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Japanese woman caught living in man’s closet
Filed under Weird

A homeless woman who sneaked into a man’s house and lived undetected in his closet for a year was arrested in Japan after he became suspicious when food mysteriously began disappearing.

Police found the 58-year-old woman Thursday hiding in the top compartment of the man’s closet and arrested her for trespassing, police spokesman Hiroki Itakura from southern Kasuya town said Friday.

The resident of the home installed security cameras that transmitted images to his mobile phone after becoming puzzled by food disappearing from his kitchen over the past several months.

One of the cameras captured someone moving inside his home Thursday after he had left, and he called police believing it was a burglar. However, when they arrived they found the door locked and all windows closed.

“We searched the house … checking everywhere someone could possibly hide,” Itakura said. “When we slid open the shelf closet, there she was, nervously curled up on her side.”

The woman told police she had no place to live and first sneaked into the man’s house about a year ago when he left it unlocked.

She had moved a mattress into the small closet space and even took showers, Itakura said, calling the woman “neat and clean.”

Comments (1) Posted by Timothy Wong on Saturday, May 31st, 2008


Referee banned for changing his mind
Filed under Weird

A referee in the Vietnamese soccer league has been suspended for four matches for awarding a goal and then changing his mind, local media reported.

Referee Nguyen Xuan Hoa was reprimanded by the country’s soccer federation for bowing to pressure from Danang, whose furious players stormed off the field after conceding a goal to Dong Tam Long An last week.

The Danang team returned 20 minutes later after Hoa reversed his decision and went on to win the game 3-2.

In a meeting with the federation’s disciplinary committee, referee Hoa insisted no one had influenced his decision, the Thanh Nien Daily reported.

He was suspended for four matches, however, and his assistants banned for three for failing to mention the incident in their match reports.

Danang’s coach was fined $495 and banned for four games for interrupting the match.

Comments (0) Posted by Timothy Wong on Wednesday, May 21st, 2008


Mario explains why computer games do not cause violence
Filed under Technology

Why computer games do not cause violence
Click above thumbnail to see newspaper scan.

Comments (0) Posted by Timothy Wong on Tuesday, May 20th, 2008


IE7 memory leak? Internet Explorer 7 stop eating my memory!
Filed under Personal, Technology

I currently run Microsoft Windows Vista Business, with Internet Explorer 7 (7.0.6001.18000). I’ve been using IE7 since its beta stage (on Windows XP to begin with) and have never had this problem… After I upgraded to Windows Vista, I’ve noticed serious memory leak / problems with the browser.

IE has been running for about 3 hours. In total, I’ve opened (and closed) between 30 - 40 tabs. Then suddenly, when inspired to check the news online, my computer started to feel extremely sluggish… So I opened up task manager, expecting to see IE7 eating up all my resources as I’ve seen before. And that’s exactly what I found.

Internet Explorer 7 Memory Leak

Good lord, what is going on? So I closed IE, and waited several seconds for the system to free up some memory. Then restarted IE7 to write this entry.

As far as I can see, it seems to be a problem with AJAX (as I’ve noticed IE7 feasting on my memory most often after I’ve been on Facebook and other AJAX websites), and after some digging, found:
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=105535, which seems to be a bug Microsoft refuses to address. I have also tried running IE in safe mode, or without any add-ons but to no avail.

Speaking of which, I currently have one IE7 window opened, running for less than 20 minutes with 6 tabs running… And memory usage has jumped to 144MB. What?!

I really do want to stick with IE7, and doubt I’ll ever fully convert to an alternative such as Firefox, as it’s just not to my taste. I don’t wish to turn this post into a IE7 vs. Firefox debate, but am really needing a solution!

So, has anyone else found they also have this problem? I would love to hear any advice anyone has on fixing this!

Comments (8) Posted by Timothy Wong on Friday, May 16th, 2008


Britain’s Got Talent - Michael Jackson
Filed under Videos

An amazing video! Did anyone else find Ant & Dec really annoying?

Comments (0) Posted by Timothy Wong on Wednesday, May 14th, 2008


How to get free food at Mcdonald’s
Filed under Videos

Comments (0) Posted by Timothy Wong on Tuesday, May 6th, 2008


Skateboarding on a treadmill
Filed under Others, Videos

What an idiot. Oh, and with a laugh like that, the guy holding the camera is an idiot too.

Comments (0) Posted by Timothy Wong on Sunday, May 4th, 2008


Man asks court to change his name to ‘In God We Trust’
Filed under Weird

Steve Kreuscher wants a judge to allow him to legally change his name. He wants to be known as “In God We Trust.”

Kreuscher (CROY’-shir) says the new name would symbolize the help God gave him through tough times.

The 57-year-old man also told the (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald he’s worried that atheists may succeed in removing the phrase “In God We Trust” from U.S. currency.

He recalls that the phrase “God Reigns” was removed from the Zion city seal in 1992 after courts deemed it unconstitutional. Zion was founded as a theocracy — by a sect that believed the Earth was flat.

The school bus driver and amateur artist in the northern Chicago suburb says he has filed a petition to change his name in Lake County Circuit Court.

Comments (0) Posted by Timothy Wong on Sunday, May 4th, 2008


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