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One of the coolest new 3.0 feature by far is the “Find My iPhone”. For MobileMe subscribers, if you ever miss place your iPhone, you can use the MobileMe web interface to see where you left it (cell tower triangulation?) and send a message and alarm to the phone so whoever pick it up can contact you… At the worst case, you can remotely wipe out all the data! That’s badass!

Well, I did a test, the triangulation took a minute or two, and the result was surprisingly accurate! My phone displayed the message and alarm I sent almost instantaneously. I didn’t have the guts to remote wipe my data, I will just take Apple’s words for it, I am sure it works.

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It was quite a surprise to see my own profile page on IMDB!! Thanks to Chris’ short film where I had my big screen debut, totaling 4 lines… I knew this day would come!! Now, I need to go drafting my Academy Award speech!

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Google Wave is said to be the next “Email”, that’s a modest description. The demo shows how interactive and real time Wave is, no more waiting for the other person to reply to your SMS or email, you get to see the reply as the other side types, character by character, just like a real face to face conversation would. The technology put the brain back to the server side (with the exceptions of client-side extensions), having all the user generated contents resides on the host allows a real time collaboration for all of its shared users. Goodbye to the individually sent emails, it’s similar to online GoogleDocs, Wiki or bulletin board for everyone to collaborate on.

Wave effectively combines pretty much all the communication medium we use today: email, forum, blog, chat, twitter, facebook, evite, SMS, wiki, online meeting and etc. Since everything is centrally stored, sync is no longer a concern, IMAP then is obsolete?

Editing feature is also amazing, the spellchecker is no longer individual word focused, Wave’s spellchecker interpret your sentence for meaning and correct the misspelled word accordingly. So it knows that “been soup” should really meant “bean soup”. How cool is that?!?!

Watch the demo, it is long but entertaining. The last part of the demo really blew me away, with the help of add-on plugin, the real time conversation on Wave can be translated between 40+ languages, as you type! Talk about a world without boundaries, with this amazing thing, you can really talk to anyone from any part of the world in the language you are comfortable with.

Ok, I am going to bed, just couldn’t resist to blog a bit about this “historical event”.

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How can someone’s laughter, bring me so close to tears…

So well put… What a difference in the worlds we live in! Such primitive human need is never an issue and hardly ever across in our minds, and yet it is something that’s very real to many people, something they struggle with everyday. This short film really puts things in perspective, next time when we argue between M3 or M5, A|X or AF, perhaps we need and think about what we already have, be thankful, and try to do something positive to help others…

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Mediasia has made a comment on Jiaying Proposing to Vivian:

Very sweet. And the man is so confident, just like a man should be. Very inspirational.

I have to say, I have thought about proposing marriage to someone before, and it’s amazing you could keep your cool. Like, in that moment when the young woman was speechless, I can understand wanting to know, is it yes, or is it no?

Congratulations.

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We tried our best to keep the rest of this week open, and pushed projects to next week, so we can have a quick vacation. This is so last minute, which made booking anything very tough. We dropped the idea of taking a road trip visiting Yosemite/Grand Canyon, this is suppose to be a vacation, the long driving will be quite uncomfortable for Vivian, plus, she is not all the thrilled about national parks anyways. I searched for all-inclusive vacation packages to Cancun, Bahamas, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Puerto Rico, Aruba… pretty much all the cliche Caribbean vacation spots, however we are pretty much out of luck since this is so last minute, and the multiple flight transfers will seriously eat into our already short mini-vacation.

We ended up booking the new Palazzo hotel in Vegas (the new Venetian), heard it is a very good choice. The trip will be nothing but to relax, catch some shows, chill at the pool, walk around the Strip, try out different restaurants, and take a side trip to check out the Grand Canyon since Vivian hasn’t been there yet.

This is probably the last vacation for us before the baby arrives, we have to savor the moments. Between all the activities in the next four days, we also need to nail down a name for the kid, that’d be our only assignment.

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I have been enjoy watching all the latest Target commercials, kudos to Target, in mere few years, they really turned the image of the company around. I remember just few years ago, Target was in the same league as Wal-Mart, or perhaps even Kmart, to me at least. Now, Target boost a new hip image, their products are stylish and yet still affordable!

For me, it was their commercial that really did it. I am sure Target spent beaucoup dollars on their full suite of new commercials, it worked! Go Target!!

Love the way their commercial portraits a luxurious, stylish, hip and most importantly, affordable lifestyle. Their message also says affordable doesn’t mean cheap, it is smart to save money, come and check out the new Target… I am now the new spoke person for Target.

Oh, their latest commercial song – A New Day is really catchy, a new day, a new Target… love the whole thing, love it! Love it!

Subway should definitely learn a thing or two from Target!
(hate their annoying $5 footlong commercial!!)

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I so want one… but have to justify the need first with Vivian… hummm… that’s the hard part.

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One thing on the show that really bothers me is our hero Jack Bauer’s panting. It seems every line he says is accompanied with heavy panting. I know the actions are fast paced, and the plots are thick, but can he at least catch his breath once in awhile? I guess that’s just his acting style, frankly after seven seasons, it is becoming annoying… Com’on Jack!

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16 of us went out to the Joseph D. Grant park last weekend for some healthy group activity, which involved BBQ and plenty of volleyball. Victor finally sent me the photos from the event, so here they are!

We all had a good time, and this weekend we are going hiking. Well, I will have to see if I can go or not, since my skin rash (possibility due to encountering poison oak during last weekend’s BBQ) is still flaring up. Hope I can go…

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For that brief moment on the way home, I was overwhelmed with mixed emotions, why are we doing what we are doing? We had nice corporate jobs, although they were also tiring and stressful (in a different way), but the corp life had a sense of “security”, I knew when I was going get paid, and at how much, and at the end of the day, I didn’t have to worry about all the overhead cost and payroll.

We threw all that away, in order to be on our own, and now I am driving home 10:30 at night, tired and starved…

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