In case you didn’t know, Second Life is the most popular online game, in fact a copy of day-to-day activities. In Second Life, the avatars (residents) can build houses, furniture, sell cars, clothes, go to disco, eat in restaurants etc.

The lawsuit I am talking about was started by six Second Life merchants. They sued the British Thomas Simon for stealing their Second Life creations. They were selling exotic clothes that were illegally copied. So, the lawsuit was brought to a federal district court in Brooklyn, New York. The court said that Simon violated the Second Life terms of service and “the amount in controversy exceeds the sum or value of $75,000.”

It is so hilarious because as Simon says “it’s only a game”. However, the lawsuit is real not virtual and the defendant should cover the damages.

Did you know that the Bush Cabinet has some members that like to blog? It all started in August when the Health and Human Services Secretary, Mike Leavitt, said that because of the success of the pandemic flu blog, he considered writing on his own blog about day by day issues, late at night when he gets back home or to the hotel, in airplanes and even airports if there’s a little time. Leavitt is using his BlackBerry to blog about children’s health care program and such.

Another blogger that it worth mentioning here is Michael Chertoff, started one month later, in September and he is trying to “open a dialogue with the American people about our nation’s security.” Different from Leavitt, he comes up with the blog title, someone else writes it and in the end he’s doing the “editing”.

Blogging, with the country’s officials behind the wheel is a great thing for people because they fell like they could discuss their problems with the state. It’s called interaction and it feels great to know someone is answering your comments or addresses your questions.

The State Department also has a blog, which is updated, but Condoleezza Rice is not a writer there.

I would like to give some “virtual” golden medals to the two officials because what they do is a great start and I think more will consider their action in the future. Blogging is a great tool for a better image and I think politicians will understand it sooner or later.

Janet Dudley-Eshbach, Salisbury University’s President removed inappropriate pictures from her FaceBook profile that had her comments saying that she had to “beat off Mexicans because they were constantly flirting with my daughter” just hours after she was questioned by reporters on Monday.

The pictures were taken during a family vacation in Mexico and Janet Dudley apologized and said “I never thought there was any problems with them nor did I know they were in the public domain. I do apologize.”

William Kirwan, chancellor of the University System of Maryland addressed this situation and had a discussion with Mrs. Janet Dudley-Eshbach which is aware of what happened. No measures will be taken against her, as she’s been President of the University since 2000.

Though the situation won’t escalate I am sure the students don’t have a very good idea of what happened. Even if you’re a Mexican or not I think you’d be troubled to hear something like that from a person that should be similar to morality.

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Tuesday, October 9th, will be 40 years since famous Argentinian Ernesto “Che” Guevara was killed in order to stop his Revolution. It’s very interesting that so many years after his death, Che never ceased to exist as a fighter and will always be associated with the saying “Viva la revolucion!” be it on t-shirts or big posters, people’s minds, tv shows or anything like that.

Fidel Castro, a close friend of Che Guevara, always considered him “not a man who could have been taken prisoner” if the gun wouldn’t malfunction, considering him a heroic figure, but Gary Prado a retired Bolivian General only remembers him as a sad, hungry and dressed in rags man, that surrendered in front of him. With Che, wounded and without a working gun, he was an easy target to capture. Next day, October 9th, “they killed him in cold blood” in a small town, La Higuera.

In 1997, his remains were laid to rest in Cuba, with thundering cannons.

40th anniversary of Che’s death

The celebrations will be held in a few South American countries including Bolivia, making Gen Prado mad because Bolivian officials are not celebrating those 50 soldiers that died trying to capture Che Guevara. He is also furious because the order to kill never came from CIA or other organizations but from the Bolivian resident itself.

In Cuba, at the tomb where his remains rest, a ceremony will be held Monday, October 8th, Che’s Day. Now you can also read it as chess day, because this was his favorite game and 1,500 people will be invited to play chess and view the gigantic bronze statue with his image in Santa Clara battle.

Gatherings will also be held in Bolivia, in the city Che was killed, La Higuera and in the jungle where he was captured. Venezuela will also celebrate 40 years from Che’s death with an art and music festival, and his native country Argentina plans to create a statues for their hero. If Ernesto Che Guevara would have lived, he would have been 79 this year.

“Hastra La Victoria Siempre”!

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Politics is always about money and influence and every candidate for the Presidential chair in the United States, knows it. Since all these candidates should report their balances every three months today we’ve found out a few interesting things in the Democrat Party.

The battle for the top fund raiser is very tough now that Hillary Rodham Clinton managed to gather for the presidential primaries, $27M in the 3rd quarter of 2008, of which $5M will be used in the general election while her biggest rival, Barack Obama, didn’t do that good with only $19M for the primaries and $1M for general election. The two candidates have been running head-to-head since the beginning but it looks like Clinton is ready to take the lead with a total of $80M in fund-raising or donors while Obama is behind by $1M. However the real figures each of them has on hand, wasn’t disclosed.

With the money raised by the two senators only, the Democrat Party is leading the all time fund raising for presidential elections. So are you sure why wars start, these days? It’s all about money!

Green light was given by the EU ministers and announced by the European Union presidency, on a project of law that is supposed to put an end on state postal monopolies from the first day of 2011. From all the 27 member states, 11 will be allowed to put it in action before the end of 2012, but if anyone else wishes to do it before the deadline is allowed. “The 11 nations who do not have to enact the measure until December 31, 2012 are: Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Greece and Luxembourg”.

The liberalization of the postal services is not only going to bring better prices but it’s going to offer new quality products and faster services. Countries that have already adopted the free market on postal services are England, Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden, and it was a real success. The votes will have to pass through the European Parliament, after being approved by the ministers, before we’ll have better services but it’s going to happen soon.