So this is pretty bizarre to me! How exactly does this make any sense? At first, these folks disabled Twitter which has turned into a major communication tool in Iran [and so it’s understandable why they want it gone!], and then they mess with Baidu, which is a major Chinese search engine. And of course the Iranian government has no problems with China. So what? Are these guys are just going about it randomly now??

“Hackers calling themselves the “Iranian Cyber Army” paralysed China’s biggest search engine this morning, sparking a bizarre online battle as Chinese hackers apparently retaliated by targeting Iranian sites. Last month the group attacked Twitter, which has been used by Iranian opposition supporters. But Beijing and Tehran are allies and it was not immediately obvious why hackers targeted Baidu, which commands over 60% of the search market in China.”

Iranian’ hackers paralyse Chinese search engine Baidu | Technology | guardian.co.uk

Can’t believe I forgot to write about this! Last week I finally went to see the Sherlock Holmes movie, in Burlington with my cuz. I have to mention here first that I’ve read every single Holmes book out there, and I’ve seen the TV series. To be honest, I wasn’t the biggest fan of the older movies / TV series, because the way Holmes was pictured in those, was not really much like the image that the books gave me. The details in the books that is, very small details.

Paying attention to the hints here and there in the books about Holmes’ personal characteristics, I always had the feeling that he should be this bad-arse character somehow, and somewhat melancholy. So, obviously I enjoyed seeing a lot of just that in the movie. I think that’s how Holmes should be “made”! LUUUVVVEEDDD IT! =D

Also, for obvious reasons, I really think that there will be sequels. 😉

After months and months and even more months of waiting, I finally found the perfect little companion for my beloved blue VAIO notebook. So I introduce to you, the royal indigo VAIO, from Sony’s signature collection [yet again!]. =D

A combination of an 8GB SDRAM, a 3.06GHz processor, a 500 GB HDD, the NVIDIA GeForce GT230M GPU [512MB VRAM], HDMI output, Blur-ray read and write drive & etc, makes this little dude exactly what I need. There are tons and tons of really kool features to play with, including the “web button”. It’s basically a quick web access button. When the system is shut down, if you want to quickly access the web without booting Windows, you just press this web button and a stand alone web browser boots. It’s pretty darn awesome, and very useful to me. What’s very interesting is that it’s very thin and light. Oh, and it looks great sitting beside my blue VAIO. =P

And then of course there’s Win7. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I LUUUUVVVV it! Microsoft has finally created an OS which makes me not think about switching to Apple anymore, and I’m not saying that lightly. It works, and it looks great. YAAAAY! =D

I also have to mention that I really like the new Sony notebook backpacks… 😉

VAIOz Luv Me! =)) [& No, this is not a a set up…. it actually happened. The blues are mine, the pink is my mom’s, the black is my cousin’s.]

This, truly blew my mind. I’ll post more on Verse.

This is really kool. I mean REALLY REALLY. Based on the ancient Aeolian harp, and made out of Adruino BT Bluetooth board, this little instrument plays with wind. Oh, and it’s solar powered. More info can be found here.  

So a few months ago, I saw this article on Gizmodo about Microsoft supposed new and  fancy tablet, and I have to admit I really liked what I saw. Then recently, at CES 2010, Steve Ballmer went on the stage to display the HP Slate with Win7 on it. Very cool, but certainly nothing like the Courier, or at least the Courier idea.

Looking around the web, I’ve seen a lot of disappointment articles and comments saying that MS just killed Courier with the HP Slate… on the other hand, as I said, they 2 have nothing to do with each other, and I’ve read / heard a lot of people saying that Courier is still going to happen. So now the question is, who’s right? Did MS kill courier, or not? Ideas anyone? Info anyone? =P

Ok… ummm… is it just me imagining things, or did Charlie Francis actually just come back from the dead??? Huh??

Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Charlie get killed by a shape-shifter? And wasn’t this shape-shifter later shot by Olivia Dunham, causing her to go through a rough psycho period, which hopefully ended with help of Sam Weiss? So… if all of that isn’t just a fragment of my imagination, then how on earth did Charlie Francis just show up on the 11th episode of season 2, following a case, just like nothing has happened?

In fact this episode looked like a lot of things haven’t happened… I get the feeling that we’re simply not looking at the same universe! There were other inconsistencies in the past too, for instance how Olivia ended up in the middle of a car crash after she came back from the other universe… a crash that had never even started. She parked her car, went to see Nina Sharp, Nina didn’t show up, and then Olivia was led to the elevator to the other universe… there simply never was an accident, so how did she end up in the middle of an accident that never started???

Given all the inconsistencies, I think that we’re seeing events from different universes, like that episode where Olivia was seeing pieces and parts of events from different universes. In any case, something really weird is happening…. and that’s the whole fun about Fringe, isn’t it? =D

I have to say unlike SGU, Fringe is going on strong… very interesting, very very kool. =)  Can’t wait to see what happens next… and how Charlie just reappeared out of thin air….  

Just created a page for the art works of a good friend of mine. Check it out! =)

Since I seem to be on a roll with writing disappointment logs, I may as well write about my biggest online disappointment of late. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but it really is the end of Twine. =( And this time it’s for good….

Since the April of last year, I pretty much disconnected myself from Twine. I still used certain aspects of Twine for storing my data, but just that. Unfortunately at that point not only the most important features of Twine were no longer working, but the RN had officially terminated all our feedback channels, showing clearly how much they no longer cared about improving on the original idea of what Twine.com was supposed to be. I think it was obvious… from that time that things were not going to go the way they originally were supposed to, that Twine was never going to become what it was promised to be. I just didn’t want to believe it…. I was waiting and hoping for Twine 2.0 to actually work!

Well guess what. During the 2.5 months that I was in Iran, the news has been published that Twine 2.0 is going to be just a semantic search engine. Everything else is gone. The social / interest network, bookmarking, twines….. everything is going to be GONE. Just… just like that. Well, you can imagine my disappointment…. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. x(

I’m still not a 100% sure what they’re going to be doing with our content stored on Twine. There’s talk of APIs…. ah well. Honestly, I don’t believe there’s any hopes of Twine.com every becoming something successful anymore. Why? Well… when Twine started to come to existence, it had a few points going for it. It was a new and great idea, and there weren’t all these competitors doing a better job of it out there. It hadn’t yet disappointed the entire www, and it had a bunch of people like “us” willing to spend that kind of time, effort and energy for making it better. And now, well, it has neither. Between Google, Bing and a gzillion other search engines many of them pretty interesting, Twine is going to be lost.

Hmmmm… I don’t care anymore anyway. The way I see it, Twine was simply never about what I thought it was about anyway…..

Well cheers to us though. =) I mean the friends I’ve been lucky enough to gain through this whole Twine deal. This is the only thing that makes it all worth. Twine can disappear for all I care. I have kept my connections…. And of course there’s always other means of collecting and sharing our interests. And right now, it’s called Diigo. I’ve started giving Diigo a try now… and so far I’m VERY impressed. I’m going to wait and see how things go with that…. I’ll write more about it once I develop a more thorough view of it. =)

And now, lets forget about Twine…. =P

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY. =))

Umm… no. Yeah. I have to start by saying NOOO. Big NOOOO. God, just what are these folks doing? We’re so used to Stargate being this larger than life complex intriguing epic plots, and that’s what we like about it! Now of course there needs to be evolution, there needs to be change… but then there’s “change” and there’s “mess up”. And so far, SGU has been the ladder. None of my big time Stargate fan friends seem to like this one at all up to now.

So far, SGU has only been a bunch of extremely shallow people doing extremely useless things. All the time. What bothers me even more, is that the general plot and the big picture is in fact VERY interesting. People who are not supposed to be doing this, further from home than any human has every been… this could be SOO full of events. But it’s NOT! And I think it’s mainly due to how un-interesting the characters are. So far, I only find 3 of the main character interesting [sometimes!]:
– Dr. Rush – Cause he uses his brain
– Eli Wallace – Cause he sometimes uses his brain
– Camiile Wray – Cause she started drawing the boat

As for the rest of them, I find them completely and utterly vain.

So that’s all I have to say, so far it’s been a big disappointment. The 9th episode is the last one I’ve seen so far, and now they’ve left my favorite character, Dr. Rush, on the surface of some planet and left him there to die…. but he’s alive, and that may go to interesting places. It would be “nice” to see my favorite character turning into the big anti-hero….we’ll just have to wait and see. I really hope things start picking up….