So we decided to try Google Wave out for the first time.

Disclaimer: Explicit immaturity

Did test a couple of gadgets, like the iframe embedding, the map gadget, the yes/no/maybe vote gadget, sudoku. Will come in handy for collaboration. Or, more mindless childishness.

Recorded with gtk-recordMyDesktop on Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10

Video also at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEvn9Tm56Io if it’s too small here.

Lengthy, decent reviews ahead from the fine writers at Gizmodo, Engadget and MobileCrunch.

My stand is, for the average consumer, if you can afford iPhone 3Gs, it’s still the best consumer smartphone money can buy (or, look at the new M1 and Starhub deals, ought to be interesting).

If you’re looking for anything that’s not stamped with an Apple logo, has a relatively open system, and you’re itching to get your hands on some tweaking here and there, get an Android phone.

Giz explains: Android and how it will take over the world

The iPhone-to-Android Switch: 10 things you need to know

iPhone 3Gs vs Motorola Droid

Smartphone Showdown: iPhone 3GS vs Motorola Droid

If you can wait, wait for Motorola Droid to hit our shores (currently the best Android phone).

Motorola Droid

Motorola Droid Review

If you can’t wait, HTC Hero is good. (note that firmware issues are fixed now)

HTC Hero review: Ambitious but tragically flawed

HTC Hero

If you’re on a tighter budget, I recommend HTC Tattoo or HTC Magic (the one I own)

HTC Tattoo

HTC Magic

HTC Tattoo has resistive touchscreen, a few regrets

Do proper research, don’t regret a phone purchase.

Chain messages/emails. They are often either rumours, gross exaggerations, or outright wild lies. So let’s see one I received just today.

——————–
Subject: Pls Copy & Paste and send to show that you are still active!!~

Facebook is recently becoming very overpopulated,there have been many members
complaining that Facebook is becoming very slow. Records show that the reason is
that there are too many non-active Facebook members and, on the other side, too
many new Facebook members.

We will be sending this message around to see if members are active or not. If
you are active please send to at least 15 other users using Copy+ Paste to show
that you are still active. *Those who do not send this message within 2 weeks
will be deleted without hesitation to create more space.*

Send this message to all your friends and to show me that your still active and
you will not be deleted.

Founder of Facebook,
Mark Zuckerberg
——————–

Oh boy, what do we have here? Honestly, I don’t see how people can fall for these things anymore.

Overpopulation? I’m pretty sure that, as a business, they will obviously expand the number of servers to respond to an explosive growth of users (growth is also slowing to stable levels if I remember right).

Very slow? I was under the impression that overall usability and speed of the interface has increased of late, not the opposite. I am also pretty sure non-active members, since they do not generate activity, do not burden the server as much as an active user.

When was the last time you saw company management sending legitimate messages to threaten to delete your account for inactivity so they can ‘create more space’ for new users? ‘Copy+ Paste’ indeed.

Lastly, I’m sure Mr. Zuckerberg employs people to send notifications.

Seriously, why do people fall for this?

So my J!NX stuff arrived this mornin’.

The list of stuff (click them pretty pictures to go to the product page):

A good page from the Sandman comic series (Neil Gaiman is a genius). And the reason why I bought this:

One more book to read. :D And yes, that’s my table at work.

And there goes my 19th circle around the sun.

So we started off with Alwin, TK, Xavier, Binwei, Delun, Qiaoling and me. Had dinner at Chomp Chomp, which was strangely populated with lots of .. you know, haha. Then after Xavier and Qiaoling went, we had LAN (they have Razer Kraits lol, but never set the drivers for higher DPI settings). So we had Left 4 Dead, versus mode (was funny, cause we haven’t touched that in ages, and the new map made retards out of everyone).

Then Peishi drove there and tried a little Left 4 Dead, though all I really remember is seeing through the DeathCam and watching a Boomer blow up right in front of her, and some random Smoker grab her before Alwin did (which made him scream KS, KS).

Then, this:

Haha.

I feel that this song warrants a post here.

原唱:林忆莲

我觉得有点累
我想我缺少安慰
我的生活如此乏味
生命象花一样枯萎
我整夜不能睡
可能是因为烟和咖啡
如果是因为没有人陪
我愿意敞开心扉

几次真的想让自己醉
让自己远离那许多恩怨是非
让隐藏已久的渴望随风飞

喔忘了我是谁

女人若没人爱多可悲
就算是有人听我的歌会流泪
我还是真的期待有人追
何必在乎我是谁

我想你说得对
寂寞使人憔悴
是寂寞使人心碎
恋爱中的女人才美

我想我做得对
我想我不会后悔
不管春风怎样吹
让我先好好爱一回

In my limited purview, all is well. It doesn’t matter, I’m always a wildcard :D . You see, if the world is simply devoid of meaning, then give it your own. After all, we’ve been assigning meanings since we’ve ever known what we’ve ever known.

Down the street you can hear her scream, “You’re a disgrace”
As she slams the door in his drunken face
And now he stands outside
And all the neighbours start to gossip and drool

He cries, “Oh girl, you must be mad
What happened to the sweet love you and me had”
Against the door he leans and starts a scene
And his tears fall and burn the garden green

And so, castles made of sand, fall in the sea, eventually

A little Indian brave who, before he was ten
Played war games in the woods with his Indian friends
And he built a dream that when he grew up
He would be a fearless warrior Indian Chief

Many moons passed and more the dream grew strong
‘Til tomorrow he would sing his first war song
And fight his first battle but something went wrong
Suprise attack killed him in his sleep that night

And so castles made of sand, melts into the sea, eventually

There was a young girl whose heart was a frown
‘Cause she was crippled for life and couldn’t speak a sound
And she wished and prayed she would stop living
So she decided to die

She drew her wheel chair to the edge of the shore
And to her legs she smiled, “You won’t hurt me no more”
But then a sight she’d never seen made her jump and say
“Look, a golden-winged ship is passing my way”

And it really didn’t have to stop; It just kept on going.

And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually

Bought it, as promised. CD + DVD, comes with 6 songs, 2 music videos. 罗大佑, 张震岳, 李宗盛 and 周华健. Awesome stuff. And yes, not everyone would appreciate it (as usual). Now all I have to do is to go edit the metadata from the .wav files, sort the DVD .vob files finally start listening. Wooooooo.