go to the plugins page to get your copy!