I find myself devoting more and more time to Precal as time goes by, I’ve done so much of it on the computer this evening that I feel sick; six pages of math calculations and graphs to be exact. I guess that’s what I get for taking the course.
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Monsters and Critics.com, UK Hong Kong – A rogue police officer shot a constable dead and critically injured a second policeman before being fatally wounded himself in a gun battle in Hong Kong Friday.
The plain-clothes officer pulled out a handgun when he was stopped by two patrolling officers in a subway in the city’s Tsim Sha Tsui shopping district at 1 a.m. Friday, police said.
In a ferocious exchange of fire, he shot the constable through the head and shot his colleague in the face and leg but was fatally wounded by returning fire from the second officer.
Ten shots were fired in the gun battle during which a frantic radio message from the dead constable’s colleague brought police reinforcements racing to the bloody scene.
Officers found the three men lying in a pool of blood on the subway floor, the constable dead from a bullet to the head, his colleague critically injured and the rogue officer dying from gunshot wounds.
Three police service revolvers were found lying on the ground, two belonging to the uniformed officers and the third a revolver later found to have been stolen from a policeman murdered in 2001.
The stolen revolver was snatched from a police officer and used to shoot him dead in an execution-style killing as he answered a routine emergency call. The killer was never found.
Hong Kong police commissioner Dick Lee described the gun battle as ‘a great blow’ to the city’s force, which prides itself as being the most corruption-free in Asia.
Police were Friday searching the home of the rogue officer who was confirmed dead soon after reaching hospital. A woman at his home was taken in for questioning, a police spokesman said.
Police identity documentation was found on the body of the plain-clothes rogue cop involved in the shoot-out, who had been approached by the two officers for a stop-and-search check.
Legislator James To, head of Hong Kong’s legislature security panel, said he had heard from sources that the stolen revolver at the scene had been used in other crimes around the city since 2000.
He described the incident as ‘a very serious matter’ and said: ‘We must use all our resources to further investigate and prevent any future more serious crimes.’
All police officers in Hong Kong carry service revolvers but gun crime is extremely rare and when it occurs is usually perpetrated by gangland robbers from mainland China.
The way this concerns me is that I live in the building right next to the subway that they mention. I mean like the subway is right next to my building. I didn’t hear anything since it happened at 1 in the morning and I was sleeping. I didn’t know about this until my father phoned us up from work at about 7:30 and told us that there was a shooting in the subway. I always take that subway to get to the bus that takes me to school every morning and I use it daily to get around places. This morning I was doing the same when I wasn’t able to access any of the entrances to the subway as they were blocked by police officers and “Police Line, Do Not Cross”. I had to go to a different bus stop as a result. The subway is still blocked off and there are a bunch of police officers and journalists all around the subway. I just heard about it on the Mandarin News but I only know a very insignificant amount of Chinese so that wasn’t much help. I’ll have to wait until the 7:30 English News then. Anyway, quite strange and scary as well. Now I feel scared to go in that subway, kinda creepy. I now have two places around my area where I’m afraid to go. A bathroom in the park where some dude committed suicide and now the subway next to my building. Damn.
I am typing this entry in Internet Explorer 7 Preview Beta 2. It is now called Windows Internet Explorer. The new version has been dramatically changed from the previous. You now only have the address, search and tab bar and some general buttons e.g. refresh, home… at the top. The biggest addition has got to be the tabbed browsing and it works rather well. To open a new tab you click on a mini tab next to the one you have open. Upon doing this, a little button comes up on the left of the tabs that allows you to view the pages in a type of thumbnail of the information currently being shown on that page. This new feature is called Quick Tabs. Say for example you have 5 tabs open and you want to quickly see what is in each one or switch between them, just click on the Quick Tabs button and you can see those two pages in practically real time.
IE 7 also now includes a search engine toolbar next to the address bar. You can search MSN Search (obviously), Google or anything else you want by adding “Search Providers”. The smart feature of this is that you can choose to search the current page from the search bar without having another find window although the shortcut for Find (CTRL+F) still yields the all-to-familiar Find window.
Internet Explorer 7 finally has support for RSS feeds and handles them well. You can subscribe to feeds as well as view them. Another new feature is the zoom: you can view a page with a certain zoom level. I don’t really know the use of this since people usually only want to enlarge the size of the text and not the actual page (graphics become distorted) but the zoom was fun for um…10 seconds.
Although you only see a few toolbars on the page, you can add or remove them or just access them by clicking on a button on the right side of the browser.
To conclude, the design of Internet Explorer 7 is quite good in my eyes. The UI is friendly and the browser is not cluttered with toolbars, just the ones you need and use very frequently. The browser’s support of CSS and web standards still isn’t up to par but it’s way better. At least now the damn thing supports png files. It’s still not a finished product but I’d recommend you to go out and try it at its current stage.
Oh yeah, the logo looks better as well.
In my opinion, Electronic Arts makes some of the best video games in the world. They bought up most of the small gaming companies anyway so it figures. I recently purchased two new sports titles from EA; FIFA 06 and Madden NFL 06. They are both really amazing games with grand graphics and superb gameplay. I have a lot of other EA titles; a bunch of The Sims expansion packs, Need For Speed III-Underground, Battlefield 1942, Madden 2002-2006, NHL 2001, Simcity 3000, 4 + Rush Hour Expansion, and some others that I forgot about. They’re all great games. Just wanted to comment.
I received an amazing documentary focusing on World War II, my favorite subject of history. The whole collection consists of two volumes and the box set is actually 12 discs but I got just one volume from the collection, a six disc set. I’m going to have a lot of fun watching 10 or so hours of documentaries (no I am not being sarcastic, I honestly enjoy watching those things).
