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Thursday, February 05, 2004

Cyborg Man, Steve Mann

Hey guess wut… we can actually watch CNBC and Hitz.TV live on Maxis mobile for the first time in Malaysia. Hm..maybe that’s our 1st step in getting into the 3G phone features. After years of delay, the licensed 3G network provider starts to show some results. Lucky for those of you who own the Nokia 3650, 3660, N-Gage, 7650 as well as Sony Ericsson P800 and P900 you can watch TV on ur phone. Personally I dun like the make of P800 and P900 as it doesn’t look stylish at all.

The media is also a quite competitive world. They have to compete for readers in all ways. For the new generation of news”paper” reader…The Star Online is planning to get their papers totally posted online using the Olive Software product. Hm…that’ll save up a lot of cost for students like me.

English is such a wonderful language where it tells a history of words back to their origin. Like White Feather means Cowardice. The uses of fingers in common expression also amazes me. There’s common like butter fingers, till never-heard-before words like “fingers are itching”, “all thumbs”, and “lay a finger on”.
Not only is English a great language, but I find their culture intresting. On today’s Star, it did mention about 10 tips to smooth the transition to settling in London. Just to mention a few, the English prefer tea to our local Nescafe, preparing a bottle of wine for a dinner, how to get a win and why stand to the right on the lengthy escalators.

Today’s newspaper also mentioned about Steve Mann, a human cyborg (short for “cybernetic organisms”) who have been wearing digital devices for the past 15 years wherever he goes. I wonder how he can live one day without the device attached to him. Yet I find it intresting to wear that gadget sometimes. Like how one of his student tries to find a ghost story to talk in a camp at night.

Divorce is also going too far these days. Try recalling the recent 2-day marriage then divource case of our famous Britney Spears. To ease couples, websites like LegalZoom and CompleteCase.com provide divorce services online for a fee. It’s noted that around 50% of the marriages in US ended up in divource. Hm… can u imagine the situation now?

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