Your health is your wealth in the new year !
The film "Seven Pounds" is one of the better films with a superb storyline just before the end of 2008 . It's a must-watch film if you like Will Smith's narrative voice in the background - as in "I am legend" as opposed to Morgan Freeman's which has just been used in every other Hollywood movies or documentary.
 Just like "Merchant of Venice", seven pounds of flesh refer to the debt that needs to be paid and in this story's case, the debt of causing the death of six innocent lives in a car accident. The movie makes you re-think also the society treatment of blind people in general, as well as the conscience of drivers who caused fatal accidents and are still driving on the roads today without any tinge of  regret.
I am not sure if this film will generate a copy-cat cult for some film-watchers for the better good of society (minus the gross suicide, of course). Afterall, there were quite a number of films which generated controversy by having people imitate and execute their actions copy-cat style (Think Superman, Escape from Alcatraz, Mission Impossible). But if you are still in two minds on the Organs donation Bill or Act, this is a definite MUST show to watch as it may change your mindset after watching.

New year hopes and resolutions ?
The outgoing president Bush Jr has been rated with devastating results for the last decade of US presidency. (see here). If each one of us were rated based on what we did or did not do for the past year, how would we fare ? Maybe if we had time , we could pass handouts or setup an online survey for the people we had conenctions or liasons with over the past year and see if our results compared with our past successes or failures need a pepping-up or a standing-down ovation.

For the oncoming new year, what do you hope to see ? For me, in terms of upcoming and new emerging technologies: i would like to see in 2009 - just six of them:

• - cheaper solar cells and hydrogen energy capsules to powerup everyday electrical appliance
• - ability to have services startup differently for user profiles instead of centrally controlled services (usually administrator based)
• - ease of use of VMWare in expanding virtual disk size (together with OS recognition of disksize expansion) instead of wholescale migration.
• - RSS link for cityrail info (I doubt very much the realisation of this, trust me !)
• -More profileration of ISO and virtual VMDK images with applications like SQL, Oracle, Net monitoring tools, instead of plain OS images.
• -Greater number of acquisitions of job agencies so that less agencies to contend with, job databases can be centralised and unprofessional recruitment agents be eliminated to cater to the needs of people out there who are desperate for a job and having issues searching.

 

Anyway, here's a happy and hopefully successful new year to one and all !

Paris Hilton vilified.
Mood:  loud

Paris Hilton has been vilified by SBS,  or should I say South Park ahead of her campaign and arrival to Sydney to promote the Bongos virus NYE Bash. Watch her South Park casting episode below:

 

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Afraid of data loss?
In the world of data management, perhaps the best kind of storage network is the one where you have the media presently publicly displayed and stored everywhere else. Thanks to celebrities like Edison and Shane Warne for their examples -  A journalist for zdnet.com.au writes his version of the story here.

Europe undersea cables cut !!
Another case of undersea cables being cut. These sort of things just happen every now and then. Among the affected countries are:

• Saudi Arabia: 55% out of service
• Djibouti: 71% out of service
• Egypt: 52% out of service
• United Arab Emirates: 68% out of service
• India: 82% out of service
• Lebanon: 16% out of service
• Malaysia: 42% out of service
• Maldives: 100% out of service
• Pakistan: 51% out of service
• Qatar: 73% out of service
• Syria: 36% out of service
• Taiwan: 39% out of service
• Yemen: 38% out of service
• Zambia: 62% out of service

At least the sea-riggers have some work to look forward to in the new year...
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