Madonna Decena is another Filipino with hopes of making it big in her own way in a foreign land. And now is her chance as she sings her way into the hit TV show in UK, Britain’s Got Talent.

I found Madonna Decena’s story in mindrelaxingideas.blogspot.com while I was dropping entrecard and I was truly touched by her story. Madonna is a 32-year old club singer in UK who left her two girls in Philippines and tries to earn enough money to provide a better life for them. And now is her break as she won the hearts of judges Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan when she sang Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You and made it to the next round.
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In billie’s blog, he mentioned a really good reason for KDE users to switch to KDE 4 when it comes out.

Not mine, but one Korneliusz Jarzebski (in Polish) has done the numbers (pro-linux coverage in German) and produced a chart showing exactly how the RAM consumption of comparable KDE4 and KDE3 sessions measure up. The result is a mindblowing 39% smaller memory footprint in KDE 4. This just goes to show, that it’s worth making large-scale changes to your desktop environment to get the fruit hanging on the higher branches. Wait for the mini- and micro-optimisations to start happening in KDE 4.x, too.

The 39% less in memory usage may raise some eyebrows knowing that a lot of people consider KDE as more memory-hogging than GNOME. But at least we have something to look forward to KDE 4. I know I do.

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