Tuesday, November 28, 2006

New Jewelry Club

I just joined and got my first item. Decent for the price. :-) buy away

Sunday, March 26, 2006

My T-Mobile MDA

Sorry about the lack of updates. Just got my T-Mobile MDA. Review in the works!

Thursday, February 16, 2006

Japan's camera phone craze spreads to funerals

Thu Feb 16, 5:39 AM ET

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's obsession with camera-equipped mobile phones has taken a bizarre twist, with mourners at funerals now using the devices to capture a final picture of the deceased.

"I get the sense that people no longer respect the dead. It's disturbing," a funeral director told the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper.

At one ceremony several people gathered round the coffin and took out their phones to photograph the corpse as preparations were made to begin a cremation, she was quoted as saying.

"I'm sure the deceased would never want their faces photographed," she said.

But others called it a form of a memento in the modern age.

"Some can't grasp 'reality' unless they take a photo and share it with others ... It comes from a desire to keep a strong bond with the deceased," social commentator Toru Takeda told the paper.

Monday, January 30, 2006

Do No Evil Unless It Makes Money

"I use Google. I use Google products. I use Google a lot. I use Google, but I don't like the company."

This may sound strnage, but its true. I use Google and its associated products and services on a daily basis (Google, Gmail, GoogleMaps, Froogle, Piasca, Hello and more). Usually this would be a sign that I have some kind of loyalty, conscious or otherwise to the company itself. Many users of Yahoo! don't just use the search engine to find the receipt for chicken-pot pie, but rather they have entire Yahoo! identities. They use Yahoo! Mail to keep up with friends and family, find dates on date.com and post pictures using Flickr. And Yahoo! customers / users tend to have the sort of loyalty to the company that other internet companies only dream of.

But Google is strange. People love Google's services, but don't have much loyalty for the company itself. At least I don't.

I find that they are a bit like Apple on this front. While I love to think about how cool it would be to use a Powerbook I hate how Apple pushes its way of doing things on the user. Any experience should be customizable by the user. We should get the power to decide how to use the system and not have the system decide how to use us.

Sunday, January 29, 2006

J.Crew joins the trend of using female Asian models

My favorite clothing retailer, J.Crew, is now joining the trend of using female Asian models in its advertising and on its webpage. Not too shabby looking either.