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June 28, 2009

Anything Goes: June 28th, 2009 Edition.

Missing a lot of news items for the past weeks, and still have a few in draft mode. A lot of things are happening today.

Slayer: About the Apocalypse. Interview with Drummer, Dave Lombardo (KNAC) | The interview was conducted before Slayer embarked on the Canadian Carnage Tour with Megadeth.
Transformers 2 kills in its opening five days with $200M (SCI FI Wire) | All the bad reviews did not stop people from watching this movie at all. Great. This will encourage Michael Bay to make more movies with more explosions.
Billy Mays, star pitchman, dead at 50 (CNNMoney) | A lot of celebrity death this week.
Army overthrows Honduras president in vote dispute (Reuters) | From the article: “Zelaya fired military chief Gen. Romeo Vasquez last week for refusing to help him run an unofficial referendum on Sunday on extending the four-year term limit on Honduran presidents.”

June 27, 2009

Michael Jackson Posthumously Dominates iTunes Charts.

Michael Jackson posthumously dominates iTunes Top Songs and Top Album Charts shortly after the news of his death.

Jackson died from cardiac arrest on Thursday June 25th, 2009. Dr. Conrad Murray was with Jackson during the whole incident, and Murray is reportedly hiring a Houston-based law firm to represent him.

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June 27, 2009

iPhone 3GS: The First Seven Days

iPhone 3G S officially went on sale on Friday June 19th, 2009. Three days later, Steve Jobs is reported to clock in for work for the first time after his medical leave of absence. Strangely, the iPhone 3G S was renamed to iPhone 3GS on the same day. From this then on, it shall be known as iPhone 3GS.

Things that I discovered after using iPhone 3GS for the first seven days:

The iPhone 3GS in general is much faster than the iPhone and iPhone 3G.
iPhone 3GS renders a considerably complex web page faster on 3G than iPhone/iPhone 3G on a Wi-Fi. I was on a fast network. This shows the processing power of the iPhone 3GS CPU. This makes web-browsing a much more pleasant experience on iPhone 3GS.
I really like the “tap-to-focus” feature. This is one feature that should be implemented in digital camera and camcorders.
I never cared for recording video using any phones before. Now I can’t stop using it on the iPhone 3GS. OK, I was wrong before.
The Compass doesn’t work well in the car. Too much electromagnetic interference.
Battery life is noticeably better than the iPhone 3G.
There are still some lags when switching from landscape to portrait and vice-versa. Could it be the hardware design that caused this?
The speaker is noticeably louder.
Voice Control works well with the phone but not with the iPod function.
Physically iPhone 3GS is identical with iPhone 3G, so all the cases and screen protectors can be used with both.

June 25, 2009

Anything Goes: June 25th, 2009 Edition.

Woke up this morning, read some emails and figured some silly settings for Entourage to connect to Exchange Server 2007. I then setup the Entourage remotely. In addition to that, I re-encoded a movie short through iChat Desktop Sharing.

Ahmadinejad compares Obama to Bush (Yahoo! News) | It is obvious that both Barack Obama and George W. Bush are Presidents of The United States.
Transformers 2’s $55 million breaks Wednesday opening record (SCI FI Wire) | It is really impressive for a movie that is getting such bad reviews here, here and here. The reviews at Rotten Tomatoes confirm this. Then again it doesn’t matter because it has a great opening day and they’re working on Transformers 3 for 2001 release even before Transformers 2 was released; allegedly. More giant transforming robots and explosions!
RIAA settles suit where defendant had no PC (MacNN) | Yesterday’s news, but it is still worth mentioning. In the eye of RIAA, everyone steals music. The term “PC” refers to “personal computer” regardless of the operating system. It’s not about the whole “Mac” vs “PC” things.
Pirate Bay Retrial Denied (Wired.com) | As usual, the Pirate Bay responded in their blog. What would the Pirate Party do in the European Parliament?

June 24, 2009

Anything Goes: June 24th, 2009 Edition.

I had quite a crazy morning with Outlook and Exchange Server. Then I went to the Apple Store to get a 15-inch MacBook Pro Battery replaced. It only has 70 full-charge-cycles and it lasts about 5 minutes of charge.

Bunch of letters and numbers and punctuations from the series of tubes:

Unimaginable Horror In Tehran Today (ThreatsWatch.org) | Video is from CNN. Contain graphics picture.
Guy Kawasaki’s Twitter account hijacked, pushes Windows and Mac malware (ZDNet) | Twitter users have been victims of account-hijacking for quite sometimes now. This is not the first time certainly won’t be the last for a foreseeable future. Obviously this is the same trojan aimed at Mac and Windows users. It is way too obvious that ActiveX plugin on Mac OS X is a trojan. Please be careful no matter what operating system you’re using.
SPINAL TAP: ‘Back From The Dead’ First-Week Sales Revealed (Blabbermouth.net) | It sold 10,000 copies on its first week of release. Buy this CD from Amazon.com! (read disclaimer at the end of this post.) It is better than majority of music released this year so far.
Panasonic Begins To Lock Out 3d-Party Camera Batteries (SlashDot) | Printer manufacturers have tried doing something similar. Then again there are a lot of poor quality third party batteries being sold.

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June 22, 2009

Triumph Visits Bonnaroo Pt1 & Pt2 (06/19/09)

Triumph The Insult Comic Dog at Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival.

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June 22, 2009

Dream Theater: “Black Clouds & Silver Linings” has been shipped.

I just got an email notifications from Amazon.com. They are shipping Dream Theater’s “Black Cloud & Silver Linings” Special Edition CD out. Since I opted for standard shipping, I won’t be getting it on Tuesday.

The following items have been shipped to you by Amazon.com:
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Qty Item Price Shipped Subtotal
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Amazon.com items (Sold by Amazon.com, LLC):
1 Black Clouds & Silver Lini… $14.49 1 $14.49

I’m still thinking about getting the DELUXE COLLECTOR’S EDITION BOX SET ($132.00), but don’t really want to spend that much money.

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