The world’s most travelled man

Having done a fair bit of travel myself, I was interested today to find that the world most travelled man has visited 196 countries.

However, this does not include ‘enclaves’, ‘territories’ and ‘autonomous regions’ which bump the visitable list up to over 800.

Anyhow, here’s the story.

Donald Parrish is officially the world’s most-travelled person, having visited almost every destination on Earth. He is pictured here with Miss France 2006 Alexandra Rosenfeld, at the Meridien Hotel in the Congo

  • Retired technician Donald Parrish Jr, 70, has visited 840 destinations
  • He finished visiting each of the world’s 196 countries three years ago
  • Mr Parrish’s first overseas trip was to Mexico in 1957 at the age of 13
  • He could become the first person to visit each of the world’s 875 countries, territories, autonomous regions, enclaves, geographically separated island groups, and major states and provinces

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VOD: Crazy-ness of the Human spirit

What drives people to do crazy shit?

Who knows.

What drives people to do crazy shit whilst people sit around and do nothing? Or not get involved at all?

These two examples seem fairly relaxed. People go along with being; kicked punched, verbally and physically assaulted and do nothing, or if anything like the last video, actually join in.

Crazy guy on a train.

Letting loose on the China commuters….

Shakes a guys hand, who he proceeds to call his ‘friend’. He says the other people are ‘not good’ whilst calling them pigs and worms in English.

He’s pretty crazy.

Crazy drunk American rants on Chinese metro
Crazy drunk American rants on Chinese metro

Lone girl gets beaten in McDonald’s.

Whilst the whole of McDonald’s watches.

And does nothing.

Girl brutally assaults in Brooklyn McDonald's
Girl brutally assaults in Brooklyn McDonald’s

About the girl that carried out the assault, she has a record as long as your arm. Including:-

  • Punching her Grandmother
  • Stabbing her brother
  • Landing this, (featured), girl in hospital
  • Kicking, biting and stealing

You can read more about this girl here (New York Daily News). Her name is Aniah Ferguson, she is 16.

Most WordPress hacking attempts come from Russia

I’m not sure what happened over the last 10 days. The statistics attacks on my wp-admin file, (accessed through the wp-login), speak for themselves.

Daily page access July
Daily page access July

As you can see, the traffic from Russia curbs off sharply, whilst the hits remain consistent. Continue reading “Most WordPress hacking attempts come from Russia”

Free Windows 10

**Update:

Never look a gift horse in teh mouth, or in this case, do.

Turns out that this latest version of Windows is not only free, but gives free access to ‘relevant authorities’ who may wish to access your data, view how you use your files, or view what files you have;

Microsoft released a statement to this effect: –

“Microsoft may share information when required by law or to respond to legal process or lawful requests, including from law enforcement or other government agencies.”

You have been warned….

It comes out tomorrow. Wednesday the 29th.

It’s free to upgrade for users of Windows 7 or Windows 8.1.

Your system: Windows 10 has requirements –

Processor: 1GHz

RAM: 1GB for 32-bit or 2GB for 64-bit

Storage: 16GB for 32-bit or 20GB for 64-bit

Graphics support: DirectX 9 or later with WDDM 1.0 driver

Display: 800 x 600 resolution

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Scientists identify brain hormones responsible for hunger

This week, Tesco banned Ribena and Capri-Sun drinks from it’s shelves.

Obesity is just a growing thing in the UK. It’s not a new thing. What’s new is that the industry is seen as safe and not regulated.

Since regulation of tobacco, and the rise of the supermarkets, consumers have had sugar rammed down throats. Literally.

World obesity map
World obesity map 2014

With 23.1% of people being overweight, the UK is now officially the FATTEST country in Europe. Continue reading “Scientists identify brain hormones responsible for hunger”