Well, you can start from here
77 2006-05-28 19:39
Re: Funny ;) (132 replies, posted in General discussion)
Be Sure to Cancel Your Credit Cards Before You Die
It's not just the government... Be sure and cancel your credit cards before you die. This is priceless, and so easy to see happening, customer service being what it is today.
A lady died this past January, and Citibank billed her for February and March for their annual service charges on her credit card, and then added late fees and interest on the monthly charge. The balance had been $0.00, now is somewhere around $60.00. A family member placed a call to Citibank:
Family Member: "I am calling to tell you that she died in January."
Citibank: "The account was never closed and the late fees and charges still apply."
Family Member: "Maybe you should turn it over to collections."
Citibank: "Since it is two months past due, it already has been."
Family Member : "So what will they do when they find out she is dead?"
Citibank: "Either report her account to the frauds division or report her to the credit bureau, maybe both!"
Family Member: "Do you think God will be mad at her?"
Citibank: "Excuse me?"
Family Member: "Did you just get what I was telling you --- the part about her being dead?"
Citibank: "Sir, you'll have to speak to my supervisor."
Supervisor gets on the phone:
Family Member: "I'm calling to tell you, she died in January."
Citibank: "The account was never closed and the late fees and charges still apply."
Family Member: "You mean you want to collect from her estate?"
Citibank: (Stammer) "Are you her lawyer?"
Family Member: "No, I'm her great nephew."
(Lawyer info given)
Citibank: " Could you fax us a certificate of death?"
Family Member: "Sure." (fax number is given)
After they get the fax:
Citibank: "Our system just isn't set up for death. I don't know what more I can do to help."
Family Member: "Well, if you figure it out, great! If not, you could just keep billing her. I don't think she will care."
Citibank: "Well, the late fees and charges do still apply."
Family Member: "Would you like her new billing address?"
Citibank: "That might help."
Family Member: "Odessa Memorial Cemetery, Highway 129, Plot Number 69."
Citibank: "Sir, that's a cemetery!"
Family Member: "What do you do with dead people on your planet?"
78 2006-05-27 00:11
Re: Accesskeys on PunBB - Do you use them (8 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)
submit = alt + s
I barely use them.
79 2006-05-25 01:41
Re: Sony Ericsson W810i (17 replies, posted in General discussion)
Great purchase Rickard my brother has the same phone. He is the mp3-phone-freak. 
Now you should check this out! It's a new 'Crazy Frog' thing and I was told it is Swedish make.
Here are the lyrics:
aja-cap-cap
pari'dik karigan'lan
dik-tarivil'an piè-tandun-la
ribi-dabi-da'la ru'pa di-rubi-ran
guri-ga-un du'pe a giri-gan gu
rap-cap-ca ya-ribi-dabi-din
laberic-tandim landen lando
abari pa'ta pari'pari
baribi-ribi-ribi-risten den lando
jabarila stelan de'yado
araba-raba-raba-raba-raba-d'yabu
barizda-lila zelando-bada
gada-gada-du-du-de yado
80 2006-05-24 00:24
Re: New PunBB logo proposal (76 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)
naaaaah, I like the first one better 
83 2006-05-17 03:35
Re: why not session? (24 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)
Alli wrote:
what about a site with more than 200 users online in a time? i want to know how other forum like vbulltin handle this issue? I must see.
I think this would proof enough
Currently:
Registered users online: 48
Guests online: 268
84 2006-05-17 03:26
Topic: Feeling on top of the world - with no legs and laryngitis (0 replies, posted in General discussion)
The first double amputee to climb to the top of Mt Everest was almost speechless when he reached the summit and called his wife by satellite phone.
Mark Inglis, 47, who lost both legs in a climbing accident 24 years ago, was suffering an attack of laryngitis and managed only to croak: "I did it!"
Sir Edmund Hillary, 86, who conquered the world's highest peak in May 1953, was among the first to offer his congratulations. "It's a remarkable effort. He's done a pretty good job," he said.
Mr Inglis, a New Zealander, reached the summit on Monday and yesterday was said to be descending to base camp.
According to members of his party, his short conversation with his wife Anne when he spoke from the summit were among the few words he was able to utter.
Asked by New Zealand television yesterday by satellite phone how the climb had been, he managed to say only: "Bloody hard."
His wife said one of his carbon fibre artificial legs snapped on the ascent, but was quickly replaced from a bundle of spare legs and parts taken with him.
Wayne Alexander, one of three climbing companions up the 29,035ft summit, said: "What Mark did was absolutely remarkable. I have never seen such human endurance." Speaking from Advance Base Camp on the mountain, he added: "He did so well. It was a bit like chasing a greyhound - he was gone."
Helen Clark, the New Zealand prime minister, said: "To reach the summit of Everest is a once in a lifetime achievement, but for Mark Inglis it will be even more satisfying. He has said it was a childhood dream to stand on the roof of the world, but he thought he had lost it when he lost his legs."
Miss Clark, a keen amateur climber, added that Mr Inglis had sent a signal to others with disabilities "that your ambitions should never be limited".
Mr Alexander said the group had been coping with temperatures as low as -22F (-30C) which had caused their cameras to freeze up on the last day's nine-hour climb to the summit.
In an interview by satellite phone, he said of the final ascent: "We came across a chap sheltering under a rock, who was perhaps hours from death. That was probably only two and a half hours into the climb.
"He had made a mistake the day before. He started too late and couldn't get off the mountain. That was a very sobering reality, that every pace you took further from that point was further from safety, and we had to all make it back. It didn't deter Mark."
It is not yet known what happened to the climber they passed on the way up.
Mr Alexander said Mr Inglis was likely to find the descent more painful because "his body weight goes down on the stumps".
Mr Inglis was on the way down the mountain yesterday and hopes to be home early next week. He had his legs amputated below the knees due to frostbite, suffered in 1982 while he was trapped for 14 days by blizzards on Mt Cook, the highest peak in New Zealand.
He went on to become the first double amputee to reach the mountain's summit, followed by the 26,906ft Mt Cho Oyu in Tibet, the world's sixth highest.
He won a silver medal for cycling in the 2000 Sydney Paralympic Games.
85 2006-05-13 03:54
Re: Funny ;) (132 replies, posted in General discussion)
This is a must-see or must-read!
86 2006-05-09 03:31
Topic: David Blaine (6 replies, posted in General discussion)
After a week-long test of endurance submerged in a giant round aquarium, New York stunt artist David Blaine was unable to set a new record for holding his breath underwater during his Monday night finale.
After seven minutes and eight seconds, Blaine began to convulse and had to be rescued, falling just under two minutes short of the record of 8 minutes, 58 seconds.
But after 177 hours underwater, Blaine did set the record for the longest person submerged under water consistently.
87 2006-05-07 22:13
Re: Mass e-mail software (19 replies, posted in General discussion)
88 2006-05-06 00:10
Re: 500 plus avatars free (4 replies, posted in Programming)
89 2006-05-04 01:32
Re: Funny ;) (132 replies, posted in General discussion)
Direct printing
Red Neck's Flat Screen
Great Minds
One Glass a Day
90 2006-05-02 14:51
Re: Firefox 1.5 (38 replies, posted in General discussion)
Firefox 1.5.0.3 Out!
Installers are up, official release time is 5 hours or so.
91 2006-04-30 10:23
Topic: www.abcdefg.... (3 replies, posted in General discussion)
http://www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com/It is so long that...
-Some web forms are unable to read your email address
-Some email software cannot be configured
-People have hard time typing your email address
-Companies will think your email is fake
-The longest alphabetical email address on Earth!
and...
It's FREE! lol: lol: lol:
92 2006-04-30 03:50
Topic: Gates lost more than $3 billions in a single day (0 replies, posted in General discussion)
Microsoft's one-day stock plunge: enough to buy all of Costco
By Benjamin J. Romano
Seattle Times technology reporter
Microsoft's stock took its biggest one-day fall in more than five years Friday, shaving about $32 billion off the company's market value.
That's enough to buy Starbucks, with plenty left over to treat everyone in China to a tall cafe Americano. Or maybe buy Costco and Getty Images and get back about $2 billion in pocket change.
It's almost as much as the United States spends every three months in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The endowment of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest charity, is a few billion less.
Microsoft's stock closed at $24.15, down $3.10 a share, or 11.4 percent, after the Redmond software company indicated plans Thursday to invest more in its businesses ? including a battle for the Internet with Google and Yahoo! ? at the expense of higher short-term profits.
With more than 10.3 billion shares outstanding, Microsoft's market valuation went from about $281.6 billion Thursday to $249.6 billion at the end of Friday.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, who had about 978 million shares in February, lost more than $3 billion on paper. But don't worry. He's still the richest person on the planet with a net worth of about $47 billion after Friday's loss, using estimates published by Forbes magazine last month.
Gates briefly acknowledged the stock market's reaction in a Seattle speech Friday.
"We announced yesterday that our [research and development spending] is going up even more," Gates said. "Some people are very enthused about those investments. Others were wondering why we think we need to invest so much. It really comes back to the optimism we have about these advances."
On Thursday, in its first forecast for the 2007 fiscal year, which begins July 1, Microsoft outlined financial projections that were well below Wall Street's expectations. The company said it expects to bring in $49.5 billion to $50.5 billion ? a revenue boost of $5 billion to $6 billion over the current fiscal year ? as it begins selling much-anticipated new versions of flagship products Windows and Office.
But Microsoft will spend more money, perhaps $2 billion over analyst expectations, on a dozen efforts within the company, including a high-stakes fight against Google and Yahoo! in the Internet-services arena and a campaign against Sony in the video-game console market.
That spending increase equals lower earnings per share. Microsoft said it expects per-share earnings to be $1.36 to $1.41 in 2007; the Wall Street consensus was $1.53.
"We should still see about 20 percent earnings per share (EPS) growth in calendar 2007, but the investment spending will be disruptive to EPS growth for the balance of calendar 2006 and leaves investors unresolved on what the benefits might be of this radical acceleration in spending," Goldman Sachs senior analyst Rick Sherlund wrote in a note to investors Friday morning.
At least five Wall Street analysts downgraded their ratings on Microsoft's stock; two others lowered their share-price targets.
For the fiscal third quarter, Microsoft reported operating income of $3.89 billion and profit of $2.98 billion on sales of $10.9 billion.
93 2006-04-25 17:49
Topic: CSS nice read (0 replies, posted in General discussion)
With the imminent launch of IE7 your usual CSS hacking methods are going to fail. If you want to save web design, as we know it, it?s time to take some drastic action.
CSS has experienced a colourful and unusual history. From historic slow adoption to the current slow rate of development, ugly hacks have meant filling in the gaps is par for the course.
With CSS1, we had a simple and elegant styling language that was supposed to be friendly to even non-programmers. Hence decisions like, say, lack of variables and constants, or conditional logic. (My kingdom for an if statement!)
94 2006-04-23 23:26
Re: Funny ;) (132 replies, posted in General discussion)
NYC Manholes Turned Into Coffee For Ads
A Gurerilla marketing campaign by the ad company Saatchi & Saatchi for Folders has turned some New York City manholes into STEAMING CUPS OF COFFEE!
95 2006-04-20 02:12
Re: Visual Studio for free (11 replies, posted in Programming)
Visual Studio 2005 Express Announcements!
Dear Visual Studio Express community,
We are incredibly excited to announce that effective April 19th, 2006, all Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions including Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual J#, Visual C++, and Visual Web Developer Express will be free permanently!
Prior to this pricing announcement, Visual Studio Express Editions were promotionally discounted to be free for one year, starting on November 7th, 2005. With this announcement, the promotional discount for Visual Studio Express is now permanent and Express will continue to be free.
The key reason for the pricing change was you. You?ve helped make Visual Studio Express a runaway hit, and we?re proud to announce that in the five months since its launch, Express has been downloaded over 5 million times!
96 2006-04-17 17:54
Re: inserting date/time in database (4 replies, posted in Programming)
Try this one too -> https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/m … on=firefox
98 2006-04-14 17:02
Re: Firefox extension X-Ray (13 replies, posted in Programming)
Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
The Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides several features for exploring and understanding Web pages. These features enable you to:
-- Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of a Web page.
-- Locate and select specific elements on a Web page through a variety of techniques.
-- Selectively disable Internet Explorer settings.
-- View HTML object class names, ID's, and details such as link paths, tab index values, and access keys.
-- Outline tables, table cells, images, or selected tags.
-- Validate HTML, CSS, WAI, and RSS Web feed links.
-- Display image dimensions, file sizes, path information, and alternate (ALT) text.
-- Immediately resize the browser window to a new resolution.
-- Selectively clear the browser cache and saved cookies. Choose from all objects or those associated with a given domain.
-- Choose direct links to W3C specification references, the Internet Explorer team weblog (blog), and other resources.
-- Display a fully featured design ruler to help accurately align and measure objects on your pages.
The Developer Toolbar can be pinned to the Internet Explorer browser window or floated separately.
This Beta 2 version of the toolbar contains functionality and stability enhancements over previous versions and includes the following improvements.
-- You can now selectively enable and disable CSS parsing.
-- The Misc menu contains a color picker.
-- Several link reports are available.
-- When you select an element in the DOM element tree list, the selected element scrolls into view if it is not already visible in the browser window.
99 2006-04-11 16:01
Re: Zurich, Geneva Have Highest Quality of Living (2 replies, posted in General discussion)
Here is the complete listing:
Rank Rank Index Index
2006 2005 City Country 2006 2005
1 1 ZURICH Switzerland 108.2 108.0
2 2 GENEVA Switzerland 108.1 107.9
3 3 VANCOUVER Canada 107.7 107.4
4 3 VIENNA Austria 107.5 107.4
5 8 AUCKLAND New Zealand 107.3 106.5
6 5 DUSSELDORF Germany 107.2 107.0
7 6 FRANKFURT Germany 107.0 106.8
8 7 MUNICH Germany 106.8 106.7
9 9 BERN Switzerland 106.5 106.4
9 9 SYDNEY Australia 106.5 106.4
11 11 COPENHAGEN Denmark 106.2 106.2
12 14 WELLINGTON New Zealand 105.8 105.0
13 12 AMSTERDAM Netherlands 105.7 105.7
14 13 BRUSSELS Belgium 105.6 105.6
15 16 TORONTO Canada 105.4 104.9
16 16 BERLIN Germany 105.1 104.9
17 14 MELBOURNE Australia 105.0 105.0
18 18 LUXEMBOURG Luxembourg 104.8 104.8
18 21 OTTAWA Canada 104.8 104.3
20 19 STOCKHOLM Sweden 104.7 104.7
21 20 PERTH Australia 104.5 104.5
22 22 MONTREAL Canada 104.3 104.0
23 22 NURNBERG Germany 104.1 104.0
24 22 DUBLIN Ireland 103.8 104.0
25 25 CALGARY Canada 103.6 103.3
26 25 HAMBURG Germany 103.4 103.3
27 25 HONOLULU, HI United States 103.3 103.3
28 28 SAN FRANCISCO, CA United States 103.2 103.2
29 29 ADELAIDE Australia 103.1 103.1
29 29 HELSINKI Finland 103.1 103.1
31 31 BRISBANE Australia 102.8 103.0
31 32 OSLO Norway 102.8 102.8
33 33 PARIS France 102.7 102.7
34 35 SINGAPORE Singapore 102.5 102.0
35 34 TOKYO Japan 102.3 102.3
36 36 BOSTON, MA United States 101.9 101.9
37 37 LYON France 101.6 101.6
37 37 YOKOHAMA Japan 101.6 101.6
39 39 LONDON United Kingdom 101.2 101.2
40 40 KOBE Japan 101.0 101.0
41 41 WASHINGTON, DC United States 100.4 100.4
41 52 CHICAGO, IL United States 100.4 99.3
43 42 PORTLAND, OR United States 100.3 100.3
44 43 BARCELONA Spain 100.2 100.2
45 44 MADRID Spain 100.1 100.1
46 45 NEW YORK CITY, NY United States 100.0 100.0
47 46 SEATTLE, WA United States 99.9 99.9
48 47 LEXINGTON, KY United States 99.8 99.8
49 48 PITTSBURGH, PA United States 99.7 99.7
49 48 WINSTON SALEM, NC United States 99.7 99.7
51 50 OSAKA Japan 99.6 99.6
51 51 MILAN Italy 99.6 99.4
53 53 LISBON Portugal 98.9 98.9
53 54 NAGOYA Japan 98.9 98.6
55 54 TSUKUBA Japan 98.3 98.6
55 56 BIRMINGHAM United Kingdom 98.3 98.3
55 56 GLASGOW United Kingdom 98.3 98.3
55 56 LOS ANGELES, CA United States 98.3 98.3
59 59 CLEVELAND, OH United States 98.2 98.2
60 60 MINNEAPOLIS, MN United States 97.9 97.9
61 61 ST. LOUIS, MO United States 97.6 97.6
62 62 ROME Italy 97.4 97.0
63 63 MIAMI, FL United States 96.3 96.3
64 64 YOKKAICHI Japan 96.2 96.2
65 65 DETROIT, MI United States 96.1 96.1
66 66 ATLANTA, GA United States 95.7 95.7
67 67 OMUTA Japan 95.5 95.5
68 68 HOUSTON, TX United States 95.4 95.4
68 69 LEIPZIG Germany 95.4 95.1
68 70 HONG KONG Hong Kong 95.4 94.8
71 71 KATSUYAMA Japan 93.1 93.4
72 72 SAN JUAN Puerto Rico 92.9 92.9
73 73 PRAGUE Czech Republic 91.8 90.5
74 74 BUDAPEST Hungary 90.8 90.1
75 75 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia 88.9 89.4
76 76 MONTEVIDEO Uruguay 88.1 88.3
77 77 PORT LOUIS Mauritius 87.7 87.7
78 78 BUENOS AIRES Argentina 87.3 87.1
79 79 ATHENS Greece 86.8 86.8
80 81 LJUBLJANA Slovenia 86.6 86.3
81 80 TAIPEI Taiwan 86.5 86.5
81 82 SANTIAGO Chile 86.5 86.2
83 83 CAPE TOWN South Africa 86.0 86.0
84 84 VILNIUS Lithuania 85.9 85.4
85 85 DUBAI United Arab Emirates 85.2 84.6
86 87 WARSAW Poland 85.1 83.8
87 86 JOHANNESBURG South Africa 84.0 84.2
88 88 LIMASSOL Cyprus 83.2 83.2
89 90 SEOUL South Korea 83.0 82.6
90 89 PANAMA CITY Panama 82.9 82.9
91 91 TALLINN Estonia 82.8 82.4
92 97 ABU DHABI United Arab Emirates 82.6 81.8
93 92 PORT ELIZABETH South Africa 82.3 82.3
94 93 MONTERREY Mexico 82.2 82.2
94 93 TUNIS Tunisia 82.2 82.2
94 93 VICTORIA Seychelles 82.2 82.2
97 96 PAPEETE French Polynesia 82.0 82.0
98 99 RIGA Latvia 81.9 81.3
99 98 JOHOR BAHARU Malaysia 81.2 81.7
100 100 NOUMEA New Caledonia 80.8 80.8
101 101 KAOHSIUNG Taiwan 80.7 80.7
102 103 BRATISLAVA Slovakia 80.5 79.0
103 102 SHANGHAI China 80.1 80.0
104 104 BRASILIA Brazil 78.8 78.8
105 118 TEL AVIV Israel 78.5 74.3
106 105 SAN JOSE Costa Rica 77.8 77.8
107 106 BANGKOK Thailand 77.7 77.7
108 107 ISTANBUL Turkey 77.1 77.1
108 107 SAO PAULO Brazil 77.1 77.1
110 109 YEOCHUN (YOSU) South Korea 76.3 76.2
111 109 BUCHAREST Romania 76.2 76.2
111 113 ZAGREB Croatia 76.2 75.3
113 111 ASUNCION Paraguay 76.1 76.1
114 112 NASSAU Bahamas 75.9 75.9
114 127 JERUSALEM Israel 75.9 71.8
116 115 ULSAN South Korea 75.0 75.0
117 117 RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil 74.5 74.5
118 114 QUITO Ecuador 74.2 75.1
119 119 MANILA Philippines 73.8 73.8
119 120 SOFIA Bulgaria 73.8 73.5
121 116 COLOMBO Sri Lanka 73.6 74.6
122 121 BEIJING China 73.4 73.4
123 125 LIMA Peru 73.0 72.3
124 124 CASABLANCA Morocco 72.8 72.5
125 126 MANAMA Bahrain 72.3 72.2
126 129 AMMAN Jordan 72.2 71.5
127 123 GUAYAQUIL Ecuador 72.0 72.8
128 128 MEXICO CITY Mexico 71.7 71.7
129 129 MANAUS Brazil 71.5 71.5
130 131 SANTO DOMINGO Dominican Republic 71.4 71.4
131 122 CAIRO Egypt 71.2 73.2
132 132 RAYONG Thailand 70.3 70.3
133 133 GUANGZHOU China 69.8 69.8
134 141 KUWAIT CITY Kuwait 68.1 64.3
135 135 BLANTYRE Malawi 66.9 66.8
136 136 NANJING China 66.3 66.3
137 137 LA PAZ Bolivia 65.7 65.7
138 138 LUSAKA Zambia 65.5 65.4
139 134 KINGSTON Jamaica 65.3 67.6
140 140 CARACAS Venezuela 64.5 64.5
141 139 GUATEMALA CITY Guatemala 64.3 64.6
142 142 JAKARTA Indonesia 63.7 63.7
143 143 BOGOTA Colombia 63.6 63.6
144 146 DAKAR Senegal 63.5 63.2
145 144 MEDELLIN Colombia 63.3 63.3
145 144 SANTA CRUZ Bolivia 63.3 63.3
147 147 SHENYANG China 62.6 62.6
148 148 HO CHI MINH CITY Vietnam 61.9 61.9
148 149 NAIROBI Kenya 61.9 61.1
150 151 MUMBAI India 61.0 60.6
150 153 NEW DELHI India 61.0 60.4
152 150 ACCRA Ghana 60.9 60.9
153 151 LIBREVILLE Gabon 60.6 60.6
153 154 BANGALORE India 60.6 60.0
155 154 BEIRUT Lebanon 60.0 60.0
155 154 HANOI Vietnam 60.0 60.0
157 158 SKOPJE Macedonia 59.9 58.9
158 157 ISLAMABAD Pakistan 59.8 59.7
159 159 BELGRADE Serbia & Montenegro 59.4 58.1
160 160 CHENNAI (MADRAS) India 58.3 57.8
161 161 JILIN China 57.4 57.4
162 162 JEDDAH Saudi Arabia 57.1 57.1
163 163 ST. PETERSBURG Russia 56.8 56.8
164 166 LAHORE Pakistan 56.5 56.1
164 167 SARAJEVO Bosnia-herzegovina 56.5 56.0
166 164 KIEV Ukraine 56.2 56.2
166 164 RIYADH Saudi Arabia 56.2 56.2
168 167 SAN SALVADOR El Salvador 56.0 56.0
169 169 HARARE Zimbabwe 55.9 55.9
170 170 VIENTIANE Laos 55.0 55.0
171 171 MANAGUA Nicaragua 54.9 54.9
171 174 KARACHI Pakistan 54.9 54.3
173 172 MOSCOW Russia 54.8 54.8
174 173 DAMASCUS Syria 54.5 54.5
175 175 COTONOU Benin 54.3 54.2
176 175 DJIBOUTI Djibouti 54.2 54.2
177 177 TEHRAN Iran 54.1 54.1
178 178 TRIPOLI Libya 53.5 53.0
179 179 ALGIERS Algeria 52.6 52.7
180 181 TIRANA Albania 51.7 51.2
181 180 SAN PEDRO SULA Honduras 51.3 51.3
182 182 YAOUNDE Cameroon 51.1 51.1
183 184 ALMATY Kazakhstan 49.8 49.8
184 185 MINSK Belarus 49.5 49.5
185 183 YANGON Myanmar 49.3 51.0
186 186 DOUALA Cameroon 48.9 48.9
187 187 MAPUTO Mozambique 48.7 48.7
187 188 HAVANA Cuba 48.7 48.3
189 189 NOVOSIBIRSK Russia 48.2 48.2
190 190 DAR ES SALAAM Tanzania 47.4 47.4
191 191 KAZAN Russia 47.0 47.0
192 194 ABIDJAN Ivory Coast 46.0 45.0
193 192 BAKU Azerbaijan 44.8 45.2
194 193 LOME Togo 44.3 45.1
195 195 ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia 44.2 44.2
196 197 BAMAKO Mali 43.9 43.6
197 199 LUANDA Angola 43.4 42.7
198 198 TASHKENT Uzbekistan 43.0 43.0
199 200 LAGOS Nigeria 41.8 41.8
200 196 DHAKA Bangladesh 41.5 43.9
201 201 CONAKRY Guinea Republic 41.2 41.2
202 202 ANTANANARIVO Madagascar 41.1 41.1
202 202 NIAMEY Niger 41.1 41.1
202 202 PORT AU PRINCE Haiti 41.1 41.1
205 205 KINSHASA Dem. Rep. Of The Congo 40.7 40.7
206 206 OUAGADOUGOU Burkina Faso 40.5 40.1
207 207 NOUAKCHOTT Mauritania 38.2 39.0
207 208 PORT HARCOURT Nigeria 38.2 38.2
207 208 SANAA Yemen Arab Republic 38.2 38.2
210 210 NDJAMENA Chad 37.2 37.2
211 211 POINTE NOIRE Congo 33.9 33.9
212 212 KHARTOUM Sudan 31.7 31.7
213 214 BANGUI Central African Republic 30.6 29.6
214 213 BRAZZAVILLE Congo 30.3 30.0
215 215 BAGHDAD Iraq 14.5 14.5100 2006-04-11 01:00
Topic: Zurich, Geneva Have Highest Quality of Living (2 replies, posted in General discussion)
Zurich, Geneva Have Highest Quality of Living; Baghdad Is Last
April 10 (Bloomberg) -- Zurich, the financial capital of Switzerland, and Geneva, its private banking center, have the highest quality of living in a ranking of 215 cities worldwide. Baghdad was named the least livable city.
Vancouver ranked No. 3 in the survey, which was published today by Mercer Human Resource Consulting, a unit of insurer Marsh & McLennan Cos. Honolulu was the highest-ranked U.S. city at No. 27. The survey looked at 39 criteria for quality of living, including personal safety and health, education, transport, political and environmental factors.
Zurich, the home of UBS AG, Europe's biggest bank by assets, is ``the world's top city for quality of life,'' Mercer said in the report. Baghdad was ``the least attractive city for a third consecutive year.''
Cities in Canada, Europe and Australia dominated the rankings, Mercer said, with almost half of the top 30 cities located in Western Europe. Paris stayed in 33rd place and London held 39th. New York and Tokyo both slid down one rank, to 46th and 35th respectively.
Auckland made the biggest gain in the top 10 rankings, to No. 5 from No. 8 a year ago, and its New Zealand counterpart Wellington advanced to 12th from 14th a year ago. Melbourne dropped 3 positions to 17th.
In Asia, Singapore rose one to 34th. The top-ranked Chinese city was Shanghai at 103rd place, Mercer said.
``Beijing and Shanghai are on the rise and should experience rapid improvements in quality of living in the coming years,'' Slagin Parakatil, a senior researcher at Mercer, said in the survey.
Following is a table of cities with the world's highest quality of living, according to the study by Mercer Human Resource Consulting. The previous year's position is in parenthesis:
1. Zurich, Switzerland (1)
2. Geneva, Switzerland (2)
3. Vancouver, Canada (3)
4. Vienna, Austria (3)
5. Auckland, New Zealand (8)
6. Dusseldorf, Germany (5)
7. Frankfurt, Germany (6)
8. Munich, Germany (7)
9. Bern, Switzerland (9)
9. Sydney, Australia (9)
11. Copenhagen, Denmark (11)
12. Wellington, New Zealand (14)
13. Amsterdam, Netherlands (12)
14. Brussels, Belgium (13)
15. Toronto, Canada (16)
16. Berlin, Germany (16)
17. Melbourne, Australia (14)
18. Luxembourg, Luxembourg (18)
18. Ottawa, Canada (21)
20. Stockholm, Sweden (19)
21. Perth, Australia (20)
22. Montreal, Canada (22)
23. Nuremberg, Germany (22)
24. Dublin, Ireland (22)
25. Calgary, Canada (25)
26. Hamburg, Germany (25)
27. Honolulu, HI (25)
28. San Francisco, CA (28)
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