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| BLOG MOVED |
| 04.05.04 (6:06 pm) [edit] |
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| Rumoured Nintendo Nitro (DS) stuffs |
| 03.11.04 (11:30 am) [edit] |
engadget reports We’re not 100% these are legit, but someone just passed along to us what looks like a page from an internal Nintendo corporate document that shows the specs for their upcoming DS/Nitro portable game console.
There are no photos or sketches of what it’s going to look like, but here’s what we’ve gleaned:
- Whether it’s just an internal code-name or not, the new console is going by the name. “Nitro”.
- 4MB of RAM.
- Confirmation that it will have a touchpan el (the big speculation is whether this will pull double
duty as some sort of controller).
- A 256x192 pixel, 262,144 color main LCD screen.
- A built-in microphone.
- The biggest scoop (again, assuming that these specs are for real) is that the Nitro is going
to have WiFi rather than Bluetooth. Is there going to be some sort of online gaming service for the
Nitro?
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| Weird story of the day |
| 03.11.04 (10:38 am) [edit] |
From Gizmodo;
There's been tons of stories recently about gyms and strips clubs banning phonecams, to prevent lecherous users from covertly snapping T-and-A. Japan's AI-Corp thinks it has a compromise solution: A teensy cover labeled "Void" that fits over a phonecam lens. That way, I surmise, a nudie-bar patron can prevent the seizure of his handset by allaying fears that he'll use it illicitly. Not a terrible idea, but wouldn't a Band-Aid work just as well?
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| BLAM |
| 03.10.04 (11:28 am) [edit] |
My blog is red. Red as communist Russia.
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| Gates: Buy stamps to send e-mail |
| 03.06.04 (1:19 pm) [edit] |
CNN.com reports - If the U.S. Postal Service delivered mail for free, our mailboxes would surely runneth over with more credit-card offers, sweepstakes entries, and supermarket fliers. That's why we get so much junk e-mail: It's essentially free to send. So Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates, among others, is now suggesting that we start buying "stamps" for e-mail.
Many Internet analysts worry, though, that turning e-mail into an economic commodity would undermine its value in democratizing communication. But let's start with the math: At perhaps a penny or less per item, e-mail postage wouldn't significantly dent the pocketbooks of people who send only a few messages a day. Not so for spammers who mail millions at a time.
Though postage proposals have been in limited discussion for years -- a team at Microsoft Research has been at it since 2001 -- Gates gave the idea a lift in January at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Details came last week as part of Microsoft's anti-spam strategy. Instead of paying a penny, the sender would "buy" postage by devoting maybe 10 seconds of computing time to solving a math puzzle. The exercise would merely serve as proof of the sender's good faith.
Time is money, and spammers would presumably have to buy many more machines to solve enough puzzles. The open-source software Hashcash, available since about 1997, takes a similar approach and has been incorporated into other spam-fighting tools including Camram and Spam Assassin.
Meanwhile, Goodmail Systems Inc. has been in touch with Yahoo! Inc. and other e-mail providers about using cash. Goodmail envisions charging bulk mailers a penny a message to bypass spam filters and avoid being incorrectly tossed as junk. That all sounds good for curbing spam, but what if it kills the e-mail you want as well?
Consider how simple and inexpensive it is today to e-mail a friend, relative, or even a city-hall bureaucrat. It's nice not to have to calculate whether greeting grandma is worth a cent. And what of the communities now tied together through e-mail -- hundreds of cancer survivors sharing tips on coping; dozens of parents coordinating soccer schedules? Those pennies add up.
"It detracts from your ability to speak and to state your opinions to large groups of people," said David Farber, a veteran technologist who runs a mailing list with more than 20,000 subscribers. "It changes the whole complexion of the net."
Goodmail chief executive Richard Gingras said individuals might get to send a limited number for free, while mailing lists and nonprofit organizations might get price breaks.
But at what threshold would e-mail cease to be free? At what point might a mailing list be big or commercial enough to pay full rates? Goodmail has no price list yet, so Gingras couldn't say. Vint Cerf, one of the Internet's founding fathers, said spammers are bound to exploit any free allotments.
"The spammers will probably just keep changing their mailbox names," Cerf said. "I continue to be impressed by the agility of spammers." And who gets the payments? How do you build and pay for a system to track all this? How do you keep such a system from becoming a target for hacking and scams?
The proposals are also largely U.S.-centric, and even with seamless currency conversion, paying even a token amount would be burdensome for the developing world, said John Patrick, former vice president of Internet technology at IBM Corp.
"We have to think of not only, let's say, the relatively well-off half billion people using e-mail today, but the 5 or 6 billion who aren't using it yet but who soon will be," Patrick said.
Some proposals even allow recipients to set their own rates. A college student might accept e-mail with a one-cent stamp; a busy chief executive might demand a dollar.
"In the regular marketplace, when you have something so fast and efficient that everyone wants it, the price goes up," said Sonia Arrison of the Pacific Research Institute, a think tank that favors market-based approaches.
To think the Internet can shatter class distinctions that exist offline is "living in Fantasyland," Arrison said. Nonetheless, it will be tough to persuade people to pay -- in cash or computing time that delays mail -- for something they are used to getting for free.
Critics of postage see more promise in other approaches, including technology to better verify e-mail senders and lawsuits to drive the big spammers out of business.
"Back in the early '90s, there were e-mail systems that charged you 10 cents a message," said John Levine, an anti-spam advocate. "And they are all dead."
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| OMG!!1 |
| 03.06.04 (12:09 pm) [edit] |
J00 R GOOD GUY!!!1 J00 R TEH GOOD GUY A LOT FO TEH
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TEH L337 QUIZZ
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| New features |
| 03.03.04 (2:00 pm) [edit] |
Move down, look right. I've added more crap to the righthand side bar on The Burrow showing what I'm "diggin'" at the moment. What books I'm reading, DVDs I'm into, Games playing, and such.
Enjoy!
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| HAPPY LEAP DAY |
| 02.29.04 (8:10 am) [edit] |
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| Who I cant to win in the 76th Oscars |
| 02.27.04 (10:14 am) [edit] |
Best Actor
Bill Murray - Lost in Translation
Best Supporting Actor
Ken Watanabe - The Last Samurai
Best Actress
Samantha Morton - In America
Supporting Actress
Renée Zellweger - Cold Mountain
Best Animated Film
Finding Nemo (Pixar)
Best Art Direction
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Best Cinematography
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Best Directing
Lost in Translation
Best Film Editing
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
BEST PICTURE
Lost in Translation
BestVisual Effects
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Best Original Screenplay
Lost in Translation / In America
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| Help a great games studio |
| 02.27.04 (9:27 am) [edit] |
UbiSoft have made some of the best multiplatform games recently, and now their two latest games are in trouble, Specifically the fantastic Beyond Good and Evil. So much so, It has debuted in Europe on the GC and Xbox in GAME stores with a measly pricetag of €30 (Or £20 Sterling) to sell more copies. It's a great and original game, and I'm asking anyone that loves a good game to go out and buy this great piece of work, if only to help this great studio. For anyone looking for another great bargain, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, another great UbiSoft game is being sold for €45. Both had less than expected sales in the US, and on the PS2 in Europe, and It'd be a shame to see such talented workers be punished for putting together two of the best games of 2004.
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| China |
| 02.22.04 (6:23 pm) [edit] |
Alright, now for the real-deal. I'm back a few hours now after a 9 hour flight from Beijing, and a 1 hour flight fromm Heathrow London. There was some good movies on the flights, I watched Lost in Translation (which I highly, highly recommend), Duplex and a bit of Girl with a Pear Earring, which both were good too. I finally gota chance to see Finding Nemo on the return flight, but it was a little disapointing, as was Looney Toons: Back in Action.
Anyway, on my first day I was completly wrecked, and had drank 21 minicans of Coke on the plane to Beijing, so sleep wasn't an option. There was a neat welcome at the hotel with Chinese Dragons and a freak-ish acrobat kid;
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Then it was on to the Temple of Heaven, which was interestingly built..
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One part had a round wall surrounding it, and apperently if you shout at the wall, people on the oposite side inside the wall can hear you and shout back.
This crazy lady kept screaming at the wall as if she was giving out to her kids or something;
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...More tomorrow :wink: |
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| China Weirdness |
| 02.22.04 (6:08 pm) [edit] |
 I found The Sum of all Ears in a weird pirate DVD shop.  ![]() =http://img18.photobucket.com/... Beijing airport is a strange, strange place. Turns out those two boys are mascots of a large air conditioning company in China. ![]() =http://img18.photobucket.com/... A four-star toilet. ![]() =http://img18.photobucket.com/... A banner I found amusing at the Graet Wall. ![]() =http://img18.photobucket.com/... BEING URGENT. And I'll throw in a Panda for good measure. ![]() =http://img18.photobucket.com/...
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| The Shocking Second Part |
| 02.13.04 (10:30 am) [edit] |
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| I got a Digital Camera |
| 02.13.04 (10:02 am) [edit] |
 HERE IS MY BAG
HERE IS MY FOOT |
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| "It's no Halo." |
| 02.12.04 (9:29 am) [edit] |
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| TV-style adverts invade the 'net |
| 02.04.04 (6:11 am) [edit] |
BBC News reports that Net users may have to get used to watching TV ads between web pages, if trials currently under way on high profile websites are successful.
The new video ads are being tested on 15 sites over the next five weeks.
They are the result of a collaboration between online ad developers, Unicast, and software giant, Microsoft.
But though users may find them annoying, they could ultimately reduce the overall number of web advertisements in the long term.
Hard to ignore
With the increasing commercialisation of the internet has come an explosion in advertising.
Most people have got used to filtering out the sales pitches in the search for useful information.
But 30 second-long TV ads that appear at random whenever you click on certain websites, will be harder to ignore than pop-up ads.
Unicast's Video Commercial is a full screen online ad format that plays a 2MB, 30 second, broadcast quality video, regardless of connection speed.
The format is based on Microsoft's Windows Media 9 Series and uses Unicast proprietary pre-cached technology.
Fewer ads?
Unicast describes its ad format as "a giant leap forward" for the online advertising industry.
"Why there are so many ads is that websites depend on advertising for your content to be free," said Allie Savarino, Unicast vice-president of worldwide marketing.
"And the lower the value to an advertiser that an ad format brings, such as a pop up, the more ads a website has to sell," she told the BBC programme Go Digital.
"If you can offer formats that advertisers place a premium on, like television commercials, the amount of money they're willing to pay for that will increase and therefore the number of ads websites will have to run to remain viable will decrease."
Users stumbling across the trials on websites including MSN, ABCNews, Pepsi and Honda may find them overly distracting.
But it is something net users all going to have to get used to, says Unicast.
"There is an inherent need for consumers to become accustomed to something habitual online, in the same way they are accustomed for every 30 minutes of a TV programme to have seven minutes of adverts," said Ms Savarino.
Technology analyst Bill Thompson told Go Digital that he believed the ads would prove too intrusive.
"It will replace something that is annoying for many people with something which is even more annoying," he said.
"The flow when you are moving from webpage to webpage is particularly important. To have that interrupted, even by an ad you can close is going to be disruptive and people will not like this."
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| Sonic Heroes Review at NTSC-UK |
| 02.02.04 (9:06 am) [edit] |
NTSC-UK have reviewed the PlayStation 2 version of Sonic Team's latest game - Sonic Heroes, where it earned a dismal 3/10. I wasn't expecting a great score, but they awarded Sonic Adventure 2: Battle and Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut 6/10 and 3/10 respectively - which seems fair to me.
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| Donkey Konga! |
| 02.01.04 (9:58 am) [edit] |
I ordered Donkey Konga from Play-Asia for a great price - I can't wait to try it out :D [/Ad]
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| Toyko Sex Warning! |
| 01.31.04 (7:00 pm) [edit] |
I went to see Big Fish today, which was really good - go see it if you can, but I still wanna see Lost in Translation, which looks better.
When you started reading this blog, you wondered about the "Toyko Sex Warning", so before you've forgotten about it, I should explain that I saw it in a shop in the city. Yes.
I didn't do alot else today, Yesterday I hung around at a friends house and played, and over-analysed old Sega Mega Drive games, which was fun. I never questioned eating giant apples and chickens out of phonebooths and tyres when I was eight. Nor the domantrix with the whips that attack you, or the police's gattling gun that launches FIRE. Or even that the sound effects of getting hit sound like someone kicking a dustbin. Get ahold of Streets of Rage if you can now, and play it - It's fun ;P
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| I got my first Nigerian Money Scam email! |
| 01.31.04 (3:51 am) [edit] |
NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION.
FEDERAL SECRETARIAT,FALOMO- LAGOS, NIGERIA.
BUSINESS PROPOSAL: TRANSFER OF US$ 41.5 M (FORTY-ONE
MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND U.S DOLLARS)
First, I must solicit your trust and strictest confidence in this transaction, this is by nature of the top secret information I am about to devulge to you.
You were introduced to us by my mutual aquaintance from the Nigerian Chamber of commerce, Foreign Trade Division, who does not know of the nature of what I am about to introduce to you. He only knows that I have some funds to invest abroad, hence he recommended you.
I am the Director of Engineering & Project of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
(N.N.P.C) in Lagos, Nigeria. I am seeking your assistance to enable me transfer the sum of US$41,500,000.00 into your private company account for mutual benefits.
This money came about as a result of a contract for the supply of two thousand, three hundred and sixty-seven computer unit, installation and the Y2K compliance turn- around maintenance executed on behalf of my Ministry (N.N.P.C), in the year 1999.
This contract was officially assigned to be awarded and executed by two foreign contractors at the tune of US$105,500,000.00, but in the course of my negotiation, I bargained with only one foreign contractor, a Bulgarian firm which now executed the contract at the cost of US$64.000.000.00. Thus leaving the remaining US$41.5M floating in the escrow account of the Central Bank of Nigeria (C.B.N) to the benefits of we the three members of the contract award panel unknown to the contractor and any other person in my Ministry.
This contract has been satisfactorily executed and inspected as the Bulgarian firm is presently securing his payment from my Ministry.
It is however to this effect that I seek your maximum assistance and approval to present
your company name alongside with the Bulgarian contractor as the second foreign
contractor to enable me transfer the difference (US$41.5M) into your account for further
investment depending on your advice.
On actualization of the transaction, the funds will be shared thus: 1. 30% of the money would go to you for acting as the beneficiary of the funds.
2. 10% for reimbursement to both parties for incidental expenses that may be incurred in
the course of the transaction for insurance, phone bills, documentation etc.
3. 60% to we three members of the Contract Award Panel.
All logistics are in place and all modalities worked out for the smooth actualization of the
transaction within fourteen working days of commencement after receipt of the following
Information by fax: Your company's Name, Address, Phone/Fax number and activities not
forgetting also to include a contact email address.
Also, if we opt for electronic transfer only other than payment by solar bank draft or cash call program, then your bank account particulars.
The above information will enable me make theapplication and lodge claims to the concerned Ministries in favor of your company or name and it is pertinent to state here that this deal is entirely based on trust and the fear of God.
If you are able to handle this, you can alternatively reach me on this email address:kupolokun_2004@ho tmail.com
Also furnish me with your own phone, fax numbers and also your email address, as I will be sending you immediately I receive your positive response some classified
documents.
Thanks in anticipation for your positive response.
Yours faithfully.
Funsho Kupolokun.
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| Alive. |
| 01.29.04 (12:37 pm) [edit] |
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Haven't updated in over a week, because.. I don't know.
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| Nintendo DS Mockups |
| 01.21.04 (9:11 am) [edit] |
I found some Mockups of the Nintendo DS system.
This one is my personal favourite, although from the specifications given, the system is unlikely to use carts;
--HK, Pre-ordering ;P
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| Creepy, My Inner-Child is older than I am X_x; |
| 01.21.04 (8:43 am) [edit] |
My inner child is sixteen years old!
Life's not fair! It's never been fair, but while
adults might just accept that, I know
something's gotta change. And it's gonna
change, just as soon as I become an adult and
get some power of my own.
How Old is Your Inner Child?
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My arm is still hurting from the vacinations for going to China - it feels bruised all over x_X;
Scroll down a bit, or open the archives to see the uber-cool news about a invovative new Nintendo handheld device ^.^
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