Well, unless you live in a hole, for reason one way or the other, you will know what 2012-12-21 is all about. For this topic, I did somehow blogged about it before. So, I'm not gonna say too much about it, cuz not much new things to add.
For me, it will just be another day. I will wake up, go to work, and go home with my family. Certainly, I will check out the web throughout the day to see how silly some people will behave tomorrow. Then, I will go out to have dinner with my family in a restaurant near my home. That's my plan.
Besides the nuts and the opportunists who still believe that tomorrow is the end of the world, many people say that tomorrow is simply a beginning of a new era. Well, you can pretty much say that any day. Perhaps, it would best fit to the Mayans who certainly would need a new calender. For the rest of us, we still will enjoy the fruits of our hard labor from the past, and shoulder the consequence of our wrong doings in the past. Meanwhile, we are also doing things that will affect our future. That's karma! So, with such continuity, there is no such thing as a new beginning. We are not iPhones which have the 'reset' button. Thus, just do as we do everyday, work hard, do self-reflection to see what can do better next time, and that's it.
Wish you all to have a 'normal' tomorrow! That's what I except to have. Cheers!
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Yamaha U1
I finally sold the Yamaha Arius SDP 161 (that I bought last August) on Yahoo Auction last week at a 60+% discount to a young couple who play in a band after they took a hand-on test of the digital piano at our home. Why the rush? Because of the tight turnaround of delivery of a second-hand Yamaha U1 in two days after the digital cousin was out of the door.
The second-hand piano actually is in a very good condition. It costs as much as 3 times of the digital cousin that I shouldn't have purchased last year. I sold at a loss which should be preventable. I thought that my home couldn't fit an upright piano, so I went for the digital one. But, upon the recommendation of my son's piano tutor, I went for the U1 per my son's need and found out stupidly that it would fit my home after I got rid of 2 pieces of furniture in our living room. So, $$$ just gone!
Nonetheless, since my son loves playing music, and it is worthy for his hobby and growth. Furthermore, I did some research on the web and find out that the resale/retain value of an U1 is really great. So, it shouldn't be a big loss in the long run as long as the piano can be kept in good condition. That's exactly what I'm worrying right now. My older son who plays the piano wouldn't be the biggest concern except that he may play the piano with his hands wet or dirty. That's still preventable. But, the problem is my tot son who just love to pick up things (like his toys) to throw at things (may well be the piano since it is a huge and easy target). All I can say is that, I cross my fingers and touch wood everyday!
Monday, December 17, 2012
Sandy Hook
Not again, but it did.
Another mass killing happened in the States. Sandy Hook Elementary School, a place which was
unknown to most of the country, let alone the world before Dec 14, became other
bloody chapter of American history. A lunatic fired more than 100 rounds of
ammunition to innocent adults and children that end with 26 death, excluding
the gunman's mom and himself who killed himself.
Ten of thousands of questions why this happened. Theories
flied around, those so-called experts of all sorts opened the big hole on their
faces to make noise, but nothing concrete have resulted and will happen.
Nice things can be said and repeated million of times, but
the innocent lives will never come back (ignoring the case of reincarnation).
Would this, regarded as the second worst case of mass-killing by the media/on
record, be the catalyst of 'real' change in anti-gun movement in the
States?.....I really doubt it.
Yes, the faces of innocent death, particularly those 20
kids' would be a very powerful weapon by the anti-gun force. However, the
pro-gun side is just unmovable. The issue is not just about the money they
spent on politicians and lobbyists, but the real problem is the deep-root gun
culture in the American society/history that may be shaken in a very short term
with this tragedy, but people will go back to the way it has been in about a
month.
Parents of the death wouldn't want their kids' pictures as
weapon for long. Cuz, pro-gun and anti-gun battle is long term. The longer
those parents see their deceases' faces in the media, the harder for them to
begin their healing which will never end till they join their kids. With
national attention got shift to other places, trust me, for NRA and other
pro-gun bloodsuckers will give themselves high five and back to normal...until
next time.
The Constitutional right to bear arm is too fundamental to
American, it will not be changed in peace time, and it will only be
strengthened in wartime. So, the lost of lives this time would at best trigger
some 'meaningless' change of regulations that would manage the
flow/registration of few exclusive type of firearms, and some mere
'discussions' about the relations between arms access and mental patients.
I felt really heart wrenching while watching the video clips
of the parents of those young victims. For being a parent myself, it is just
really really sad! I really don't know what to say to them, cuz, for them, the
loss is everlasting, it is a 'black hole' in their hearts that will never be
filled.
May the innocent ones rest in peace and God damned those
pro-gun fxxkers!
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Great quotations that I read
Unknown:"If you want something you've never had, then you've got to do something you've never done"
Unknown:" If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you will find an excuse"
Winston Churchill: “If you are going through hell, keep going”
William Shakespeare: “Hell is empty, the devils are all here”
Unknown: "You can never wake up someone who is pretending in sleep"
Bonnie Blair: "Winning doesn't always mean being first, Winning means you are doing better than you have done before"
Albert Einstein: "If someone feels that they had never made a mistake in their life, then it means they had never tried a new thing in their life"
Mother Teresa: "If you start judging people, you will be having no time to love them"
Charles: "Never break 4 things in your life: Trust, Promise, Relation and Heart because when they break they don't make noise but pains a lot"
David Allen: "You can do anything, but not everything."
Unknown: "The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least."
Wayne Gretzky: "You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take."
Lao-Tze: "Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."
John Ruskin: "What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do."
Unknown: "Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching"
Virgil Garnett Thomson: "Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not."
Cullen Hightower: "Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it."
André Gide: "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
Ellen Parr: "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
Ayn Rand: "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."
Albert Einstein: "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Martin Luther King Jr.: "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
Thomas Henry Huxley : "Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
Arnold Schwarzenegger: "Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn."
Don Quixote: "Facts are the enemy of truth."
John D. Rockefeller: "A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."
Jimmy Durante: "Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down."
Samuel Johnson: "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
Arthur Schopenhauer: "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
Antoine de Saint Exupery: "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
Jimi Hendrix: "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
Maya Angelou : "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
Aristotle Onassis: "The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows."
W.B. Prescott: "In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience."
John F. Kennedy: "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
Mae West: "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."
Thomas Jones : "Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate."
Mark Twain: "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
Abba Eban: "A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually."
Wilson Mizner: "Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research."
Sun Tzu: "Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
Alan Kay: " The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
Benjamin Franklin: "Well done is better than well said."
Sir Winston Churchill: "Sometimes it is not enough that we do our best; we must do what is required."
Henry David Thoreau: "The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."
Sir Winston Churchill : "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
Frank Lloyd Wright: "The truth is more important than the facts."
Joan Baez: "You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now."
General George S. Patton: "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."
George Owell: "Those who control the past control the future. Those who control the present control the past."
Unknown: ""This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind...let it be something good."
Unknown: "...This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have."
Unknown: "Your heart understands what your head cannot yet conceive; trust your heart."
Unknown: "He who has never made a mistake has never made a discovery."
Unknown: "A peacock who sits on his tail is just another turkey."
Unknown:" If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you will find an excuse"
Winston Churchill: “If you are going through hell, keep going”
William Shakespeare: “Hell is empty, the devils are all here”
Unknown: "You can never wake up someone who is pretending in sleep"
Bonnie Blair: "Winning doesn't always mean being first, Winning means you are doing better than you have done before"
Albert Einstein: "If someone feels that they had never made a mistake in their life, then it means they had never tried a new thing in their life"
Mother Teresa: "If you start judging people, you will be having no time to love them"
Charles: "Never break 4 things in your life: Trust, Promise, Relation and Heart because when they break they don't make noise but pains a lot"
David Allen: "You can do anything, but not everything."
Unknown: "The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least."
Wayne Gretzky: "You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take."
Lao-Tze: "Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."
John Ruskin: "What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do."
Unknown: "Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching"
Virgil Garnett Thomson: "Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not."
Cullen Hightower: "Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it."
André Gide: "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
Ellen Parr: "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
Ayn Rand: "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."
Albert Einstein: "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Martin Luther King Jr.: "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
Thomas Henry Huxley : "Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
Arnold Schwarzenegger: "Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn."
Don Quixote: "Facts are the enemy of truth."
John D. Rockefeller: "A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."
Jimmy Durante: "Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down."
Samuel Johnson: "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
Arthur Schopenhauer: "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
Antoine de Saint Exupery: "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
Jimi Hendrix: "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
Maya Angelou : "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
Aristotle Onassis: "The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows."
W.B. Prescott: "In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience."
John F. Kennedy: "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
Mae West: "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."
Thomas Jones : "Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate."
Mark Twain: "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
Abba Eban: "A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually."
Wilson Mizner: "Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research."
Sun Tzu: "Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
Alan Kay: " The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
Benjamin Franklin: "Well done is better than well said."
Sir Winston Churchill: "Sometimes it is not enough that we do our best; we must do what is required."
Henry David Thoreau: "The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."
Sir Winston Churchill : "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
Frank Lloyd Wright: "The truth is more important than the facts."
Joan Baez: "You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now."
General George S. Patton: "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."
George Owell: "Those who control the past control the future. Those who control the present control the past."
Unknown: ""This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind...let it be something good."
Unknown: "...This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have."
Unknown: "Your heart understands what your head cannot yet conceive; trust your heart."
Unknown: "He who has never made a mistake has never made a discovery."
Unknown: "A peacock who sits on his tail is just another turkey."
Monday, December 10, 2012
My thought on blogging
Just out of the blue, I found out that I've more than 600 posts all these years. It is not a lot comparing with some other bloggers that I check out their posts daily. It is very obvious that I've not posted as much as before. It is due to many reasons that I'm not gonna list them out, cuz for readers, whether I've new post or not is the point, why I don't post is not important. Honestly, whether my posts are being 'read' is still being doubted by myself in spite of the function in blogger.com that showed me how many time my posts are clicked. Anyway, the bottomline is that I'm going through a tough time right now in terms of being a blogger, but what matter is that I've NO intention to stop blogging any time soon.
I find blogging is still a great 'relieve' of my thoughts. Yes, I can do that on Facebook, Twitter, etc. But, that's a bit different. I put more thoughts in my blog that Facebook posting. Also, the audiences are different, and the purpose are different. Facebook to me is more like a 'banner' or social board that interact with others. Twitter is even more hunch thoughts that many people would regard some of their twits. However, blog is for people really wanna take time to put their thoughts together to come up with something that you would invite people to 'peek' at those thoughts rather than jump into their 'sandbox' and to have active 'exchange'.
Looking at the links the bloggers on my site, some of them have not been updated for months if not years. I guess that they must have given up blogging altogether. That's their choice, just like users of ICQ, MSN, etc. Technology and media comes and go, but the idea of thought-sharing will never go away as long as we are human.
I will try to better organize my time, so I can squeeze more time to blog in the coming year. Well, our world is not gonna end in 11 days. 2012-12-21 is just a new beginning if you believe it. Actually, as I blogged before, any day can be a new beginning for anybody as long as he/she wants it.
Cheers and will be back soon!
I find blogging is still a great 'relieve' of my thoughts. Yes, I can do that on Facebook, Twitter, etc. But, that's a bit different. I put more thoughts in my blog that Facebook posting. Also, the audiences are different, and the purpose are different. Facebook to me is more like a 'banner' or social board that interact with others. Twitter is even more hunch thoughts that many people would regard some of their twits. However, blog is for people really wanna take time to put their thoughts together to come up with something that you would invite people to 'peek' at those thoughts rather than jump into their 'sandbox' and to have active 'exchange'.
Looking at the links the bloggers on my site, some of them have not been updated for months if not years. I guess that they must have given up blogging altogether. That's their choice, just like users of ICQ, MSN, etc. Technology and media comes and go, but the idea of thought-sharing will never go away as long as we are human.
I will try to better organize my time, so I can squeeze more time to blog in the coming year. Well, our world is not gonna end in 11 days. 2012-12-21 is just a new beginning if you believe it. Actually, as I blogged before, any day can be a new beginning for anybody as long as he/she wants it.
Cheers and will be back soon!
Friday, November 30, 2012
Friday, November 23, 2012
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Window 8
Oh boy, I was tempted to upgrade my 'non-touch' PC to Window 8 given the $ cost of upgrade is not much. However, after a bit of thinking, considering that my wife will hate it, and the effort that would need to be put in learning something new, I just held off such idea of upgrade. In fact, Window 7 is working perfectly fine for me so far. If I really wanna upgrade or doing something different, I should get a iMac-mini for fun.
On top of the above, I think this article that I came across today really give a very good analysis of user experience of Window 8 at the moment. After reading this, I would most likely bypass Window 8 for foreseeable future.
On top of the above, I think this article that I came across today really give a very good analysis of user experience of Window 8 at the moment. After reading this, I would most likely bypass Window 8 for foreseeable future.
Thursday, November 15, 2012
What I learn today
Saw the following from here today.
....
世界是不完美，世事總是甩甩漏漏，我們習慣了在甩漏中尋找滿足。完美人活在一個不完美的世界，感覺應該是辛苦，因為太多事情看不過眼。在控制到的範圍，完 美人做到最好，但世事包括很多控制範圍以外的事，在完美人眼中，自己控制以外的世界充滿平庸。小野二郎的供應商便是例子，他們未必能達到小野二郎的要求， 因此小野二郎須做很多本應是供應商份內的工序。完美人忙到癲，因為處處看不過眼，唯有做埋別人的工作。
我們讚美完美人的成就，但這種讚美其實帶點盲目，甚至虛偽，因為我們為保存心裡的完美形象，不想知道完美的背後。完美當然是好，不好的是追求完美的過程。....
.....
完美人專注，專注沒有不好，但過分專注可能扭曲真相。專注的人咬實一件事不放，全神投入，做到最好。然而，更合適的方法，可能是嘗試不同方法，貪新忘舊不 是罪，而是不停提醒自己有可能出錯。專注的人不大接受事情有其他可能性，不願質疑自己有可能犯錯，因為他們已投資這麼豐富的感情。完美人的價值觀，外間未 必能理解。
我要不完美，因為我相信 Good Enough， Good Enough夠了。 Good Enough不代表馬虎，在要求愈來愈高的工作環境，馬虎沒法達到可接受水平。 Good Enough同樣需要計劃，需要下苦功。 Good Enough不是接受次貨，而是定下一個顧及參與者能力的計劃，然後在符合成本效益的前提下盡力做好。
Good Enough不是完美的反義詞，因為我們對 Good Enough的要求，也會隨着時間和環境而改變。例如香港人對政治人物操守的期望，過去十多二十年，有很大變化，今日的 Good Enough，差不多等於過去的完美。以 Good Enough為目標的好處，是接受世事好難，做到 Good Enough已經是了不起，再做好一點，一是不可能，一是不划算。做任何事也要考慮成本，當成本高至不合理水平，當事人要懂得叫停，可惜叫停在完美人詞彙 中不存在。 Good Enough容許我們接受自己不完美的一面，而這一面並不醜陋。.....
Very meaningful!
....
世界是不完美，世事總是甩甩漏漏，我們習慣了在甩漏中尋找滿足。完美人活在一個不完美的世界，感覺應該是辛苦，因為太多事情看不過眼。在控制到的範圍，完 美人做到最好，但世事包括很多控制範圍以外的事，在完美人眼中，自己控制以外的世界充滿平庸。小野二郎的供應商便是例子，他們未必能達到小野二郎的要求， 因此小野二郎須做很多本應是供應商份內的工序。完美人忙到癲，因為處處看不過眼，唯有做埋別人的工作。
我們讚美完美人的成就，但這種讚美其實帶點盲目，甚至虛偽，因為我們為保存心裡的完美形象，不想知道完美的背後。完美當然是好，不好的是追求完美的過程。....
.....
完美人專注，專注沒有不好，但過分專注可能扭曲真相。專注的人咬實一件事不放，全神投入，做到最好。然而，更合適的方法，可能是嘗試不同方法，貪新忘舊不 是罪，而是不停提醒自己有可能出錯。專注的人不大接受事情有其他可能性，不願質疑自己有可能犯錯，因為他們已投資這麼豐富的感情。完美人的價值觀，外間未 必能理解。
我要不完美，因為我相信 Good Enough， Good Enough夠了。 Good Enough不代表馬虎，在要求愈來愈高的工作環境，馬虎沒法達到可接受水平。 Good Enough同樣需要計劃，需要下苦功。 Good Enough不是接受次貨，而是定下一個顧及參與者能力的計劃，然後在符合成本效益的前提下盡力做好。
Good Enough不是完美的反義詞，因為我們對 Good Enough的要求，也會隨着時間和環境而改變。例如香港人對政治人物操守的期望，過去十多二十年，有很大變化，今日的 Good Enough，差不多等於過去的完美。以 Good Enough為目標的好處，是接受世事好難，做到 Good Enough已經是了不起，再做好一點，一是不可能，一是不划算。做任何事也要考慮成本，當成本高至不合理水平，當事人要懂得叫停，可惜叫停在完美人詞彙 中不存在。 Good Enough容許我們接受自己不完美的一面，而這一面並不醜陋。.....
Very meaningful!
Friday, November 9, 2012
Few Thoughts (Obama, i***, MS, and NBA)
I've not blogged for a while. Busy at work is one thing, but it has more to do with that fact that I've not felt like I've one particular topic that I really can spend time to think and write, so I just stay put.
Well, today finally I got few minutes, so why don't I just write something, it's not gonna be very organized, just some random thoughts on few topics that came to my mind....
Obama is re-elected
I don't have much affection on him as a leader. I think he is good communicator, not as good as Bill Clinton, but surely better than George W. Bush. He also has a more convincing persona than Mitt Romney. Four more years for him to cover the eight-years old dug by Bush. I wish Obama the best. Hopefully he can get something done.
To be honest, I don't really see a whole lot of deep-down differences of either person won in the presidential election. Yes, there are superficial differences, but those are not big enough to swing the future of the country. For example, accept gay marriage or abortion are matters that matter to individuals, it is not gonna turn the country's strength or fate one way or the other. Cuz, what really matter is the fact that either Democrats or Republicans are supported by the same group of people from behind. They support both and just manipulate the results from behind. Who are they? Just follow the money!
iPad Mini, iPad 4 and iPhone 5
I own iPad 3, so it sucked to learn that a new one came out merely 7 months after mine was released. However, come to think of it, the difference is kinda incremental and I'm so far still happy with mine. So, just beat it.
iPad Mini is tempting, the weight itself is unbeatable! However, since I don't really have the use of carrying a tablet around on the go all the time. I will stay put for now. The weight is nice, but the size of a bigger screen is more important. Even if the next gen of iPad Mini has retina display, it still may not be able to make me shelf out $ to get one. I guess I won't get one until I see the need.
I was pretty sure I would get one to replace my 3years old 3GS. However, come to think of my needs vs cost vs my desire. I decide to stay put as well, given the fact that iOS6 still support 3GS. Also, I don't think iPhone 5 is 'buff - up' enough to make me wanna have it at the current price. So, iPhone 6 for me then.
Window 8 and MS Surface
As a PC owner whose PC has no touchscreen function, I don't see the point of getting Win8. Why pick up the hazzle of finding the 'Start' button? I can imagine that my wife will freak out if I upgrade to Win8. Also, I opine that the tiles on the Metro interface may be nice on mobile, but will be kinda useless on PC. So, it doesn't appeal to me. If Win8 came after Vista, I think many people would be tempted to jump on the Win8 bandwagon, but Win7 has been good enough to right the Vista deeds, and Win8 is just not much better than Win7, given the experience of WinXP to Vista fiasco, I would think many consumers would probably stay put for the time being, unless they are going after MS Surface or have to buy a new PC.
Speaking of Surface, I think its thunder was kinda partially stolen by iPad Mini, but the real problem is the price, it is not cheap. I still haven't been convinced why any existing tablet users would buy a Surface. If it came out 3 years ago, it would be great, and it would win both IT people in corporate sector as well as consumers. But, given iPad's foothold in corporate sector has been well-established in last 2 years, and consumers including me just find iPad's appealing usage as a entertainment gadget, I doubt Surface will be a great hit with the current selling price.
NBA 2012-13
New season has just begun. I still root for Celtics. But I can't help but paying attention to few other teams: Lakers with 4 all stars, Heat with Ray Allen, Houston with Hardy & Lin, and Knicks with bunch of old talents that try to mash up to win. I want Celtics to win, but I also want Steve Nash to have a ring before he retires. It would be an interesting season to watch and follow.
Well, today finally I got few minutes, so why don't I just write something, it's not gonna be very organized, just some random thoughts on few topics that came to my mind....
Obama is re-elected
I don't have much affection on him as a leader. I think he is good communicator, not as good as Bill Clinton, but surely better than George W. Bush. He also has a more convincing persona than Mitt Romney. Four more years for him to cover the eight-years old dug by Bush. I wish Obama the best. Hopefully he can get something done.
To be honest, I don't really see a whole lot of deep-down differences of either person won in the presidential election. Yes, there are superficial differences, but those are not big enough to swing the future of the country. For example, accept gay marriage or abortion are matters that matter to individuals, it is not gonna turn the country's strength or fate one way or the other. Cuz, what really matter is the fact that either Democrats or Republicans are supported by the same group of people from behind. They support both and just manipulate the results from behind. Who are they? Just follow the money!
iPad Mini, iPad 4 and iPhone 5
I own iPad 3, so it sucked to learn that a new one came out merely 7 months after mine was released. However, come to think of it, the difference is kinda incremental and I'm so far still happy with mine. So, just beat it.
iPad Mini is tempting, the weight itself is unbeatable! However, since I don't really have the use of carrying a tablet around on the go all the time. I will stay put for now. The weight is nice, but the size of a bigger screen is more important. Even if the next gen of iPad Mini has retina display, it still may not be able to make me shelf out $ to get one. I guess I won't get one until I see the need.
I was pretty sure I would get one to replace my 3years old 3GS. However, come to think of my needs vs cost vs my desire. I decide to stay put as well, given the fact that iOS6 still support 3GS. Also, I don't think iPhone 5 is 'buff - up' enough to make me wanna have it at the current price. So, iPhone 6 for me then.
Window 8 and MS Surface
As a PC owner whose PC has no touchscreen function, I don't see the point of getting Win8. Why pick up the hazzle of finding the 'Start' button? I can imagine that my wife will freak out if I upgrade to Win8. Also, I opine that the tiles on the Metro interface may be nice on mobile, but will be kinda useless on PC. So, it doesn't appeal to me. If Win8 came after Vista, I think many people would be tempted to jump on the Win8 bandwagon, but Win7 has been good enough to right the Vista deeds, and Win8 is just not much better than Win7, given the experience of WinXP to Vista fiasco, I would think many consumers would probably stay put for the time being, unless they are going after MS Surface or have to buy a new PC.
Speaking of Surface, I think its thunder was kinda partially stolen by iPad Mini, but the real problem is the price, it is not cheap. I still haven't been convinced why any existing tablet users would buy a Surface. If it came out 3 years ago, it would be great, and it would win both IT people in corporate sector as well as consumers. But, given iPad's foothold in corporate sector has been well-established in last 2 years, and consumers including me just find iPad's appealing usage as a entertainment gadget, I doubt Surface will be a great hit with the current selling price.
NBA 2012-13
New season has just begun. I still root for Celtics. But I can't help but paying attention to few other teams: Lakers with 4 all stars, Heat with Ray Allen, Houston with Hardy & Lin, and Knicks with bunch of old talents that try to mash up to win. I want Celtics to win, but I also want Steve Nash to have a ring before he retires. It would be an interesting season to watch and follow.
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