Glorified Monkey

This is an interesting proposal by Jane McGonigal:

Here are four links to live blogs and video of Apple’s special event on January 27, 2010. Main focus is Apple’s new iPad tablet:

• GDGT Liveblog
• Engadget Liveblog
• Apple.com Quicktime video
• Mashable Apple Tablet page

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• Apple’s “iPad” Out In the Open (apple.slashdot.org)
• Apple Tablet Event Live (tastyslate.com)
• Apple announces iWork for iPad (engadget.com)

After reading this post – Why I Hate E-readers, and Doubt They’ll Ever Hit the Mainstream – from Fast Company, I odd to agree with the writer’s thought on ebook readers.  I think that at this point in time, any mobile consumer technology with a single function will not survive the growing marketing.  In the last few years, mobile devices and their capabilities have converged.

Although Amazon’s Kindle reader benefits the needs of book readers in terms of removing the amount of books they carry, how many people really have the time and the ability to read multiple novels within let say a week?

From the technology and design perspectives, why would people spend $300+ on a devices which only good for ebook reading?  When for about the same amount of money one can get a 10.1 inch netbook and is able to do all the other stuff like IM and web surfing.  I’m sure there are people who like to use their Kindles to read, but that seems to be a niche market.

With Safari books online and other e-book services available on iPhone, I think ebook device is already a thing in the past.

The Olympic Torch Relay has reached the York region today. There were a lot of people out in the cold watching as the torch bearer run by. We (the Canadian) certainly show the support to the Winter Olympic games. Here are some of the pictures:

This is exactly what we need in North America, to make the stairs more fun so that people will exercise more. There will be less overweight problems.

Since the World of Warcraft – Wrath of the Lich King expansion is released this week, I have decided to quit playing WoW. The life so far is really nice actually because I am no longer raiding nor spending time farming raiding mats like flasks or spell food. I can actually go to bed earlier now. However, I have been spending money and time on my other interests such as photography.

At the same time, I would like to try other video games where I can alt-F4 or save games whenever I want.

New lens that I may get:

• Canon EF-S 18-200mm f3.5-5.6 IS Lens

New camera that I may get:

• Canon Rebel XSi

Way to trade of $15 a month playing WoW vs. the amount of money I have spend so far, eh?

For whatever reasons, I’m in the top 14% in the nerd test… it has been a while since I done anything physics or math related things, but it is still weird… since I have been spending more time playing politics at work than reading up science and stuff. Aarr… Grr…

One of my co-workers in the US was asking me about how was my work and daily routine was lately. So I replied with a simple code snippet blow for laugh:

void wow(boolean raid, boolean pvp){
   if (raid){
      raid();
   }else if (pvp){
      pvp();
   }else{
      farmMats();
   }
}

void myDailyFunction(){
   int wowVariable = 0;
   work(); dinner();

   if (Today >= Sunday && Today <= Thursday){
      wowVariable = 1;
   }else{
      wowVariable = rand(0,2);
   }

   if (wowVariable == 1){
      wow(true,false);
   }else if (wowVariable == 2) {
      wow(false,true);
   }else{
      wow(false,false);
   }

   sleep(); myDailyFunction();
}

void main(){
   myDailyFunction();
}