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I salute you, for running 15 km in the rain in flip-flops and holding a compact digital camera to chase the youth olympic torch. Now that's the stuff dreams and movies are made of.Not to mention making front page of the national papers. Quite worth destroying a camera for. But with your natural ability, you should upgrade to a better camera and try some paparazzi fieldwork. Cool though. Darn I really need to run more.

You know, I was thinking, they need better torch bearers. For example I would like to see my favorite mee pok uncle, the 7-11 cashier, the Old Chang Kee auntie, the grumpy bus driver, the famous chicken rice guy, the kids...

The straits times must have received hundreds of emails on this. They chose to publish one letter in the forum which I think very well captured the essence. He mentioned how this boy's actions recalled the ' the innocence', ' less complicated times' and the ' exuberance of youth'. Oh, lovely. Since we are going to have him carry the torch tomorrow, can he take over LKY's slot please,i think it would mean so much more to everyone that way. :p

The ipod/iphone interface is pretty, I'd grant it that. Its clean, easy to see, visible, sleek. Nice whites and greys and shadows. The keyboard is pleasant to look at. The music function is so comprehensive.

Good, until I discover the keyboard is so staid. its not easy coming back from 'zhng'ed or upgraded Android keyboards. Just like I can't accept the current underdeveloped music fn on android, I can't accept the contacts, phone, email, connectivity functions on iphones. So if you want to play games and listen to music and watch videos you might like the iphone. If you want to dop work, be ridiculously connected and integrated, android works better. Tho Blackberry is still ahead on office related functions and I still type super fast on the physical bb keyboard. Really really fast.

Android is abit like windows7 with all the advanced bells and whistles, if you know how to use it. iOS is like winXp, sleek fast basic works.

P.S. I just saw KDE 4.5's new screenshot. wow its pretty. maybe android is like more towards linux after all. haha. stable underneath, super skins, super functions, and not so media friendly sometimes.

TASKER

wow you are not going to believe this amazing application, Tasker is doing the must amazing and fun custom profiles on my phone.

Upon incoming call when using headphones, disable vibration, say out "Incoming call from ", ringtone.

I can even share the profile with you by exporting it. Cool.

Swype

Swype typing is also pretty cool but it takes a bit of time to get used to it because it is kinda counter intuitive to spell words by sliding one finger over all the letters. Fun and actually messy but sometimes it is just so predictive. Gosh.

HSDPA

Silly me was puzzled by my phone connecting to the HSDPA network service instead of showing 3G for the past month. Finally wikipediaed it and realised that

"High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) is an enhanced 3G (third generation) mobile telephony communications protocol in the High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) family, also dubbed 3.5G, 3G+ or turbo 3G, which allows networks based on Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) to have higher data transfer speeds and capacity. Current HSDPA deployments support down-link speeds of 1.8, 3.6, 7.2 and 14.0 Mbit/s." - Wikipedia.

Okay... I see now.

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OS Fragmentation

It used to be that phones were all known by their model number and you could easily recognise the top 5-10 phone models. Now... its getting crazy. The average so-called "IT" user used to have to deal with mainly the variants of Windows, knowing how to use Win XP and Win 7 can get you by. Now, one needs to know about the iOS (in the iPhone form, iPad form), the Mac OS, the Nokia (symbian) OS, Android OS, Blackberry OS. And all these are the very commonly encountered ones. Each contain its own bunch of quirks, capabilities, features, unique features, settings, addon applications. And then you have the layers of applications that permeate the systems, like the social networking systems, the instant messaging systems, the different email systems, the call systems. What you once knew about the classic Sony Ericsson, Motorola, ... phone interfaces are all largely outdated unless you are handling an old phone, although that is still visible.

So, how's anyone supposed to handle all that? Its kinda insane. There's this acronym: GTD - Getting Things Done. Coined for apps that help you to GTD, eg task schedulers, calendars, notepads. So what we might need, is to really get things done and not have to play around with all that insane I T. No way are my parents ever going to be able to handle all that technology.

By the way, have you heard of Chrome-to-phone? Its a function that allows you to transfer the url of a website that you are currently viewing on the pc, over to the phone. ie so that when you leave the pc, you can continue reading on the phone. Fantastic. Just the next level of sync/connectivity I need. It requires Chrome or Firefox, and Android 2.2. I wish for the day where I can 'dock' my phone to my laptop, and/or 'dock' my laptop to my pc, and gain combined functions when using them together.

Jh now needs some warmth, peace, routine, security,  and sleep.

time to show off all the fun drawings, illustratoring, and coloring tat's been going on:

come see @ nebulirious.wordpress.com ! we'll put up more items soon, need to squeeze time to make more

16 July is coming round again. Guess I shouldn't be kicking up such a big fuss this year. Shldn't.

Thanks for the balloons and the icecream. And all the rest.
(I feel somewhat bad for being so environmentally unfriendly with the balloons.)

Haiyah.

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