Mariah Carey- the great amercian pop singer

Mariah Carey was born on March 27, 1970 in Long Island, New York. She is an American pop and R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and occasional actress.
Mariah Carey height: 5′9”/ 180 cm.

Biography and Career :

Mariah Carey’s parents are Patricia Hickey (Irish-American) and Alfred Roy Carey (African-American / Venezuelan). As a multiethnic family, the Careys endured racial slurs, hostility, and sometimes violence, causing the family to frequently relocate throughout the New York and Rhode Island areas. The strain on the family led to the divorce of Mariah Carey’s parents when she was three years old.

Spending much of her time at home alone, she turned to music as an outlet. Mariah Carey began singing at around the age of three, performing for the first time in
public during elementary school, and was writing her own songs by junior high.
Mariah Carey graduated from Harborfields High School in Greenlawn, New York, although she was frequently absent due to her popularity as a demo singer for local recording studios. Her renown within the Long Island music scene gave her opportunities to work with musicians such as Gavin Christopher and Ben Margulies, with whom she co-wrote material for her demo tape. After moving to New York City, Mariah Carey worked numerous part-time jobs to pay the rent and completed five hundred hours of beauty school. Eventually, she became a backup singer for Brenda K. Starr.

In 1988 Mariah Carey met Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola at a party, where Starr gave him Carey’s demo tape. Mottola played the tape while leaving the party and was very impressed with what he heard. He returned to the party to find Mariah Carey , but she had left. Nevertheless, Mottola tracked her down and signed her to a recording contract. This Cinderella-like story became part of the standard publicity surrounding Carey’s entrance into the industry

Mariah Carey attended Greenlawn’s Harborfields High School. In June of 1990 Mariah Carey made her debut with “Mariah Carey” which entered at 73, but on August 4 1990 it reached 1. Mariah Carey is the only artist since the Beatles and Elvis Presley to have so many 1 singles and albums. Along with numerous awards, she is the most successful selling female artist in music history and is the only female artist to have straight 1 singles and albums.
Mariah Carey married Tommy Mottola on June the 5th 1993, but they divorced 5 years later (5 March 1998).

Yahoo messenger versus google talk which is best?

Yahoo has its Messenger (or YM), Google fields its Google Talk (or GTalk) in the IM arena that was once dominated by IQC, with Windows Messenger and, to a certain extent Skype, as the current major players. Yahoo has over 30 million users while Google has an extimated 7 million users. I’ll be looking at the two feature-by-feature.
Functionality - Both YM and GTalk can be installed as applications and but only YM has support for the Mac and Linux. Advantage: YM
Message Integration - GTalk can send messeges normally and users can use their GMail accounts to send messages. Google also has integrated the GTalk feature in some of their other applications like the Google Spreadsheet. YM can send messages via mobile, but depends solely on its client. Advantage: GTalk
Features - Clearly, YM has more to offer, since it sticks more to the IM client formula of features. It can send files, play games, set themes and have avatars to appeal to a wide-range of users. GTalk is minimalist at best. Advantage: YM
Fudge Factor - GTalk will be hard-pressed because with more people using YM, users are more likely to communicate with the Yahoo product. Advantage: YM

With what I have so far, YM clearly has the upper hand. Yahoo has created an application that may work in the casual or business environment whereas GTalk is really a bare-bones type IM service

Hacker hacks six million chileans records

A computer hacker in Chile has published confidential records belonging to six million people on the internet, officials say.

The information was obtained by hacking into government and military servers, and was posted on a technology blog.

It included ID card numbers, addresses, telephone numbers and academic records.

The hacker left a message saying the aim was to demonstrate the poor level of data protection in Chile, says the newspaper which uncovered the story.

El Mercurio newspaper reports that the data came from computer servers at the education ministry, the military and the electoral service.

It was posted on the forum of a Chilean blog dedicated to technology issues, but was quickly removed by site’s administrators, who contacted the police.

chelsea worry over terry and drogba

Chelsea hope John Terry and Didier Drogba will recover from injury and the pain of losing the Premier League title to play in the Champions League final.

Terry dislocated his elbow and Droga suffered a knee problem in the 1-1 draw with Bolton as Manchester United clinched the title with a win at Wigan.

But both are hopeful they will be fit to face United in Moscow on 21 May.

Terry insists he will play, but Chelsea boss Avram Grant said: “Drogba doesn’t look so good, we’ll have to wait.”

Chelsea captain Terry was stretchered off after a collision with goalkeeper Petr Cech after only 11 minutes at Stamford Bridge and said: “I should be fit for Moscow, fingers crossed.”