Intel unveils new remote lock-out technology for stolen laptops

[From TechRepublic blogs]

Interesting technology to have, but I wonder how long before someone manages to use it for a DOS attack?

Prohibited Relationships

Interesting list from ROM's website: list of prohibited relationships/marriages.

With many people fighting over the homosexual issue (not as publicised now, thanks to state-controlled media), what would they say about this?

Going against the original design of humans is a bad idea really. It has always been put that way (e.g. marrying your mother).


Kindred and Affinity
Prohibited Degrees of Relationship

Prohibited Relationship for Man (Man cannot marry any of the following persons)	Prohibited Relationship for Woman (Woman cannot marry any of the following persons)
Mother	Father
Daughter	Son
Father's mother	Father's father
Mother's mother	Mother's father
Son's daughter	Son's son
Daughter's daughter	Daughter's son
Sister	Brother
Wife's mother	Husband's father
Wife's daughter	Husband's son
Father's wife	Mother's husband
Son's wife	Daughter's husband
Father's father's wife	Father's mother's husband
Mother's father's wife	Mother's mother's husband
Wife's father's mother	Husband's father's father
Wife's mother's mother	Husband's mother's father
Wife's son's daughter	Husband's son's son
Wife's daughter's daughter	Husband's daughter's son
Son's son's wife	Son's daughter's husband
Daughter's son's wife	Daughter's daughter's husband
Father's sister	Father's brother
Mother's sister	Mother's brother
Brother's daughter	Brother's son
Sister's daughter	Sister's son

Microblogging

First blogging took the (inter-webs) world by storm, and it was one of the contributing forces towards the change in how the internet is used.

Next up: micro-blogging. Where you can blog even easier, wherever you are. I'm trying out Twitter if you noticed, but don't expect me to put on it stuff like where I am, or the time I go to the toilet, etc etc etc. (sorry stalkers)

It'd be interesting to see alternative uses for it though, one I can think of is for it to be a command and control channel for botnets (coming from the idea that social bookmarking sites can be used for such nefarious purposes also; I can't remember where I read that from..). ;)

Wedding preps

Went to the hotel (to settle booking details) and the bridal boutique (to choose the gown and suit) today...

...she really looked very nice when trying on the gowns =")



Can't wait to get married, though her being pretty isn't the sole reason for me wanting to do so lah =D

SOTM

Our church is currently going through the sermon on the mount, which I personally like to call it as SOTM (coming from a singaporean's love of the (over)use of acronyms).

Sort of reminds me of LOTR, though the only thing they have in common is the "mount"/hills.

Will write up some thoughts on the lessons as we carry on this series.

Revelations thorugh adversity

When times are getting tough for whatever reason, usually a person's true thoughts are drawn out.

Am really grateful and appreciative of Fen for what has been revealed of her from what has been happening these past few months. It must be pretty unnerving to be working towards a marriage with in-laws who're potentially...hard to relate to.

Changing to mobile broadband

My fixed line broadband contract just ended, and I've just signed up for Singnet's BB on mobile 1.8mbps plan. Faster than my old plan, cheaper, and mobile!

The problem is that most locations have run out of stock for the USB modem, but it's ok. A quick check on the net showed that my laptop has a type 2 PC card slot (which is unused anyway). So I got the PC card modem instead.

Looking forward to trying out my broadband connection on the go when it activates ;) Maybe there'll be some interesting stuff to try with this setup.

Google's Experimental Searches

Google has some experimental modes for your google search results page. Pretty interesting! Stuff like alternate views, keyword suggestions (Google suggest), keyboard shortcuts, left-hand search navigation and right-hand contextual search navigation.

I quite like the alternate views one, partially because I'm a data visualization junkie, and also I do my searches from my Firefox search box anyway, so I already have suggestions popping out as I type.

What do you think?

Sad fact

Living in a place where the only warmth comes from the hot water tap, it is somewhat further saddened when (even) the office administrator starts making efforts to interact with and make breakfast for everyone.


For today it's some variant of Caesar salad and potato soup. Nice.

Opposites

The world's mindset gets stressed when the parents of the girlfriend is around. The christian mindset gets stressed when the parents of the girlfriend is away.

Hahahahaha..! Crap, I need to get married soon man.

Hybrid scooter hi-tech miser

Link

Regenerative braking...wonder what it'd be like if it was retrofitted on a car? ;)

Gundam 00 Episode 1

Just watched the first episode for Gundam 00. Really really sets (my) expectations high for this series =D

The thing would be whether it delivers a good story/action this time round, or would it be like the past series where the storyline's similar all of the time?

Ah well, I think I'd better not expect too much of a good story from this one. Would be better to just watch and enjoy it as it is ;D

Facebook Song

Someone referred this song to me in Facebook. Pretty funny =D

Speaking of Facebook, it's pretty interesting in itself, because of the way "developers" (aka anyone) can extend its functionalities by writing apps for it. This way people actually make it interesting by creating content and apps, rather than just Facebook creating all the applications themselves.

The question to be asked though: will this really last?

I suspect not actually. It will last longer than Friendster and MySpace perhaps, but the human desire for more and more "new" things will catch up (sooner or later). Just a thought.