The notorious website of WikiLeaks that makes public secret government information and other trade secrets between large corporations is struggling to stay live on the world wide web after its service provider deactivated its account after a series of DDoS (distributed denial of service). WikiLeaks, since releasing some information on the Afghan war, has been faced with a lot of issues but these problems did not deter the owner, Julian Assange, from releasing even more top secret information.

While, we common folks have no idea how how truth there is in the secret information released on WikiLeaks, the fact that WikiLeaks is being attacked so strongly shows that there many quarters are afraid of the site and what may appear on it.

Franbkly, I don’t read WikiLeaks but I do read technology news that are reporting on the information released on WikiLeaks so I do know what’s going on. Since these are highly secret files, I wonder how they could end up being published on WikiLeaks. What do you think?

1st December is World AIDS Day and as a way to support a non-profit organisation that helps families affected by HIV/AIDS called Keep a Child Alive, that was co-founded by Alicia Keyes, celebrities will stay silent on 1st Dec, until the goal of $1 million is charity donations from fans is reached.

Fans can support the charity by sending a text to a celebrity to keep him/her alive or to scan a barcode on the t-shirt that the participating celebrities are wearing in the advertisement.

Do you think US$1 million could be collected from fans for one day, or even less than that? If the goal is not reached will these celebrities stay silent on twitter, Facebook, etc. for longer than a day until the target of US$1 million is reached?

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My sister has been in extremely poor health this past year and the climax was that she collapsed in a New York hospital while on holiday with her husband and 911 had to be called. Since this episode, friends and family have been recommending various specialists to her and she told me it’s overwhelming to check the doctors out one by one.

By chance, I was introduced to Healpth.com this morning, which is like a directory for doctors and hospitals in the United States. Think of it as LinkedIn except that this one is focused on doctors and hospitals.

I find a directory like this extremely useful, especially to people like my sister who is in search of better health and with so many doctors recommended to her, she could easily check out the profiles of these doctors, read about their specialization and reviews by patients, if any. This means that my sister, or anyone in her shoes, would not have to visit these doctors one by one or ask around friends who have consulted with these doctors before or worse, go to the doctor only to find that he or she is someone who is too busy to listen to the patient.

My sister has insurance which covers hospital fees from only a handful of hospitals in her city. This directory is a good way to get the lowdown on each hospital so that in case of emergency, she would know which one to go to, to ensure that she is in the best hands.

This is one website that one should browse continuously whilst one is healthy. It’s a starting point to put our health in order.

Gmail, which now comes with a call feature, has added on call recording to the call feature, quietly. Users have started to notice this and have been using it but apparently, it can only record incoming calls for a limited time, though both parties will be informed of the activation that the call is being recorded.

While this is a great feature, and users of Google Voice can now have a transcript of the “phone call”, it is unfortunate that it’s only able to record a short time. How good it would be if incoming calls could be recorded in full for the duration of the call and saved in our Gmail account.

Anyway, since there is no official announcement yet, I think this is still in Beta and a better feature will be rolled out to all Gmail accounts at a later date.

An employee of the Royal Bank of Scotland has been fired because of her Facebook status where she chatted about her losing her job as the bank will be running a exercise where 3500 jobs will be cut.

The employee, Katie Furlong, has calculated that she would be receiving approximately £6,000 in redundancy payout by the time she leaves in 2012 when the centre where she works closes, but now it looks like she would not be getting even one penny. She is bringing this to the courts, of course, but her employers are saying that she has breached the secrecy agreement.

Katie maintains that she was just chatting with friends about it but she should know that Facebook is never a private place. She should know never to talk bad about her employer, no matter how she hates working there, until she no longer draws a salary from them!

My friend told me that he had a shock when he went to renew his driving license only to find out that he has a few outstanding traffic tickets. He wondered why he was not told about it. The problem is that now he has to settle them all before the department would renew it for him! And it is so expensive!

If my friend lives in Los Angeles, he could easily take up a defensive driving course at a Los Angeles Traffic School to reverse his traffic tickets. Yes, that’s possible and definitely worth it as he wouldn’t have to pay hefty traffic fines, then!

Moreover, it is so easy to sit for a defensive driving course and it could all be done online at his own convenience. I love the fact that this online traffic school offers unlimited log ins which means that we could log in to the lessons and learn as many times as possible until we are confident to take the test.

The good thing about taking up this defensive driving course online is that it’s so non-technical that even people who are not web savvy or not well-versed with the computer can still do it online and get those nasty traffic tickets revoked!

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It looks like the controversy that Google Street View faced in accidentally collecting Wi-Fi data of users in the UK is finally resolved. The company will delete the data, should have done so immediately after they discovered this breach, but was not allowed to so that the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) could carry out their investigations. In a few other countries, Google Street View is still being investigated.

Besides the promise to delete such data payload, Google has also signed a commitment to improve data handling, but mind you, this is only in the United Kingdom. I think that whether by accident or not, this should be standard procedure in all other countries affected by Google Street View. No need for any further investigations to be carried out.