Looks like a new facebook worm has been detected.

I won't write too much about it... but I'll post a link toward's Chris Shiflett's blog post on it.

Chris Shifleet - Facebook worm

It was a historic night last night for sure in a couple of different ways.

History was made as the USA dropped some of it's historical baggage by electing the first african-american president.

History was also made in the the democrats victory was quite large... winning over some traditional "red" states.

The consensus in the voting results last night seem to indicate that the greater population wanted a resounding change.... the message should be heard by the republicans as such I would think.

I didn't get to watch Obama's speech.... as I feel asleep on my couch (it was late!!!)... but I did catch McCain's speech.

I thought McCain was well spoken and very respectful.... last night during his speech I found myself really liking him more then I had during this election season. I really thought he spoke well of Obama, of putting their (parties, partisans) differences aside and getting to work on fixing their problems (economy, jobs....etc).

Some of the class that McCain showed wasn't shared by some of his crowd who would start to boo as he talked of supporting his new president. But every time they started, he shushed them...

After all was said and done, I think the change they voted for last night was an important one. If I had been american, I would have likely voted for Obama myself. Regardless, I was very happy to see that McCain was totally classy in his final speech and his expressions of unity are the expression much needed in the tough times at hand and near.

Both of these men (Obama and McCain) deserve respect, as I believe that as all the campaign dust has settled, both seemed to really have an honest desire to serve their country.

Congrats to Obama as the new president elect and also congrats to McCain for the fine example of the continual service he's shown towards his country no matter the outcome.

Found this article tonight.

Russia, Iran and Qatar might be teaming up to form a gas cartel.

(AP on Yahoo!)

Looks like Iran's oil minister is leaning towards cutting production by some 2.5 million barrels of oil per day.

Here's an interesting quote:
"Given inflation and the current circumstances of the market, the current oil price is very low, and 150 dollars should not be out of the question," Nozari said.

"If oil prices do not reach a realistic level, they will go higher (than 150 dollars)," he said.

If anyone out there has felt a bit of relief on the wallet ever since oil prices went down... and of course gas and heating oil prices haven't gone down in direct proportion to what crude oil.... you probably won't fell that relief much longer.

They will most certainly push to raise the price to $150+ per barrel... and expect that as the same proportions haven't been felt at the pump or in heating oil as were in crude oil dropping to under $70 per barrel.... that when oil is again priced in the $150 per barrel range gas prices will be even more inflated then they were when oil originally reached that $150 peek.

But... I must say that there may be light at the end of the tunnel.

While all of these inflated prices really hurt your and my wallet.... more and more people are taking measures into their own hands. Some people are using small wind turbines to help heat + power their homes.

I also believe that as car makers have started to do, they will change the way car motors run... and we'll see huge improvements in electric cars, hydrogen fuel cell cars... solar power... etc.

I believe while some big industries begin (or continue) to seriously gouge it's clients... we'll see true innovation.

Henry Ford new that if people couldn't buy his product.... he had no product.

(AFP article on Yahoo!)

I think OPEC have realized just a little bit of what their consumers have experienced... a steep decline in monetary value.

Consumers have had their gas/energy prices spike incredibly high leaving their pockets drier... and OPEC has had their oil devalued by about %50 of where it peaked.

Although, products never go down for the consumer as fast as oil prices do... and while there's that convenience  excuse about the delay in pricing due to the refining process... they forget that part when the wind blows a little and they jack the price of oil again.

All of this financial crumbling is creating panic (of course) and panic is not causing any positive results.

One thing that I've been thinking for quite some time is that all of these huge Corps have forgotten some simple principles that people like Henry Ford seemed to understand.

That you're growth really has to be in sync with the consumers of your product. Otherwise, you ain't selling cause no one's buyin'.

And in this global market, to have balance, there has to be syncronicity amongst growth as a whole.... and there has to be such a thing as reasonable growth or healthy growth when speaking of profit margin.

But.... i'm just some guy who's told you his $0.02... not some high roller who just gambled billions and lost them in "investments". So what do I know....

Here's the International Herald Tribune article on OPEC.

Privacy laws.

We all got 'em... or maybe we all had 'em.

Here's a short note on Slashdot that mentions sources that the UK government may begin to monitor all email communications in the UK.

Big brotha.

(Slashdot article)

Well, I'll start by saying that I have not tried to new OpenOffice and I certainly have not read every review written.

But, the reviews I have read have been positive.

I've used prior versions of OpenOffice as my main "office" type software for at least 4 years now. I for one don't really use all of the advanced features that OpenOffice seemed to lack compared to MS Office and OpenOffice had always helped me to do exactly what I wanted it to do.

On my MacBook I've used NeoOffice, which is basically OpenOffice for the Mac (although there was a version of OpenOffice for the Mac, it wasn't flawless). I've used NeoOffice.

According to what I've read, the new OpenOffice works very well with Mac OS... so I'll be trying it out... both on windows and on the Mac.

You can download OpenOffice on the website.
http://www.openoffice.org/

I was shocked to see this.

Alexei Cherepanov collapsed during a KHL game and later died...

Cherepanov had slid down to 17th in the 2007 draft, where the New York Rangers wasted no time in choosing him. He was a young player with a very promising future in pro hockey.

(TSN article)

Even though I'm sitting here on PEI.... in Canada. I follow international news and since the presidential process has been roaring for about a year and a half in the states (guess they really really really can't wait to say bye bye to Bush) I've been following all the rucuss.

I guess maybe I watch CNN a bit too much (ok, there I admitted it).

All the details can be found over here on CNN's website.

One thing I wonder about tonight's extravaganza is just how much question jumping..... or avoiding...... or answering a question with another subject they have on the agenda will happen.

That's something that always tires me out when listening to some of these debates.... in that some polititians are just so good at giving a totally oblivious sounding blurb to the subject of the question that was asked of them.

But I suppose like so many... I'll be watching.

Let it begin!

I love chilli.

Just found this article. Although I really love chilli and eating spicy foods, super hot chilli where the actual spicy-ness kills the taste doesn't appel to me.

This story has a sad ending.... read the article.

Telegraph.co.uk article