<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638</id><updated>2011-11-28T08:40:19.850+08:00</updated><category term='Technology'/><category term='personal'/><category term='news'/><category term='scifi'/><category term='Entertainment'/><category term='Photography'/><category term='Astronomy'/><category term='wired magazine scifi'/><category term='Relationship'/><category term='politic'/><category term='Apple'/><category term='Movie'/><category term='Web'/><category term='Kim Jong Ill'/><category term='Anime'/><category term='Business'/><category term='Life'/><category term='Advertisement'/><category term='Singapore'/><category term='Opensource'/><category term='Weekly Digg'/><category term='AI'/><category term='Society'/><category term='hobby'/><category term='RFID'/><category term='Humor'/><category term='Dallas'/><category term='Death'/><category term='Religion'/><category term='work'/><category term='Thailand'/><category term='moron'/><title type='text'>Kirk Sato</title><subtitle type='html'>&lt;b&gt;A Reflection of Our Technological Dystopia&lt;/b&gt;</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>86</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-542622475358430610</id><published>2007-04-03T20:31:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2007-04-03T20:31:57.297+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Weekly Digg 04-03-07 Evolutionary Stupid</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Hello folks I hope that you all had a plenty of laughs this past April fool day. Though you might not be the prankster yourself, however there is nothing like a good laugh after you been bamboozled by your mischievous friends. It's ok just laugh it off and make sure next time you invited him or her to your party make sure that you get them shitface and just for a sweet revenge kick his ass too. Also I believe that in the &lt;st1:place w:st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:placetype w:st="on"&gt;land&lt;/st1:placetype&gt; of &lt;st1:placename w:st="on"&gt;Christiandom&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;, Palm Sunday was celebrated in the honor of the top guy J.C himself. So wouldn't that be splendid if Kirk Sato is presenting this Weekly Digg on the topic of most controversial in the Bible happyland, Evolution. That's right just sit back and enjoy, if God has his hand on evolution some of those clip might just be a perfect example of the Intelligent design or the lack there of. So Let's begin.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font size="5"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Weekly Digg 04-03-07 Evolutionary Stupid&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;So what if the natural selection only care about quantity than quality, despites our best effort in human intellectual evolution, yet vastly population of human still unexplainably stupid. If you don't believe this just run down to your local food chain restaurant and try to find a waiter who could say more than 3 syllables word in a sentence. This clip is an intro to one of my all time soon to be a cult classic "Idiocracy"by Mike Judge. If you've ever wondered why everyone seems to be getting stupider with each passing year, then watch this scene and bask in its great revelation.&lt;font size="4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Idiocracy R Us&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;msprm name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fAYnc_-ddlw"&gt;&lt;msprm name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;object enablejsurl="false" enablehref="false" saveembedtags="true" allowscriptaccess="never" allownetworking="internal" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/fAYnc_-ddlw" height="350" width="425"&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fAYnc_-ddlw"&gt; &lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never"&gt; &lt;param name="allowNetworking" value="internal"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br&gt;Have you ever wonder how the evolution process is like? Well if you happen to been raised in the Bible Belt territories with the belief that God created everything including the Ginie. Then just have no fear and let the Simpson show you a concise version on the Theory of Evolution. &lt;br&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;Let There be Dohh !!!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;msprm name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fzGTdfAYMG0"&gt;&lt;msprm name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;object enablejsurl="false" enablehref="false" saveembedtags="true" allowscriptaccess="never" allownetworking="internal" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/fzGTdfAYMG0" height="350" width="425"&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fzGTdfAYMG0"&gt; &lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never"&gt; &lt;param name="allowNetworking" value="internal"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;Religion in Cinema &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" size="4"&gt;Terminator meets Jesus&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;Heck I don't you know about you this sure beat watching the Passion of Christ.....&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;msprm name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4nOEI8LZrNE"&gt;&lt;msprm name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;object enablejsurl="false" enablehref="false" saveembedtags="true" allowscriptaccess="never" allownetworking="internal" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/4nOEI8LZrNE" height="350" width="425"&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4nOEI8LZrNE"&gt; &lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never"&gt; &lt;param name="allowNetworking" value="internal"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;Sex Bytes of The Week &lt;br&gt;Sheer Human Stupidity&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;What does a rotten&amp;nbsp; 56-foot-long whale sushi could prove humanity utmost idiocracy? By having it transported on a truck headed for a necropsy by researchers, when gases from internal decay caused its entrails to explode in the southern city of Tainan. Also, more than 100 Tainan city residents, mostly men, have reportedly gone to see the corpse to 'experience' the size of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;its 5-foot penis&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/msprm&gt;&lt;/msprm&gt;&lt;/msprm&gt;&lt;/msprm&gt;&lt;/msprm&gt;&lt;/msprm&gt;&lt;h3 id="title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4096586" target="_blank"&gt;60-ton Sperm Whale explodes in Taiwan Traffic - Blood and Guts everywhere&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;font style="font-weight: bold;" size="4"&gt;The Coolest Evolution Game Ever&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Spore.svg/260px-Spore.svg.png"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Spore&lt;/b&gt; is a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer" title="Personal computer"&gt;PC&lt;/a&gt; game under development by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxis" title="Maxis"&gt;Maxis&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_design" title="Game design"&gt;designed&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Wright" title="Will Wright"&gt;Will Wright&lt;/a&gt;. The game has drawn wide attention for its promise to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_game" title="Simulation game"&gt;simulate&lt;/a&gt; the development of a species through &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-ended" title="Open-ended"&gt;open-ended&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_generation" title="Procedural generation"&gt;on-the-fly&lt;/a&gt;, user-guided evolution. Here is a cool 18 minutes demo of a PC game that will change the industry forever this coming Q1 2008&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;msprm name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IQvswZ39vq0"&gt;&lt;msprm name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;object enablejsurl="false" enablehref="false" saveembedtags="true" allowscriptaccess="never" allownetworking="internal" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/IQvswZ39vq0" height="350" width="425"&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IQvswZ39vq0"&gt; &lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never"&gt; &lt;param name="allowNetworking" value="internal"&gt;&lt;/object&gt; &lt;/msprm&gt;&lt;/msprm&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-542622475358430610?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/542622475358430610/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=542622475358430610' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/542622475358430610'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/542622475358430610'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/04/weekly-digg-04-03-07-evolutionary.html' title='Weekly Digg 04-03-07 Evolutionary Stupid'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-4829286004275954153</id><published>2007-03-26T02:49:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-03-26T02:50:10.263+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Weekly Digg'/><title type='text'>Weekly Digg 03-26-07</title><content type='html'>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Yup Yup just as I promise to you all that the return of the Weekly Digg shall come when my writing muse has return. Well one thing is certain Kirk Sato will be writing quite a few of this for many weeks to come since my current project with my previous employer has been terminated. Well at least I got my pay and I will be sitting around being a bum until I'll hit up Singapore this summer. So for the mean time, it is my pleasure for me to entertain you all with the Weekly Digg free of charge. Alright let's get this show on the roll.&lt;br&gt;&lt;font style="font-weight: bold;" size="5"&gt;&lt;br&gt;Weekly Digg 03-26-07 &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Hollyshitwood Edition&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Homeless James Bond&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt; Homeless Bond uses his wits and garbage to stop the mastermind of the homeless underworld. So Dr evil himself could raise his social status to poor.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;msprm name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ibhOzAfM51A"&gt;&lt;msprm name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;object enablejsurl="false" enablehref="false" saveembedtags="true" allowscriptaccess="never" allownetworking="internal" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/ibhOzAfM51A" height="350" width="425"&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ibhOzAfM51A"&gt; &lt;param name="allownetworking" value="internal"&gt; &lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never"&gt; &lt;param name="enableJSURL" value="false"&gt; &lt;param name="enableHREF" value="false"&gt; &lt;param name="saveEmbedTags" value="true"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;The Hype of the 300&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.wtfsrsly.com/wtfimages/sparta/spartaquiz.jpg"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Unless you have been hiding under a rock down in Iran or may be just a crazy Iranian president. Then you all must have experienced one of the most gangsta bloody Spartan movie of all time. Also allow me to make a statement for all those &lt;/msprm&gt;&lt;/msprm&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt;" times="" new="" roman="" ;=""&gt;shenanigans&lt;/span&gt;&lt;msprm name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ibhOzAfM51A"&gt;&lt;msprm name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt; historian who are criticizing the accuracy of this film. Well it's like trying to understand the Roman history through the Mona Lisa, it's a god damm comic book after all so just enjoy it.&amp;nbsp; Here is one of the best story on the street worth sharing to you all.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;"&lt;span id="_ctl0_cphMain_rptMessages__ctl8_MessageView_bcMessageBody"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Well i found out someone i know is in alot of trouble today, he was drunk in a club and there was a girl dancing by some stairs so he went up to her........................ Kicked her down the stairs shouting this is SPARTA&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;For the complete list of the sotry please visit &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wtfsrsly.com/sparta.php" target="_blank"&gt;www.wtfsrsly.com/sparta.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;300 PG Version&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;msprm name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gNqiSkd1M6k"&gt;&lt;msprm name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;object enablejsurl="false" enablehref="false" saveembedtags="true" allowscriptaccess="never" allownetworking="internal" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/gNqiSkd1M6k" height="350" width="425"&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gNqiSkd1M6k"&gt; &lt;param name="allownetworking" value="internal"&gt; &lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never"&gt; &lt;param name="enableJSURL" value="false"&gt; &lt;param name="enableHREF" value="false"&gt; &lt;param name="saveEmbedTags" value="true"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size="5"&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sexbytes of the Week&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.sqlhelper.net/upimg/allimg/070324/0052360.gif"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sqlhelper.net/html/Technology/03/Anti_rape_Device_to_Hit_the_Market_13472.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;Anti-rape Device to Hit the Market&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;That's right folks a dude worse night mare has arrived thanks to this Dark Ages wisdom of a South Africans women. The Anti-rape device created by South-African inventor Sonnet Ehlers is about to hit the market after a long time of waiting for patent verification. The female condom-like device called Rapex has fish-like teeth that attach to the penis. imagine fish teeth on your penise whoaaa&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size="5"&gt;&lt;br&gt;The Real Big Brother&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/msprm&gt;&lt;/msprm&gt;&lt;/msprm&gt;&lt;/msprm&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;So if you are a fan of reality television such as Big Brother then you might be a little terrified by this. Appreantly the goverment of the free world was loving such a entertainment surverllance so much, now the star will be you 24-7. Take Great Britain for example, Over 4 million cameras, being retro-fitted w/speaker systems. Yelling out orders to people like a concentration camp. Doesn't sound like V for Vendetta at all. If you want people to be nice or clean up more, have it a point for every citizen to do public service much like some country's requirement for military service.So watch out America this show will be coming to you soon !&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;msprm name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HAuZi8ZiJOg"&gt;&lt;msprm name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;object enablejsurl="false" enablehref="false" saveembedtags="true" allowscriptaccess="never" allownetworking="internal" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/HAuZi8ZiJOg" height="350" width="425"&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HAuZi8ZiJOg"&gt; &lt;param name="allownetworking" value="internal"&gt; &lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never"&gt; &lt;param name="enableJSURL" value="false"&gt; &lt;param name="enableHREF" value="false"&gt; &lt;param name="saveEmbedTags" value="true"&gt;&lt;/object&gt; &lt;/msprm&gt;&lt;/msprm&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-4829286004275954153?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/4829286004275954153/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=4829286004275954153' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/4829286004275954153'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/4829286004275954153'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/03/weekly-digg-03-26-07.html' title='Weekly Digg 03-26-07'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-4082322344028458502</id><published>2007-03-23T01:47:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-03-23T01:48:25.441+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life'/><title type='text'>Quick Update</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Well it has been two months since the last transmission of my blog; yes mostly the negligence could most be blame to the whirlwind of my chaotic life for the past few months. For the closest of friends in Dallas would know, perhaps the lady luck has been so kind enough to look down upon me.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Despites several mishaps about my career since the beginning of the year, finally the dust have settled.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Though I could never recover all of the money that I was promised to received, however half is better than nothing. As of now I have settled down in Thailand for a long run, probably for a year or two finish my promise with my family of having a degree for once.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Even though I could really careless about this whole artificial credential paper, I finally could make some sense of stability in my life.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;I can happily turn my back to those who cheated me and stab me in Bangkok with a one finger salute to them all (which two of them happen to be my own aunt). At least for now I will gather up all the ashes and start off new with my Japanese stepmom and my little brother.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;     For my friends in Dallas whom are wondering about my well being in Bangkok, I got to be honest to you all. Though Thailand might not be the best cup of tea when it comes to the creature comfort like in the US, with all the technological efficiency to feed any desirable appetites. However one thing I would never miss about Dallas is the cops, on the contrary the cops in Bangkok are way more reasonable when it comes to misdemeanor which can reasonably deal with dollars and sense. Also with help from my Japanese mom, now I even have the opprotuniy to venture to Japan this coming summer. So overall the party life and my own blood family support is a right mixture for a great time in Bangkok for this remaining year to come. I believe that things are happen for a reason, not because the man upstairs would care so much about me which I would never want it to be that way anyhow (plus owning him a favor is definitely not a good thing). But I have a sense of belonging that it is time for me to grow up into another mature individual, by helping little brother to excel as a well rounded teenager mean paramount to me more than own success for now. So when I will be back to Dallas? Which is on everyone of my closest friends might ask, well one thing for certain you might see me back there sooner than you expected so watch out. So for the time being stay tune and let Kirk Sato has his great little adventure in this wonderland call the Southeast Asia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-4082322344028458502?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/4082322344028458502/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=4082322344028458502' title='20 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/4082322344028458502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/4082322344028458502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/03/quick-update.html' title='Quick Update'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>20</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-4955863030672532860</id><published>2007-02-03T00:40:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-02-03T01:41:40.099+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Weekly Digg'/><title type='text'>Weekly Digg 02-02-07 - Doing the Japanese</title><content type='html'>Hello folks sorry for a brief disappearance from the ever shorter attention span of the online world. Unfortunately Kirk Sato has gotten a job promotion and it's not the kind that come with perks of power Armani suit and the corporate jet. However it just happens that I got a better title on my business card with the same pay and longer working hours. So you could imagine that my creative juice got snag out by the adjusting work period. Let just say that I now spend 3 hours of my everyday, commuting in this great city of Bangkok which happen to be my new locale for my physical presence at the movement. Well enough about my poor pissed excuse of being just sheer lazy, before we begin I would like to make a couple of announcements about my blogging affair. First thank you for my frequent readers of the Weekly Digg, especially my Korean hotness Kimchi who actually motivated me with a friendly reminder that somebody ought to wake Kirk up on the blogging session, so thanks Kimchi now I will make it even more spicy. Additionally to make it up for you all, I decided to create my new column for the weekend which I still not quite sure which day would be preferable between Friday and Saturday. Due to a great success of a mini section of the Weekly Sexbytes, now I'm proud to introduce the Pink Spot on the weekly basis which will be a blog dedicating to the dystopian sex, hey what else do you expect there are two things that I have the passion for and one of them is sex. So enough with the gibberish and let's move on to the Weekly Digg&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Doing the Japanese Edition&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Sushi How to&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ever wonder of the ancient secret of the Japanese dining etiquettes of sushi ? Well look no further and get your knowledge on this no ordinary vids on the raw fish fine dining. Watch out don't let this mundane atmosphere fool you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ruh0TJJopn8"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ruh0TJJopn8" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Japaneses Fembot.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The Japanese are fascinated with robots, and they are fascinated with sex, so of course, as any of you who follow the development of humanoid robots know, the Japanese are definitely fascinated with robot girls and future sex robots. This is a short television commercial by either or both Japanese mobile phone carriers KDDI and Tu-Ka. It is intriguing to watch how they have incorporated a female robot into it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=8791673298371767809&amp;hl=en" flashvars=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Nihonji Viral&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;A routine put together by some Japanese dancers to promote the Uniqlo clothing brand. Their ability to emulate pauses, slo-mo, and fast forwarding is amazing. It's amazing how viral advertisement could help even though the clothing company is virtually unknown outside of Japan so get your robot groove on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XSdhDyPhyiU"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XSdhDyPhyiU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Luke Be the Plane&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interested in joining the Japanese Air Force?  I am, after seeing a picture of their recruits in action:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.saynotocrack.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/japan_flight_school.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apparently they take a very zen-like approach to flying:  first learning to &lt;em&gt;“be the plane”&lt;/em&gt; before flying it. Either that, or they have connected their 330 combat aircraft to Nintendo Wiimotes for remote control fun over the internet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alright folks that is for the Weekly Digg this week and hope you all will enjoy this fashionably late edition, plus stay tune for the back to back launch of the Pink Spot right after this blog if you want to entertain what's in your pant.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-4955863030672532860?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/4955863030672532860/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=4955863030672532860' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/4955863030672532860'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/4955863030672532860'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/02/weekly-digg-02-02-07-doing-japanese.html' title='Weekly Digg 02-02-07 - Doing the Japanese'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-7246637815119977297</id><published>2007-01-15T14:50:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-01-15T16:11:41.036+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Weekly Digg'/><title type='text'>Weeky Digg 01-15-2007 - Politically Insane Edition</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Hello fellas and welcome back to yet another mindless entertainment of the Weekly Digg. As I hope everyone in the Pan handle of the dirty southern states are not freezing their butts of to death, also I would like to send shout out to the folks in the OK state hang tight or get some moonshine. Because you all going to need it for a few days to weather out the snowstorm. Anyhow this edition of the Weekly Digg I would like to start off with some comment response s from my infamous blog grinding down on the iPhone this past weekend. One thing was certain, that was one of my most view blog yet to date. And of course Kirk Sato himself did received some commendations and barrage of death threats, here is one of the few good ones &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Is this what we have to look forward to till June? &lt;a href="http://digg.com/apple/10_reasons_Why_IPhone_is_going_to_be_a_Flop?creplyto=4720079#creplyform"&gt;pissy little fuckers&lt;/a&gt; that can't stand that apple makes good products, and feel they need to make their "why this product will fail" blog entry and share it... seriously, go fuck yourself.” &lt;/blockquote&gt;I believe this is a comment made&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;by &lt;a href="http://digg.com/users/kismac/news/dugg"&gt;Dr. Grant Roberts&lt;/a&gt; . Well exactly what kind of doctor you’re professional of, obvious cursing at ramdom folks. Hey if you can’t write cursive you always speak of one right the nutty professor? So I responded to him in kindly of course with this, “I guess Mac fan like to curse a lot, so uncivilized unlike the phone”. Then I got inspired by this mad man and the thundering hypes of the iPhone, without further adieu I give you &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Politically Insane Edition&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Politics of iPhone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;What do you get when an unproven gadget for a mobile industry presenting by the best hype man in the tech industry, Steve Job? A 2 hours bonanza of how the iPhone would reinvent the wheel of course. If you don’t believe me check out the video.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7Kd-beTSdkQ"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7Kd-beTSdkQ" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nevetheless, you can't say that iPhone is the greatest device since slice bread unless you test it in the field. So I give the full instruction of what you iPhone is capable of.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Multi-Purpose iPhone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1xXNoB3t8vM"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1xXNoB3t8vM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Last but not least on the social commentary of the iPhone I turn to a great insight of the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Colbert Report&lt;/span&gt; on the future of Apple, Inc. without the Computer  in it. "You're still a nerd, even with a cool trendy haircut".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" &gt;Wag the iPhone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gGXwtkXOjZw"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gGXwtkXOjZw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This past year I've seen a fair share of crazy politicians on C-SPAN, for example the Net Nuetrality nemesis Sen. Ted Stevens aka the Tube guy. However my faith in the US politic has reach a new low today when this dude &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rep. David Wu&lt;/span&gt;, made a great insight of the Bush administration comparing it to the Startrek politics. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Nerd alert&lt;/span&gt; !!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;Crazy Klingon Politicians&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Pe4WA58rMu0"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Pe4WA58rMu0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sex Bytes of the Week&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;So have you ever wonder what it means to be gay? Well if the Republicans have their ways of defining homosexuality for guys, it would be somewhat similiar to this definition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Wck9TDE47sc"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Wck9TDE47sc" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/weeky-digg-01-15-2007-politically.html" title="Weeky Digg 01-15-2007" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=Weeky+Digg+01-15-2007;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/weeky-digg-01-15-2007-politically.html" title="Weeky+Digg+01-15-2007"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=Weeky+Digg+01-15-2007&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/weeky-digg-01-15-2007-politically.html" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/weeky-digg-01-15-2007-politically.html&amp;amp;title=Weeky+Digg+01-15-2007" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-7246637815119977297?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/7246637815119977297/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=7246637815119977297' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/7246637815119977297'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/7246637815119977297'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/weeky-digg-01-15-2007-politically.html' title='Weeky Digg 01-15-2007 - Politically Insane Edition'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-5495184213529303790</id><published>2007-01-13T16:00:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-01-14T16:27:57.631+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Technology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Apple'/><title type='text'>10 reasons IPhone is going to be a Flop</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Qj0KEfeUfEs/RaiWy8SqvkI/AAAAAAAAACc/tEkJlGrXRNE/s1600-h/27292501.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5019427586626469442" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Qj0KEfeUfEs/RaiWy8SqvkI/AAAAAAAAACc/tEkJlGrXRNE/s320/27292501.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: right"&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.php?u=http%3A//digg.com/apple/10_reasons_Why_IPhone_is_going_to_be_a_Flop" frameborder="0" width="55" scrolling="no" height="82"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh the dust storm of the wow factor at Macworld, yes the iPhone and Apple TV are indeed some new innovation from Apple (No longer Apple Computer, Inc). Hopefully with all intoxicating two hours key note on how Apple will be the new Sony. Plus Steve Job bending on declaration an all out war with everyone, not even mobile phone manufacturers were saved. So I waited patiently until all the cloud of Mac addicts would settled and I believe that everyone is really going to need a reality check on this little gadget here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gGXwtkXOjZw" width="425" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sorry Steve Jobs, the honeymoon of hot air is over for the iPhone. I’m willing to bet that iPhone is heading toward the same direction just like the Zune. It's not that I’m sick of it already (well, maybe a bit), it's just time for Apple to answer some tough questions. Otherwise, it will be joining the ugly step children group just like the Zune, Sony PS3, and Segways. In the realm of "tech that looks absolutely amazing but is far too expensive for most people to even consider buying, Apple better be careful trying not to over hype this little sucker. So here is a few pointers iPhone will have to resolve before the product launch this coming June.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Form Factors:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/11/iphone-and-lg-ke850-separated-at-birth"&gt;Have I seen you before&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;? Though iPhone is pretty and thin, but is it can be easily drop due to the lack of curves and slick finishing like the iPod. It’s definitely scratch prone device, additionally lacking a stylus or a traditional thumb board will sure put more unwanted smudge on the touch screen. So when was the last time you look at a screen filled with your thumb prints? Pretty disgusting right ? Perhaps Apple is specifically targeting non-professionals, as this is a largely untapped profitable market.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;It’s the Service, Stupid:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; People might want the phone that Cingular has to offer, but in the long run it is the quality of the wireless product and services that keep customers (coverage, plan features, rates, etc.). Plus how much of quality content Apple will have to come up with to support the IPhone ecosystem? Better start making good friends with Youtube and Yahoo now. Perhaps the consumers in the US should get a second opinion from their futurist friends in &lt;a href="http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-japanphone11jan11,0,6424968.story?coll=la-home-headlines"&gt;Japan&lt;/a&gt;. After all they were enjoying this innovation with cutting edge technology for years prior the iPhone conception. Ultimately in the convergence arena of gadgets, it's the content that wins.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. &lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Kung Fu Texting: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;The number one usage for mobile around the world is still making phone calls and sending text messages. &lt;/span&gt;Have you ever tried power texting on a touch screen? I can assure you when doing a one handed kung fu texting on a touch screen, it pretty annoying. And how does one can do this on the iPhone? On its touchscreen? Let me know. So one-handed texting is out of question. I guess Steve Job is planning to have his peripheral partners begin selling yet another expensive bluetooth keyboard. Mind as well call it a PDA that play iTunes. Without a keyboard, this will be a titanic flop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4.&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;You don’t want Your Phone to be an &lt;a href="http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/1/12/6597"&gt;Open Platform&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;This is a deal breaker for Steve Jobs, one Apple is late in the game with its "Smart-Phone" platforms. Two the market has already been flooded with other proven long term invested platform. (eg .Palm OS, Windows Mobile, and Symbian). Additionally these platforms are open to the end-user to developed and use third party applications without a hitch to their respective cellular network. Yes all the current smart-phones are capable of dispensing malicious application to the cell network. However at the end of the day it's the omnipresent layers of communication hardwares that win. Sorry Apple, if your mobile OS can wreck havoc the entire West Coast cell network into a coma, then you have no business getting into the mobile handset industry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. &lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Jack of All Trades&lt;/span&gt;: Is the master of none, Convergence devices are only pretty in concept and only suited for some people. Also the compromises that you have to make in order to just carry one device most result in a undesirable response. Are people willing to give up their ultrahip Moto phones, which fit anywhere stealthy in their pocket? So that they can carry an 8GB digital storage camera phone. Oh wait may be I'm thinking about the &lt;a href="http://www.nokia.com/nseries/index.html"&gt;Nokia N Series&lt;/a&gt;. It is yet to be seen that the consumers are willing to trade in their old 30-60 GB IPod for a Jack of all trades Apple Branded mobile device.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. &lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Proprietary is for Losers: &lt;/span&gt;One Lesson Apple should learn is from Sony, the list of gigantic flop from that company is longer than an Empire state building, from B&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;etamax all the way to UMD&lt;/span&gt;. Why only limits the consumer to the iTune download only? If I cannot add my personal movies and Music collection from DVD and CD, who cares how great it will look on this touch screen if my hands are tied to rebuy everything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7.&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Unforgetable Experience for One Time:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes the launch of iPod undoubtedly were the biggest technological marvel back in 2001. Because it was the first MP3 device to solve all the majors problems with the portable players, such as the lack of storage capacity in both Flash memory and Hard disk in those days. However those are not even an issue today. Also IPod won the hearts of the consumer with their dial navigation versus other cumbersome navigation systems from the manufacturer in the past. However in the handset business there are already an answer to those prayers a while back ago, they call it the &lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Crackberry&lt;/span&gt;. So do you have the sand to take your touch screen on with those addictive little buttons, Steve?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8. &lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;It's Data Not Voice:&lt;/span&gt;With the rise of VOIP, the traditional voice business is heading to a dooming sunset. &lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Also the lack of 3G support might merely be for a political reason,&lt;/span&gt; as the fact that Cingular's 3G coverage &lt;a class="external-link" href="http://www.cingular.com/coverageviewer/"&gt;still has gaping holes&lt;/a&gt; outside of major U.S. cities. However Sprint has no problem with their mass deployment of EVDO network which is significantly faster than the Cingular network.The 3G question is very important to those who want to stream video and audio to their phone at any time without wardriving for a hotspot. Only if you're restricted to Wi-Fi hot spot to get your data and not using it in the backseat of a car, on the train, or sitting on a park bench. This will lose appeal quickly to the mobile professionals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9. &lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Total cost of ownership:&lt;/span&gt; The price of the ownership will be higher than the price tag for the mobile operator. 600 dollars are still pretty steep for a phone. Also what kind of user maintenance is required? Obviously the battery of this phone will only last for two years just like the service agreement. So the consumer will want the next generation of iPhone right away ? Even if the iPhone wears three hats, at the end Cingular will realized that it is too costly keeping it around in the long run for its consumers. You all know what happen to the Nokia Communicator right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10. &lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Experience:&lt;/span&gt; Samsung, Motorola, and Nokia have scoured the world's design schools and hired artists on three continents to keep their phones looking good. Motorola has recently revived its fortunes with design of the Razr. KDDI, a Japanese carrier, has a design showcase in the teen shopping area of Tokyo just to be close to trends. Apple, in other words, won't be competing against rather dullish, unstylish companies like the old Compaq. The handset companies move pretty quick and put out new models every few weeks. Perhaps Apple, Inc. should research the consumer behavior more thoroughly on the mobile market before diving in for an embarrassment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="10 reasons IPhone is going to be a Flop" href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/10-reasons-iphone-is-going-to-be-flop.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img class="socialbkmark" alt="" src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a title="10+reasons+IPhone+is+going+to+be+a+Flop" href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=10+reasons+IPhone+is+going+to+be+a+Flop;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/10-reasons-iphone-is-going-to-be-flop.html"&gt;&lt;img class="socialbkmark" alt="" src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" border="0" target="_blank" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=10+reasons+IPhone+is+going+to+be+a+Flop&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/10-reasons-iphone-is-going-to-be-flop.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img class="socialbkmark" alt="" src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/10-reasons-iphone-is-going-to-be-flop.html&amp;amp;title=10+reasons+IPhone+is+going+to+be+a+Flop" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img class="socialbkmark" alt="" src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-5495184213529303790?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/5495184213529303790/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=5495184213529303790' title='14 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/5495184213529303790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/5495184213529303790'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/10-reasons-iphone-is-going-to-be-flop.html' title='10 reasons IPhone is going to be a Flop'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Qj0KEfeUfEs/RaiWy8SqvkI/AAAAAAAAACc/tEkJlGrXRNE/s72-c/27292501.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-5481079792736164985</id><published>2007-01-13T14:38:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-01-13T14:41:40.606+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Technology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entertainment'/><title type='text'>Run Robotic Forest Run</title><content type='html'>&lt;h2&gt;Asimo Running at 2007 CES&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm a little scared. Next thing you know, robots will be chasing humans with knives...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/f9NNCHFEX7g"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/f9NNCHFEX7g" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-5481079792736164985?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/5481079792736164985/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=5481079792736164985' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/5481079792736164985'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/5481079792736164985'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/run-robotic-forest-run.html' title='Run Robotic Forest Run'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-4091308398229965782</id><published>2007-01-12T11:13:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-01-12T11:19:07.872+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='work'/><title type='text'>Best Place to Work in America</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QWdUTUT-Ycc"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QWdUTUT-Ycc" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apparently this company is getting over a million application per year for 4000 jobs. With all the perks they provide, it brings me to the pre-bubble nostalgia of sacrificing high cost excess for creativity.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/best-place-to-work-in-america.html" title="Best Place to Work in America" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=Best+Place+to+Work+in+America;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/best-place-to-work-in-america.html" title="Best+Place+to+Work+in+America"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=Best+Place+to+Work+in+America&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/best-place-to-work-in-america.html"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/best-place-to-work-in-america.html&amp;title=Best+Place+to+Work+in+America"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-4091308398229965782?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/4091308398229965782/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=4091308398229965782' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/4091308398229965782'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/4091308398229965782'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/best-place-to-work-in-america.html' title='Best Place to Work in America'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-6252325003095852268</id><published>2007-01-09T21:28:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-01-11T00:26:39.099+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='RFID'/><title type='text'>Ways to Blow up Identity Card's RFID Chips</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Qj0KEfeUfEs/RaOeMatAxNI/AAAAAAAAACI/NPvW7DhpGs0/s1600-h/e-passport.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Qj0KEfeUfEs/RaOeMatAxNI/AAAAAAAAACI/NPvW7DhpGs0/s200/e-passport.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5018028345984599250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="vitstorybody"&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.php?u=http%3A//digg.com/hardware/Ways_to_Blow_up_Identity_Card_s_RFID_Chips" frameborder="0" height="82" scrolling="no" width="55"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt; In October, the U.S. State Department began issuing biometric "ePassports" that contain a radio frequency identification tag under the back cover. The tiny chip holds the usual passport data, including a digital photo. The motive behind adding the chips is ostensibly good: to combat counterfeiting and illegal immigration. However the good intention of big brother omnipresence backlash faster than a crack whip. A German hacker quickly found a way to crack the encryption. With a laptop and a chip reader &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;he bought for $200&lt;/span&gt;, he was able to steal data from an encrypted RFID tag, potentially allowing him to clone an ePassport. And it's not just Americans who are at risk. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Twenty-seven countries (mostly in Europe) &lt;/span&gt;that participate in the U.S. Visa Waiver Program are required by U.S. law to issue the new electronic passports to their citizens. The Dutch and British media have already reported major security flaws in the new IDs. Despites an obvious flaw  in the chip encryption scheme,  the US State Department will push the RFID passport program mandating all passport with always -on radio frequency identification chips by January 1. This will making it easy for officials and hackers alike to grab your personal stats.  &lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p&gt;So what's a security-conscious citizen like me will do? Though it is inevitable that Uncle Sam want to track everyone like cattle's, however there are still ways to make this method a bit more inconvenient for them. So I went around and do some research for devising a best plan to disable the RFID chips without burning up your passport all together. &lt;span class="vitstorybody"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="vitstorybody"&gt;But be careful - tampering with a passport is punishable by 25 years in prison in the US. Not to mention the "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;special&lt;/span&gt; " custom search, with rubber gloves.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; If you're &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="vitstorybody"&gt;getting paranoid about strangers slurping up you identity ? Here 's what you can do about it. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Water Treatment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 "Accidentally" leaving your passport in the jeans you just put in the washer won't work. You're more likely to ruin you passport than the chip. Plus in the near future there will plenty more of RFID water resistance type.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Nuking&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 Forget about nuking it in the microwave, long term exposure to the nuking session could cause the chips burst into flames, leaving scorch marks. Besides ruining you passport with permanent nasty burnt smell. &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="vitstorybody"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="vitstorybody"&gt;&lt;div class="dwssubhead"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Hammer Time&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 The best approach? Hammer time. Hitting the chip with a blunt, hard object should disable it. A nonworking RFID doesn't invalidate the passport. So you can still use it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;                &lt;/p&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Best Solution&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Hammer Time&lt;/span&gt; + 10 second &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Nuking Session, &lt;/span&gt;this will ensure that you've properly destroyed the actual storage unit within the chip itself. A brief microwave session also help electrocuting the power supply circuit. So what will you have left at the end, is a non working RFID passport with all your  paper trail information intact. Besides this will give some work for your local custom agent to do typing the information and do their job.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/ways-to-blow-up-identity-cards-rfid.html" title="Ways to Blow up Identity Card's RFID Chips" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=Ways+to+Blow+up+Identity+Card%27s+RFID+Chips;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/ways-to-blow-up-identity-cards-rfid.html" title="Ways+to+Blow+up+Identity+Card's+RFID+Chips"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=Ways+to+Blow+up+Identity+Card%27s+RFID+Chips&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/ways-to-blow-up-identity-cards-rfid.html" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/ways-to-blow-up-identity-cards-rfid.html&amp;amp;title=Ways+to+Blow+up+Identity+Card%27s+RFID+Chips" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-6252325003095852268?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/6252325003095852268/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=6252325003095852268' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/6252325003095852268'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/6252325003095852268'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/ways-to-blow-up-identity-cards-rfid.html' title='Ways to Blow up Identity Card&apos;s RFID Chips'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Qj0KEfeUfEs/RaOeMatAxNI/AAAAAAAAACI/NPvW7DhpGs0/s72-c/e-passport.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-4464173380977753871</id><published>2007-01-08T12:26:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-01-08T14:01:53.762+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entertainment'/><title type='text'>Weekly Digg 01-07-2007</title><content type='html'>Alright folks the infamous Weekly Digg is back with a vengeance for this 2007 edition ! So you can expect more of these outrageous theme varieties throughout each weeks. So enough said let's get Diggin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Weekly Digg "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Anti-Feminism Edition&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Women know your limits&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; A excellent scientific based film that will enable a woman to learn her rightful place in society. Women know your limits! Satire involved for the idiots out there who take it seriously. So watch this with caution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SjxY9rZwNGU"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SjxY9rZwNGU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;How to be a perfect girlfriend&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A funny little video that helps women understand the overly simplistic nature of men and our primal instincts like hunting. &lt;a href="http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-be-the-perfect-girlfriend"&gt;Here is the clip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;The Proper Way to Beat Your Islamic Wife &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you've ever wondered how to beat your Islamic wife without fear of Allah's punishment, this cleric explains it on video. Better follow this instruction or it's eternal damnation without jihad credits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Wp3Eam5FX58"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Wp3Eam5FX58" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So according to the Koran you can beat your wife if&lt;br /&gt;1) no bruises&lt;br /&gt;2) no bleeding&lt;br /&gt;3) not on the face&lt;br /&gt;4) not in front of the children&lt;br /&gt;5) if she doesn't get hurt&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, if you can beat someone without hurting them let me know. Allah will give you props.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Sex Bytes of the Week&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally Web 2.0 crowd sourcing is coming to the realm of sex, here is a Wiki for how-to resource devoted entirely to everyone favorite pass time, boning. They even offer to pay people to write articles. Check it out, cool articles.&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.wikiafterdark.com/images/a/a7/Dive.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wikiafterdark.com/index.php/WikiAfterDark"&gt;WikiAfterDark&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;New Series to Watch God, Inc.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Awesome new comedy series on YouTube, about life in the corporate offices of God. "What if all the problems on earth were not caused by a spiteful deity, or karma, or fate, but just office politics and the Peter Principle?". Here is the pilot episode.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/b2f4heaG288"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/b2f4heaG288" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-4464173380977753871?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/4464173380977753871/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=4464173380977753871' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/4464173380977753871'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/4464173380977753871'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/weekly-digg-01-07-2007.html' title='Weekly Digg 01-07-2007'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-5496469687773855143</id><published>2007-01-04T18:43:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-01-05T11:49:15.263+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Opensource'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='RFID'/><title type='text'>OpenBeacon - Open source RFID</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Qj0KEfeUfEs/RZ0IY74_eJI/AAAAAAAAAB8/pjbC4g3K1zo/s1600-h/e8e5aa1ac9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Qj0KEfeUfEs/RZ0IY74_eJI/AAAAAAAAAB8/pjbC4g3K1zo/s200/e8e5aa1ac9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5016174784447215762" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Qj0KEfeUfEs/RZzf_r4_eII/AAAAAAAAABw/mI0JhbTPR74/s1600-h/openbeacon_logo03.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Qj0KEfeUfEs/RZzf_r4_eII/AAAAAAAAABw/mI0JhbTPR74/s200/openbeacon_logo03.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5016130370190407810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.php?u=http%3A//digg.com/hardware/Open_Beacon_Open_source_RFID" frameborder="0" height="82" scrolling="no" width="55"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today I ran into some nifty news in the &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;RFID&lt;/span&gt; business front, apparently in the realm of cutting edge tracking logistics 2.0. Open source still manage finding its way  advancing collaboration of creativity among the tech &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;community&lt;/span&gt;. Though this platform might not yet be ready for the enterprise &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;prime time&lt;/span&gt;, however it's worth a good look.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.openbeacon.org/"&gt;OpenBeacon&lt;/a&gt; is an open source wireless tracking system for following people around buildings got its first&lt;a href="http://www.cio.in/news/viewArticle/ARTICLEID=2630"&gt; public use last week&lt;/a&gt; at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. The creators of the Open Beacon system sold the &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;RFID&lt;/span&gt; tags at &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;US$13&lt;/span&gt; each to attendees who volunteered to be tracked during the four-day event. Also Open Beacon worked with partners to create a&lt;a href="http://www.openbeacon.org/dl/23C3/raumzeit.jpg"&gt; three dimensional model&lt;/a&gt; of the conference center and anyone could use touch-screen monitors that displayed the location of attendees on the model. Touching an attendee on the screen displayed a profile that the person could voluntarily add.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This Initiative is a free design for an active &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;RFID&lt;/span&gt; device which operates in the 2.4GHz ISM band. Open Beacon uses chips from Nordic Semiconductor ASA that transmit and receive over the 2.4GHz frequency, which is available for unlicensed use in many countries. The device contains a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;unique serial number&lt;/span&gt;, but may have other information. OpenBeacon is designed as a transceiver device and therefore both transmits and receives radio waves. The intention of this project is to offer a wide range of use cases such as visitor or item tracking and wireless remote control with a free self-contained and low-cost &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;RFID&lt;/span&gt; design.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the greatest strength in OpenBeacon tag comparing to other &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Wi&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Fi&lt;/span&gt; based active &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;RFID&lt;/span&gt; tracking system is &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;longer battery life&lt;/span&gt; by  transmit and then sleep, cutting back on power consumption. The devices could run for several months before requiring a new battery. Plus both hardware and software are &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;open source&lt;/span&gt; which make this alternative considerably attractive in term of pricing comparing to other real time tracking &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;RFID&lt;/span&gt; system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the possible real life application is crowd control, like the seasonal pilgrimage of Mecca. The identities wouldn't be important but crowd control monitors could note when many of the tagged pilgrims converge in one spot, implying that potentially many other untagged people are also in the same area, and then they could work to divert or otherwise alleviate the congestion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/open-beacon-open-source-rfid.html" title="Open Beacon" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=Open+Beacon;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/open-beacon-open-source-rfid.html" title="Open+Beacon"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=Open+Beacon&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/open-beacon-open-source-rfid.html" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/open-beacon-open-source-rfid.html&amp;amp;title=Open+Beacon" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-5496469687773855143?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/5496469687773855143/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=5496469687773855143' title='50 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/5496469687773855143'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/5496469687773855143'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/open-beacon-open-source-rfid.html' title='OpenBeacon - Open source RFID'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Qj0KEfeUfEs/RZ0IY74_eJI/AAAAAAAAAB8/pjbC4g3K1zo/s72-c/e8e5aa1ac9.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>50</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-4878883763430566284</id><published>2007-01-03T21:48:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-01-03T21:56:50.479+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Technology'/><title type='text'>U.S. Army Buys 30 New Simulators</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://freespace.virgin.net/james.handlon/battlezone/bzshot21.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://freespace.virgin.net/james.handlon/battlezone/bzshot21.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;" &gt;In an effort to save money on gas, the U.S. Army has spent $50 million on 30 new M-1 tanks and M-2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=sci_tech&amp;amp;id=4898063"&gt;SIMULATORS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, which use advanced VR to copy everything but "the smell of being inside of a tank." Also crazy suicide bomber is not included in this version, however the future upgrade probably will knock out those issues&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/us-army-buys-30-new-simulators.html" title="U.S. Army Buys 30 New Simulators" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=U.S.+Army+Buys+30+New+Simulators;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/us-army-buys-30-new-simulators.html" title="U.S.+Army+Buys+30+New+Simulators"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=U.S.+Army+Buys+30+New+Simulators&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/us-army-buys-30-new-simulators.html"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/us-army-buys-30-new-simulators.html&amp;title=U.S.+Army+Buys+30+New+Simulators"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-4878883763430566284?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/4878883763430566284/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=4878883763430566284' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/4878883763430566284'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/4878883763430566284'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2007/01/us-army-buys-30-new-simulators.html' title='U.S. Army Buys 30 New Simulators'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-2500668685622952830</id><published>2006-12-31T21:50:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-31T21:52:59.890+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Thailand'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politic'/><title type='text'>Thailand Bombing</title><content type='html'>Small bombs &lt;a href="http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=251437639&amp;p=z5y4385xz&amp;amp;n=251438582&amp;x="&gt;exploded&lt;/a&gt; today in at least four places in Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, injuring at least 12 people, according to police. There were at least a dozen people injured, but could only confirm one death. To me it doesn't matter if there is a conflict in the south because of the instabilites in the political undercurrent. One thing certain,  the people who commited these monstrosities are not the&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; patriot of this country&lt;/span&gt; and should be dealt with like an &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;enemy of the state&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-2500668685622952830?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/2500668685622952830/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=2500668685622952830' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/2500668685622952830'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/2500668685622952830'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/thailand-bombing.html' title='Thailand Bombing'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-6173805850298430986</id><published>2006-12-31T00:21:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-31T21:44:08.782+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Thailand'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='moron'/><title type='text'>Tech Moron of the Year</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Qj0KEfeUfEs/RZPyQ8JKYVI/AAAAAAAAABQ/f0FBHj7HnAc/s1600-h/sitthichai.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Qj0KEfeUfEs/RZPyQ8JKYVI/AAAAAAAAABQ/f0FBHj7HnAc/s200/sitthichai.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5013617183029879122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Well it's not everyday that I would get a privileged of handing out this great award at the end of every year. First I'm a fairly conservative minded guy when judging other people stupidity. Since all of us got that "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;oh I was an idiot&lt;/span&gt;" movement, and yes I've experienced quite a few of them.  Nevertheless there are times sheer stupidity fueled with ignorance tenacity, would overcome all reason of a man- hence a moron is created. And it is my duty to remind us all with power come great responsibility. So if you're planning to be a moron, please refrain yourself entering the world of politics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Without further delayed, let me introduce you all to our Tech Moron of the Year and he is not Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), The &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes"&gt;Series of Tubes&lt;/a&gt; Guy. Though his remark resembled  a drunk homeless guy talking about the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;yellow brick road&lt;/span&gt;. In Mr. Stevens defense, at least he knew the benefits of the &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;internet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; as a potential &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;monetization&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; platform for the US government so he definitely got the runner up prize. As for out top moronic winner this year goes to the new &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Thailand &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;ICT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Minister&lt;/span&gt;, Professor &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitthichai_Pokai-udom"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Sitthichai&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Pokai&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;udom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. As for the audience who are wondering about his background, not to worry he didn't really have anything valuable too much for your IT  trend research. For a starter he is a newly &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Thai junta appointed&lt;/span&gt; leader of Information and Communications Technology of Thailand, which ironically the organization was form by the deposed &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Thaksinian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; government. Why does he deserved the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Tech Moron of the Year 2006&lt;/span&gt; you asked? Well recently in November, &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Sitthichai&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; came with a strong criticism toward &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_software" title="Open source software"&gt;open source software&lt;/a&gt;. In an &lt;a href="http://72.14.235.104/search?q=cache:aNHcxzS7stgJ:www.bangkokpost.net/201206_Database/20Dec2006_data017.php+ICT+Minister+Sitthichai+Pokai-udom&amp;hl=en&amp;amp;gl=sg&amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;cd=7"&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt;, he noted,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt; "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;With open source, there is no intellectual property&lt;/span&gt;. Anyone can use it and all your ideas become public domain. If nobody can make money from it, there will be no development and open source software quickly becomes outdated... &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;As a programmer, if I can write good code, why should I give it away? &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Thailand can do good source code without open source.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Apart from Linux, open source software is often abandoned and not developed further, and that it leads to a lot of low-quality software &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;with lots of bugs.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p&gt; And here's the gem - he said the current government plan (regarding open source) was a case of the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;blind leading the blind&lt;/span&gt;, as neither the people who are in charge nor the people in the industry seem to know the dangers of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;open source software&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What a head trip, did I hear this correctly? So I went to consult the source on IT intelligence at&lt;a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/28/026232"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Slashdot&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; just to make sure that I'm not only one who nominating him and sure enough, it was &lt;a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/16/0323202"&gt;confirm&lt;/a&gt; on their category &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/16/0323202"&gt;Tags.&lt;/a&gt; Wow I did not know that, the dangers of open source software, obviously the Professor has been watching too many &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;Battlestar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;Galactica&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; episodes. The hi-tech renegade open source &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;Cylon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; is coming out for vengeance toward their creator and the rest of humanity rest in the hand of Microsoft. Probably that was the motive for &lt;a href="http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/thailand/thailand_not_buying_olpc.html"&gt;Microsoft Thailand&lt;/a&gt; representatives  meeting prime minister, deputy prime minister, and finance minister for implementation of the future of the Thai e-government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One thing is certain on the current state open source initiative in Thailand, a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;senile blind leading the blinds&lt;/span&gt; to an abyss of &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;anti-&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;competitive&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; monopolistic software business . If you hoping the carnage would cease there, letting all the sacrificial blood of the open source hippies on the alter then you're so wrong. To add more salt to the wound, Mr &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitthichai_Pokai-udom"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;Sitthichai&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;Pokai&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;udom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; made another great insight in a recent MIT invention for the world &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;poors&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, The &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.olpcnews.com/"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;OLPC&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (One Laptop Per Child)  which he nonchalantly &lt;a href="http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/thailand/thailand_says_no_olpc.html"&gt;disregard&lt;/a&gt; them as  "toys". So let me summarized Mr. &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"&gt;Siitthichai's&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; deluded Phenomenological world, he thinks open source is only good for A.D.D hippies and &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"&gt;OLPC&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; is such a bad toy it need not be introduced to Thai poor youths who barely have money to even buy a toy this Christmas. Perhaps the real reason for his anti-sentiment toward open source is the lack of support in the technical services and financial support from &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mr. Gate&lt;/span&gt;? So it' s better to accept a software that famous for the blue screen of death and bloated with security &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"&gt;vulnerabilities&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; than an open standard of open source initiative which is on constant scrutinies from it user 24/7 for bugs?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps Mr &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"&gt;Sitichai&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; himself never use the world wide web, which came from &lt;a href="http://www.w3.org/"&gt;W3C&lt;/a&gt; open source initiative. May be the minister himself worries that if a web page is broken on his computer, then he might actually have to call Tim &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"&gt;Berner&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Lee himself. Better yet in Mr &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22"&gt;Sittichai's&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; wonderland, let's call Microsoft because they invented &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WWW&lt;/span&gt; with the Internet Explorer right ? So let me explain a brief point the leader of the blinds. Open source is all about the initiative to implement an open standard where all could benefit on an agreeable software framework platform.  In the current digital world one thing reign supreme, which is standard the ultimate trump card. Obviously he is missing the real point, this idea of common share knowledge will prevent some moron who are trying to &lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,54721,00.html"&gt;patent&lt;/a&gt; hyperlink just because they feel like it. Plus you don't publicized your magical source code that enhance your competitive edge open on the &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23"&gt;internet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, even though the framework of your application is base on open source software.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for the situation of the destruction of Intellectual Property, perhaps the professor fail to read the latest theory of &lt;a href="http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/it-doesnt-matter-rebutted"&gt;The Law of Conservation of Attractive Profit&lt;/a&gt;, which state once software is &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24"&gt;commoditized&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; just  like the PC from IBM in the 70-80's. The &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25"&gt;monetary&lt;/span&gt; value will migrate up the value chain in the form of services on the platform, or stacked down in the form of supportive ecosystem of the framework. As you can see the perfect examples are Google with &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;ct=res&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fadsense%2F&amp;amp;ei=gq6WRaCDDY_gsALA_uWMDw&amp;usg=__CK7pa8Q8zfQHK6VxFF5S2MoEzH0=&amp;amp;sig2=-Mo5lcnJV8D_Yd5s6LFaqw"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25"&gt;Adsense&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.skype.com/"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26"&gt;Skype&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; with their &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27"&gt;VOIP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Services. On the other hand in the eternal sunshine of his spotless mind, the nutty professor probably still think they are some nifty websites worth bookmarking for his weekend chat with &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29"&gt;Tin man&lt;/span&gt;. Here is a food for though my fellow Thai techies, "In the Land of the blind one eye man is the king". So let's vote for our Tech Moron of 2006 !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/tech-moron-of-year.html" title="Tech Moron of the Year" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=Tech+Moron+of+the+Year;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/tech-moron-of-year.html" title="Tech+Moron+of+the+Year"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=Tech+Moron+of+the+Year&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/tech-moron-of-year.html" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/tech-moron-of-year.html&amp;amp;title=Tech+Moron+of+the+Year" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-6173805850298430986?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/6173805850298430986/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=6173805850298430986' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/6173805850298430986'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/6173805850298430986'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/tech-moron-of-year.html' title='Tech Moron of the Year'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Qj0KEfeUfEs/RZPyQ8JKYVI/AAAAAAAAABQ/f0FBHj7HnAc/s72-c/sitthichai.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-5141760928885242482</id><published>2006-12-29T14:39:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-29T19:05:07.312+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Technology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='personal'/><title type='text'>Kirk Sato's IT Proverb 2006</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Qj0KEfeUfEs/RZS9TMJKYWI/AAAAAAAAABc/yf7y0F70qBI/s1600-h/funny-pictures81.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Qj0KEfeUfEs/RZS9TMJKYWI/AAAAAAAAABc/yf7y0F70qBI/s200/funny-pictures81.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5013840422545023330" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.php?u=http%3A//digg.com/programming/IT_Proverb_2006" frameborder="0" height="82" scrolling="no" width="55"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well as the year 2006 is approaching to a definite end, I feel that many people out there would share the feeling of nostalgia among the mist. For the most part, many of you folks out there probably trying to recall the past mistakes that you have done foolishly in the past year. Which in hope 2007 will bring you a certain resolution achievement, even though you may never be able to get rid of that bad habit. As for me, the biggest blunder of 2006 probably would be in the field of my job, which happen to in Information Technology. Though the consequence might not have threaten my livelihood entirely, but it sure did leave me a nasty memory which I love to abandon with all the days in this year. So in the hope of finding  my  own resolution for the next year in my career, I have compile little words of  wisdom in the world of computing to share with you all. This might not be a  definitive guide, however you might find them to be more than useful when you get stuck in one of those computer errors anger movement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;IT Proverb 2006&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is better to have a gold digging  girlfriend than a computer. Because &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;owning a computer&lt;/span&gt; is like a marriage, it never works unless you spend money on it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had a life once&lt;/span&gt;... now I have a computer and a modem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To err is human. To really &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;foul things up&lt;/span&gt; requires a computer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the Internet, nobody knows you're a &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/lonelygurl15"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;moron&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. (into believing)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/1lYiDo0DjSk"&gt;tubes&lt;/a&gt; hurtling down the highway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Profanity&lt;/span&gt; is the one language all programmers know best.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open source is &lt;a href="http://72.14.235.104/search?q=cache:aNHcxzS7stgJ:www.bangkokpost.net/201206_Database/20Dec2006_data017.php+ICT+Minister+Sitthichai+Pokai-udom&amp;hl=en&amp;amp;gl=sg&amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;cd=7"&gt;buggy&lt;/a&gt; , crashing &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Windows&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Gates&lt;/span&gt; in a world without borders&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Press any key to continue or any &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;other key to quit&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Best Movement of Internet 2006 -A Series of Tubes....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1lYiDo0DjSk"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1lYiDo0DjSk" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/kirk-satos-it-proverb-2006.html" title="IT Proverb 2006" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=IT+Proverb+2006;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/kirk-satos-it-proverb-2006.html" title="IT+Proverb+2006"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=IT+Proverb+2006&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/kirk-satos-it-proverb-2006.html" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/kirk-satos-it-proverb-2006.html&amp;amp;title=IT+Proverb+2006" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-5141760928885242482?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/5141760928885242482/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=5141760928885242482' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/5141760928885242482'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/5141760928885242482'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/kirk-satos-it-proverb-2006.html' title='Kirk Sato&apos;s IT Proverb 2006'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Qj0KEfeUfEs/RZS9TMJKYWI/AAAAAAAAABc/yf7y0F70qBI/s72-c/funny-pictures81.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-4310471837109031370</id><published>2006-12-28T18:41:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-28T18:42:01.854+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='personal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='news'/><title type='text'>Digital Tsunami</title><content type='html'>Damm the freakin earthquake in Taiwan two days ago not only happened on the same date as the Tsunami 2004. Also it managed to cut clean all 6 transcontinental undersea fiber optics, which leave my sorry asian ass without broadband for 2 days. Talking about &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061227/tc_afp/asiaquakeinternet"&gt;digital tsunami&lt;/a&gt; in Asia, god damm when all this crap would end.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-4310471837109031370?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/4310471837109031370/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=4310471837109031370' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/4310471837109031370'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/4310471837109031370'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/digital-tsunami.html' title='Digital Tsunami'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-8944706618439278337</id><published>2006-12-27T01:42:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-27T02:09:22.496+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Movie'/><title type='text'>Akira</title><content type='html'>Alright if you're a fan of the Matrix trilogy and Ghost in the Shell then you can't miss this chance online. Courtesy from Google video, an entire length of Akira has been posted online. For those of you who wanted to get in touch &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;with the stable&lt;/span&gt; of the Japanese anime, look no further this is a must see movie. Here I'll post you a quick synopsis to prepared you for a this mind blowing dystopia. Neo-Tokyo, Fast Yakuza future bikes, genetic engineering out of control oh my.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cover-akira.jpg" class="image" title=""&gt;&lt;img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Cover-akira.jpg/200px-Cover-akira.jpg" alt="" longdesc="/wiki/Image:Cover-akira.jpg" height="282" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Akira&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;(&lt;span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja"&gt;アキラ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="t_nihongo_norom" style="display: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="t_nihongo_comma" style="display: none;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="t_nihongo_romaji"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Akira&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; is a 1988 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation" title="Animation"&gt;animated&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;movie&lt;/span&gt; by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuhiro_Otomo" title="Katsuhiro Otomo"&gt;Katsuhiro Otomo&lt;/a&gt; based on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_%28manga%29" title="Akira (manga)"&gt;his manga&lt;/a&gt; of the same name. The movie led the way for the growing popularity of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime" title="Anime"&gt;anime&lt;/a&gt; in the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world" title="Western world"&gt;West&lt;/a&gt;, with &lt;i&gt;Akira&lt;/i&gt; considered a forerunner of the second wave of anime &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fandom" title="Fandom"&gt;fandom&lt;/a&gt; that began in the early 1990s. One of the reasons for the movie's success was the highly advanced quality of its animation. At the time, most anime was notorious for cutting production corners with limited motion, such as having only the characters' mouths move while their faces remained static. &lt;i&gt;Akira&lt;/i&gt; broke from this trend with meticulously detailed scenes, exactingly &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lip-synching#Animation" title="Lip-synching"&gt;lip-synched&lt;/a&gt; dialogue (voices were recorded before the animation was completed, rather than the opposite — a first for an anime production) and superfluous motion as realized in the film's more than 160,000 animation &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cel" title="Cel"&gt;cels&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup id="_ref-0" class="reference"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_%28film%29#_note-0" title=""&gt;[1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;The story takes place in the politically volatile city of Neo-Tokyo, built over &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Bay" title="Tokyo Bay"&gt;Tokyo Bay&lt;/a&gt; after an unexplained explosion inciting &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_III" title="World War III"&gt;World War III&lt;/a&gt; destroyed the original city in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988" title="1988"&gt;1988&lt;/a&gt;. The cataclysm is revealed to have been caused by the frightening &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psionic" title="Psionic"&gt;psionic&lt;/a&gt; powers of a child, Akira, who had earlier been the subject of a secret government research project for the development of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychokinetic" title="Psychokinetic"&gt;psychokinetic&lt;/a&gt; abilities.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;So sit back and enjoy this great film on your post mayhem Christmas hangover....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=6510359051238273998&amp;amp;hl=en" flashvars=""&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/akira.html" title="Akira" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=Akira;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/akira.html" title="Akira"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=Akira&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/akira.html"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/akira.html&amp;title=Akira"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-8944706618439278337?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/8944706618439278337/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=8944706618439278337' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/8944706618439278337'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/8944706618439278337'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/akira.html' title='Akira'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-1829346144015622720</id><published>2006-12-27T00:39:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-27T00:49:21.168+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Nokia N95 multimedia computer</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Qj0KEfeUfEs/RZFQhsJKYUI/AAAAAAAAABE/S4VCjqkLp8A/s1600-h/nokia-n95.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Qj0KEfeUfEs/RZFQhsJKYUI/AAAAAAAAABE/S4VCjqkLp8A/s200/nokia-n95.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5012876399955566914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even though I never been a big fan of Nokia, since all of my phones are a long line of descendent of Hello Moto. Currently I owned the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;KRZR&lt;/span&gt; of course, however I ran into a commercial of this new N95. I'm pretty positive this sucker can defnitely give Nokia a good punch back on the smart phone category once more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; New commercial "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;multimedia computer&lt;/span&gt;" upcoming soon. It will be Nokia N95, just released by Nokia. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Nokia N95&lt;/span&gt; is scheduled to hit stores by Feb 2007 and will be have such features: 5 Megapixel camera, 802.11g Wi-Fi, HSDPA,  150 MB internal memory, 2.6 inch QVGA, ATI 3D graphics chip, GPS, microSD card slot, 3.5mm audio jack and dedicated music keys.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Nokia N95 on video: &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="390"&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/U-PxHUdur9Q"&gt; &lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/U-PxHUdur9Q" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="390"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/nokia-n95-multimedia-computer.html" title="Nokia N95" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" 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well spent, poking fun at water.....&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qxk3VqZZBsw"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qxk3VqZZBsw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-2144234480972658989?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/2144234480972658989/comments/default' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-807838487832772805</id><published>2006-12-24T00:51:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-24T02:40:17.982+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Thailand'/><title type='text'>Inferno in Bangkok</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.php?u=http%3A//digg.com/offbeat_news/Inferno_in_Bangkok" frameborder="0" height="82" scrolling="no" width="55"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well this particular blog might seems to be some what off beat, however for the sake of my infinite appeties for artistic appreciation. I felt compel to experiment a little mixture art with technology in photo jounalism. Not to wory all, I still dedicate my spare time bringing you all my critical thought on technological impact on our dystopian world. You just have to wait in other blog for the future to come. Fortunately couple of nights ago, I was at the right time and place. There was a massive fire that burn down a slum community that left hundreds homeless, usally this kind of disater would get a lot media coverage plus a timely response to their immediate danger. However that never happened, first becuase the blaze was left untreated due the traffic congestion and the sheer incompetence of the Thai traffic police. Second for all those drama unfolding in front of my eyes, it took the news crew two hours to get their fat ass reporting it on the  televison set. Last but not least, all those suffering homeless folks got only these pathetic little column about their lost on this &lt;a href="http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/23Dec2006_news04.php"&gt;Bangkokpost&lt;/a&gt; news , here is a sample of rather dry excerpt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt; The Klong Toey fire destroyed 54 houses, left hundreds of people homeless, and caused five million baht in damage. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; A make-shift relief centre has been set up near the community for the fire victims. &lt;/p&gt;                                                                                                   Police are investigating the cause of the three fires in the city.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So in the spirit of how Web 2.0 can amplify any content to be more dramatic and open ended, I have use a few Web 2.0 tools plus my artistic sense to deliver the same news content in a more dramatic overtone. After all in this technological dystopia, the news agency in Thailand can learn a thing or two from &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CNN&lt;/span&gt;, adding more drama in a timely fashion &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;equals better rating&lt;/span&gt;. It is rather frighten that people choose to be persuade by a dramatic misinformation over a boring substance.So here is my photo jounalism without any help from photoshop and tripod.(those are for kids in photo journalism.)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Now here is the story with some great pictures&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Prelude to a Disater&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirkjaa/330749139/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/159/330749139_8d6782bd3a.jpg" alt="The Prelude to a Disater" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Beginning of the Slum Fire than rendered hundreds homeless. Here is the news &lt;a href="http://nationmultimedia.com/2006/12/22/headlines/headlines_30022257.php"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Firestorm Against Bangkok Skyline&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/147/330749485_f1245cc8b4_o.jpg" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/147/330749485_f1245cc8b4.jpg" alt="The Firestorm Against Bangkok Skyline" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Wind Started to Pick Up the Pace&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/147/330749613_4322241040_o.jpg" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/147/330749613_4322241040.jpg" alt="The Wind Started to Pick Up the Pace" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some 30 fire engines could only prevent the blaze from further spreading and waited three hours for the fire to consume itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Smoke Thickens&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/141/330749788_c5f9a22585_o.jpg" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/141/330749788_c5f9a22585.jpg" alt="The Smoke Thickens" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The blaze quickly spread beyond the slum threaten near by convention center and a power plant. Here is the news &lt;a href="http://nationmultimedia.com/2006/12/22/headlines/headlines_30022257.php"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Spreading of a Disater&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/128/330750628_25e6ac9e19_o.jpg" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/128/330750628_25e6ac9e19.jpg" alt="The Spreading of a Disater" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The blaze also spread to a building of Metropolitan Electricity Office near the community and destroyed some 20 official vehicles there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Eerie Lights Electrify the Scene&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/155/330750932_be6a9e6d3f_o.jpg" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/155/330750932_be6a9e6d3f.jpg" alt="Eerie Lights Electrify the Scene" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over 100 houses on two-rai area were destroyed but the Klong Toey district officials had yet to survey the number of affected people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A Close Up Look&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/126/330751061_d758b1e3f4_o.jpg" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/126/330751061_d758b1e3f4.jpg" alt="A Close Up Look" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fire fighters faced shortage of water, so they had to ask for helps from nearby districts. Strong wind had obstructed the attempts to put the fire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lights Out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/145/330751252_4fcd0eec1c_o.jpg" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/145/330751252_4fcd0eec1c.jpg" alt="Lights Out" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Police have to close traffic at Asoke Intersection and Ratchada-Rama IV road. Community radios suggested commuters to stay away from the roads near the blaze site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;There Were Some Explosion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/144/330751445_ff85b88243_o.jpg" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/144/330751445_ff85b88243.jpg" alt="There Were Some Explosion" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Initially, police said the fire started from a furniture shop inside the community but Wallop said he leant that the blaze began at a temporary shelter of construction workers at mouth of the soi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/inferno-in-bangkok.html" title="Inferno in Bangkok" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=Inferno+in+Bangkok;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/inferno-in-bangkok.html" title="Inferno+in+Bangkok"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=Inferno+in+Bangkok&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/inferno-in-bangkok.html" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/inferno-in-bangkok.html&amp;amp;title=Inferno+in+Bangkok" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-807838487832772805?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/807838487832772805/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=807838487832772805' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/807838487832772805'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/807838487832772805'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/inferno-in-bangkok.html' title='Inferno in Bangkok'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/159/330749139_8d6782bd3a_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-1205681144481462347</id><published>2006-12-23T14:50:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-23T17:20:21.092+08:00</updated><title type='text'>FYI about Bangkok</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Qj0KEfeUfEs/RYzSIcJKYTI/AAAAAAAAAA4/Rj5AQ3P1nR8/s1600-h/default5.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Qj0KEfeUfEs/RYzSIcJKYTI/AAAAAAAAAA4/Rj5AQ3P1nR8/s200/default5.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5011611527791927602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last night I ended up at &lt;a href="http://www.worldsbestbars.com/city/bangkok/spasso-bangkok.htm"&gt;Spasso Bar&lt;/a&gt; first time in like 10 years, cool place indeed I even got a job offer from Cisco System In Singapore. However man that place filled with hooks, the ratio of girls vs guys were unbelievable. 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Thanks my friends on Myspace for all the nice comments, however I guess on the blogger ecosystem most of the time I just got the admiring lurkers. So if you feel compel to send me a shout out please do on the comment section ! Anyway were we ? Oh from the &lt;a href="http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/back-from-my-spiritual-trip-part-i.html"&gt;first few days&lt;/a&gt; of my trip to &lt;a href="http://sunsite.au.ac.th/ThaiInfo/TourismInThailand/north/lampang/"&gt;Lampang&lt;/a&gt;, My next venture took me the neigbor province of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrae_Province"&gt;Phayao&lt;/a&gt;. So I took the advice from the monks in Lampang to pay a visit to the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Anayootipyharam Temple&lt;/span&gt;. From what I gathered from the visit at the monastery in Lampang, the head monk who ran the Abbey, was from this huge monastery residing in the Thailand national park reserve, stretching several hundred acres throughout the forest. It took me a good couple of days to finish the tour literally, however for a photography afficcidio like I am it was worth every single tiring steps. So without further delay let's get this photo blog going.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Trip to Anayootipyharam Temple in Phayao&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirkjaa/328859550/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/129/328859550_41090a0756.jpg" alt="DSCN0398.JPG" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This the front entrance to front part the temple, you have to take quite a few step up the abbey. However the entire monastery expand all over the national park, I really recommend a car for the entire tour or else you will need a few days of walking and you don't want that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirkjaa/328858228/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/138/328858228_2c66063f7e.jpg" alt="DSCN0372.JPG" height="500" width="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirkjaa/328858336/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/127/328858336_4fbeabbbdf.jpg" alt="DSCN0373.JPG" height="500" width="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This happen to be a Hindu Statues, I don't know why would they have them around here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirkjaa/328858407/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/135/328858407_535d0efa43.jpg" alt="DSCN0374.JPG" height="500" width="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a 30+feet Buddha statue I mean this thing is huge&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirkjaa/328858706/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/141/328858706_4c657cfcb9.jpg" alt="DSCN0378.JPG" height="500" width="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Very beautiful craftmenship on the carpentry work&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirkjaa/328858763/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/137/328858763_d7f2e2f838.jpg" alt="DSCN0382.JPG" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The inside view of the biulding, I believe this is for prayer and meditation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirkjaa/328858984/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/126/328858984_dce8e03e69.jpg" alt="DSCN0388.JPG" height="500" width="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirkjaa/328859141/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/76/328859141_e8e89c7489.jpg" alt="DSCN0390.JPG" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirkjaa/328859258/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/130/328859258_c8d3eba5e5.jpg" alt="DSCN0393.JPG" height="500" width="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes the whole thing is made of gold, all solid gold.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirkjaa/328859594/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/129/328859594_31a7d12a1b.jpg" alt="DSCN0400.JPG" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a exact replica from the famous buddha statue in India portraying the death of Lord Budhha&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirkjaa/328859760/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/144/328859760_9aa308cfa7.jpg" alt="DSCN0406.JPG" height="500" width="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An Abbey by the lake&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirkjaa/328859836/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/139/328859836_4fa3a3e781.jpg" alt="DSCN0409.JPG" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inside the Abbey&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirkjaa/328859911/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/138/328859911_9dc7ad64ee.jpg" alt="DSCN0412.JPG" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is sculpture is depicting the first teaching of Buddha to his five disciples&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirkjaa/328859989/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/127/328859989_0f4785fed9.jpg" alt="DSCN0414.JPG" height="500" width="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirkjaa/328860175/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/130/328860175_b00b3d7417.jpg" alt="DSCN0419.JPG" height="500" width="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This statue is a 5 stories tall standing Buddha statues !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I hope you would enjoy this second and stay tune for the conclusion of my next blog ! Here is a link for the gallery in &lt;a href="http://s57.photobucket.com/albums/g231/kirkjaa/Prae/"&gt;Prayao&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://flickrbadge.theducky.com/set/link/58867302@N00/72157594271521522_0_10"&gt;&lt;img src="http://flickrbadge.theducky.com/set/photo/58867302@N00/72157594271521522_0_10_s.jpg" alt="Scriptless Flickr Badge" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://flickrbadge.theducky.com/set/link/58867302@N00/72157594271521522_0_20"&gt;&lt;img src="http://flickrbadge.theducky.com/set/photo/58867302@N00/72157594271521522_0_20_s.jpg" alt="Scriptless Flickr Badge" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://flickrbadge.theducky.com/set/link/58867302@N00/72157594271521522_0_30"&gt;&lt;img src="http://flickrbadge.theducky.com/set/photo/58867302@N00/72157594271521522_0_30_s.jpg" alt="Scriptless Flickr Badge" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://flickrbadge.theducky.com/set/link/58867302@N00/72157594271521522_0_40"&gt;&lt;img src="http://flickrbadge.theducky.com/set/photo/58867302@N00/72157594271521522_0_40_s.jpg" alt="Scriptless Flickr Badge" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://flickrbadge.theducky.com/set/link/58867302@N00/72157594271521522_0_50"&gt;&lt;img src="http://flickrbadge.theducky.com/set/photo/58867302@N00/72157594271521522_0_50_s.jpg" alt="Scriptless Flickr Badge" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://flickrbadge.theducky.com/set/link/58867302@N00/72157594271521522_0_60"&gt;&lt;img src="http://flickrbadge.theducky.com/set/photo/58867302@N00/72157594271521522_0_60_s.jpg" alt="Scriptless Flickr Badge" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://flickrbadge.theducky.com/set/link/58867302@N00/72157594271521522_0_70"&gt;&lt;img src="http://flickrbadge.theducky.com/set/photo/58867302@N00/72157594271521522_0_70_s.jpg" alt="Scriptless Flickr Badge" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://flickrbadge.theducky.com/set/link/58867302@N00/72157594271521522_0_80"&gt;&lt;img src="http://flickrbadge.theducky.com/set/photo/58867302@N00/72157594271521522_0_80_s.jpg" alt="Scriptless Flickr Badge" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://flickrbadge.theducky.com/set/link/58867302@N00/72157594271521522_0_90"&gt;&lt;img src="http://flickrbadge.theducky.com/set/photo/58867302@N00/72157594271521522_0_90_s.jpg" alt="Scriptless Flickr Badge" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://flickrbadge.theducky.com/set/link/58867302@N00/72157594271521522_0_100"&gt;&lt;img src="http://flickrbadge.theducky.com/set/photo/58867302@N00/72157594271521522_0_100_s.jpg" alt="Scriptless Flickr Badge" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/back-from-my-spiritual-trip-part-ii.html" title="Back from My Spiritual Trip Part II" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 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float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Qj0KEfeUfEs/RYqZ-MJKYSI/AAAAAAAAAAs/J45QG-Nl2aI/s200/camera.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5010986829093691682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.php?u=http%3A//digg.com/world_news/Beautiful_pictures_from_the_Northern_part_of_Thailand" frameborder="0" height="82" scrolling="no" width="55"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Well&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;if you have been keeping track of my blog, last week I notified to all my readers, that I will leave this technological urban behind for a peace of mind. All I can tell you life without cell phone, Internet, and any digital media for a week was liberating. Getting in touch with your human instinct is the best thing could ever happen to a man, especially when so many elements of society are trying to discourage you otherwise. For all the whirlwind in my life and career this past year. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Kirk Sato&lt;/span&gt; can definitely use a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;getaway&lt;/span&gt;. So here I have a little photo blog for you all to enjoy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Trip to Monastery in &lt;a href="http://thailandforvisitors.com/north/lampang/index.html"&gt;Lampang&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirkjaa/328840765/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/143/328840765_9b1207f8c7.jpg" alt="DSCN0365.JPG" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm hiding a way from the world&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirkjaa/328858138/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/125/328858138_96ebd54b1b.jpg" alt="IMGP2029.JPG" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lounging in the private residence, check out the view of the lake and the mountain range.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirkjaa/328870245/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/138/328870245_638affec08.jpg" alt="DSCN2141.JPG" height="500" width="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At my usual lunch spot for the week&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirkjaa/328840542/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/140/328840542_ff9e43aec9.jpg" alt="DSCN0363.JPG" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A nice view from the top of the hill&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirkjaa/328840675/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/129/328840675_d5f5a99ad7.jpg" alt="DSCN0364.JPG" height="500" width="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the guest area for us to relax before heading to the temple&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirkjaa/328841440/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/144/328841440_2fb9435c61.jpg" alt="DSCN0330.JPG" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Buddha statute outside&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirkjaa/328841586/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/134/328841586_11c96916ca.jpg" alt="DSCN0332.JPG" height="500" width="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The outside of the temple&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirkjaa/328841652/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/136/328841652_83c9b47b0a.jpg" alt="DSCN0333.JPG" height="500" width="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of the monastery is still under construction&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirkjaa/328842017/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/144/328842017_8b55f87733.jpg" alt="DSCN0351.JPG" height="500" width="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The monks getting ready for their prayers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirkjaa/328842106/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/131/328842106_e2bbaf7f34.jpg" alt="DSCN0354.JPG" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirkjaa/328842173/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/138/328842173_79803cb067.jpg" alt="DSCN0357.JPG" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirkjaa/328842454/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/125/328842454_49e0b02b9d.jpg" alt="DSCN0358.JPG" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirkjaa/328842567/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/139/328842567_a734c269cd.jpg" alt="DSCN0359.JPG" height="500" width="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirkjaa/328842667/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/123/328842667_88159fffff.jpg" alt="DSCN0001.JPG" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time to have lunch after the service what a view indeed....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirkjaa/328842735/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/132/328842735_2c2029c126.jpg" alt="DSCN0360.JPG" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the complete gallery of the temple in Lampang &lt;a href="http://s57.photobucket.com/albums/g231/kirkjaa/Lumpang/"&gt;here is the link&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Stay tune for Part II Folks&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br 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spare today, trust me you won't regret this. Start pissing in your pant PlayStation 3....&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nffSO34oc1o"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nffSO34oc1o" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/halo-3-documentary.html" title="Halo 3 The Documentary" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=Halo+3+The+Documentary;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/halo-3-documentary.html" title="Halo+3+The+Documentary"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=Halo+3+The+Documentary&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/halo-3-documentary.html"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/halo-3-documentary.html&amp;title=Halo+3+The+Documentary"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-2689254084688679607?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/2689254084688679607/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=2689254084688679607' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/2689254084688679607'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/2689254084688679607'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/halo-3-documentary.html' title='Halo 3 The Documentary'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-2563549578710534394</id><published>2006-12-15T01:00:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-15T01:15:41.266+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Thailand'/><title type='text'>Off to the Desert of the Real</title><content type='html'>Well folks a much as I like to share my knowledge and sarcastic view of the world in general. Kirk Sato has to venture off to the desert of the "Real" next week as part of my yearly ritual soul searching without the distraction of technology. So I will be in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Mai"&gt;Northern&lt;/a&gt; part of Thailand for about a week and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;off the grid&lt;/span&gt;. Don't expect me to wandering around in the sea of the net or blogging for about during this time period. For once I can leave all the headache of IT and the yearly grind without contemplating any expectation.  However one thing I will promise you all for sure, is lots of pictures to share on my blog right after my pilgrimage. 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I thought that the town that I've grown to call home with love, despite the tolerance and the understanding that all the common Dallas citizens have embrace to our great diversity. Apparently Dallas cops have not digest it in to their nervous system by constant practice of racial profiling. Tonight as I got out off work from my place, I went down to &lt;a href="http://www.spikedine.com/"&gt;Spike&lt;/a&gt;, my local bar for a drink just to ease the pain of the daily grind and to contemplate about the stress of tomorrow business. Spike is hosting the Neo-soul Hip Hop night, which has been conducted in that very same fashion every Monday Night for almost five months. I have to say that the patrons that come on Monday night are mostly comprise of  mostly African American which it might be a little bit different from most clientele that come to Mockingbird Station on any other night.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    As I sat outside on the patio slowly drinking away my Jameson on the rock enjoying the conversation with my friend, I notice a police cruiser swing by slowly on their patrol. The thought of having cops running around Mockingbird station didn't bother me much at first because I was happy that finally my tax money is actually working on my favor for once. However  five minutes later the same police car swing by again at Spike and stop when one of the &lt;a href="http://beta.blogger.com/www.smu.edu/"&gt;SMU&lt;/a&gt; blondie goes over their and talk to him for a minute before she took off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   So here I was very curious of how this drunken ass &lt;a href="http://beta.blogger.com/www.smu.edu/"&gt;SMU &lt;/a&gt;girl from Margarita Ranch manage to approach his car half drunk and yet he still let her go away. &lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;     As my scotch came to half way full 15 minutes later the same cop car still manage to do his retarded patrol by and this time I gave him a direct disgusted look to his way, what is this ? you've mistaken uptown for Fairpark ? or should you come to me and ask for a direction. As the third drive by passed, my friend who was accompany just said it out loud "that is one racist cop". And you know I couldn't argue with him on any other night when the SMU crowd would come out and get their shit face on I never seen a single patrol police car doing their thing at night and especially on Wednesday night when the plaza itself get really rowdy, there is not a single cop that you could spot half a a mile away. As I manage to down my only one glass of scotch  for the night the very same police car still managed to pass by the plaza for two more times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  I think the moral of the story is damn he was driving around in circle 5 times for 40 minutes, that's where your tax money at work, looking after people in uptown while they 're sleeping because different folks happen to wanting a goodtime.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/case-of-racist-dallas-cop.html" title="A Case of a Racist Dallas Cop" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=A+Case+of+a+Racist+Dallas+Cop;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/case-of-racist-dallas-cop.html" title="A+Case+of+a+Racist+Dallas+Cop"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=A+Case+of+a+Racist+Dallas+Cop&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/case-of-racist-dallas-cop.html"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/case-of-racist-dallas-cop.html&amp;title=A+Case+of+a+Racist+Dallas+Cop"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-6674922298001950201?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/6674922298001950201/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=6674922298001950201' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/6674922298001950201'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/6674922298001950201'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/case-of-racist-dallas-cop.html' title='A Case of a Racist Dallas Cop'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-4293998958404344847</id><published>2006-12-14T12:16:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-14T12:53:03.335+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Technology'/><title type='text'>DARPA's zombie-sharks entered non-military applications</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Qj0KEfeUfEs/RYDWmctiEbI/AAAAAAAAAAY/RoBLR_7_tdo/s1600-h/sharks_lasers.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Qj0KEfeUfEs/RYDWmctiEbI/AAAAAAAAAAY/RoBLR_7_tdo/s200/sharks_lasers.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5008238741666533810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well this particular headline would make Dr Evil really proud, recently &lt;a href="http://www.bu.edu/alumni/buforward/archives/Dec_2006/articles/spies.html"&gt;folks at University of Boston&lt;/a&gt; devised a way to take your common household shark and turn it into a &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/darpa-demos-remote-controllable-robosharks/"&gt;remote-controllable spy&lt;/a&gt; capable of gathering critical military intelligence such as targeted military objects beneath the ocean. And sure enough, Boston University's Jelle Atema and his team learned how to crudely guide these kings of the sea using either &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;electrical stimulation&lt;/span&gt; to mimic their neural signals or implanting little gadgets attached to their noses that release delicious-smelling squid juice on cue. With this delicious break through (for the shark  most part) , the marine biologists still have a long way to go before they fully understand how sharks use odor stimuli to navigate, and their funding ran out before any more progress could be made at the University. Despite the lack of support from Uncle Sam, however, Atema is eager to raise fresh funding in order to leverage his achievements into useful &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;civilian applications&lt;/span&gt;; remote-control sharks could potentially be used to track fish populations, changes in ocean temperature, or chemical spills.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just considered the potential for various abuses in this application, I mean trusting your intelligence gathering to a gadget that could possibly &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;having you for dinner&lt;/span&gt;? Obviously folks at Boston University have not yet seen &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0149261/"&gt;Deep Blue Sea,&lt;/a&gt;the freaking sharks ate Samuel L Jackson ! Plus whatever happened to laser on the shark's head ? I guess that would be the main reason DARPA pulled the plug on the project, if you going to turn this top predator of the sea into a drone give them some laser !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also how are you going to destroy them if your enemy got a hold of your drone sharks? I guess calling animal control to harpoon your spy is out of the question. If you want my opinion they should starting thinking of  putting a tomahawk missile as a deterrent method.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/darpas-zombie-sharks-entered-non.html" title="DARPA's zombie-sharks entered non-military applications" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=DARPA's+zombie-sharks+entered+non-military+applications;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/darpas-zombie-sharks-entered-non.html" title="DARPA's+zombie-sharks+entered+non-military+applications"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=DARPA's+zombie-sharks+entered+non-military+applications&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/darpas-zombie-sharks-entered-non.html"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/darpas-zombie-sharks-entered-non.html&amp;title=DARPA's+zombie-sharks+entered+non-military+applications"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-4293998958404344847?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/4293998958404344847/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=4293998958404344847' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/4293998958404344847'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/4293998958404344847'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/darpas-zombie-sharks-entered-non.html' title='DARPA&apos;s zombie-sharks entered non-military applications'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Qj0KEfeUfEs/RYDWmctiEbI/AAAAAAAAAAY/RoBLR_7_tdo/s72-c/sharks_lasers.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-1601001000319376393</id><published>2006-12-13T11:12:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T11:29:01.345+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Technology'/><title type='text'>Super Glue Against AIDS</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Qj0KEfeUfEs/RX9yF8tiEaI/AAAAAAAAAAM/O-ri4FqYARc/s1600-h/imageResize2.php.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Qj0KEfeUfEs/RX9yF8tiEaI/AAAAAAAAAAM/O-ri4FqYARc/s200/imageResize2.php.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5007846757181297058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This one sure is a kicker, &lt;a href="http://www.unews.utah.edu/p/?r=111706-2"&gt;University of Utah&lt;/a&gt; scientists designed a "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;molecular condom&lt;/span&gt;" women could use daily to prevent AIDS by vaginally inserting a liquid that would turn into a gel-like coating.  And when exposed to semen, return to liquid form and release an antiviral drug to kill of the virus. &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"We have developed a new vaginal gel that we call a molecular condom because it is composed of molecules that are liquid at room temperature and, when applied in the vagina, will spread and turn into a gel and effectively coat the tissue," says Patrick Kiser, an assistant professor of bioengineering. "It's a smart molecular condom because we designed this gel to release anti-HIV drugs when the gel comes into contact with semen during intercourse."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not quite sure how effective this &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;super glue technique&lt;/span&gt; is going to work. Especially when more than half of women out there already miss their contraceptive pill regimen periodically. So if they going to have to apply this baby everyday to protect themsleves against AIDS, this can be a definte problem. So what if they forget their daily scheduled even once or twice? Are they going to contract an incurable disease then? I still believe that the good old rubber is the best method of protection. I just can't wait until they come out with "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;flavored&lt;/span&gt;" edible version, can somebody say this taste like jello shot !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/super-glue-against-aid.html" title="Super Glue Against AIDS" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=Super+Glue+Against+AIDS;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/super-glue-against-aid.html" title="Super+Glue+Against+AIDS"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=Super+Glue+Against+AIDS&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/super-glue-against-aid.html" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/super-glue-against-aid.html&amp;amp;title=Super+Glue+Against+AIDS" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-1601001000319376393?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/1601001000319376393/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=1601001000319376393' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/1601001000319376393'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/1601001000319376393'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/super-glue-against-aid.html' title='Super Glue Against AIDS'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Qj0KEfeUfEs/RX9yF8tiEaI/AAAAAAAAAAM/O-ri4FqYARc/s72-c/imageResize2.php.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-7341510867918492614</id><published>2006-12-13T00:31:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T00:57:58.017+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life'/><title type='text'>Life 300 Dollars at a Time</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tn3-2.deviantart.com/fs9/300W/i/2006/036/8/7/__john_doe_by_abortion.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://tn3-2.deviantart.com/fs9/300W/i/2006/036/8/7/__john_doe_by_abortion.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.php?u=http%3A//digg.com/political_opinion/Life_300_Dollars_at_a_Time" frameborder="0" height="82" scrolling="no" width="55"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Another night passed by in the ever changing &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Dallas&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;. Obviously I guess the commodity that life in &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Dallas&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; worth.  a mere 300 bucks. So for you guys trying to pimp yourself out with your Prada and Gucci accessories know this, it cost more than a life in &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Dallas&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; Usually nothing ever bother me as much, no matter how much I hated my current job despite how well the money might be rolling. Hell with my current pilot project for the future job I just don't ever have time to think about money. However no matter how focus I am on this borrowed time, I believed this is a chance I got left to do something meaningful with my life. One topic lingered on my mind like a splinter, when I was at the conference at the Gaylord Texan Hotel (yeah it sounds gay alright). Me and my very good friend had a conversation about abortion, yep you heard what I say, when were enjoying the American professional life drinking our cafe latte enema, enjoying the scenery that would make girls forget about being anything but conservative. She asked me about how is my idea of abortion casually at first,  as I was a very carefree sarcastic male, I gave her the idea of the power of exponential.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;She asked with a little curiosity of what the heck are you talking about?. I couldn't resist testing the tolerance of the opposite sex by explaining to her that all growth regardless of evolutionary ladder it comes down that bacteria with the power of growth.  They are not able to consume the whole planet mere the fact that it has exhausted its own supply of oxygen because the lack of conscience to its own environment. People on the planet being born everyday at the rate of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;4 per second&lt;/span&gt;. So why the power of exponential does not dictate that the whole planet will be enviably doomed with the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;march of humanity&lt;/span&gt;. Well that is why it's not about being pro life or pro choice will make a difference. It is how many human beings out there live the life that worth taking resources of the environment or taking up space of more worthy person that might come along to replace you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;  I thought that kind of remark would put any women into a disgusted stage that would just end a nonsense moral struggle of ages. However she argue that the right of a child lies on his or her flesh maker,  the mother regardless of social order might dictate of how its going to be. Well I agreed with her that no matter how the male dominated lawmakers out there trying to say about abortion and birth control is  immoral for women to even contemplate. The news that you see everyday might contradict the otherwise, the news that a mother chop her baby up to death because the fact she thinks that she would be an unfitted parents. Or how about she might strangled the whole school of kids just because she had a bad day. The truth is this grotesques fact will never vanish away even though we abolish abortion. So I guess the right to life given to women might not be the best idea either. I shall end this conversation with once upon a time I know that a life can be flushed by 300 dollars in Dallas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Obviously that commodity of life in &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Dallas really&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; worth, so for you guys trying to pimp yourself out with Prada and Gucci next time  knowing this, it cost more than a life in &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Dallas&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/life-300-dollars-at-time.html" title="Life 300 Dollars at a Time" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=Life+300+Dollars+at+a+Time;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/life-300-dollars-at-time.html" title="Life+300+Dollars+at+a+Time"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=Life+300+Dollars+at+a+Time&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/life-300-dollars-at-time.html"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/life-300-dollars-at-time.html&amp;title=Life+300+Dollars+at+a+Time"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-7341510867918492614?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/7341510867918492614/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=7341510867918492614' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/7341510867918492614'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/7341510867918492614'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/life-300-dollars-at-time.html' title='Life 300 Dollars at a Time'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-2742329068156923697</id><published>2006-12-12T15:36:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-12T15:54:38.572+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Advertisement'/><title type='text'>The Android Walker</title><content type='html'>Personally by far this has to be one of the best advertisement of the year 2006, "The Android Walker". So for the nostalgia sake, I have put the video plus the making of this great Johny Walker ad campaign. In a sense watching this video toward the end of the year give a me sense there is still a potential for humanity just yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for the site campaign visit &lt;a href="http://www.theandroid.com/"&gt;www.theandroid.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Here is the commercial&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AYC8fTv2jp4"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AYC8fTv2jp4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The making of 'Human' TV ad&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_VPfq3jOhXM"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_VPfq3jOhXM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/android-walker.html" title="PUGACHEV SU-35 Combat Fighter Sale" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=PUGACHEV+SU-35+Combat+Fighter+Sale;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/android-walker.html" title="PUGACHEV+SU-35+Combat+Fighter+Sale"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=PUGACHEV+SU-35+Combat+Fighter+Sale&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/android-walker.html"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/android-walker.html&amp;title=PUGACHEV+SU-35+Combat+Fighter+Sale"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-2742329068156923697?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/2742329068156923697/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=2742329068156923697' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/2742329068156923697'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/2742329068156923697'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/android-walker.html' title='The Android Walker'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-5616731017587778589</id><published>2006-12-12T12:27:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-12T12:36:46.908+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Technology'/><title type='text'>PUGACHEV SU-35 Combat Fighter Sale</title><content type='html'>If you have the money and a country to oppress, call your local Pugachev dealer. I wondered if &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_war"&gt;Yuri Orlov&lt;/a&gt; got this little sucker in his stock pile&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/i_4LZi86PcA"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/i_4LZi86PcA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/pugachev-su-35-combat-fighter-sale.html" title="PUGACHEV SU-35 Combat Fighter Sale" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=PUGACHEV+SU-35+Combat+Fighter+Sale;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/pugachev-su-35-combat-fighter-sale.html" title="PUGACHEV+SU-35+Combat+Fighter+Sale"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=PUGACHEV+SU-35+Combat+Fighter+Sale&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/pugachev-su-35-combat-fighter-sale.html"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/pugachev-su-35-combat-fighter-sale.html&amp;title=PUGACHEV+SU-35+Combat+Fighter+Sale"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-5616731017587778589?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/5616731017587778589/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=5616731017587778589' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/5616731017587778589'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/5616731017587778589'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/pugachev-su-35-combat-fighter-sale.html' title='PUGACHEV SU-35 Combat Fighter Sale'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-8043029672005828145</id><published>2006-12-10T13:03:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-10T20:33:55.351+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Weekly Digg'/><title type='text'>Weekly Digg 12-10-06</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bobmcleod.com/batman.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.bobmcleod.com/batman.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello there folks how's hanging so far on yet another escalating collateral damages in Iraq. I hope the cold temperature would actually ease the tension of this imminent civil war, but heck who cares since it's almost Christmas time in the US, which more than likely people going to worry about their bargain hunt down the local mall.  So rejoice and let's digg shall we ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Weekly Digg&lt;/span&gt; "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Super Gadget Edition&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gadgets of Super Heroes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;So have you ever wondered of how many gadgets the cape crusader could possibly have in his devilishly flaming utility belt? So to answer the Joker's question of "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Where he got those wonderful toys?&lt;/span&gt;". Here is the complete catalog of Batman infamous smart arsenals check it out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2006/12/the_complete_gu.html" target="_blank"&gt;The Complete Guide to Batman's Gadgets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Redneck Gadgetry "DIY indoor pool"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.betterthanyourboyfriend.com/the-infamous-ghetto-indoor-pool.htm" rel="nofollow"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also this should be a good kicker if you got nothing to do around the crib this Sunday. Apparently this gent managed to construct a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;3000 gallon pool&lt;/span&gt; inside his own living room. So if you don't have a real bling indoor pool like Missy, here is a DYI instruction to your gh&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.betterthanyourboyfriend.com/the-infamous-ghetto-indoor-pool.htm" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.betterthanyourboyfriend.com/the-infamous-ghetto-indoor-pool.htm" rel="nofollow"&gt;The Infamous Ghetto Indoor Pool&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Best invention round up of 2006&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;As the year coming to an end, I think it would be only appropriate to show yall what an amazing inventive time it has been. You might be surprise of this year invention which is not even some tagible gadget at all, yet most of us see it almost everyday in our venture on the Internet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.time.com/time/2006/techguide/bestinventions/inventions/youtube.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;TIME Best Inventions 2006&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4 class="desc"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sex Byte of the week &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="desc"&gt;The best tool to enhance your oral ability, a 5 cents banana , watching the  facial expression of your boyfriend priceless....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Bu71GCc8Fvs"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Bu71GCc8Fvs" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Here is couple of  bonus video for my audience &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; from an unreleased Fight Club trailer. You could never guess these two singing show tune buddies would start such an underground cultural phenomenon from this little musical piece. &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fight Club "The Penis Song"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.vsocial.com/ups/9dcad702c30919a89fd4d82411f1fd7f" height="400" width="410"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Public Announcement From Tyler&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/75stjRXcWZA"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/75stjRXcWZA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/weekly-digg-12-10-06.html" title="Weekly Digg 12-10-06" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=Weekly+Digg+12-10-06;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/weekly-digg-12-10-06.html" title="Weekly+Digg+12-10-06"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=Weekly+Digg+12-10-06&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/weekly-digg-12-10-06.html"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/weekly-digg-12-10-06.html&amp;title=Weekly+Digg+12-10-06"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-8043029672005828145?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/8043029672005828145/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=8043029672005828145' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/8043029672005828145'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/8043029672005828145'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/weekly-digg-12-10-06.html' title='Weekly Digg 12-10-06'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-7599600508587403340</id><published>2006-12-09T21:43:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-10T19:26:06.657+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Society'/><title type='text'>No FPS love in Deutschland</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.armchairempire.com/images/Reviews/XBox/counter-strike/counter-strike-4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.armchairempire.com/images/Reviews/XBox/counter-strike/counter-strike-4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.php?u=http%3A//digg.com/political_opinion/No_FPS_love_in_Deutschland" frameborder="0" height="82" scrolling="no" width="55"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a&gt;  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today a &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16070177/"&gt;news&lt;/a&gt; came into my surprise during my routine venture on the Net. And I thought this kind of censorship could only be in Singapore or something. However I guess it only take two clueless totalitarian states, one respectively from a fascist origin, to actually  even contemplating such a legal sanction against violence video games.  What I'm referring about is a tragedy happen late last month, an 18-year-old nut case went on a shooting postal rampage at his former junior high school in western Germany. Before killing himself, he managed to inflict a lead salads upon another 11 classmates. According to reports on the German news site &lt;em&gt;Tagesschau&lt;/em&gt;, the man spent a fair bit of time playing "&lt;a href="http://beta.blogger.com/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Strike"&gt;Counter-Strike,&lt;/a&gt;" which some say may have led to his inspiration of this mass killings. As a result, two state governments in Bavaria and Lower Saxony have drafted legislation which, according to the &lt;em&gt;Financial Times&lt;/em&gt;, would &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;"subject developers, distributors and players of video games whose goal is to inflict 'cruel violence on humans or human-looking characters' to a fine and a maximum of one year in jail."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;           Well fellow October fest citizens all I can say to you right now that you might have to trade up your favorite FPS for beer or  Space Invader or something. So if you play enough Pac-man, would one day you might go to the office and start cannibalizing your co-worker? Or better yet do the mushrooms in Super Mario brothers are the attempt of solicitations to minor for consuming the "magic mushroom". I guess this subliminal messages are perfectly alright with the Deutschland lawmakers. Nevertheless I'm inspire to offer a more suitable alternative to banning all the violence game, which if you postulate the thought according the German mindset. Here is a best solution for the game maker in Germany, make all your opponents in the game resemble the likeness of Hitler or the Nazis. I'm confident that the German government would give a green light to this. Hey if gaming is going to instigate someone into a murderous rampage, the carnage should mind as well falls in to the Nazis right ? After all they were the one who enjoying the killing the minorities in real life back in the days. So why  can't we  have them being slaughter digitally as a sub-level human category to satisfy our entertainment appetites. Which in hope would conform to the upcoming "German laws". So before I end this blog transmission take a good look at this Daily show clip and formulate your own conclusion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xCT7-ZMpxKE"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xCT7-ZMpxKE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/no-fps-love-in-deutschland.html" title="No FPS love in Deutschland" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=No+FPS+love+in+Deutschland;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/no-fps-love-in-deutschland.html" title="No+FPS+love+in+Deutschland"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=No+FPS+love+in+Deutschland&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/no-fps-love-in-deutschland.html" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/no-fps-love-in-deutschland.html&amp;amp;title=No+FPS+love+in+Deutschland" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-7599600508587403340?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/7599600508587403340/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=7599600508587403340' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/7599600508587403340'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/7599600508587403340'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/no-fps-love-in-deutschland.html' title='No FPS love in Deutschland'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-7056058202367781996</id><published>2006-12-09T02:22:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-09T03:05:00.373+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Technology'/><title type='text'>C note the Man Wiretaps</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://slantmouth.com/articles/escapeFromNewOrleans/images/wireTap.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://slantmouth.com/articles/escapeFromNewOrleans/images/wireTap.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So you think the "Man" might be breathing down your neck from the other phone line while you're trying to get your takeout order done at your home? Well, there is no need to skulk down to the conner pay phone or starting to speak in tongue in order to conduct your business, despites the legality of your call in nature. All you need is a download of a &lt;a href="http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=18985"&gt;C note tone&lt;/a&gt;. University of Pennsylvania computer science professor &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;ct=res&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crypto.com%2Fpapers%2Fwiretapping%2F&amp;amp;ei=CLN5RbzQDI3gsAKFiIzhBw&amp;usg=__sJIR0bzOFPdPT-YtwbfiKPvpmfo=&amp;amp;sig2=y9rOnZH933VkAppeWtneRw"&gt;Matt Blaze&lt;/a&gt; dissected the wiretap equipment commonly used by law enforcement and found a &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;ct=res&amp;amp;cd=2&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crypto.com%2Fpapers%2Fwiretap.pdf&amp;amp;ei=CLN5RbzQDI3gsAKFiIzhBw&amp;usg=__FcbuiiQWgQyBAf4uYibRSbt45w8=&amp;amp;sig2=lbwvZcnQbR5jRAYG-_qYMQ"&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt;. Apparently The G-men don't like to record a "dead air", so they turn off their equipment system by using the special &lt;a href="http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=18985"&gt;C-pitched tone&lt;/a&gt; when the intended target phone is hung up. So all you need is a Mp3 player and just download and play back the c tone to your phone at an ambient noise level during the call continuously . And Wolla ! Their eavesdropping gears are power down at your command. Though this work with many phone bug out there, however it's not a 100% guaranteed. Please don't bitch if your shadow government agents of your respective country come knocking at your door.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;So I took a liberty of throwing  a phone spoofing technique  into the mix, this will totally get the man dizzy at their own game.   While you're in the middle of your call, then without hanging up, Play a &lt;a href="http://www.jetcityorange.com/C_tone_for_wiretaps.mp3"&gt;C tone&lt;/a&gt; and dial another number. Analog wiretap systems will interpret this a new call. You may be chatting with your friend, but now the spooks think you're calling for a pizza. Also for the Advance Anti-Wiretaps technique use the &lt;a href="http://www.jetcityorange.com/C_tone_for_wiretaps.mp3"&gt;C tone&lt;/a&gt; with an Internet phone card, all you need is a bit of imagination and have fun !&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For a complete instruction go read this cool &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;ct=res&amp;amp;cd=2&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crypto.com%2Fpapers%2Fwiretap.pdf&amp;amp;ei=CLN5RbzQDI3gsAKFiIzhBw&amp;usg=__FcbuiiQWgQyBAf4uYibRSbt45w8=&amp;amp;sig2=lbwvZcnQbR5jRAYG-_qYMQ"&gt;paper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/c-note-man-wiretaps.html" title="C note the Man Wiretaps " target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=C+note+the+Man+Wiretaps+;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/c-note-man-wiretaps.html" title="C+note+the+Man+Wiretaps+"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=C+note+the+Man+Wiretaps+&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/c-note-man-wiretaps.html" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/c-note-man-wiretaps.html&amp;amp;title=C+note+the+Man+Wiretaps+" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-7056058202367781996?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/7056058202367781996/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=7056058202367781996' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/7056058202367781996'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/7056058202367781996'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/c-note-man-wiretaps.html' title='C note the Man Wiretaps'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-7171071893193075005</id><published>2006-12-07T15:00:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-07T17:57:35.146+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Religion'/><title type='text'>God According to the Bible</title><content type='html'>Today I ran across this little nifty flash presentation from a site call "&lt;a href="http://atheistdelusion.cf.huffingtonpost.com/"&gt;The &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Atheist&lt;/span&gt; Delusion&lt;/a&gt; " which basically spread the words of good old evangelism, "God created the universe and everything and science got it all wrong". I guess there is no point arguing to the creator of this Flash presentation &lt;a href="http://myspace.com/eddiecurrent"&gt;Edward Current&lt;/a&gt;. Who insisted that the laws of physics such as &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_decay"&gt;radioactive decays&lt;/a&gt; and the speed of light is merely a delusion by a squandering scientist who refuse to believe in the "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;facts from the Bible&lt;/span&gt;". Anyhow just take a deep breath and let the images sink in  for the sake of his argument.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://atheistdelusion.cf.huffingtonpost.com/atheistdelusion.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://atheistdelusion.cf.huffingtonpost.com/atheistdelusion.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="400" width="500"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   Even though I'm an agnostics myself, I will tolerate his claim and play the devil's advocate that all of those characteristics of God might be true. So &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;according&lt;/span&gt; to the deductive reasoning base on the texts of the old testament in the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;good book&lt;/span&gt;. God should also posses this character base on the books of Old testament,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://richarddawkins.net/home"&gt;Richard &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Dawkins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 's view of God base from the books of Old Testament&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-wcG3yoSAdk"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-wcG3yoSAdk" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   Alright take a good minute to digest these two videos folks, &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;despite&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; the &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;question&lt;/span&gt; of whether God is real or not to our belief, one thing remains a constant truth. The omnipotent being in the Bible could bring the worse of known evil seen to all &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;mortals as he seems fit&lt;/span&gt;. Though many of you might see it different otherwise, but I can assure you that if you read enough Bible in your life time (I went to Catholic Prep schools for 12 years)- these not so pleasant traits are clearly visible in the &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;writings&lt;/span&gt;.  So according to my agnostics point of view, is that the kind of God you want your universe to be run by? A food for your thought there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/god-according-to-bible.html" title="God According to the Bible" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=God+According+to+the+Bible;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/god-according-to-bible.html" title="God+According+to+the+Bible"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=God+According+to+the+Bible&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/god-according-to-bible.html" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/god-according-to-bible.html&amp;amp;title=God+According+to+the+Bible" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-7171071893193075005?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/7171071893193075005/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=7171071893193075005' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/7171071893193075005'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/7171071893193075005'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/god-according-to-bible.html' title='God According to the Bible'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-3330074738265988155</id><published>2006-12-06T01:25:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-06T01:36:24.162+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Society'/><title type='text'>Astronauts and the troops in Iraq</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.hellocompany.org/images/us-soldier-iraq-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.hellocompany.org/images/us-soldier-iraq-2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;  Tonight as I was on the computer listening to CNN on the background, apparently as a prelude to the holiday season it must have been a very slow news week, nothing of real interest but repeated reruns headlines about Iraq are all going down to hell. One of the news that has been floating around the tube lately is probably about the recent massacre in &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Iraq&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, which involved several troops attempt to cover up on the civilian killings and rapes . Many Iraqi civilians were outrage by the fact that the American solders was killing pretty much a few family of women and children. Also they managed to plant a few &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;AK-47&lt;/span&gt; on the men killed to make them appear to be an opposing insurgents. Anyway I shall spare you all the details, if you really want to incite a debate feel free to check the news online or something and make sure carry a loud argument in a bar for extra effect of flying beer bottles later on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;        However as the news was unfolding I was perplexed my the fact that many high ranking military personnel and the news reporters were pretend to be dismay by the fact the American troops would committed such a horrific act for &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;no apparently reason&lt;/span&gt;. Well you dumb ass look at the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;condition those troops been in for the past three plus years&lt;/span&gt; you'll understand why would they pick up arms and start being very trigger happy. So I went on a small mission and done some research to make sense of all this cloud of doubts, I ran into an old article of Wired Magazines talking about the 2004 NASAs publication of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://bioastroroadmap.nasa.gov/index.jsp" target="_blank"&gt;Bioastronautics Critical Path Road Map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;, in English is basically about identifying behavioral problem astronaut will have on a long trip mission and believe it or not is frighteningly similar to the situation in Iraqi right now. Here a few big ones that can lead to insanity.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Sleep Deprivation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Astronauts:&lt;/span&gt; A Spaceships noise and bright light can play havoc with sleep, and the absence of regular interval daylight and darkness.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Troops:&lt;/span&gt; Noises and lights of on oncoming RPGs and bullets plus an interval encounter of IED can definitely keep troops up for long extended period &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Results:&lt;/span&gt; Acute or chronic degradation of sleep quality can bring on dangerous behavior. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Cat Fights&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Astronauts:&lt;/span&gt; Its not uncommon for crew members to hate each others guts. The lack of social novelty can magnify tensions among the crews&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Troops:&lt;/span&gt; When the troops have been rob of social novelty and a civil society these can exponentially magnify to aggressive behaviors &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Results:&lt;/span&gt; Any insignificant quirks like the way a person chews or flying RPGs can cause an impulse response. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Bad News&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Astronauts:&lt;/span&gt; A grief-stricken crew member could imperil everyone on board. Ex, Cosmonaut in &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Russia&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; can not receive the death of family news from the ground control until the return.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Troops:&lt;/span&gt; Bad news of lost comrades is norm as the stock tickers on DOW JONES index&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Results:&lt;/span&gt; serious strain to the cohesion unit which can compromise the mission.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Psychotic Breaks&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Astronauts:&lt;/span&gt; Loneliness, injury, and failure to complete a mission which can cause depression&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Troops: &lt;/span&gt;Loneliness from family and constant enduring injury can definitely invite a homicidal behavior.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Results:&lt;/span&gt; For astronaut, they have a protocol to restrain and sedate the individual for the rest of the mission, as for the troops I wish they can get some sedatives during their mission. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sex:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Astronauts:&lt;/span&gt; None&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Troops:&lt;/span&gt; None&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Results:&lt;/span&gt; you all know the effect of prolong amorous frustration.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/astronauts-and-troops-in-iraq.html" title="Astronauts and the troops in Iraq" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=Astronauts+and+the+troops+in+Iraq;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/astronauts-and-troops-in-iraq.html" title="Astronauts+and+the+troops+in+Iraq"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 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float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://psiphon.civisec.org/images/psiphon.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even though this particular topic has been circling around the web since its release on December 1st, I felt compelled to spread the good news to the world of information that the fight for free access to the Internet has taken a turn for the better. Despite a small step in the on going struggle with many repressive regimes who are bent on controlling the power of information, nevertheless this a step to a significant paradigm shift in counter-censorship movement. With the advent of the Internet, many people have dreamt that this tool would open up the human society like once the printing press &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;ct=res&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lirne.net%2Fresources%2Fnetknowledge%2Fang.pdf&amp;amp;ei=fF10RbCsLaOMsAKU6MT4Bg&amp;usg=__JgY6mAgZFDvxpx1j1KJduSvIN9Q=&amp;amp;sig2=hdX7xRK7kiGCQa9G5Qca4Q"&gt;helped&lt;/a&gt; the desperate Europeans crawling out slowly from the Dark Ages. However nothing ever work like the ideal concept,  censorship of the Internet is still an inescapable reality in many countries which at the end its citizens have to pay the price of ignorance for the sake of the "totalitarian &lt;a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Technology/Thai-group-petitions-for-end-to-Internet-censorship/2006/11/16/1163266660345.html"&gt;social harmony&lt;/a&gt;", imposing antiquated laws by the relics of bunch dry old men. Who are cowardly grabbing on to their degrading power base, against the tide of technological change.&lt;br /&gt;However today is different like once the Internet has done to open us up to the wealth of knowledge now we been given this tool&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://psiphon.civisec.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;    Psiphon&lt;/span&gt;         &lt;/a&gt;is a censorship circumvention solution that allows users to access         blocked sites in countries where the Internet is censored. Psiphon turns a         regular home computer into a personal, encrypted server capable of retrieving         and displaying web pages anywhere.  Psiphon is a circumvention technology that works through &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network" title="Social network"&gt;social networks&lt;/a&gt; of trust and is designed to help Internet users bypass &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorware" title="Censorware"&gt;content-filtering systems&lt;/a&gt; setup by governments, such as &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_mainland_China" title="Internet censorship in mainland China"&gt;China&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea"&gt;North Korea&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran" title="Iran"&gt;Iran&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore" title="Singapore"&gt;Singapore&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia"&gt;Saudi Arabia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates" title="United Arab Emirates"&gt;United Arab Emirates&lt;/a&gt; and others.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Psiphon&lt;/span&gt; was originally implemented in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_programming_language" title="Python programming language"&gt;Python&lt;/a&gt;, but has been re-designed and re-written in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B" title="C++"&gt;C++&lt;/a&gt;, and designed as a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-platform" title="Cross-platform"&gt;cross-platform&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usability" title="Usability"&gt;user friendly&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server" title="Proxy server"&gt;proxy server&lt;/a&gt; tool which uses a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Https" title="Https"&gt;https&lt;/a&gt; protocol to transfer data. With a user name and password, people in countries that use Internet content filtering can send encrypted requests for information to a trusted computer located in another country and receive encrypted information in return. As https protocol is widely used for secure communication over the Internet (from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_mail" title="Web mail"&gt;web mail&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_banking" title="Internet banking"&gt;internet banking&lt;/a&gt;), no government can block the usage of https.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what does all these techno mumbo jumbles means? Well unless your country got a digital fortress like China with their super American made Cisco firewall hardwares and an army of trained hackers to hunt your ass down for their &lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;ct=us/4-0&amp;amp;amp;fp=4574e83d52bee30c&amp;ei=8lt0RZ_7FoP2owLNiIHVDA&amp;amp;url=http%3A//www.asianews.it/view.php%3Fl%3Den%26art%3D7771&amp;cid=0&amp;amp;sig2=8zaYMPV6kioxALsrCgpPYA"&gt;human organ trafficking market&lt;/a&gt;, then rejoice because there is absolutely no way that your government can stop these Psiphon social network node to "brute force" exploiting the worldwide packet transport of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Https"&gt;https.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Personally I believe that this method is bloody brilliant, though this method of proxy hoping might have been around since the conception of the web, but once you put a social network element into a mix and then you got one good roundhouse kick to the man. This should be a good lesson to all the repressive government regimes, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;the Internet belong to the world&lt;/span&gt;. Just because you happen to have a few miles of fiber optics buried behind your backyard and a few optical switches,  please stop pretending like you own the Internet it just seem very pathetic. What a sweet revenge from the founder of the Internet protocol themselves who knew that once the world have learn to adopt the protocol there is no turning point from there and hence this a &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;perfect example of be open or go back to the digital dark ages where you came from.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://psiphon.civisec.org/PsiphonLaunch3.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" name="PsiphonLaunch3" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" align="middle" height="100%" width="100%"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- If you would like to see an interactive tutorial on how it works here is &lt;a href="http://psiphon.civisec.org/PsiphonAug232006.html"&gt;the link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://psiphon.ca/download.php"&gt;Here is the link&lt;/a&gt; for you to download the software, so for the folks who live in the non net regulated countries please support the cause, as for me an army of my buddies in the US has already setup the servers, so let the liberation of access begin !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/psiphon-good-start-for-open-society.html" title="Psiphon - A good start for an open society" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=Psiphon+-+A+good+start+for+an+open+society;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/psiphon-good-start-for-open-society.html" title="Psiphon+-+A+good+start+for+an+open+society"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=Psiphon+-+A+good+start+for+an+open+society&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/psiphon-good-start-for-open-society.html" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/psiphon-good-start-for-open-society.html&amp;amp;title=Psiphon+-+A+good+start+for+an+open+society" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-4711088623275152865?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/4711088623275152865/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=4711088623275152865' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/4711088623275152865'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/4711088623275152865'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/psiphon-good-start-for-open-society.html' title='Psiphon - A good start for an open society'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-178325092161033968</id><published>2006-12-04T11:47:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-05T00:19:00.805+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Weekly Digg'/><title type='text'>Weekly Digg 12-03-06</title><content type='html'>Hello folks how is everyone on this beginning of Christmas season Sunday? Let me sent a shout out to the folks in Midwest hopefully they're not freezing their ass of in the crazy blizzard passing through this last week. As for my people in Dallas, &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;yall&lt;/span&gt; need to stop bitching over a day of minor ice flakes that is not even call a severe weather in most of the US territory. Anyway before you all  heading back to work on Monday I got some interesting stuff for &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;yall&lt;/span&gt; to enjoy at that &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;water cooler talks&lt;/span&gt; on Monday. Let get the Weekly &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Digg&lt;/span&gt; started !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Weekly &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Digg&lt;/span&gt; 12-03-06 -"&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Insanely Addictive Edition&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Viral video the New Disease of Advertising&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the age of this crazy user generated content era (&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;UGC&lt;/span&gt;), Viral videos reign supreme as the new medium for advertisement,  from Shining remake trailers to &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;AfroNinja&lt;/span&gt; to weird dance videos to bear fights to the 900 million viewed Star Wars Kid video, this &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;listhas&lt;/span&gt; all the best. Thank you Viral Factory for combing the best 10 videos on the &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;internet&lt;/span&gt; into one post. When number 10 has 50 million views you know it's got to be a god list&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15958470/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Top 10 Viral Videos of all time have been &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;assembled&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cocaine Energy Drink&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though this might be a spoof of The Daily Show, it is only inevitable that some smart ass will roll out the real class 2 narcotics drink into the seven eleven near you in the future. Especially in some part of the US, you can find more pushers then the &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;convenient&lt;/span&gt; stores. When you know that &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;Red bull&lt;/span&gt; is not strong enough for that instant "Pick Me Up" kick. It's time to get that crack in the can rolling. Before you starting to launch a protest against this product, ponder on this you know what they used to put in  coca-cola in the old day right ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IJjGVp5QW5E"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IJjGVp5QW5E" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also I found the perfect spoke person for the Cocaine Energy Drink, meet &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Tyrone &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;Biggums&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zMSz8Z5iWys"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zMSz8Z5iWys" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;15 Minutes of insanely &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;Addictive&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention-deficit_disorder"&gt;ADD&lt;/a&gt; clip&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 id="title6"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqlux_family-guy-40-deleted-scenes-season" target="_blank"&gt;Family Guy 40 Deleted Scenes from Season 4 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;object height="335" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/6605Qf3gf3wCV5cWl"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/6605Qf3gf3wCV5cWl" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="334" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sex Bytes of the Week (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;moderately &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;NSFW&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This week I ran into a website so extremely addictive even lesbians would approve,  meet &lt;a href="http://www.ravijour.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;Ravijour&lt;/span&gt;.com&lt;/a&gt;. An almost completely &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;incomprehensible&lt;/span&gt; 100% flash site, that comes with occasional Japanese captions. But once you are clicking around and the full screen beautiful girls in lingerie appear, you will stay there! That's probably why they called the site '&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sweet Sexy Trap&lt;/span&gt;'. Me like very very much! PS here is the link to their &lt;a href="http://gw.tv/fw/shop/ravi/pc/index.php"&gt;online shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ravijour.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://gw.tv/fw/shop/ravi/pc/images/0611/bnr_p08.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;THE MOST ANNOYING THANK YOU CARD EVER!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just want to know if any one have the power to hear it all the way through the end. And if you do please let me know,  because I got this telephone number to Mama San and she can &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"&gt;definitely&lt;/span&gt; help you out on this lonely Sunday Night.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://axonnsd.org/WebData/FlashFun/flash/thankyou.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://axonnsd.org/WebData/FlashFun/flash/thankyou.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="400" width="500"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;HAVE A GREAT SUNDAY NIGHT THAT"S IT TRICKS !!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/weekly-digg-12-03-06.html" title="Weekly Digg 12-03-06" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=Weekly+Digg+12-03-06;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/weekly-digg-12-03-06.html" title="Weekly+Digg+12-03-06"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=Weekly+Digg+12-03-06&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/weekly-digg-12-03-06.html" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/weekly-digg-12-03-06.html&amp;amp;title=Weekly+Digg+12-03-06" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-178325092161033968?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/178325092161033968/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=178325092161033968' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/178325092161033968'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/178325092161033968'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/weekly-digg-12-03-06.html' title='Weekly Digg 12-03-06'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-8521734267887123241</id><published>2006-12-04T00:01:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-04T00:43:46.614+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Society'/><title type='text'>Greatest Movements of the Slacker’s History</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://members.aol.com/SHRLIST/apple.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://members.aol.com/SHRLIST/apple.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                                                                    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;     First of those who get to know me well over the years, especially the top 4 know that I love to be a slacker. To me being a slacker is not an immoral thing at all, the less time that I actually have to be involved in manual labor the more time I have to explore the realm of knowledge which really channels the cash flow of dollars. I guess because of this particular concept I have given up work related to any kind of manual labor ever again such as bartending for example. A lot of people have asked me the reason I quit bartending even though I was really knowledgeable in my field. Some called me the mixologist of &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Dallas&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;, heck I invented Berry Mojito and god damm Tricktini for Reikyu, well for those of you who's in the know while I was the mixologist. I managed to even develop my own slacker hobby of the making an alternative residual income.Shit if you care to wonder I really got a better end of the deal just because at least Im not up there cutting up fish for a very long time trying to a petty mortgage. In fact now I have more time to be a slacker brewing my next monetary scheme dominations. Some of you might argue in disdain and say Nigger go get a real job! &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;However on the contrary I might have to indulge you all in some example throughout the course of humanity. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Common now work didnt become a Western virtue until the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformation" target="_blank"&gt;Reformation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;, heck Adam and Eve didnt buckle down and got their hands dirty until they bit the apple and the Man upstairs gave them a boot. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Even the Romans and the &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Greece&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; considered work to be a curse thats why they invented slavery for their society. Though out history, loafers, loungers, slacker, and bum was pretty much misunderstood as a parasite of a productive society like &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_marx" target="_blank"&gt;Karl Marx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; would use us a scapegoat waited to be slaughter by the disgruntle uneducated middle-class. Anyway I shall leave you all with a little factoid to contemplate while you trying to file your &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Space" target="_blank"&gt;TPS Report&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; for the 10&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; time and responding your entrails of memos during the day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Greatest Movements of the Slackers History&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;Sir Isaac Newton:&lt;/b&gt; He invented gravity (alright alright he discovered) while sitting down slacking off looking around the damm apple tree.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Achievement:&lt;/span&gt; Gravity duh (alright the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_laws_of_motion" title="Newton's laws of motion"&gt;laws of motion&lt;/a&gt;), which is the precursor to Star Trek.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Benjamin Franklin&lt;/span&gt;: Our founding father liked to take airbaths that involved lying nude on his bed for an hour daily and hanging out with the Indians formulating the proto-concept of the Constitution (with the peace pipe too of course).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Achievement:&lt;/span&gt; He asserted that time is money, so he managed to made an eternal impression on the most beloved paper currency on the planet, The Benjamins.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Albert Hofmann:&lt;/span&gt; Swiss chemist took the world's first acid hit in 1943, when he touched a smidge of lysergic acid diethylamide, a chemical he had researched for inducing childbirth. Perhaps he was bored, later tried a bigger dose and made another discovery: the bad trip. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Achievement:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;b style=""&gt;LSD&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/greatest-movements-of-slackers-history.html" title="Greatest Movements of the Slacker’s History" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=Greatest+Movements+of+the+Slacker%E2%80%99s+History;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/greatest-movements-of-slackers-history.html" title="Greatest+Movements+of+the+Slacker’s+History"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=Greatest+Movements+of+the+Slacker%E2%80%99s+History&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/greatest-movements-of-slackers-history.html" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/greatest-movements-of-slackers-history.html&amp;amp;title=Greatest+Movements+of+the+Slacker%E2%80%99s+History" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-8521734267887123241?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/8521734267887123241/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=8521734267887123241' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/8521734267887123241'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/8521734267887123241'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/greatest-movements-of-slackers-history.html' title='Greatest Movements of the Slacker’s History'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-1662910338795852904</id><published>2006-12-03T20:38:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-03T20:44:46.553+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life'/><title type='text'>Two Bordeauxs of Integrity</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Here comes one of those mentally heavy blog once again, so if you're not in the mood flip the channel. Anyhow tonight I had the chance to actually get my mind of from all the madness of the project, the politics, business strategy, user requirement, and corruption from business partners, out into the garbage bin for just one night. It is ironic that as I'm getting toward 30 years old, more and more I detest the world of business and the hunger for monetary value has ceased to captivate my passion. It is one of those movements in my life, just a descent dinner with family goofing around with my cousins being a child. All of these life simple movements have mean so much to me more than any money can buy. Anyhow the dinner at &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://hotel.rembrandtbkk.com/dining/rang_mahal.html"&gt;Rang &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Mahal&lt;/span&gt; restaurant&lt;/a&gt; on top of the Rembrandt hotel, as I enjoyed a quite cheerful dinner the thought has hit me when I finished a glass of French Bordeaux. &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Despite&lt;/span&gt; there are a few people in my company thinking of pushing me out from the project due to many conflicts of interest however I'm not going to bored anyone over with the detail. One thing shall always hold true, if you're know what is integrity and the ethical core of your motivation. If the intention is pure and your method is fair to other, it is only their fault that they will never going to enjoy life like yours. Only greed will be their companionship, just sheer lust for their appetites would consume them blindly until the end of days not knowing what is life beyond chasing after greed. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;           &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The ironic part about this particular dinner tonight, as I sit with some of the most successful politicians and business people in &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Thailand&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; including my aunt enjoying a gloomy skyline with the light works of the distant thunders. I got to say that even though they all inherit predatory instinct for money but what make them all successful is the sense of integrity in their business practice that launch them to where the belong in the world. If my CEO can only learn this simple path to the business success from these people she won't have to complain about the tight budget in our company. Oh well this shit isn't my problem time to move on to my own venture.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;That thought came into a clarifying conclusion as I down the second glass of the &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Bordeaux&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;, well I wish you all a very good night..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:14;"&gt;There are five dangerous faults for general:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;1 Recklessness, which lead to destruction&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;2 Cowardice, which lead to capture&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;3 A hasty temper, which can provoked by insult&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;4 A delicacy to honor which is sensitive to shame&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;5 Over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;i style=""&gt;: The Art of War Chapter VIII verse 12&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/two-bordeauxs-of-integrity.html" title="Two Bordeauxs of Integrity" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=Two+Bordeauxs+of+Integrity;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/two-bordeauxs-of-integrity.html" title="Two+Bordeauxs+of+Integrity"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=Two+Bordeauxs+of+Integrity&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/two-bordeauxs-of-integrity.html"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/two-bordeauxs-of-integrity.html&amp;title=Two+Bordeauxs+of+Integrity"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-1662910338795852904?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/1662910338795852904/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=1662910338795852904' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/1662910338795852904'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/1662910338795852904'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/two-bordeauxs-of-integrity.html' title='Two Bordeauxs of Integrity'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-5737706575905441403</id><published>2006-12-03T01:49:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-03T01:50:22.056+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Two Million Dollars Typo</title><content type='html'>Here is the deal, if you're not a computer nerd you're never going to enjoy this blog so don't bother. Anyhow something got to be broadcast in the world of business, apparently you can make a jackass out of yourself by doing a careless typo on a professional evaluation papers without any consequence. Umm you might ponder how the hell it's worth couple of millions dollars? Well if that evaluation paper is the determent the destiny of the bidding companies it better damm be flawless. I got that particular paper via e-mail today and the first thing I noticed was what da hell is a TRUE PUT PER SECOND ? Well its kind of ironic that one of the most shady government in the Southeast Asia manage to believe in the truth of operation per second AKA IOPS. So I had to actually help correct that paper free of charge to THROUGHPUT PER SECOND, which is the universal speedometer in the IT world, free of charge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    However the dismay seem to hit me a second time just 15 minutes ago when our inside man of the committee Voip my punk ass for the definition of Data Scrubbing ? Umm the first thought came to my head maybe, its something that you can wipe you ass with ? Trust me it was so incredibly hard for me to refrain myself from saying that. So I did what an obedient yuppie would do, I sent him the cut paste definition from Wiki. I guess the ironic part of the day the mysterious man that I talked with happen to desire a 100grand connection fees, god damm I love the Thai Government !&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-5737706575905441403?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/5737706575905441403/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=5737706575905441403' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/5737706575905441403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/5737706575905441403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/two-million-dollars-typo.html' title='Two Million Dollars Typo'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-7474590055751889268</id><published>2006-12-03T01:21:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-03T01:42:28.150+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Religion'/><title type='text'>The Youths of God</title><content type='html'>Alright first of just watch these two video and take a quick time for them to sink into your noodles&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  Upcoming Film &lt;a href="http://www.apple.com/trailers/magnolia/jesuscamp/"&gt;Jesus Camp&lt;/a&gt; in America:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/y_EKHK1C2IE"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/y_EKHK1C2IE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  Here is another clip from the different side of the spectrum:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/M529qurtDY0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/M529qurtDY0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  Ok now have all those images get digest into you numbing mind and we  all shall start the topic of the day-&amp;quot;the R word&amp;quot;-Religion. For many of  my readers since the beginning of my blogging and close friends alike,  they all know that for sometime I have grown very wary of religion  fundamentalism around the globe. A few days ago my nostalgia started  with the event of Islamic anger against &lt;a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/15591141.htm"&gt;Pop Benedict XVI 's remark&lt;/a&gt; which I think most of people of this worldly planet would know unless  you have been stoned under the basement for a few moths. Even though  finally the whole altercation of verbal prejudice might subside but  after an accidental ran in with the preview of the movie &amp;quot;Jesus Camp&amp;quot;  recently, now my nostalgia has turn into a full gear vomit. As you all  can see from the videos one thing is clear, despites the effort from  the developed world to spread the voice of reason through the benefit  of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_world_is_flat"&gt;Globalization 3.0&lt;/a&gt; which comes with advances in education, instant telecommunication, and  reason of science &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Alright bashing religion might not be the best way  of pointing out my view out, so I will play the devil's advocate and be  optimistic. Let's look into what religious extreme will ultimately bare  fruit to the children. This is a bunch of kids who will have a hope for  their lives through commitment of faith-a bunch of kids who will have  an interest in society and want to change it for the better-a bunch of  kids who will get together in unity and care for each other in the name  of God-a bunch of kids who don't spend all day zonked out in front of  the Playstation- a bunch of kids who won't try drugs, get pregnant,  stab someone in a gang brawl, steal a car.. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; However can you all as a  responsible adult live with the fact that having children pursue the  sense of purpose by the guidance of the religious institution?&amp;nbsp; Is it  also acceptable to have children learn the language of prejudice and  violence just because the sacred texts told you the obligations? In the  world that we are empowered by the tools of reason such as science and  mathematics, helping our children evaluating their world in its  simplistic truth, yet it is truly tragic that the supply-chain of hate  will never end in the name of Faith. Ultimately the war on terror is a  downhill battle, when the roots of its representatives are being breed  on the daily basis just because their parents are too ignorant to see  the vicious cycles. As many times before and once again, religions are  like drinking only in moderation. At the end it is this kind of  detriment that the future of our society will have to bear the price.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/alright-first-of-just-watch-these-two.html" title="Youth of God" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=Youth+of+God;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/alright-first-of-just-watch-these-two.html" title="Youth+of+God"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=Youth+of+God&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/alright-first-of-just-watch-these-two.html"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/alright-first-of-just-watch-these-two.html&amp;title=Youth+of+God"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-7474590055751889268?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/7474590055751889268/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=7474590055751889268' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/7474590055751889268'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/7474590055751889268'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/alright-first-of-just-watch-these-two.html' title='The Youths of God'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-7818935495254494730</id><published>2006-12-01T13:27:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-01T16:05:05.323+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Movie'/><title type='text'>Pirates of Silicon Valley - The Movie</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/30/Movieposterposv.jpg/200px-Movieposterposv.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/30/Movieposterposv.jpg/200px-Movieposterposv.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Hello &lt;/span&gt;boys and girls here is a new flash ! Just happen today might be another boring weekend for in this terrible weather of the overcast sky in Bangkok. The thought of the family get together has already put me into a depression conundrum far worse than the weather already. Anyway the good news to you all is some dude in Ireland was kind enough to upload one of my all time favorite movie, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_Silicon_Valley"&gt;Pirate of Silicon Valley&lt;/a&gt;. Many of you might despise my ,off the chart geek meter, blog today. However I must protest and recommend you to really see this movie. Even though the budget and the script writing might not share the same calibre as &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_%28film%29"&gt;Wall Stree&lt;/a&gt;t. However I can assure you that the nostalgia element in this movie really did capture the cut throat nature of computing business in the earlier 80's.&lt;br /&gt;So if you might not care about all those computing mumo jumbles, at least I believe that you will get a great kick of how Steve Jobs and Bill Gates business relationship was like before Bill strike gold on Windows, let just say somebody got owned like a little bitch in those pre dotcom hay day!  So I would  highly recommend for any one who is a aficionado of business drama to really enjoy this movie. Before you  click that youtube button here is a little prelude information about the premise of the film.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pirates of Silicon Valley&lt;/span&gt; (1999) is an &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Unauthorized&amp;action=edit" class="new" title="Unauthorized"&gt;unauthorized&lt;/a&gt; made-for-television &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docudrama" title="Docudrama"&gt;docudrama&lt;/a&gt; written and directed by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn_Burke" title="Martyn Burke"&gt;Martyn Burke&lt;/a&gt;. Based upon the book, &lt;i&gt;Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer&lt;/i&gt;, by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine, this film documents the rise of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_computer" title="Home computer"&gt;home computer&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer" title="Personal computer"&gt;personal computer&lt;/a&gt; through the rivalry between &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer" title="Apple Computer"&gt;Apple Computer&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II" title="Apple II"&gt;Apple II&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Macintosh" title="Apple Macintosh"&gt;Apple Macintosh&lt;/a&gt;) and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft"&gt;Microsoft&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS" title="DOS"&gt;DOS&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC" title="IBM PC"&gt;IBM PC&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows"&gt;Windows&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;p&gt;The central story of the film begins in the early &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970" title="1970"&gt;1970s&lt;/a&gt; and ends in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985" title="1985"&gt;1985&lt;/a&gt; when &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs" title="Steve Jobs"&gt;Steve Jobs&lt;/a&gt; resigned from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer" title="Apple Computer"&gt;Apple Computer&lt;/a&gt;. The film is also structured by a set of "book ends": it begins and ends with Jobs' return to Apple in 1997.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3BJu2GAkf2k"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3BJu2GAkf2k" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7jjepLRzH8o"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7jjepLRzH8o" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/m-5i4IJeZdM"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/m-5i4IJeZdM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hTYqJO5EpL8"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hTYqJO5EpL8" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kel3dK3DL6s"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kel3dK3DL6s" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XdYdQ5E_rWA"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XdYdQ5E_rWA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7KT0gTPPaGk"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7KT0gTPPaGk" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0ZLZX3tU2SM"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0ZLZX3tU2SM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PVe4WjWliRs"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PVe4WjWliRs" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/R5bfT1kLzAE"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/R5bfT1kLzAE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/pirates-of-silicon-valley-movie.html" title="Pirates of Silicon Valley" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 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float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://community.voxeo.com/images/tutorials/skynet.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Well before I'm leaving all the &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Bangkok&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; frenzy behind this weekend, meeting up with my folks at the weekend family house tomorrow morning. I think it would be only appropriate to leave you all a light hearten content just in case I don't make it back on Sunday to disseminate the weekly digg. Anyway you might find this particular site pretty useful and a bit silly. However if you're planning a long term goal and I mean extra long term you might find this tool interesting with a good kick in the motivation utility&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;So without further gibberish, I shall introduce you all to &lt;a href="http://futureme.org/"&gt;http://futureme.org/&lt;/a&gt; . (Don't be shy give it a try !)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;This particular email site is not any other ordinary notice-to-self e-mail services, this site got a very interesting delivery time to the users. It automatically sends you an email of what you said on whatever date you specify. For example I could send my self an email reminding me to get married in 2036! (I pretty much doubt it though) Since now I have arouse your ever ADD attention spans, here are some interesting messages ones could send into the e-mail time capsule in the year 2036. For example you can sent your salutation to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet"&gt;Skynet&lt;/a&gt;, tell them the terminator plan has fail and stop doing those awful sequels that should workout pretty well since the message would genuinely came from the yesterdays of 2006AD.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;   Oh another idea spontaneously came out of my mind, you can also send a picture of you naked ex-girlfriends into the year 2036 to remind them that the ravage of time has reduce her from the raging bitch into a frail old hag. Now that should be &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;should be bittersweet revenge that Dave Chappelle himself would be proud.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;table class="blog" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/53wTvR9LYCo"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed allowscriptaccess="never" allownetworking="internal" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/53wTvR9LYCo" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;So before I bid you all goodnight from &lt;a href="http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=196111268&amp;p=y96yyy974"&gt;Junta-Democratic Free Zone&lt;/a&gt;, here is the message I left into the e-mail temporal bottle:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;  &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Kirk Sato&lt;/span&gt; – Time to change you underwear and make sure don't be late for the dinner party at the &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:placename st="on"&gt;Playboy&lt;/st1:placename&gt;  &lt;st1:placetype st="on"&gt;Mansion&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;!" &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/e-mail-to-year-2036.html" title="E-mail to the Year 2036" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=E-mail+to+the+Year+2036;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/e-mail-to-year-2036.html" title="E-mail+to+the+Year+2036"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=E-mail+to+the+Year+2036&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/12/e-mail-to-year-2036.html"" target="_blank"&gt; 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float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://static.flickr.com/54/138200890_cf215ddc60.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;The Lady's man &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;          &lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;" class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;Is Pattaya all that it's cracked up to be? I heard it's like the Wild West, but with Asians ?. Also I heard that it crams with the Ladyboys so how do I know which are "Ladyboys" and which aren't? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;  &lt;!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--&gt;  &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well if you manage roll into &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Thailand&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; everywhere within is pretty much a party fest, especially the holiday season. For some unexplainable reason Thai folks happen to take a lot of vacation cause they got special holiday in every month of the year. As for Pattaya, since the Beginning of Vietnam War, a little beach town of &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Pattaya&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; has exploded into a red light district heaven for the GI's pit stop who were stressing out killing the commies. In the old days, Pattaya was a breeding ground for the &lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;"Panda Chasers"&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; who got preoccupied so much over the taste of the orient down the Go Go bar; they were officially declared M.I.A. indefinitely.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Even though, Pattaya without the old wartime glamour is still a great place to party and finding the infamous "Ladyboys", as for your question about identifying girls with the extra appendices. Well when a sex change in &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Thailand&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; only cost $5000 you can see that switching gender is as easy as getting a new set of rims so it can be quite a challenging task. As for me&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;I would pull "I'm sorry I bum into you" maneuver it works pretty well make sure that the back of your hand is on the strategic point and if you feels an extra lump that shouldnt be there, bail out immediately. Also saying sorry would help because it would be a dead giveaway the minute they talk to you. My best advice about Pattaya, have a goodtime and do not get shit-face trying to pick up girl. It will be more than likely to give a lasting impression than sleeping with a fat chick.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/29/49468995_d712c70062.jpg?v=0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;pic form Miss Gay Thailand 2005&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;Casanova Connoisseur &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Kirk Sato, I used to be a head Connoisseur at a five star hotel at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;" st="on"&gt;Anchorage&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:state style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;" st="on"&gt;Alaska&lt;/st1:state&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;"&gt; and once not so long ago I manage to be responsible for a princess from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:country-region style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;" st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Thailand&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;"&gt; during her stay, which I have to say she was really beautiful. However my admiration turn sour on a dinner delivery, when I was knock over by the Thai men in black and have Uzis pointing to my head because I didnt follow their protocol. So tell me what is the protocol on not offending the Thai Royal Family?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;A very simple protocol there my friend, you're white, stay clear and run whenever they are near unless you like a lead salad. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;Smash the Ripper&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Yo man I heard like I can bang bunch of hooks over there.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;How much for a mother/daughter combination for one night? And if so is there a limit to the amount of hookers that I can purchase in one night? Is it illegal to kill hookers in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place style="font-weight: bold;" st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Thailand&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Man you like to get straight to the point ha? As for the amount of the working girls you can deal with, your quest for the carnal hunger is really up to the saying "Have the money and they shall have the time"  &lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;/span&gt;As for contemplating on premeditated murder on them tricks, would you really want to mess with a girl who can use her vagina as a projectileb &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;launcher? Be careful stud she might smoke you ass first.  &lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;That's it for this session! If you have any more curiosity feel free to email me and for &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;Here is the Link to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&amp;friendID=55352699&amp;amp;blogID=115110764" target="_blank"&gt;Ask a Thai guy part 1I&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;I shall leave you a little factoid for yall. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;Quick Fact about &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Bangkok&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;Population 9 Million+ &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;GOOD GOOD&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;Sexual Repression:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt; Not in &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Bangkok&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;Go Go Bar:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt; You either love em or hate it with a passion and for me?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;US Dollar:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt; Strong Strong&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;Massages:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt; Both kinds &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;BAD BAD&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;TUK TUK Drivers:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt; who try to rip you off: They seem to forget that you can't out hustle an Asian hustler.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;Clubs/Bars&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;: zoning and closing at 1 am. But there are plenty of the after party for those in the know and at her bodies too!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;Floating Markets:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt; Tourist bullshit &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;Traffic:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt; Busy Busy Busy&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;SURVIVAL TIPS&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;Have you cell with you at all time !&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;Have your hotel info with you at all time.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;Have your guide number with you at all time in case you need rent a girlfriend.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;Carry passport with you but leave a copy at the hotel safe.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;Call 1155 for tourist police&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;Call 1672 FOR TOURIST INFO&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;Country code for &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Bangkok&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; is  66 2&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;While in &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Bangkok&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; dial 02 for local calls&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;Oh Yeah ATM is everywhere.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/ask-thai-guy-part-ii.html" title="Ask a Thai guy part II" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=Ask+a+Thai+guy+part+II;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/ask-thai-guy-part-ii.html" title="Ask+a+Thai+guy+part+II"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 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I hope you all had a great time with your friends and love ones, enjoying the good old American gluttonous  tradition devouring everything in sight with some football to pass the time by on the past Thursday. Any how before you're trying to coupe with your shopping rampage on the past Black Friday, accumulating your life debt to the point of melt down. All I can tell you is worrying of how you going to pay off that credit bill on this coming Monday at your office. will not help. My as well get yourself lost from the reality of racking up those credit card balance by enjoying my Weekly Digg !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;WEEKLY DIGG 11-26-06&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;"PROPAGANDA R US"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;   I always been a big aficionado of the propaganda film no matter what medium it might be distributed in. you might ask me why do I care for a totalitarian message which promote the relinquishment of our freedom spirit. Well some how this subliminally brain washing is a good reminder that no matter how smart we might perceive to be, many times we are more stupid and susceptible to mass disinformation more than you can imagine. Let's look at the first video&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PMS SURVIVAL TIPS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   A very good &lt;span style="display: inline;" id="vidDescRemain"&gt; parody of 1950 educational and government propaganda videos&lt;/span&gt; also I would say pretty informative on how-to avoid your female counter when they're raging with that "hormone imbalance" movement of the month. Like my best buddy used to give me advice on all my ex's PMS problem "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Hey even though they're bleeding down there, doesn't mean it fill up all the way to the top of their head&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mCwKbUVyHLY"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mCwKbUVyHLY" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Sexual Harassment How-To&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So have you ever wonder sometime that how come your co-workers could get away with all those constant boning fest some blond assistant at your office on the daily and yet you couldn't pick up the lunch lady at the cafeteria without getting a law suit. go ahead and see how they done it,  sad but true guide for your average Joes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3QOspidd7ko"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3QOspidd7ko" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Propaganda through the legal system&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h3 id="title13"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1418165.stm" target="_blank"&gt;Man gets patent for the WHEEL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1415000/images/_1418165_wheel_bbc300.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;I really don't know how the legal process are being maintain in the down under territory. Apparently this particular gentleman managed to circumvent the Australia legal system and registered a patent for a "circular transportation facilitation device" - more commonly known as the wheel. So next time you're down there visiting the great outback don't forget to remind them of the royalties they still own America on all those bad export of actors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Nostalgia Through Music&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The subliminal messages are in the media everywhere if you know how to look. Here is a very good example for you all to ponder and digest it in. If you ask me about how do I feel about the on going failure of our military forces in Iraq, I would have to say that I never support the war in Iraq since day one. However making a music without respect the troop who were by making a contrast of the care free America is inappropriate period. Could you just imagine while you all were enjoying your turkey freedom, on the past thanksgiving, I can assure that those troop probably want nothing more than just returning home. Here is  &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xiec27yF-Y" target="_blank"&gt;MTV Bans Faithless Video&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2Xiec27yF-Y"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2Xiec27yF-Y" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sex Clip of the Week&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Since this is a legal filled limbo super charge with propaganda theme show for this week. It's only seem fit that I give you all what if "sexual consent" is actually being practice in the bed room for all the teens out there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/m8SY3AxmmLI"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/m8SY3AxmmLI" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/weekly-digg-11-26-06.html" title="Weekly Digg 11-26-06" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=Weekly+Digg+11-26-06;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/weekly-digg-11-26-06.html" title="Weekly+Digg+11-26-06"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=Weekly+Digg+11-26-06&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/weekly-digg-11-26-06.html"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/weekly-digg-11-26-06.html&amp;title=Weekly+Digg+11-26-06"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-3141094952776076142?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/3141094952776076142/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=3141094952776076142' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/3141094952776076142'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/3141094952776076142'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/weekly-digg-11-26-06.html' title='Weekly Digg 11-26-06'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-9102436984957586786</id><published>2006-11-26T01:20:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-11-26T03:16:42.911+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Society'/><title type='text'>The Nigger Effect</title><content type='html'>Alright I always been trying to steer away from giving an opinion when the involvement is over a social prejudice loud mouth. However after I have seen this clip about one of my favorite comedian bust a politically smack down on a reporter of News Corp. After I came down with a hard case of laughter, I now feel compel and somewhat obligated to share my two cents on the Michael Richards incident. for those of you who've been living under a rock or reside in Utah here is a quick info on who am I referring to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;Michael Anthony Richards&lt;/b&gt; (born &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_24" title="July 24"&gt;July 24&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1949" title="1949"&gt;1949&lt;/a&gt;) is an &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States"&gt;American&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor" title="Actor"&gt;actor&lt;/a&gt;, three-time &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award" title="Emmy Award"&gt;Emmy Award&lt;/a&gt; winner, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writer" title="Writer"&gt;writer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_producer" title="Television producer"&gt;producer&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedian" title="Comedian"&gt;comedian&lt;/a&gt;, best known for playing &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmo_Kramer" title="Cosmo Kramer"&gt;Cosmo Kramer&lt;/a&gt; on the television show &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seinfeld" title="Seinfeld"&gt;Seinfeld&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, which ran from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_5" title="July 5"&gt;July 5&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989" title="1989"&gt;1989&lt;/a&gt;, to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_14" title="May 14"&gt;May 14&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998" title="1998"&gt;1998&lt;/a&gt;, on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC" title="NBC"&gt;NBC&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Now without a further adieu here is the video clip I want you all to have a good laugh and don't forget to dissect the message of Paul Mooney with a intellectual perspective.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9cuX2uYOi4g"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9cuX2uYOi4g" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    First of I totally agree with Paul Mooney that if Michael Richards could blatantly use the N word without knowing the actual contemporary connotation of the word itself, then he definitely need to seek a profession helps on the anger management.  By calling a certain demographic segment of people base upon their skin color in a derogated manner is so out of style about decades ago. However as for the mass media attacking on the political correctness of a white person shouting out the N word to promote their rating or distracting the masses from the real world problem such as the Iraq situation and the economic undercurrent, then News Corp here is a big middle finger for you !&lt;br /&gt;    The word Nigger sure is one of the ugliest word a white man could ever conceive to be manifested in the dictionary during the Imperialism period. However majority of people do not understand the N word itself in the modern linguistic utilization which hardly has anything to do with black people anymore. As a matter of fact I would say that the word Nigger would best suited for calling any individual of the utmost ignorance. To clarify my position of belief I would turn you all to the Afro-American cultural expert Martin Luther King Jr,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Word Nigger in Boondocks&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LXRqRmFg5Vs"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LXRqRmFg5Vs" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you can see once we have understand the actual usage of the word Nigger in the modern world society, now the color of ignorance and hate have extended beyond the one race inour world. Though many Nay Sayer and the hypocritical intellectuals might call me that I'm displaying my coarseness  through exposing controversy for maximum exposure. However on the contrary, I  believe  in the obligation to educated anyone of all races to understand the nature of hatred and prejudice. Because the real danger of devaluing certain group of society is not from the usage of derogatory terms but the deadly silence of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;contempt. &lt;/span&gt;For example the usual case would be some blond gold digger that love to bust a move on Kanye West tunes but not down to drop it like it's hot with a "brother", is a fine example of the modern prejudice. Yes I have seen it many way too many times during my years growing up in Dallas. In down south if you can't stand the word of Niggers, Crackers, Chings, and Asians as a mere horse play  then you mind as well should move to Canada (I feel sorry for you). I couldn't recall those countless time when I use the word as calling some ignorant folks or a mere swearing like I would do to Jesus. Anyhow those exchanges add flavors in conversation are also reciprocated back to me in kindness too. You can ask my top friends on Myspace (which happen to Black, White, and Hispanic) I got more than a plenty Asian jokes right back throuhg out the years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is the usual stereotype conversation we learned to enjoy when hanging in the bar on any typical weekend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Steve(white): "Kirk Sato is that true that Asian guys are not fully equipped?"&lt;br /&gt;Me(Asian): "Shut up drunkass Crackers"&lt;br /&gt;Will(Black): "I don't know about you but that Latin broad got a Banging booty"&lt;br /&gt;Angel(Hispanic): "What is up with black people and lumps ?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you can see I'm proud to say that if the UN are willing to learn our method of our social diplomacy in public engagement, there will never be war between the different ethic group of people. The trick is we all learn to communicate with a shear clarity and respect on &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;one fucking language.&lt;/span&gt; So here is a piece of my mind to you all to ponder before the end of this blog transmission. It's not the word that spread the hate in the world but it's the idea of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;contempt&lt;/span&gt; that is the real soul of the devil....You know honey you're not all that !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/U3RjiVcIlhY"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/U3RjiVcIlhY" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/nigger-effect.html" title="The Nigger Effect" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=The+Nigger+Effect;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/nigger-effect.html" title="The+Nigger+Effect"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=The+Nigger+Effect&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/nigger-effect.html"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/nigger-effect.html&amp;title=The+Nigger+Effect"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-9102436984957586786?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/9102436984957586786/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=9102436984957586786' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/9102436984957586786'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/9102436984957586786'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/nigger-effect.html' title='The Nigger Effect'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-3493810827221239895</id><published>2006-11-23T22:13:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-11-24T00:18:29.536+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Movie'/><title type='text'>Crack Laced Turkey</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/19/New_Jack_City_%28DVD_cover%29.jpg/200px-New_Jack_City_%28DVD_cover%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/19/New_Jack_City_%28DVD_cover%29.jpg/200px-New_Jack_City_%28DVD_cover%29.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;   Yes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Finally Thanksgiving has arrived upon us once again, to many of you folks out there,  already settled down and celebrating the occasion with friends and family. Unfortunately this year my presence happens to be in a Buddhists dominant country such as Thailand. Even worse majority of expats over here are Europeans , so you can pretty much forget about getting your hands dirty on those deliciously grease filled Turkey stuffings and the wonderful cranberry sauce, ummm.... cranberry sauce. Anyway since the good old American ritual dinner won't be happening to me this year, well at least I still got my blog to entertain you all and keep my sanity in check.  I don't know much about yall but for some reason every time when Thanksgiving is around the conner I just couldn't get this one particular scene from the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nino_Brown"&gt;New Jack City&lt;/a&gt; out of my head.&lt;br /&gt;     The infamous "Crack Laced Turkey", I guess only a real sadomasochistic evil hustler could conceived such a diabolical scheme by giving crack coating  turkeys to homeless despairs in order to advance himself monetary. Though from your first impression you might pass him as a petty uneducated thug who were so infatuate with the American Dream, but greed sure is the mother of all survival stride and Nino Brown sure got a plenty of it. So my message to you all, enjoy what is a abundant in your life and be sustainably content with a good company surrounding you. You don't need to be chasing after an American dream with that crack laced turkey just because life today seems to tell you that nothing promise you tomorrow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FkmKspyVJ7I"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FkmKspyVJ7I" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/crack-laced-turkey.html" title="Crack Laced Turkey" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=Crack+Laced+Turkey;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/crack-laced-turkey.html" title="Crack+Laced+Turkey"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=Crack+Laced+Turkey&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/crack-laced-turkey.html"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/crack-laced-turkey.html&amp;title=Crack+Laced+Turkey"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-3493810827221239895?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/3493810827221239895/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=3493810827221239895' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/3493810827221239895'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/3493810827221239895'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/crack-laced-turkey.html' title='Crack Laced Turkey'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-3622909506482117494</id><published>2006-11-23T11:33:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-11-23T11:41:58.711+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Web'/><title type='text'>Hitman Online</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="blogContent"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Have you ever had one of them days that you could no longer tolerated the bullshit people in these world carelessly dropping upon you ?&lt;br /&gt;Do you have a stressful job and slave-driving boss?&lt;br /&gt;Is your significant other constantly pressuring you around for 110% percent all day?&lt;br /&gt;Are you ready to rip that person head off and fornicate with their eyes socket ?&lt;br /&gt; Well if this is a case you either can seek a very expensive therapy like I do, or could book yourself an online &lt;span class="misspell"&gt;hitman&lt;/span&gt;. That's right with the advance of  the &lt;span class="misspell"&gt;internet&lt;/span&gt; and spy technology, you can get rid of problems at the source by process of elimination from hired professionals.Why stressing over a bad business deal when you can have "Tony" give your partner an early retirement? Then you can escape to peace and quite in Mexico wilderness. There are many methods for you to choose from and the pricing is negotiable when the job is done in a batch! 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Please, don't kill anyone, and don't hire anyone to kill anyone. Got it?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is what I ordered online for you all to enjoy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Select Desire Target: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;My Boss&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Select the Prefered Method: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Works&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Check Out: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;5.00 USD&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="misspell"&gt;dammm&lt;/span&gt; I got me a discount, I guess they know how pissed off I am &lt;span class="misspell"&gt;sweettt&lt;/span&gt; !&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;So boys and girls don't be shy if you have to prematurely end the "relationship" with someone or you &lt;span class="misspell"&gt;prefered&lt;/span&gt; them to hangout with the fishes, go on to &lt;a title="Htiman online" target="blank_" href="http://www.instanthitman.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="misspell"&gt;Htiman&lt;/span&gt; online&lt;/a&gt;   website for a total experience !&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/hitman-online.html" title="Hitman Online" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=Hitman+Online;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/hitman-online.html" title="Hitman+Online"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=Hitman+Online&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/hitman-online.html"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/hitman-online.html&amp;title=Hitman+Online"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-3622909506482117494?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/3622909506482117494/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=3622909506482117494' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/3622909506482117494'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/3622909506482117494'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/hitman-online.html' title='Hitman Online'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-6435776374204144846</id><published>2006-11-21T14:21:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-11-21T14:26:03.306+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Relationship'/><title type='text'>Top 10 Reasons suicide is better than Sex.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Suicide is Better than Sex&lt;/span&gt;                                                                                         &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;  &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Ohh&lt;/span&gt; don't get freak out by the topic I'm not about to end my living day life in that particular fashion. However I really don't ever can grasp the concept of voluntary self extermination, because the fact all life has the self preservation mechanism in place. It is part of the evolution itself. I'm not saying this because of some spiritual obligation or political agenda. However I believe that the passage of time will eventually show the reason to oneself of the disparity that dwell upon without any answer. Life itself is precious any conceivable ways, ones must face the fact that all of us are alive for a unique reason no matter how bleak their individual situation that they in. Anyway it is just self thought reflection after all.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;10. You can still commit suicide when you're &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;shitface&lt;/span&gt; drunk.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;9. You don't have to worry about "Safe Suicide".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;8. Nobody wakes you up to ask for more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;7. No limit to the number of techniques.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;6. Nobody ever asks for a long-term suicide commitment.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;5. Who cares if you get disease ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;4. Doing it yourself is just as good !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;3. It's easier than finding a date on Saturday night.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;2.Nobody ever complains about "bad suicide".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;1 You don't have to clean up the mess !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.tampabayprimer.org/images/suicide.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;apparently this is a common knowledge in &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Palestine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;small&gt;(Palestinian Boy Dressed as Suicide Bomber in &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Ramallah&lt;/span&gt;    (Reuters))&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/top-10-reasons-suicide-is-better-than.html" title="Top 10 Reasons suicide is better than Sex." target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=Top+10+Reasons+suicide+is+better+than+Sex.;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/top-10-reasons-suicide-is-better-than.html" title="Top+10+Reasons+suicide+is+better+than+Sex."/&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=Top+10+Reasons+suicide+is+better+than+Sex.&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/top-10-reasons-suicide-is-better-than.html"" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/top-10-reasons-suicide-is-better-than.html&amp;title=Top+10+Reasons+suicide+is+better+than+Sex."" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-6435776374204144846?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/6435776374204144846/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=6435776374204144846' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/6435776374204144846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/6435776374204144846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/top-10-reasons-suicide-is-better-than.html' title='Top 10 Reasons suicide is better than Sex.'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-7315764390503449418</id><published>2006-11-20T01:14:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-11-20T12:52:43.926+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Technology'/><title type='text'>RFID: Sign of the (End) Times?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ctsincpr.com/pic-rfid-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.ctsincpr.com/pic-rfid-1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;RFID: Sign of the (End) Times?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of you might say huhh..? What da heck is he talking about this time. Well as of some of you might know that for the past few days I've been actively participate on the business of RFID chip, both attending a very expensive conference and made several high profile business contacts. However the ironic part of life just happen, only one day after the conference was over wired magazine just publish about the Christian Writer saying that RFID is "the mark of the beast". And just because people are willingly adopt this emerging technology both in government and the public sector, there fore the Armageddon is coming upon us.&lt;br /&gt;First an foremost RFID is basically a technology that base on the chip with an internet protocal that would connect any item as the internet would connect information with a hyperlink (the link you click). Instead of having people screw around finding the information and location of the thing by human intervention, which always prone to error. RFID infrastructure would simplify it just like the internet had done with the noises with information. May I remind you that without internet you guys would never gonna be able to make more friends than real life without Myspace. So I guess for those Christian nutcases, for every new technology that emerges to help people to connect each other better for the society, It must be an End time for us all. So I guess when we first got the printing press in the Renaisance, those Chirstians themselves probably were intoxicated with the paranoia of the Second coming of Jesus and thought that printing press was the sign of "the mark of the beast". Guess what thanks to the instrument of Anti-Christ the most published and widely circulated book on the damm planet is the Bible. So I guess the bible is the product of the Anti-Christ right ?&lt;br /&gt;It is not the religion that corrupted man into a self fulfilling destructive prophecy. It is the thought of men with self motivated pettiness in the name of religion, Chirstnity Islam, Buddhist, and etc. That indeed insure the destruction of our society throughout time by religious wars and persecutions because the mere fact that man themselves lack the ability to discern progress with their own moral conundrum. If God truly made us in his own image, therefore we are self is a replication of superior being that has the potential to transcend beyond this bullshit. Then it is not our flesh an blood that limit our progress but it is the disease call morality that has been plague our mind for centuries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;news article:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70308-0.html?tw=wn_index_18" target="_self"&gt;wired news artcle about RFID&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;more info about RFID&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shorecliffcommunications.com/" target="_self"&gt;RFID&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/rfid-sign-of-end-times.html" title="RFID: Sign of the (End) Times?" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=RFID:+Sign+of+the+(End)+Times?;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/rfid-sign-of-end-times.html" title="RFID:+Sign+of+the+(End)+Times?"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=RFID:+Sign+of+the+(End)+Times?&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/rfid-sign-of-end-times.html"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/rfid-sign-of-end-times.html&amp;title=RFID:+Sign+of+the+(End)+Times?"" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-7315764390503449418?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/7315764390503449418/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=7315764390503449418' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/7315764390503449418'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/7315764390503449418'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/rfid-sign-of-end-times.html' title='RFID: Sign of the (End) Times?'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-641641107682909821</id><published>2006-11-19T21:16:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-11-19T23:02:50.684+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entertainment'/><title type='text'>Weekly Digg 11-19-06</title><content type='html'>Hello on this Sunday folk I hope that you all are feeling a bit peachy, sorry for the absence on the last Sunday. you know too much alcohol and stress and cause a severe dementia including a delusional thought of nonsense rambling. Anyway THE WEEKLY DIGG is back and with a double vengeances bitches !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;WEEKLY DIGG 11-19-06&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" &gt;Flying Gallardo, sex better through bouncing, and dig these nuts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First Digg for our pointless entertainment this week has to be about celebrity again and it's not about their cup size this time. Have you ever wonder about how is your favorite celebrities are like without the aid of fancy lighting, makeup, wardrobe, and digital wizardry enhancements? These little works of mug shot art--taken with Instamatic, Polaroid, and digital cameras at law enforcement agencies nationwide and there are some really good ones priceless indeed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 id="title11"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/index.html#theLinks" target="_blank"&gt;Mugshots - the most candid photos of celebrities  that you’ll ever see&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Fast and and the Furious &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;Flying Gallardo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This clip happen to be one of those priceless movement. Apparently some wealthy Arabic speed demon in Dubai, didn't know the newly installed large speed bump on a street that locals had developed a habit of traveling on at very high speeds. Only one minor problem, the government didn't tell anyone it had installed the speed bump. Wait until the end of the clip.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Vg79_mM2CNY"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Vg79_mM2CNY" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So you think these speed demon are only for the idle stuck up rich folks you're in for a great surprise. I'm willing to bet you on my life saving that if any guys in all the Fast and the Furious Trilogy can beat these cop then let me know where to wire the funds I give you the Italian Gallardo Cop&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://hight3ch.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/LamborginiPolice.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lVvBSucC-lM"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lVvBSucC-lM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Better sex through the law of gravity and the fastest slip on condom in the world&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Well though many of you might have seen the commercial Pronto before. However gentlemen your prayers have been answered in the second round, the greatest invention since strap on fetish has arrived. What you are about to watch is a product demo for a new       &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Body Bouncer&lt;/span&gt; is the perfect toy for couples.  Could just imagine using that with the Pronto condom the fast and the bouncy alright !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/1wcizG2ftdLeV1Czp" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="334" width="400"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NeoPcEIypwA"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NeoPcEIypwA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Tools to curve down you online porn addiction&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;PageAddict is a Firefox extension that gives you a summary of how much time you've spent visiting different sites. A useful upgrade to this plug-in would give you recommendations based on your Internet usage. For instance, "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;get some sunlight&lt;/span&gt;," or "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;stop masturbating and do some work&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://cache.lifehacker.com/assets/resources/2006/11/pageaddict.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A cute little clip to finish off your weekend on a good note&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;This is the latest in the Ice Age series short films, with Scrat. 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Thats right I'm talking about death and  funeral, majority of people out there really got it bad when it comes to  perception of death. Its kind of ironic to me that many people out there  running around their tails, chasing the shits they don't need and trying to  pretend that loving relationship could last forever. Snap! One day your white collar ass is over by a head on collision or bird flu and all you got is a lousy funeral, which pretty much drain half of your saving away if you don't have a life insurance. Not  to worry the other remaining half of the saving your spouse or your regular stripper girlfriend would be more than happy to swindle it all away. Anyhow not long ago, I had a  brief discussion of how I would prepare my pre-launch party of the afterlife when my demise will catch up with me one day.  For me I already have entrusted my funeral procedure with one of my top 8  friends and trust me you don't want to miss it  when the time comes.&lt;br /&gt;Well if you're also not a fan of the traditional burial where you have to wait for J.C. second coming  to wake up your rotten body, here is the savvy options that would be more  interesting than shooting your ashes into space and ensure your legacy for all  postpone second coming of Christ !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src="http://tfp.killbots.com/wall/153/153s.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"No you can't play with my tail"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:180%;" &gt;&lt;span class="style1"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GO YOU OWN WAY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="style3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;FREEZE-DRYING&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://promessa.se/img/promession-steg2.png" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" class="style4"&gt;Process:&lt;/span&gt; Swedish company Promessa Organic will crystallize your  corpse in liquid nitrogen, vacuum away the ice, and sub-sonically vibrate your  remain into powder. Then your remaining dust will be mix cornstarch. These will be bury under a bush, give it a year and youre a certify compost !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Result:&lt;/span&gt; Good for the mother earth, a repayment of your SUV  gas guzzling lifestyle and  VDs giving in  the previous life. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" class="style4"&gt;Pro:&lt;/span&gt; You're finally did the nature some good.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cons:&lt;/span&gt; Worm done the same job but a bit slower.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="style4"&gt;For more info&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;a href="http://blog.myspace.com/www.promessa.se" target="_self"&gt;www.promessa.se&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="style2"&gt;TREE BONDING&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.biopresence.com/img/human-DNA-trees.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" class="style4"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Process:&lt;/span&gt; Since the DNA of any two human is 99.99 percent  identical, only a small amount make you unique. So two nut case scientists have a scheme to embed your unique bits of gene into a cell of a tree as noncoding  DNA.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" class="style4"&gt;Result:&lt;/span&gt; Your genetic code will be carry on as long as the  life of the tree, laying dormant.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" class="style4"&gt;Pro:&lt;/span&gt; Imagine you plus the cannabis tree, giving a new  meaning to "smoke me baby !"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" class="style4"&gt;Con:&lt;/span&gt; The tweak tree could be considered a genetically modified  organism facing regulations. Imagine evil killer plant out of  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Day of  Triffids&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For more Info: &lt;a href="http://www.biopresence.com/" target="_self"&gt;http://www.biopresence.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="style3"&gt;GEM MAKING&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.lifegem.com/images/2005/LifeGem_Blue_Round_small.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" class="style4"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Process:&lt;/span&gt; You know diamonds are forever, plus they are girl's best friend for the most part so here is your only chance to be both ! After a traditional cremation, ship your dust to Life Gem, the company will turn your  remaining carbon into graphite and baked your ass for about 6 months literally.  With lots of heat and pressure (over 1.6 million PSI), the carbon realign into  diamond wolla !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" class="style4"&gt;Result&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt; you become 10 1carat for all your ex stripper girlfriends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" class="style4"&gt;Pro:&lt;/span&gt; you become indestructible and girls love to have you  around at all time, something you could not do when you were alive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" class="style4"&gt;Con:&lt;/span&gt; You become a theft target and pawnshop hustlers.&lt;br /&gt;For more info &lt;a href="http://www.lifegem.com/"&gt;http://www.lifegem.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="style3"&gt;MAD Scientist  Cryonics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/older_and_under/assets/cryonics4_small.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Process:&lt;/span&gt; First of this is probably would cost more than all the funeral process available, Cryonics is the preservation of legally dead humans or pets at very low temperature.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Result:&lt;/span&gt;You become a meat Popsicle&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pro: &lt;/span&gt;all you remain will be permanently well preserve as long as there is liquid nitrogen and electricity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Con:&lt;/span&gt; Eternal frost bite&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/savvy-ways-to-make-final-exit.html" title="The savvy ways to make a final exit" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=The+savvy+ways+to+make+a+final+exit;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/savvy-ways-to-make-final-exit.html" title="The+savvy+ways+to+make+a+final+exit"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" border=0 class="socialbkmark" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=The+savvy+ways+to+make+a+final+exit&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/savvy-ways-to-make-final-exit.html"" target="_blank"&gt; 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However I always try to make my personal diary as productive to my therapy process and to  provide a useful insight to others. So don't worry u won't hear bitch about nonsense garbage of petty human emotion. Any how I got bored with my writting prospect investment paper to Dubai and here in US. So I guess I will post one of my old work that I was involved in before the company diverted my attention to RFID. I really love to work with this project agian but with current obstacles I probably will never see the light of day on this paper. Oh if you guys want to use this paper to get an A on your business term paper you're more than welcome to cause it's still better than having it accumalting electronic dust in my hard drive.&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://communitymobile.com/cmlogo7.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;From Kirk &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;To: Fellow Investors&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16;"&gt;Mission&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16;"&gt; Statement&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Throughout time communication is an essential part of human survival. Let it be for hunting, cementing a relationship, alerting others for danger. Phonetic writing came about as a recorder of the past stories, which we all can hear someone speaking in our head, perhaps a story from a strange unknown realm or a story of ones heritage. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;However as time progresses both speech and writing have always shared a formidable obstacle, the lack of instantaneous exchange through distance. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;With the advent of the Internet, the reversal of isolated human knowledge and cultures are heading for a reunification. From the days of sending messages on the horses and sailing ships is noting but a mere distance past. The speed of light has enabled us to send thoughts and feelings, &lt;span style=""&gt;conveniently&lt;/span&gt; without an economic burden to the far reach corners of the developed world. It is an enduring testament that it is not the content of knowledge that define the sophistication of one society with another but it always has been the medium of the information and the velocity that disseminated it throughout a particular community.&lt;b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;At present the 942 million people living in the world's developed economies enjoy five time better access to fixed and mobile services, nine times better access to Internet services and own 13 times more PCs than the 85% of the world's population living in low and lower-middle income countries. But while figures do show a clear improvement over the last ten years in bridging the gap between information haves and have-nots., they nonetheless fail to paint a true picture for many rural dwellers, whose communities are still often un-served by any form of information technology infrastructure.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;At the current stage of Thai market for broadband access, the only viable choices are broadband DSL and ADSL. Even though both have become so fast and somewhat economical, however the prices are beyond any developed nations to justify with a moderate promise of speed. For Example the use of a 512K local connection &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;personal ADSL prices vary from a flat fee of only 590 baht ($15) per month for individuals on 256K connections to over 10,000 baht/month ($250) for companies on very high speed connections, or mixed fee for connections for X hours and then Y baht per hour for overtime. The ADSL speeds offered and your actual speed will vary depending on not only your subscribed speed, but also what part of &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Bangkok&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; you are in. Some parts of &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Bangkok&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; are simply faster. No one in a developed nation such as United Stated would ever compromise with such unreliability of quality and service. Because any average American citizen can have access to 10Mbps Broadband Cable line for $40 a month with 24/7 reliability, throughout most of the major metropolitan areas in the continent. It is a fact that ones must accept that through poor investment of the fixed Information Technology infrastructure in the earlier government administrations and the enduring &lt;span style=""&gt;bureaucratic&lt;/span&gt; red tapes. The full potential of true broadband access in Thai Market has been tragically retarded. However the trend of this depressing cycle can be averted with a promise of an emerging technology, not just for &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Bangkok&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; but for an entire country, it is the advent of WiMax.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;WiMAX is a broadband wireless technology that is largely supported by the computer and the telecom industry in &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;United States&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, cost-effective and standard base. It is engineered to deliver the latest type of ubiquitous fixed and mobile services such as VoIP, Information Technology and Video at very low cost. WiMAX systems are able to cover a large geographical area, up to 50 km and to deliver significant bandwidth to end-users up to 72 Mbps with up to 1000 simultaneous connection. Compared with other wired solution such as ADSL or any other wireless or satellite system, WiMAX based access networks will enable operators and service providers to cost-effectively reach million of new potential customers providing them with broadband access. This is even truer for developing countries and rural areas for which the cost/profitability and the demand factors are essential. This obviously includes adequate coverage, reliability, performances (throughput), capacity and applications.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Ease of installation is one of the key issues to lower deployment costs in developing countries or rural areas. In rural areas, the consequences of the long distances from the core network access point and the scattered location of villages, farms and the countryside makes any deployment very costly. In developing countries, the lack of main infrastructure (electricity, roads.), and environmental condition&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;(Temperature, humidity.) adds on the difficulty. Thanks to a superior coverage advantage, the operator/service provider can easily plans a 95% predictability coverage ensuring high installation success rates and controls deployment costs. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;As of December 19 2005, The Communication Authority of Thailand had expressed interest in the business opportunity of WiMax with Intel, who are one of the major key players in ushering all the devices to comply with the WiMax standard by 2007 with Intel equipments (base station, modem and embedded chips).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Despites that there are some technical hurdles that the WiMax has to cross in both of the standard and the hardwares, which soon will be finalized in the end of 2006. It is imperative for us to participate in this venture not as a mere spectator but one of the pioneers, who are willing to take the risk to secure our company a contract with The Communication Authority of Thailand. It is the fruits that ones shall bear to help realized the dream to unite Thai knowledge and share a true freedom of access throughout the rest of the country. Once this journey has completed we will give a gift of this new found gateway of knowledge to the Thai people by giving the rights of service to CAT. And it is our choosing that we shall be responsible for maintenance and consultant in the future. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;I hope that this brief invitation memo will peak your interest in the possibilities that will surely guarantee a fulfilling rewards. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Sincerely Yours&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Important Links &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;CAT expressed interest in Wimax&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 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float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/061704.adware.terrorist.hijacking.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.php?u=http%3A//digg.com/world_news/Laptop_and_Terrorism" frameborder="0" height="82" scrolling="no" width="55"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Tahoma;"&gt;Today I came across a headline about this fella from my &lt;b&gt;home town &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Dallas&lt;/st1:city&gt;, &lt;st1:state st="on"&gt;Texas&lt;/st1:state&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/b&gt; which apparently he got busted for having a load of cash and some rather menacing information in his laptop hard drive and it wasn't porn, here is detail from the Associate Press.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;"  &gt;A man was arrested at &lt;a href="http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=%22Detroit+Metropolitan+Airport%22&amp;sid=breitbart.com" title="You can also highlight word(s) and then shift-click to search."&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Detroit Metropolitan Airport&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; after officials say they found him carrying more than $78,000 in cash and a laptop computer containing information about nuclear materials and cyanide. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Sisayehiticha&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Dinssa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;"  &gt;, an unemployed &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;U.S.&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; citizen, was arrested Tuesday after a dog caught the scent of narcotics on cash he was carrying, according to an affidavit filed in court.When agents asked him if he had any cash to declare, he said he had $18,000, authorities said. But when agents checked his luggage, they found an additional $59,000. When they scrolled through his laptop, they said they found the mysterious files. At a court hearing Wednesday, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Dinssa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;"  &gt; was ordered held in custody until at least until Monday at the request of prosecutors. Assistant U.S. Attorney Leonid Feller argued &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Dinssa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;"  &gt; was a potential risk to the community and federal agents want to get a warrant to search his computer more thoroughly, The &lt;a href="http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=%22Detroit+News%22&amp;sid=breitbart.com" title="You can also highlight word(s) and then shift-click to search."&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Detroit News&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; reported Thursday. U.S. Magistrate Donald &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Scheer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;"  &gt; approved Feller's request to detain him. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Dinssa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;"  &gt;, who is from &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Dallas&lt;/st1:city&gt;, arrived in &lt;a href="http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=detroit&amp;sid=breitbart.com" title="You can also highlight word(s) and then shift-click to search."&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Detroit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=nigeria&amp;amp;sid=breitbart.com" title="You can also highlight word(s) and then shift-click to search."&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Nigeria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by way of &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/st1:city&gt; and was headed for &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Phoenix&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;, Feller said. He is charged with concealing more than $10,000 in his luggage, which carries a &lt;a href="http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=%22maximum+penalty+of+five+years%22&amp;sid=breitbart.com" title="You can also highlight word(s) and then shift-click to search."&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;maximum penalty of five years&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in prison, the &lt;a href="http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=%22Detroit+Free+Press%22&amp;amp;sid=breitbart.com" title="You can also highlight word(s) and then shift-click to search."&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Detroit Free Press&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; reported.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Tahoma;" &gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Tahoma;"&gt;    It is tragic that poor fella might has been mistaken for a terrorist, because for all we know he might just felt like going to blow some change in Vegas or perhaps heading off to an Islamic wedding and I know they do give a generous amount of cash in those kind of occasion. Though to many people who've read this article might be terrifying about the fact that the home grown terrorism is on the rise in the Western countries, especially in &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Europe&lt;/st1:place&gt; where social prejudice against Islamic community is still being tolerated as a collateral damage by their respective government. As for &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;United States&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; where many corporate workers are using laptop on their daily means to support their livelihood this has become a rising concern among the regular IT folks like me. To further elaborate this, here is the article about the &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;United States&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; custom will now have the rights to seize any laptop equipment without your permission at the port of entry for an indefinite detainment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/24/business/24road.html?ex=1319342400&amp;amp;en=197e01a651dc50ac&amp;ei=5088&amp;amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss" target="_blank"&gt;Laptops Have No Right To Privacy At U.S. Borders&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Until recently, their biggest concern was that someone might steal the laptop. But now &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;"  &gt;there’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;s a new worry — that the laptop will be seized or its contents scrutinized at &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;United  States&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; customs and &lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/i/immigration_and_refugees/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="More articles about immigration."&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;immigration&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; checkpoints upon entering the &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;United   States&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; from abroad.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Tahoma;"&gt;     So what does all these related to any person who lives are depending on carrying their electronic devices for a legitimate reason ? Well you're all getting screwed royally big time in the name of "War on Terror". First we all have to give up our freedom of expression and the Constitution protection of the American citizens because very low tech terrorist thugs ram two planes into the Word Trade tower. Despite promise of progress on the War on Terrorism the US government has invested over a trillion dollar on high tech gadgetries and man power with an obscene war drama of Shock and Awe, still at the end of day most of terrorist around the world from &lt;b&gt;September 11th to the bombing of the London subway&lt;/b&gt; all the terrorist &lt;b&gt;didn't even bother to carry a damm laptop to carry out their successful attacks. &lt;/b&gt;Obviously the folks at the Homeland Security are spending too much time watching &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_%28TV_series%29"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:13;"&gt;24&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; contemplating the next high-tech attack from the people that hiding out in places barely has a descent phone connection in some godforsaken desserts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Alright let's entertain the &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;US&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; government the thought of technologically advance terrorist for a movement. Imagine there was this Middle Eastern second generation immigrant who was educated in the Ivy League college had the American dream of life, however one day he went back to his homeland and mysteriously got brain washed to be a jihadist bending on destroying the infidels in the West. Most of you might think this idea might only be viable in the realm of the Hollywood fantasy but I can assure that a significant amount of destructive intelligent scholar who are aiding the top terrorist organization in the world, majority of them happen to be US Ivy League college graduates. And if god forbids he is thinking about carrying very important information about the plans and implementations, he would never even bother to be stupid enough having them on his damm laptop heading back to the States ! Here is only three items that he needs to carry out his devious plan of knowledge transfers and they only involve in freely available open source  technology.(Don't worry I'm not going to show you the DYI process I'm not a supporter of those fucking nut case)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13;"  &gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;1. &lt;b&gt;Google&lt;/b&gt; - he could just easily turn his Gmail account&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:130%;"  &gt; int&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:130%;"  &gt;o a digital storage medium which he will have the ability to access them anywhere in the word for free.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegonagraphy"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Stegonagraphy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; -There are plenty of free avai&lt;span style="font-family:Tahoma;"&gt;lable too&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Tahoma;"&gt;ls online which can turn any documents and schematic and hide them completely out of sight in any pictures and video files.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. &lt;b&gt;Airfare&lt;/b&gt; - once all the digi&lt;span style="font-family:Tahoma;"&gt;tal co&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Tahoma;"&gt;tent has been hiding in the &lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/cloudware.html"&gt;inte&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/cloudware.html"&gt;rnet cloud&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Tahoma;"&gt;(which ironically could be at some server farms in the US), that mentally sadistic individual&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Tahoma;"&gt; co&lt;span style="font-family:Tahoma;"&gt;ld just easily fly back to the United States with his student visa pretending that he just came back from his pilgrimage vacation visiting in the Middle East. Or heck he could just have his buddies in &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;America&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; carry out the coordination by just a mere download on another rece&lt;span style="font-family:Tahoma;"&gt;iving end.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13;"  &gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13;"  &gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13;"  &gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13;"  &gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13;"  &gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13;"  &gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13;"  &gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13;"  &gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13;"  &gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13;"  &gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13;"  &gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13;"  &gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13;"  &gt;  &lt;span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:12;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;So Now I hope that you all would understand the very nature of terrorism it has nothing to do with who got the best electronic equipments or the most precise GPS guided bombs the very idea of all destructive force against a society is base upon an improvise creative tactics. 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Many will definitely fail for several reasons, let it be cultural differences, technical deficiency, or just shear stupidity. Even though there is no actual guarantee in conducting a successful deal out there in the wilderness outside the &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;u1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;u1:place st="on"&gt;United   States&lt;/u1:place&gt;&lt;/u1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, however there is a definite universal common sense that one can feel and ride out the eventual success. And without the further delayed let's embark.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:13;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ethics of Reverse Engineering &lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;        To many people the practice of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_engineer" target="_blank"&gt;reverse engineer&lt;/a&gt; might seems unethical , I can assure its a load of crap the corporate world has bestow upon anyone in the bottom of the power food chain. Systematically impose a delusional guideline to keep the power balance in control. The definition of reverse engineer is&lt;span style="" lang="EN"&gt; the process of discovering the technological principles of a mechanical application through analysis of its structure, function and operation. It often involves taking something (e.g., a mechanical &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device" title="Device"&gt;device&lt;/a&gt;, an &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_component" title="Electronic component"&gt;electronic component&lt;/a&gt;, a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software" title="Software"&gt;software&lt;/a&gt; program) apart and analyzing its workings in detail, usually with the intention to construct a new device or program that does the same thing without actually copying anything from the original. So according to this axiom, reverse engineer is merely a rediscover of knowledge through modularized analysis, hence it is your rights to hack into anything which simply is the process of the natural evolution, from the order of creation lead to the chaotic entropy. From the disarray of the elementary knowledge you can reverse the process, integrating what is better eventually in the end, a better standard comes out from the process of rediscovery. So reverse engineering is pretty much a lot like sex, only your parent tell you about many taboos that is forbidden just because they are start losing the grip of the modern contemporary. Morality is just a ton of ever changing standard according to time or the social acceptance. Lift up your inhibition, and its a guarantee pleasurable adventure just like sex.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN"  style="font-size:13;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Net and Jet Effect&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;        These days are the golden age of a reverse engineer, affordable airfare allow you to venture of to anyway a mission beckon on any desire notice. &lt;a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19441287-601,00.html" target="_blank"&gt;Establishing allegiance and residency is nothing but an archaic idea&lt;/a&gt;, now you can be anywhere without a permission from the corporate masters, the very idea that the Ronin themselves shall be envy. The Net will let you do business and always stay in touch without borders, hence you can be everywhere and yet your presence is no where. Only the free shall escape the home bound oppression and taste the joy of a mobile society, while the Net expose the new ideas and customs underpinning that social order. These effects will be viral and ubiquitous like a wild fire. Globalization of technology makes assimilation of a particular knowledge redundant and old-fashioned.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN"  style="font-size:13;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;10:30 Rules&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN"  style="font-size:16;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;           This particular rule is the number that shall save you rear for many times to come in the future, venturing into new territories. Fortune shall favor the bold and the creative, however many would fail to realized that money bring many evils from men. Do not believe that once your work has been fulfilled, your employer always will live up to the expectation. It is your duty to take 30 percent of the profit of the entire assignment, for that 10 percent more than likely you will have to accept it as a loss for paying your ways to the corrupt officials or saving one own life. It is better to lose 10 percent of your sweat then to lose 100 percent of you life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/reverse-engineering-axiom.html" title="Reverse Engineering Axiom" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=Reverse+Engineering+Axiom;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/reverse-engineering-axiom.html" title="Reverse+Engineering+Axiom"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=Reverse+Engineering+Axiom&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/reverse-engineering-axiom.html" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/reverse-engineering-axiom.html&amp;amp;title=Reverse+Engineering+Axiom" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-8025581571399709443?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/8025581571399709443/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=8025581571399709443' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/8025581571399709443'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/8025581571399709443'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/reverse-engineering-axiom.html' title='The Reverse Engineer Axiom'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-5029449066650751966</id><published>2006-11-16T11:06:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-11-16T12:13:18.891+08:00</updated><title type='text'>The 10 Best Dystopias</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;    Well hello there again, there is nothing like work related insomnia to get my mind on a belligerent acid trip. Any how just got done with 20 hours work on reading and analyzing &lt;a href="http://www.isilon.com/"&gt;Parallel Cluster Storage solution&lt;/a&gt; so I came up with a good list. What if the end of the world is coming, for whatever the reason might be I would really wanted to visit this list of hellish wastelands, hey Sodomy Sex, enchancement drugs, and kick-ass super weapons comparing to this dystopia of the real, the fictional one is quite a welcoming change.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:18;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;The 10 Best Dystopias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;10. &lt;a href="http://blog.myspace.com/vforvendetta.warnerbros.com"&gt;London&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;i style=""&gt;V for Vendetta&lt;/i&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Homosexuality and bad British comedy is outlawed, gratuitous explosion and beat down by the man in black make South Central seems like a &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Disneyland&lt;/st1:place&gt;. So if you are down to follow a masked protagonist psychopath, this definitely can be your super gothic neighborhood.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://comicsmedia.ign.com/comics/image/article/696/696867/v-for-vendetta-comic-vs-film-20060317045305808-000.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;9. &lt;a href="http://www.madmaxthemovie.com/"&gt;Australia&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;i style=""&gt;The Road Warrio&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;r&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;All you need to live the good life here is a full tank of gas for your armor-plated muscle car. Sure, that Lord Humungus guy seems a little worrisome, but there is still a bright side of the alternative lifestyles, a heaven for the fetish community.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/Humungous.jpg" /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;8. &lt;a href="http://blog.myspace.com/whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com"&gt;1999&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;i style=""&gt;The Matrix&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;On the dessert of the real, you are nothing but a cannibalistic battery cell in a cocoon field. In the digital wonderland you are in slave into an eternal perpetual bubble economy. And if you pop the right pill, you get to run around in a leather dress up with guns - lots of guns.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/s/smith1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;7.Htrae aka &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Htrae"&gt;Bizzaro World&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;i style=""&gt;Superman&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;On this planet, everything is backward and ugly, Alarm clocks tell you to go to bed and the dog will walk you butts every evening. Everyone on this planet is so happy they cry all the time !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.batman-superman.com/superman/img/bizzaro.gif" /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;6. &lt;a href="http://www.thx1138movie.com/"&gt;25th Century&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;i style=""&gt;THX 1138&lt;/i&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Can you say pill orgies ! if you love taking pills and have no purpose to exist in life then this subterranean resort of the 25th century is for you. Life is highly regulated, sex is illegal, and daily ingestion of sedatives is required by law. For entertainment people watch holograms engage in activities that range from sadism to meaningless verbal discourse. Sound like a bad night out at Club One&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.popboks.com/img/film/thx.jpg" /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;5. &lt;a href="http://www.starwars.com/databank/location/tatooine/"&gt;Tatoonie&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;i style=""&gt;Star Wars&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;It may be far from the civilized Republic in the outer rim of the galaxy, however you can score droids, sex slaves, or a kid slave who soon to be the most sadistic dictator the galaxy has ever seen. Then just get your hustling skill to the test with them Jawas and if you manage to be on Jabbas shit list then sorry you are fucked !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nostalgix.org/blog/pictures/Episode3Teasersmallsize.jpg" /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;4. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Divine_Comedy"&gt;Hell&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;i style=""&gt;Dante's Inferno&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;Chill out in the outer circle, admiring the view of the dammed kicking your rhetorical rhythm with Homer and Virgil, break dancing is optional. As the night falls, drop down few circles to hangout with Uncle Lu himself, however the real after party is in the gamblers and the fornicators section. Can you say Eternal Damnation Yahweh !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://archives.thedaily.washington.edu/1999/111099/N96.inferno2.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;3. &lt;a href="http://www.rockstargames.com/sanandreas/"&gt;San Andrea&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;i style=""&gt;Grand Theft Auto&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Want a ride?&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Jack one. Drive it through anything that moves and you feel happy that you can run over the cops without getting a ticket. The downside is eventually the cops will kill you, but the afterlife is the damm reset button over and over again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.atcomp.cz/katalog/829061501/Grand-Theft-Auto-San-Andrea.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;2. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner"&gt;Los Angeles&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;i style=""&gt;Blade Runner&lt;/i&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Cheap exotic animal knockoff and love bots that look worse than a beat down hook from Harry Hines. The whole world turn Japanese and yes just like the damm song too, can somebody go hurl some sushi with Harrison Ford in the back alley.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dandalf.com/dandalf/bladepostsm.gif" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1"&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.huxley.net/"&gt;London&lt;/a&gt;      from &lt;i style=""&gt;The Brave New World&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Sexual freedom and sodomy are encouraged, the gratuitous consumerism will make your black American Express card melt. Drug abuse aren't just tolerated, they are encourage through your social network. Sound a lot like &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Dallas&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; to me well takes a Soma and you will agree !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0006545793.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/10-best-dystopias.html" title="The 10 Best Dystopias to visit" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/digg.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp&lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=The+10+Best+Dystopias+to+visit;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/10-best-dystopias.html" title="The+10+Best+Dystopias+to+visit"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/yahoo.png" target="_blank" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp&lt;a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=The+10+Best+Dystopias+to+visit&amp;u=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/10-best-dystopias.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/furl.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp&lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/10-best-dystopias.html&amp;amp;title=The+10+Best+Dystopias+to+visit" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.feedforall.com/delicious.png" class="socialbkmark" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.php?u=http%3A//digg.com/movies/10_Best_Dystopias_to_Visit" frameborder="0" height="82" scrolling="no" width="55"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a &lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-5029449066650751966?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/5029449066650751966/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=5029449066650751966' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/5029449066650751966'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/5029449066650751966'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/10-best-dystopias.html' title='The 10 Best Dystopias'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-8061698824675537007</id><published>2006-11-14T23:08:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-11-15T16:31:39.417+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Singapore'/><title type='text'>Disneyland with the Death Penalty</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/11/singapore_police_badge.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; width: 200px; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/11/singapore_police_badge.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today I came across this article on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/14/singapore-teen-facing-jail-for-surfing-with-neighborfi/#comments"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;engadget&lt;/span&gt;.com&lt;/a&gt; which left me utter less with a mild case of nostalgia. Here is the headline.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/14/singapore-teen-facing-jail-for-surfing-with-neighborfi/" rel="bookmark"&gt;&lt;span id="pt701274"&gt;Singapore teen facing jail for surfing with &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;NeighborFi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p class="byline"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Seventeen-year-old &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Garyl&lt;/span&gt; Tan &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Jia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Luo&lt;/span&gt; has the distinct honor of being the first person charged under Singapore's new Computer Misuse Act. The alleged crime? Piggybacking on his neighbor's &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;WiFi&lt;/span&gt; connection without permission. This apparently wouldn't have gone so far had the neighbor (we'll call him Mr. Wilson) not lodged a complaint against the teen. While Tan was released on bail after a grilling by police, he's facing some serious consequences for enjoying his free ride, including up to &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;10,000 Singapore dollars ($6,425)&lt;/span&gt; in fines and up to three years in jail. Given &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Signapore's&lt;/span&gt; plans to blanket the entire country in &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/singapore-makes-wifi-free-adds-computer-subsidies/"&gt;free &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;WiFi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, however, you'd think they'd go a little easy on him for jumping the gun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Apparently a little joy &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;wardriving&lt;/span&gt; has run this little minor into some deep trouble of with the law. Plus the Singaporean government was so eager to put their first sacrificial lamb on the alter, they didn't hesitate to open a can of smack down on this little poor fella. It is true that nobody can tolerate a free loader in a LAN party, but pushing a minor to be your public enemy number one for a newly enact law is definitely "&lt;a href="http://www.visitsingapore.com/publish/stbportal/en/index.html"&gt;Unique&lt;/a&gt;" in Singapore. Only this place where a minor can be incarcerated for using somebody else &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;internet&lt;/span&gt;, but it's quite alright by the state to be a &lt;a href="http://www.singapore-window.org/sw05/051004af.htm"&gt;prostitute while you're still a minor&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Though I really have to admit that Singapore is a place full of contrast which will make "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World"&gt;The Brave New World"&lt;/a&gt; really proud of. The skylines of mega structure city-state sure are the testament to their economic achievements. And now the financial market growth has surpass &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;HongKong&lt;/span&gt; as a crown jewel of the Asian fianancial market. As I watch my daily morning &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;CNBC&lt;/span&gt; news, Singapore will periodically emerge from the market data every 10 minutes or so,  plus the bombardment of "&lt;a href="http://www.visitsingapore.com/publish/stbportal/en/index.html"&gt;Uniquely Singapore&lt;/a&gt;" tourism &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;campaign&lt;/span&gt; which basically promote "be happy or die" message to the masses really bewildered me at some point. Additionally the whole society are kept under a &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;disillusions&lt;/span&gt; civic &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;obedience&lt;/span&gt; not by a &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;Somers&lt;/span&gt; like substance in the book but by a thing call "Fine". One thing is certain, Singapore is sure a "fine" city. Everything from &lt;a title="Smoking" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking"&gt;smoking&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a title="Durian" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian"&gt;&lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;durians&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; are banned on Singapore's public places, if you don't know what the heck is &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"&gt;durians&lt;/span&gt; not to worry cause what kind of country would ban fruit in public places anyway(no matter how rank it might be it's a &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"&gt;damm&lt;/span&gt; fruit !). To further elaborate this &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;uniquely sadistic legal system&lt;/span&gt; I have listed below some of Singapore's ridiculous laws that might land your butt in their holding cell while the cop is literally raping your wallet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/dd/Singapore_MRT_Fines.jpg/180px-Singapore_MRT_Fines.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Uniquely Singapore Law&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CHEWING GUM - shit is that &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"&gt;niccorate&lt;/span&gt; ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The sale of &lt;a title="Chewing gum ban in Singapore" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewing_gum_ban_in_Singapore"&gt;chewing gum was forbidden&lt;/a&gt; for 12 years until May 2004, where the sale of chewing gum for medical or dental purposes from a pharmacist was approved by the government, although gum sold as candy still remains prohibited.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SPITTING - not hot fire&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heavy fines and &lt;a title="Corrective Work Order" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrective_Work_Order"&gt;Corrective Work Order&lt;/a&gt; are levied on people who spit or litter in public areas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ANAL SEX - none here&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Currently, &lt;a title="Pornography" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography"&gt;pornography&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a title="Oral sex" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_sex"&gt;oral sex&lt;/a&gt; when not a precursor to regular &lt;a title="Sexual intercourse" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_intercourse"&gt;sexual intercourse&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a title="Anal sex" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_sex"&gt;anal sex&lt;/a&gt; are illegal in Singapore. Magazines, movies and TV shows have to undergo government classification before being released to the general public and sales of several kinds of newspapers and magazines have been banned or restricted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PROSTITUTION - Barely legal action&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prostitution is legal in Singapore but pimping and public solicitation are not. Licensed brothels operate in designated areas, some of them catering to the large community of foreign male workers. Plus if you're looking for a barely legal type of action just set your sail right over there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;DRUGS - please don't bother to ask "Do you Party"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Anyone caught with more than or equal to 15 g (0.5 ounces) of &lt;a title="Heroin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin"&gt;heroin&lt;/a&gt;, 28 g (1 ounce) of &lt;a title="Morphine" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphine"&gt;morphine&lt;/a&gt; or 480 g (17 ounces) of &lt;a title="Cannabis" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis"&gt;cannabis&lt;/a&gt; faces mandatory &lt;a title="Capital punishment in Singapore" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Singapore"&gt;capital punishment&lt;/a&gt;, as they are deemed to be trafficking in these substances. The stated quantities are the nett weight of the substances after they have been isolated by laboratory analysis. From 1991-2004, 400 people have been hanged in Singapore, mostly for drug trafficking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   As a result, Singapore has one of the highest execution rates in the world relative to population. &lt;a title="Science fiction" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction"&gt;Science fiction&lt;/a&gt; writer &lt;a title="William Gibson (novelist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibson_%28novelist%29"&gt;William Gibson&lt;/a&gt; once has described Singapore as &lt;i&gt;"&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.04/gibson.html"&gt;Disneyland with the death penalty&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;". &lt;/i&gt;So next time you ever wonder how those future &lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22"&gt;dystopia&lt;/span&gt; might be envision in the world of &lt;a title="Aldous Huxley" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley"&gt;Aldous Huxley&lt;/a&gt; or&lt;i style="font-style: italic;"&gt; 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float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://static.flickr.com/48/117073492_de4280145b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Today Ive received a message from&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendid=29817132&amp;amp;MyToken=46c59337-f429-467f-a076-3d3928fa9210" id="ctl00_Main_ctl00_FriendSpace1_FriendRepeater_ctl05_friendLink"&gt;Mr. Nasty Raps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendid=29817132&amp;amp;MyToken=46c59337-f429-467f-a076-3d3928fa9210" id="ctl00_Main_ctl00_FriendSpace1_FriendRepeater_ctl05_friendImageLink"&gt;&lt;img src="http://myspace-986.vo.llnwd.net/00626/68/91/626321986_s.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;So check this out. One of the guys I work with goes to &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Bangkok&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; a few times every year. He ended up getting an apt for his girls there, and has now married one of them! He's in the process of getting her over here. Is that shit normal? Is it that good over there? Is that like her hitting the lottery? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;Another guy here just booked a ticket there for this fall. Any advice for him? Say something that leads him not to marry a Thai prostitute. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;Let me know &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;Nasty&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;Well when the subject from the land of the smile show up why I'm always been appointed to be an expert about the Thai contemporary culture? I can assure you that I would not be the ultimate source on anything &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Thai.&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; However I'm confident that throughout the time that I have been hanging out with a few Robin hoods here in D town throughout 15 plus years I have accumulated enough knowledge on the inner working of the modern Thai social behavior through the eyes of an Asian Thai, me. On this particular topic of intercontinental Panda Chasing I do feel certain obligation to prevent my fellow &lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;American Panda Chaser&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/i&gt;from falling victim to rent a girlfriend. To Mr. Nasty Raps defense I really do believe there are certain group of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;American men often falls madly in love with the first Thai girl they meet - even if she's a rough street prostitute who doesn't speak English. Love-sick &lt;i style=""&gt;farang&lt;/i&gt; men are queuing up at the altar to tie the knot with their dubious Thai girls,&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt; which can lead to VDs, paying for her green card to pursue her own pleasurable entrepreneurship, or lost of entire life saving. If you don't want to believe me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, statistically when normal couple marries with the best intentions, the chances of success are barely 50/50. Mixed race marriages are even more fragile. Throw a Thai con-woman into the mix and your misery is guaranteed. If she is an ex-hooker, the divorce courts won't reproach her for fucking your friends, neighbors and teenage sons either.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Kirk Sato's guide for a good Panda Chasing in Thailand&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;10.&lt;/span&gt; Never pickup a college student that hangout around RCA and Pat Pong on a school night. Common you know why they are there for a reason.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;9.&lt;/span&gt; Massage parlor and Go-Go bar is not a productive dating place no matter how &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;drunk and delusional you might be.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;8.&lt;/span&gt; Do prepare that more then likely youre making way more money then her because I don't need to remind you that its still a third world nation. So prepare to pay up on the dates. However,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; if you noticed how often she talks about her financial problems. If you didn't get the hint, she will have to ask you for money more bluntly. So bail!&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;7.&lt;/span&gt; If she got an expensive cell and it rings constantly chances are its her Gig calling. (Thai Slang for fuck buddies) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Thai girls do not have close male friends - western or Thai - only suitors and punters.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;6.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Fluent colloquial English is a bad sign. If she understands "get your kit off" but not "balance of payments deficit" then she probably learned it between the love making sessions. Ordinary Thais do not speak English well. However the upper class is extremely well adapt to the linguistic set of American Urban Language. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;5.&lt;/span&gt; Your girl may be plausible for a Virgin Mary but her friends might give the game away. If her girlfriends drink, smoke, play pool, have tattoos or just seem a bit rough then they are hookers and so too is your girl.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;4. &lt;/span&gt;Many guys seem to leave their brain behind when they go to &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Thailand&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;. The media loves to stereotype the daft old git who believes that a stunning Thai babe is crazy for him. So know thy ugly ass self be true.&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;3. &lt;/span&gt;Do not succumb to the &lt;i style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;White Knight Syndrome&lt;/i&gt;, no matter how lonely, kind-hearted person you are.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Arriving in &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Bangkok&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; with plenty of damsels apparently in distress to choose from. It is a false belief that hookers want to be saved, they all have enough money to save themselves.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;2.&lt;/span&gt; Thai girls differ from their respectable western sisters only in their approachability, sunny disposition, striking good looks and devious nature. They are similar in that they enjoy casual sex with the best looking guy they can find.&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;1.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; A sincere, marriage-minded man should avoid hookers at all costs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;For a complete definitive guide to anything Thai without the bullshit tourism bias go to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.mangosauce.com/"&gt;www.mangosauce.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span class="blacktextnb10"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;Disclaimer Of all women I ever been with Asians, Blondies, Bonitas, and Brown Sugars the woman that ever loved me the most happen to be a Thai woman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.php?u=http%3A//digg.com/political_opinion/Guide_for_a_Good_Panda_Chasing_in_Thailand" frameborder="0" height="82" scrolling="no" width="55"&gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;&amp;amp;amp;lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&amp;amp;amp;gt;lt&amp;amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;amp;gt;;&amp;amp;amp;lt;span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&amp;amp;amp;gt;br&amp;amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com2006/11/guide-for-good-panda-chasing-in.html"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://digg.com/img/badges/32x32-digg-guy.gif" height="32" width="32" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-2312792339732067757?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/2312792339732067757/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=2312792339732067757' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/2312792339732067757'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/2312792339732067757'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/guide-for-good-panda-chasing-in.html' title='Guide for a good Panda Chasing in Thailand'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-7163565242980487736</id><published>2006-11-12T15:51:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-11-12T16:18:39.547+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scifi'/><title type='text'>Reincarnation</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.htponline.com/images/rollies/Rollie-Reincarnation.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.htponline.com/images/rollies/Rollie-Reincarnation.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;big&gt;        This is an excerpt from one of my many drunken intellectual talks with my best friend &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/skparvin"&gt;Steve&lt;/a&gt;, which for the longest time I wanted to put into writing due the fact that I always have a nasty habit of coming up with a descent idea and shuffle it into an oblivion the next hangover day. Despites the chaotic work schedule and relentless partying, yes I do read and analyze the world surrounding me, especially when that reality has been induced by massive amount of alcohol. You all will be in for a treat, the last time when I was drunk and high up the heaven I wrote a hypothesis on &lt;a href="http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&amp;friendID=55352699&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;blogID=107077903"&gt;why are we alone in the universe&lt;/a&gt; which is quite thought provoking. Now I shall venture on the very idea of reincarnation and I can explain to you in simplistic term without all religious overtones.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;To me I treat religion like substance consumption only in moderation, too much of anything that affect the mind will always result in psychotic episode including beliefs. All of my wonders about the religious interest in the implication of reincarnation came to me in clarity with an article I read a while back and the physic theory of Uncertain Principle. For the people who are not familiar with the theory here is a quick rundown. &lt;/big&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-indent: 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;big&gt;In &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_physics" title="Quantum physics"&gt;quantum physics&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;b&gt;Heisenberg uncertainty principle&lt;/b&gt; or the &lt;b&gt;Heisenberg indeterminacy principle&lt;/b&gt; the latter name given to it by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr" title="Niels Bohr"&gt;Niels Bohr&lt;/a&gt;  states that one cannot measure values (with arbitrary &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision" title="Precision"&gt;precision&lt;/a&gt;) of certain &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugate_quantities" title="Conjugate quantities"&gt;conjugate quantities&lt;/a&gt;, which are pairs of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable" title="Observable"&gt;observables&lt;/a&gt; of a single &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_particle" title="Elementary particle"&gt;elementary particle&lt;/a&gt;. These pairs include the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position" title="Position"&gt;position&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum" title="Momentum"&gt;momentum&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;big&gt;The basis of the Uncertainty Principle is that one compares the frequency of a wave with the beats of a standard clock. In essence, this is the same as to allow the two frequencies to interfere with each other. How would one know if the two frequencies are or are not exactly, precisely the same, if one did not have an infinite amount of time to measure this and be certain?&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;big&gt;Basically in English this theory is the construct of all randomness in the universe which with higher scope of perception, pattern does emerge through the passage of time. Anyhow let's get back to the article I was referring to earlier it's involve a collaboration with a geneticist and a statistician a few months back, if you guys want to read the full article here it is &lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/news/wireservice/0,71298-0.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wired&lt;/b&gt; News: Human &lt;b&gt;Family Tree&lt;/b&gt;: Shallow Roots&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;big&gt;So what do supercomputing, the laws of physic and human family tree have in common? Well all points lead into one conclusion that at any given point in time of the universe, the past, present, or future there will be a repeat process and so to the permutation of life. And if you repeat the process thru thousand and billion times over, the impression of the past shall emerge in the form of  inherited pattern. So many might question my motive as far as am I a supporter of the reincarnation in many eastern religious beliefs? Sorry that particular flavor of metaphor does not sway me one bit due to this particular flaw. How could any individual be that very person when all of his genetic makeup and life experience altered in such a way that he does not have any similarity with oneself in the past. And in this particular postulate, religion fails miserably to come up with a sounding argument. Also the element of the so call soul, the very concept is still as abstract hypothesis more than a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_Theory"&gt;String Theory&lt;/a&gt; so gives me a break! However if you willing to look beyond the mundane distraction of religion and embrace the simplicity of science. The term of reincarnation in the scientific point view is far more simple and elegant. "For all the permutation of life, there will be an individual in one point in time with the exact resemblance came into an existence with his or her own unique experience". So I'll et you all ponder which flavor of perception would suit you best.&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.php?u=http%3A//digg.com/general_sciences/Reincarnation_a_scientific_approach" frameborder="0" height="82" scrolling="no" width="55"&gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;br&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/reincarnation_12.html"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/32x32-digg-guy.gif" height="32" width="32" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-7163565242980487736?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/7163565242980487736/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=7163565242980487736' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/7163565242980487736'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/7163565242980487736'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/reincarnation_12.html' title='Reincarnation'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-3917154927080271313</id><published>2006-11-11T02:47:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2006-11-11T21:25:36.538+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Robosexual</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zoovy.com/img/givemetoys/W190-H199-Bffffff/ru_604_f_wu_gndrbndr.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://static.zoovy.com/img/givemetoys/W190-H199-Bffffff/ru_604_f_wu_gndrbndr.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is a little prelude of my article today, which is from my previous blog entry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 class="post-title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/08/future-of-sexy-robots.html"&gt;The Future of Sexy Robots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The race is on to keep humans one step ahead of robots: an international team of scientists and academics is to publish a code of ethics for machines as they become more and more sophisticated. Dilemmas may arrive sooner than we think, says Henrik Christensen. "&lt;b style=""&gt;People are going to be having sex with robots within five years&lt;/b&gt;".he said. So should limits be set on the appearance, for example, of such robotic sex toys? The greatest danger, however, is likely to lie with robots that are able to learn from their "experiences". As systems develop, robots are likely to have much more sophisticated self-learning mechanisms built into them and it may become impossible to predict exactly how they will behave.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;Well that particular article you've just read was from Times UK&lt;/span&gt;, though might seem a little absurd at point in time past August, however I can assure you that the trend of lover robots hitting up the department store near you are only inevitable. Despite some major technical hurdles such as the actual moving mechanism to simulate the sensuality simulator(no punned intended). Many innovators from Asia such as Japan and China are seriously getting involve in this new found volatile industry. As for the question if there is going to be a demand for this particular fetish? Have no fear because many therapists on your neck of the wood have already named the Robot fetishism symptoms which is &lt;b&gt;ASFR&lt;/b&gt; or &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technosexual" title="Technosexual"&gt;technosexuality&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;This particular metal fixation is categorize by  &lt;/span&gt;a deviant fetishism&lt;/b&gt;, is simply a desire to have a ready-made &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android" title="Android"&gt;android&lt;/a&gt; partner. This partner can be desired for sex, companionship, or any combination of the two. This trend of robotics research and development has its root from industrial robotic services to be companion and carer robots for the elderly, has as its logical continuation the design and construction of partner robots, sufficiently human-like and sufficiently appealing in various ways to take on the role of a partner in a relationship with a human being. The main distinguishing feature of this fantasy is that the android is a completely artificial construct, manufactured solely to fulfil the wishes of its owner. This type of fantasy or situation is referred to as &lt;b&gt;built&lt;/b&gt;. The second type of fantasy prevalent within &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ASFR&lt;/span&gt; is referred to as &lt;b&gt;transformation&lt;/b&gt;. This involves a human who has been either willingly or unwillingly turned into an android. That person can be either oneself or one's partner, or both. It is usually the process of transformation (through whatever means it is achieved) that is the focus of this fantasy.&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;     Both types of robotic demands for social companionship and biological augmentations,  immediately raise many questions relating to humans loving and being loved by robots. Can we treat robots as life partners equally and being similarly treated by them. What about marrying robots and even perhaps becoming robots ourselves? Perhaps this words might not bring you a certain clarity so I will let this  music video clip by Bjork a better explaining to you all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the makers of &lt;a href="http://www.ghostintheshell.tv/" target="_blank"&gt;Ghost in the Shell&lt;/a&gt; I give you &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Lizzy the Lesbian Robot&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sVp2C_RW_To"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sVp2C_RW_To" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Umm now your mind has been prime nostalgically to absorb further emotional disillusion in the desert of the "Real". I will take you on a tour of some the real-life fembots current in the development around the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="BeginvidDesclJZTWwy6eUw"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actroid"&gt;Actroid-DER2 Robo&lt;/a&gt;t featured at &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nextfest.net/"&gt;WIRED Nextfest 2006&lt;/a&gt;, NYC&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;lifelike &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanoid_robot" title="Humanoid robot"&gt;humanoid robot&lt;/a&gt; developed by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osaka_University" title="Osaka University"&gt;Osaka University&lt;/a&gt; and manufactured by Kokoro Company Ltd.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="BeginvidDesclJZTWwy6eUw"&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lJZTWwy6eUw"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lJZTWwy6eUw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Here is another clip of the actroid DER in her homeland, notice how can speak both fluent English and Japanese depending on the geographical location.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5MCevJmwg88"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5MCevJmwg88" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Here is another variation of the DER actroid the"J-girl"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/091ugdiojEM"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/091ugdiojEM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now let's check out the robotic development in China, apparently the scientists there are more keen on having their android sing a perfect karaoke. Notice an extreme blondish physique with some anatomical exaggeration (like the nipples it must be cold !), so are they trying to tell us on a certain short coming ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/074fQp15aZc"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/074fQp15aZc" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    Now let's ponder on a ultimate question,"Can robots fall in love?” Such questions might seem to be unnecessary because love is an experience peculiar to warm-blooded mammals—anything in a programmed entity is merely a simulation. But if a robot exhibits all the same signs and behaviours of a human in love, and if it professes its love for a human, then surely, so far as the recipient is concerned, their robot is indeed in love with them, whatever being in love means to a robot. However what's going to raise another noodle conundrum for the future is&lt;br /&gt; “Will people love them back?” I believe the answer to be an unqualified “Yes”, even this might be appluading to alot of people. But consider the millions of people who develop extremely strong emotional attachments to their pet animals, and the rapidity with which millions developed emotional attachments to their Tamgotchis, both of which are indications as to the strength of emotion that can be felt by humans for non-humans, and as to the feelings that millions will &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;develop for robots when they are more emotionally sophisticated than both animals and Tamagotchis. One advice to all gents and lady out there&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;, one might barely survive the jealousy of a flesh how are you going to coup with a "rage of the machine"? 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Only me and Smash Gorden could deviated such a well thoughtout plan of watching the Omen into drinking venture until you could see Lucifer himself. Trust me alcohol fest from 7:00pm till 2:00am will sure make you wish that hell is not a bad refuge than the hangover next day. As the night went by when I was at Nobu, a usual glamour spot of women and cash flashing playas had me ponder upon the Age old stereotype, the Gold Digger. So I went on the collection some golden rules for hoping that it would be a guide for men to avoid this sub-species of woman&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;7.&lt;/span&gt; She has her name like a stripper or pornstar ex, Cystal,Dom P, Candy,   Bambi, and etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;6.&lt;/span&gt;She has no job or she told you that she is in between jobs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;5&lt;/span&gt;.Her Favorite word is "Shopping"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;4.&lt;/span&gt;She tells you that her "procedure" is "real expensive"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;3.&lt;/span&gt;She wears expensive brand name clothes &amp; jewelry, but she can't  pronounce "Dolce and Gabbana" &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2.&lt;/span&gt;She likes to dance to Hip Hop music but yet not down with the "Black Cats" &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1.&lt;/span&gt;She would like to know how much you earned and she is not charging&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6rr5Y35OJ_U"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6rr5Y35OJ_U" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.php?u=http%3A//digg.com/political_opinion/7_ways_to_spot_a_Gold_Digger/blog" frameborder="0" height="82" scrolling="no" width="55"&gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;br&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;amp;url=http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/7-ways-to-spot-gold-digger.html"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/32x32-digg-guy.gif" height="32" width="32" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/KirkSatoblogger" title="Subscribe to my feed, Kirk Sato@blogger" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6050948919661626638-6934579764795945186?l=kirksato.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/feeds/6934579764795945186/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6050948919661626638&amp;postID=6934579764795945186' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/6934579764795945186'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6050948919661626638/posts/default/6934579764795945186'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kirksato.blogspot.com/2006/11/7-ways-to-spot-gold-digger.html' title='7 ways to spot a Gold Digger'/><author><name>Kirk Sato</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03178621597036684687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050948919661626638.post-2913602216832715989</id><published>2006-11-09T02:19:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-11-09T02:41:46.540+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Astronomy'/><title type='text'>The reason why we are alone in the Universe</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.donhopkins.com/home/Evolve.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.donhopkins.com/home/Evolve.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Well I got bored and tired because Ive been up for over 20 hours trying to finish the stupid presentation for work. Anyway I came across this very interesting article about this particular Russian astronomer who came up with a theory to categorized civilization base on their total energy output. It makes perfect since to me thats why were alone in this universe. Because if you applied the same rule as where we are on the civilization evolutionary scale. its like an ant trying to get hitch hike on an Autobahn full of cars. They cant see or hear you thank God they didnt obliterated us just the fact that youre mere close to its path. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;In 1964, Russian Astromer Nikolai &lt;a href="http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/K/Kardashev.html"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;color:#000000;" &gt;Kardashev&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; proposed &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;a scheme for classifying advanced technological civilizations. He identified three possible types and distinguished between them in terms of the power they could muster for the purposes of interstellar communications. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Type I civilization would be able to marshal energy resources for communications &lt;b style=""&gt;on a planet-wide scale&lt;/b&gt;, equivalent to the entire present power consumption of the human race, or about 10&lt;sup&gt;16&lt;/sup&gt; watts. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Type II civilization would surpass this by a factor of approximately ten billion, making available 10&lt;sup&gt;26&lt;/sup&gt; watts, by exploiting the total energy &lt;b style=""&gt;output of its central star&lt;/b&gt;. Freeman &lt;a href="http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/D/DysonF.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Dyson&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, for example, has shown in general terms how this might be done with a &lt;a href="http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/D/Dysonsp.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Dyson sphere&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Type III civilization would have evolved far enough to tap the energy &lt;b style=""&gt;resources of an entire &lt;a href="http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/G/galaxy.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;galaxy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. This would give a further increase by at least a factor of 10 billion to about 10&lt;sup&gt;36&lt;/sup&gt; watts. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;And Where we at ?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;On this Discriminating scale, the human race would presently qualify as roughly a &lt;b style=""&gt;Type 0.7&lt;/b&gt; (yeah we're &lt;b style=""&gt;0&lt;/b&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Kardashev explored the consequences of a Type II or III civilization diverting all of its non-essential power resources into an effort to communicate with other races. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Type II civilization, he estimated, could send the information equivalent of a medium-sized library across the Galaxy in a transmission burst lasting just 100 seconds (though to travel from one side of the Galaxy to the other would take it tens of thousands of years). The same amount of information could be sent across an intergalactic distance of 10 million light-years with a transmission time of a few weeks. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Type III civilization could broadcast a library of information across the entire observable universe with a transmission time of 3 seconds (although the journey to the most distant receiver, in this case, would take about 10 billion years). Kardashev argued that an &lt;a href="http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/O/Ozma.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Ozma&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;-like search would be unlikely to detect a Type I civilization and that &lt;a href="http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/S/SETI.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;SETI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; programs should concentrate instead on looking for the kind of intense radio signals that might emanate from Type II or III activity .&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;So there you have it ! People trying to justify with space romanticism and religious emotional overtone of why we are alone in the Universe. 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It was refreshing to the mind, actually running into the more intelligent drinker in a bar (I know it can be an oxymoron) at least time will fly a bit faster with Scotches and a good company. However as many subjects exchanged vary from how inkjet will save the world to which girls got a bigger knockers, a topic came up and it had to deal with woman and relationship.  Personally I really think that for people who never actually live with a woman before in their life, they never truly experience an agony of a voluntary jail time. The humorous thing is those who seek thriving to excel, once you got into the matrimony phase you're fucked, like buying a secondhand corvette that has engine of its own mind. I'm not really saying these pessimistic views because I'm an expert on the subject at hand. However from my own experience, I have lived with three different women in my life, first was of three years, second and the third was two years each. So if you get the picture add them all up and I already got a marriage! It's such a bitter sweet agony that I almost married the first one with 5000 dollars sign on bonus I was planning to buy her a ring but thank God I found out she's been cheating on me for a few months. So I spent my bonus in rather worth while manner for female in general, financing young ladies for their college education and crack addiction in a few strip joints and it was quite liberating. To me these days I found out that there are certain rules of engagement that all men should come up with before venturing into the path of serious companionship, after all you will be affect by their ever raging hormones, your mind will not work straight neither. Anyways here is a little tips that help me discern the wilderness of tricks, hopefully this might be some use for you fellas contemplating getting a girlfriend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Asian Words of Wisdom in Rule of Engagement to the Opposition Sex&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;10. Hold your conversation with a woman like you would have in a bar, never talk about religion or politics unless it deals with their suffrage or the lack there of.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9. Every woman is self-conscious about their ass. Tell her you love her ass and you might have a chance to spank it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8. Ugly girls like to hang out with pretty girls because it makes them feel like they're more attractive. Pretty girls hang out with ugly girls for the same reason.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. Women and Lesbians like to hangout with gay guys because at least they pretend to care&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. Nev
