Colleague just got back from a junket to Los Angeles for a HP launch, and while he was there, I managed to get him to pick up my geek toy of the month, teh Flip mino HD.
Yes, I know i’m ultra-late to the game where the Flip is concerned, but since I missed out on picking one up while I was in San Francisco earlier this year for Macworld (damn you, Radio Shack), i’m quite elated that this particular one happened to come through, despite the /wrist sales tax imposed by the lovely state of California. Guvnor Ahnuld must be in a bit of a tight spot, what with trying to ditch his Tesla Roadster and all. I’m happy I could contribute to their coffers. Not.
This entry was written by , posted on March 31, 2009 at 2:23 AM, filed under Geek Toys. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
… or to be exact, another way for third parties to turn Twitter into a new revenue stream.
In the case of Mark Cuban, bajiollionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball team, the NBA decided to fine Cuban a cool US$25K thanks to comments made on Twitter after a game; examples here and here.
Maybe Twitter can consider leveraging on this, and charge a referral fee to the NBA for providing the platform on which the offending statement was made?
This entry was written by , posted on March 30, 2009 at 2:04 AM, filed under Opinion, Sport. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
In response to Nick’s experience in getting quoted out of context, I present to you the following picture for the lulz.
Seriously though, this practice of sensationalizing and selective quoting has got to stop. When will the journalists (and more importantly, the editors) of such stunning examples of (craptacular) journalism realize that jazzing up your copy like that might sell a few more copies short term, but does great damage to your reputation in the long run.
The younger generation these days are already shying away from newspapers in favor of bias-free (OK fine, i mean bias-free in a very loose context) ‘alternative’ new media; it doesn’t seem very smart to give them yet another reason to continue going away in droves.
Let’s not get onto the fact that boneheaded journos continue to imagine hard links between gaming and violence, for example.
Report the facts and report your findings, but let’s not start baseless speculation, or write with a one-eyed view on things.
Be a journalist. Not one of them ’sales-journos’.
This entry was written by , posted on March 25, 2009 at 7:18 AM, filed under Opinion. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
So far, so good. Weighing in before signing up for the PT sessions: 116kg. Weighing after the third session on Sunday last week: 111.1kg.
PT aside, looks like Project 600 is helping greatly.
5 down, at least another 30 more to go.
This entry was written by , posted on March 23, 2009 at 4:45 PM, filed under Personal, Self Improvement. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
A conversation this morning, when getting on a cab to the office.
Cabbie: where you going?
Me: Genting Lane, please.
Cabbie: Wha?
Me: GEN-ting lane, SPH Media Center.
Cabbie: Wtf har? (Don’t remember his exact words, but somewhere along those lines.)
Me: Sigh. JEN-ting lane.
Cabbie: Orh got it.
Me: (Under my breath) &^%$^%.
Each time I do that, usually when getting on cab to get back to the office, a little bit of me dies inside.
This entry was written by , posted on March 19, 2009 at 5:03 AM, filed under Personal. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.