Spanish boatmen

"The Spanish boatmen will take you out to fish for them for a dollar a day... It is a back-sickening, sinew straining, man-sized job... but if you land a big tuna after a six-hour fight, fight him man against fish when your muscles are nauseated with the unceasing strain, and finally bring him up alongside the boat, green-blue and silver in the lazy ocean, you will be purified..."

- Ernest Hemingway.

I am at the beach, fishing today and suddenly Hemingway's words came up to my mind.

A Camera with Powerful Zoom

Recently, I'd been thinking to get a digital camera with a powerful zoom, because I am too lazy to get close to the object I'm taking. I went to the nearest Target yesterday, but I found only cameras with 5x and 8x at most. Recently I heard that Olympus SP-550 UZ is equipped with 18x optical zoom. I'm not too sure about the exact price though, but according to the net, it is estimated around $490.

Coffee Table Computer?

Looks like a coffee-table, but it is a PC with new toch-screen technology called Milan, which was developed by Microsoft. T-Mobile, Harrah's Entertainment, Starwood Hotels and Resorts bought this new tech coffee table PCs. This Milan PCs will cost anywhere between $5,000 and $10,000.

(Photo: From Las Vegas)

All-in-one communications--Mr.Ressler/Microsoft

Mr. Jeff Ressler of Microsoft showed me the new unified communications system. He called his cell phone and he ordered his Email to be organized, then gave another order, such as Email be translated from Japanese to English, French, etc (or vise versa). Unifed communications means that E mail, calendaring, IM, voice-telephony, audio and video and Web conferencing, namefly all communications to be unifed and ready for use easily. So far the unifed system is developed only for business.....

Do the Right for Father's Day

What is the perfect gift for dad?--this is very difficult question. Maybe a GPS gadgets or so. But he already have it! So anyhoo, I just visited Fry's, Bestbuy, Circuit City, but didn't buy anything, because I couldn't come up with the right one for him. What should I do????? Only 3.5 days left. Yeah, just give him nice massage and hung out with him. Finally got an idea, Yes! Buy a movie ticket of Ocean's Thirteen.

Digital TV

By no later than February 17, 2009, all U.S. television broadcasts will be digitalized, by order of the FCC. Do you know that?
Cable and/or Satellite subscribers are, of course, not affected. Those who rarely watch TV are also ok.

flickr

Getting tired of taking photos all the time for blogs. So, I checked out flickr @ http://www.flickr.com/ regarding XBOX 360, Saints Row, Hero3 etc. The things I don't know well about the flickr's copy right. So, I used my boring XBOX 360 photo. Will find out tonight by attending flickr meeting...