Internet 2010 in numbers

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Email

107 trillion • – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2010.

294 billion • – Average number of email messages per day.

1.88 billion • – The number of email users worldwide.

480 million • – New email users since the year before.

89.1% • – The share of emails that were spam.

262 billion • – The number of spam emails per day (assuming 89% are spam).

2.9 billion • – The number of email accounts worldwide.

25% • – Share of email accounts that are corporate.

Websites

255 million • – The number of websites as of December 2010.

21.4 million • – Added websites in 2010.

Social media

152 million • – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).

25 billion • – Number of sent tweets on Twitter in 2010

100 million • – New accounts added on Twitter in 2010

175 million • – People on Twitter as of September 2010

7.7 million • – People following @ladygaga (Lady Gaga, Twitter’s most followed user).

600 million • – People on Facebook at the end of 2010.

250 million • – New people on Facebook in 2010.

30 billion • – Pieces of content (links, notes, photos, etc.) shared on Facebook per month.

70% • – Share of Facebook’s user base located outside the United States.

20 million • – The number of Facebook apps installed each day.

Videos •

2 billion • – The number of videos watched per day on YouTube.

35 • – Hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute.

From pctechmagazine February

http://pctechmagazine.com/feb/PC%20Tech%20Magazine%20Volume%202%20-%20Issue%20One%20-%20February%202011.pdf

BRAIN DAMAGING HABITS

1. No Breakfast 
People who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar level. This leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain causing brain degeneration. 



2 . Overeating=2 0
It causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power. 



3. Smoking 
It causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease. 



4. High Sugar consumption 
Too much sugar will interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients causing malnutrition and may interfere with brain development. 



5. Air Pollution 
The brain is the largest oxygen consumer in our 20 body. Inhaling polluted air decreases the supply of oxygen to the brain, bringing about a decrease in brain efficiency. 



6 . Sleep Deprivation 
Sleep allows our brain to rest.. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of brain cells.. 



7. Head covered while sleeping 
Sleeping with the head covered increases the concentration of carbon dioxide and decrease concentration of oxygen that may lead to brain damaging effects. 



8. Working your brain during illness 
Working hard or studying with sickness may lead to a decrease in effectiveness of the brain as well as damage the brain. 



9. Lacking in stimulating thoughts 
Thinking is the best way to train our brain, lacking in brain stimulation thoughts may cause brain shrinkage. 



10. Talking Rarely 
Intellectual conversations will promote the efficiency of the brain 



The main causes of liver damage are: 







1. Sleeping too late and waking up too late are main cause. 



2. Not urinating in the morning. 



3 . Too much eating. 

4. Skipping breakfast. 



5. Consuming too much medication & alcohol. 



6. Consuming too much preservatives, additives, food coloring, and artificial sweetener. 



7 Consuming unhealthy cooking oil.. 
As much as possible reduce cooking oil use when frying, which includes even the best cooking oils like olive oil. Do not consume fried foods when you are tired, except if the body is20very fit. 



8. Consuming raw (overly done) foods also add to the burden of liver 
Veggies should be eaten raw or cooked 3-5 parts. Fried veggies should be finished in one sitting, do not store. 

We should prevent this without necessarily spending more. We just have to adopt a good daily lifestyle and eating habits. Maintaining good eating habits and time condition are very important for our bodies to absorb and get rid of unnecessary chemicals according to ' schedule. ' 



The top five cancer-causing foods are: 






1.. Hot Dogs 

 

Because they are high in nitrates, the Cancer Prevention Coalition advises that children eat no more than 12 hot dogs a month. If you can ' t live without hot dogs, buy those made without sodium nitrate. 



2. Processed meats and Bacon 

 



Also high in the same sodium nitrates found in hot dogs, bacon, and other processed meats raise the risk of heart disease. The saturated fat in bacon also contributes to cancer. 



3. Doughnuts 



Doughnuts are cancer-causing double trouble. First, they are made with white flour, sugar, and hydrogenated oils, then fried at high temperatures. Doughnuts, says Adams , may be the worst food you can possibly eat to raise your risk of cancer. 



4. French fries 



Like doughnuts, French fries are made with hydrogenated oils and then fried at high temperatures. They also contain cancer- causing acryl amides which occur during the frying process. They should be called cancer fries, not French fries, said Adams . 



5. Chips, crackers, and cookies 

 



All are usually made with white flour and sugar. Even the ones whose labels claim to be free of trans-fats generally contain small amounts of trans-fats.

Application of the Decade

Dear Sir


I refer to the recent death of the Technical Manager at your company and

wish to apply for the replacement of the dead manager.


Each time I apply for employment I am told there is no vacancy but on this

one, I have caught you red handed coz I even attended the funeral and all

burial proceedings and made sure that he was truly dead before applying. I

can remember you saying at the funeral that he will be very difficult to

replace, meaning there is no one at the moment. Well it's your lucky day

sir; you already have found the best man for the job so look no more.


It is sad but strategic though, that he has left us, at least now I stand to

benefit as he has left a vacancy for me. For that I shall forever be

grateful for his timely death. He too always spoke of early retirement and I

guess this serves him well too. A deal that benefits all should be the

substance of a fine businessman. Ironic, yes but death is truly very fair.

Just imagine, the company no longer has to pay his retirement funds.


The company will not have to worry about paying me a relocation allowance

because he was my neighbour and it will be easy for me to simply jump over

the Durawall into that beautiful big company house. I also took it into my

hands to quickly buy a drivers' licence as I am sure the Toyota

4x4 will also be handed over to me. And sir, don't even try to cheat
me on this one because I even know the mileage reading on that beautiful machine. This just

goes on to prove that I am a determined self starter who is attentive to

detail. Amiable qualities that speak for themselves.


I am sure that after reading this, there won't be any need for a CV, just

verification if I am up for the challenge. For that sir, I will be sending

my pictures taken whilst attending the funeral and burial so that you can

see how tough I was and can be when employed. As for my referees, well the

same dead manager was my referee so we can safely skip that part.


I only hope there will be no corruption as we are all still mourning. Thanks

for advertising at the funeral because I could not have known


Yours ever smiling even in tough times.

Toughman Strong.

Scam.com

I would like to share with you this scam I received from a purpotedly world bank official using a Gmail address and requesting for a small payment through Western Union. naturally if out of the 1,000 people he scams, 10% pay, he/she would earn a clean US $5,500! Subject: Re: International Monetary Fund. Code: 60 From: "International Monetary Fund" Date: Fri, February 4, 2011 9:29 am To: undisclosed-recipients:; Priority: Normal Options: View Full Header | View Printable Version | Download this as a file

Attn: Client, My name is Adetomi Peter Olakunle and I am the new IMF payment officer to release your pending fund to you. I am directed to deliver your fund to you in the form of cash which worth the sum $15.5 Million Dollars by IMF (International Monetary Fund). Send me your full mailing address and your contact phone number for final verification before I move to deliver to your home in person. You only have to pay the sum of $55 which you have to send to the below information: Name: Adetomi Peter Olakunle Address: City: Lagos, Nigeria Text Question: Pending Answer: Fund Amount: $55 Your fund is sealed in a computerised locked box and only you is authorized to open the box when I deliver it to you which makes it impossible for me to deduct the $55. The fee is required to release a computerised code which you will use to open your box when I get to your home, only you will be given the code for security reasons when I get to your home. Send the money through Western Union or Money Gram as soon as possible. E-mail me payment information once you make the payment so I can move immediately. I will leave immediately I confirm $55 payment from you. Thanks, Adetomi Peter Olakunle. International Monetary Fund.

Loving Mom

My mom only had one eye. I hated her... She was such an embarrassment.

.

She cooked for students & teachers to support the family.

There was this one-day during elementary school where my mom came to say hello to me.

I was so embarrassed.

How could she do this to me?

I ignored her, threw her a hateful look and ran out.

The next day at school one of my classmates said, "EEEE, your mom only has one eye!"

I wanted to bury myself.

I also wanted my mom to just disappear..

I confronted her that day and said, " If you're only gonna make me a laughing stock, why don't you just die?"

My mom did not respond....

I didn't even stop to think for a second about what I had said, because I was full of anger.

I was oblivious to her feelings.

I wanted out of that house, and have nothing to do with her.

So I studied real hard, got a chance to go abroad to study.

Then, I got married.

I bought a house of my own.

I had kids of my own.

I was happy with my life, my kids and the comforts, Then one day, my mother came to visit me.

She hadn't seen me in years and she didn't even meet her

Grandchildren. When she stood by the door, my children laughed at her, and I yelled at her for coming over uninvited.

I screamed at her, "How dare you come to my house and scare my children!"

GET OUT OF HERE! NOW!!!"

And to this, my mother quietly answered, "Oh, I'm so sorry. I may have gotten the wrong address,"

And she disappeared out of sight..

One day, a letter regarding a school reunion came to my house..

So I lied to my wife that I was going on a business trip.

After the reunion, I went to the old shack just out of curiosity.

My neighbors said that she died.

I did not shed a single tear..

They handed me a letter that she had wanted me to have..

"My dearest son,

I think of you all the time. I'm sorry that I came to your house and scared your children.

I was so glad when I heard you were coming for the reunion.

But I may not be able to even get out of bed to see you.

I'm sorry that I was a constant embarrassment to you when you were growing up.

You see.........when you were very little, you got into an accident, and lost your eye.

As a mother, I couldn't stand watching you

Having to grow up with one eye.

So I gave you mine.

I was so proud of my son who was seeing a whole new world for me, in my place, with that eye.

With all my love to you,

Your mother..

Rwanda Needs To Succeed Spectacularly. And It Also Needs To Fail Dramatically - Africapedia - Africa Facts and Data.

Rwanda Needs To Succeed Spectacularly. And It Also Needs To Fail Dramatically - Africapedia - Africa Facts and Data.

Face to Face with Poverty!!

A friend of muine visiting the Headquarters of Poverty in busoga posted this online:

We have been talking about poverty and there is no lack of evidence for it. But to be confronted with real people heavily struggling with its ugly head is quite a different thing. Take this man I visited. He is about 80 yrs old and was once a prosperous farmer, with 2 wives. But somehow life has been very unkind. The two wives left at some point. He now lives alone, except for a slightly younger sister who tries to care for him, as much as is possible with her own disabilities and old age. I had visited him about 20 yrs ago, with my late dad, and so I sort of still had the same lingering memories. I was, hence, quite thrown off to discover that even the path leading to his house had meantime been overgrown with bush (especially kapanga) and definitely no car had driven that end for a very long tme. I ended up having to literally drive through bush with the car getting scratched (a re-vanish had to be done later). Before leaving later that day, I organised and we did some basic slashing to restore some kind of accessability and decency. The slashers and hoes we used were long not used and would have needed sharpening. But there was no time for that. So we made do with what we had, in the scorching noonday sun.

When we arrived, the old man was in his room, hardly able to answer our koodhi calls. It was dark in the house (which he had built in better days with local bricks and iron roof) and it was even darker in his room.We were hit by an unmistakable stench of sickness and lack of care! I hesitated to immediately enter the old man´s room and instead advised that we first look for his sister, who would be better placed to handle the situation. When she finally came from the garden, bare-footed and back heavily stooping, I was very touched when she broke into pure joy, doing some Kisoga ululation in greeting. She even summorned all her energy for a tired and aged trot to come and embrace me. Nobody had embraced me in a long time with such purity and abandon.

She then led us to the semblance of a living room, dusting an old and creeky chair for me, disappearing in the darkness of her ailing brother´s room to help him come out to greet us. It was almost like an eternity as she helped him up and into a kanzu which somehow got put on with the front end behind. But that did not seem to matter now! Supporting him on one side and his walking stick helping on the other side, the tragic couple stumbled and struggled out of that room. When I saw them at the doorway, I rushed to help her out and took over. She indicated an even creekier chair where he could sit. Very, very slowly and as carefully as I could, I lowered him onto the chair, fearful it would finally collapse when it least needed to. I pulled my own chair nearer his and focused on figuring out how to engage him. His eyes were hollow, face heavily sheepish and voice a far-cry from the strength of many years ago, when I visited him. As far as it was feasible, we held a conversation, if you could call it that, his sister filling in most details. I had some bottled water in the car and so I found it imperative to offer him water. I poured it in a metallic gama (I had not seen such cups for ages) that was on the nearby table. With trembling hand, he took the cup and drunk! The way he drunk, he must have been really, really thirsty....

In putting some detail together, I concluded the most important issue here was lack of the most basic care for a very sick man and at the bottom of this was biting poverty, with all its vagaries and ugliness. I did what I could for this situation, including financing delivery of milk every day and some money for a medical check-up. But I was all the time nursing an uncomfortable feeling deep in me that this could be a far more prevalent situation all over Busoga, especially in the villages, than I ever really imagined. Our people were really heavily languishing in the unforgiving claws of poverty and basic want...