I originally saw the trailer to “Sherlock Holmes” and seeing the shorts it really sounded like an action packed movie rather than a movie showing the science of deduction.
How surprised I was to see them show Holmes deductive reasoning at work. It was a modern interpretation but it at least stayed true to form.
I just finished watching the movie “Avatar”. It was visually appealing but I felt that it was rehashed storylines of past movies. I mean look at the “Last Samurai” where you have a foreigner entering enemy territory and then switching sides to fight against their own. Or look at Matrix. It was something similar.
So in essence the technology maybe different but the storyline has not wavered. Tomorrow, new years eve is my birthday. I am turning 32. Let’s see what it brings. Will post later.
I have not been writing much. I have been working throughout…life is getting to be a vicious cycle that I sorely need to get out off. I can’t wait till Christmas…I am going back to Hamilton for two weeks, which means that I have to start to clean up my room and the like so when I get back everything will be fresh again. The year has ended quickly and I think the next year will even be better. That we shall see. Anyway I am out…I may post later on today.
That Wedding entrance video has been a hit everywhere. Unless you are stuck under a rock and have not seen it yet, check it out on youtube. Just look for “YouTube – JK Wedding Entrance Dance” To date it has reached 19,389,431 views, and continues to grow. I find it amusing to see that the use of the song “Forever” was used and the Recording Studio never batted an eyelid despite the number of views that it got. And you know why? They were making money thats why. Yes, according to this Boingboing article, the recording studio CTR (Click to Buy) sky rocket increase not long after the release of this video.
I liked Cory’s comment:
So many of the record industry giants are publicly traded companies. Why aren’t their shareholders howling for more stuff like this — which actually makes money — and less pointless Grand Guignols to extract a couple grand from some hapless teen, alienating a future customer and her family and friends for life?
Thats my thoughts exactly Corey. Before I finish this post I’ll leave you with this parody of the Wedding Entrance: (Thanks to Anish who showed me this, I had to chuckle)
EDIT: I had the wrong title up there before. REAMENDED now.
Interesting thing happened yesterday. Yes my Gmail account got broken into. It was not a nice experience having the mail acccount that you depend upon violated and spammed from. And then embarrasingly having to write to everyone in your contact list to say “Sorry”.
Anyway I digress. . .I found out about the account being compromised when my site lead sent me an email to ask “Did you send this?” and then when I tried to log into my Gmail account it came up with the error “This is not the right password, Access is denied” Several more attempts and it confirmed my suspicions.
Google is quite good in that it has a recovery process to deal with compromised accounts. I won’t go with the semantics but suffice to say that straight after I found out about my account being compromised I changed my passwords on everything that is important to me. Gmail, my online banking, just to name a few. Who knows what those people would have gone through?
These are some of things that I did. What about you?
I was talking to a friend of mine at dinner last night and we were discussing whether buying for somebody (and reciprocating) was in the same league as just turning up and paying for ourselves and enjoying each others company. My friend’s premise was that the simple act of turning up to the event is good enough and is the same as buying for somebody.
This post is not focusing about the above discussion and the merits of it, but after our dinner appointment, it got me thinking why we have differently. Some of you may fire back to me and say it is glaringly obvious, but I believe that why we think differently is largely because we have different values. The Meriam Webster online dictionary defines values as “something (as a principle or quality) intrinsically valuable or desirable <sought material values instead of human values — W. H. Jones>”
It is of what we experience in our lives and what has been past down to us from our parents and those that are very close to us that distinctly defines what we consider with certain values in our lives. Do remember that there is the odd exception. . .I mean a person in a derelict family may see a different outlook to that of people around them.
Enough of the catch phrase, thats just to get people’s attention, I’d just get straight to the point. The next mobile company in Australasia to get people to use mobile internet to its full potential and do so with good value is going to win. Full stop. Period.
Why do I say this? Well in my opinion its the next killer app second to texting. Texting was great because it brought in that interactivity and it was quick and easy. It is also cheap. That has now evolved. Mobiles are now smarter. It has GPS in them, and have java applets that can run applications. Applications such as Facebook, Youtube, Bebo. All those sites that the younger generation (15-25) use, Vodafone has a big opportunity to tap that market.
Recently, Twitter has been promoted by such things as the competition between Ashton Kutcher and CNN having 1 million followers. If Twitter does take off in NZ, (and not just for the geeks like me) then there is a whole market that can be upgraded to be using 3G. Its not just about using a 3G phone because I would make a bid to say that not many of the general populace use it or even know what 3G really implies or even use it to its full potential.
I will put my stake down now and say that whoever gets the market to transfer to them to use the mobile web, they are going to be far better off. Time will tell.
What is Section 92a? There has been so much controversy over this in New Zealand and even some people around the world like Steven Fry have protested about this in their own way. The initial Section 92a stated that once accused of downloading infringing copyright material the ISP is then responsible for terminating the users account without any question whatsoever.
This law essentially means that there does not need to have justice system in place. The traditional “Innocent until proven Guilty” is not even in effect here, just three strikes and you’re ‘out’. No Internet. Nothing. Zip. Nada. They might as well as cut off our right arm.
Whoever wrote and then approved that law has got to be nuts. Firstly they have forgotten entirely about the justice system. Where do these people get a fair trial? Where is the justice in all of this? Also, cutting off Internet access altogether? There are punishments that are meant to deter people but there are others that are too totalitarian and extreme. The use of the Internet has made its way into our daily lives. From Internet banking, to getting information, it makes things more convenient its slowly becoming the only way to get things done. A simple question, what happens when a business never even conducted any such activity in any way yet they were accused by a disgruntled employee/s? Remember three strikes and its good bye to the Internet? Second, they are cutting off a lifeblood for ISPs. Their main revenue is people using Internet. Cut that off..uh huh.
This law was meant to have passed by 28th Feb but because of the calamity of the issue and the attention that it got, the government has now said that the law will be modified based on the government and the ISPs agreeing with the terms. They have till 20th of March 2009 (or some date) before they come to an agreement. If after six months they still have nothing, then the law will slide and be suspended.
My bet at this stage is that the law will be suspended. No one (on both sides) in their right mind would want to have their accounts terminated.
I have stayed in Wellington well over a year now. What was very compelling for me to move to Wellington were two things. The first was family reasons. I had one brother that was staying here, and the second was that I was under the impression that Wellington had a very good transport infrastructure. I cannot drive, due to medical reasons, so I need to live in a city that has good public transport. I am from Hamilton and although Auckland was closer, Auckland is one of those cities that is so sprawled out without a very good infrastructure that everybody needs to have a car to get anywhere.
So I guess I was kind of surprised when I came to Wellington to find that the buses on where I am staying do not arrive in a timely manner on certain parts of the day. People say to me that it is just my route (which is Brooklyn), and I suppose that in some ways it is. I am just not sure. You see, sometimes the buses come late, or sometimes they even come to early. It is all too much for me sometimes, and I just give up.
I suppose that this is something that I was not made aware of when I made my decision to go to Wellington, or I did not pay heed of it. In either case, I think that I have gotten used to it now, and I have just learned to come that little bit earlier than before.
I have a strong belief that if one says something then it is important to keep their word, or just follow through with what they say. What drives me nuts is someone that asks for something and then when I take the time to do what they wanted, they either fire back saying that it doesn’t matter. I have taken the time to do something for them and then all of a sudden they just say “Forget about it”. I find that rude. I have taken the tim and it just feels like that when they back out they don’t appreciate what I am doing and they are just wasting my time.
Some people just don’t understand….
