Watch in HD

You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire.

You build egos the size of cathedrals.

Fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.

Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God…

and where can you go from there?

Internet is indeed to solve our every eager impulse. Google is god, because it knows everything…. almost.

I wonder why are they still trying to develop car batteries, not as if it will charge up in 3 mins anytime soon. For those who watched the latest episode of Top Gear, we already know that car batteries take too long to charge, discharges too quickly, and there is already an alternative called Hydrogen Fuel Cell by Honda and others (under a different name). We should just ditch oil and go for hydrogen in everything that is electric, including our power stations perhaps. Probably that will finally relinquish the dependency on oil and on Middle East and the bad OPEC.

After joining the Dell club recently with my latitude E6400, I’m focusing quite a bit on Dell laptops. The Dell Mini Inspiron 12 seems to be very interesting. It’s supposed to be a netbook, aka the cheapo Intel Atom processor laptops (Asus eee pc equiv), but it’s 12 inch. So what you get is a slower but much cheaper and lighter laptop. 1.27kg for slightly less than SGD $1000 after conversion from USD. Too bad it’s only currently available in America, not here. Another interesting news that popped up is…. Dell’s Adamo, to join the competition in Apple’s Macbook Air, Lenovo’s X300. Ultra thin low voltage processor laptops that cost a bomb.

I’ll most likely get a Dell Mini Inspiron 12 when it’s here, to replace my 7 inch Asus eee pc which works fine just too small a screen. Gives me headache after continuous use for 4 hours.

“Happiness only real when shared”

I recommend people sick of city life to watch the movie.

Lessons I’ve learnt:

1) Be better prepared

2) Keep moving, else it’s just waiting for death

Once in a while, something interesting and really useful comes out of labs. Now it’s to do with Thinkpad innovation.

This is the fan design used in Thinkpad. Old news though, May 2007. People at Lenovo redesigned the edges of the fan to include a notch, resulting in more airflow and quieter fan operation. Adapted from the wings of an owl.

I think Google sort of figured out a way to milk youtube. Inserting search boxes in embedded youtube vid when paused, Google Ads at intervals while playing youtube vid….

Next time anyone say Singaporeans are kiasu, I’ll shaft this article into their face.

Walmart worker trampled to death by shoppers

There are different ways of dying, but this is uncalled for.