Hell lot of work
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That's all the time allows me to say at this moment, because I have to finish a 1,500 words report NOW otherwise I'll be nicked tomorrow.
New Computer Screenshots
The blog is in Bear's Blog China. Sorry I haven't had time to put English on but you can still watch pictures though:)
Holiday nearly end
But I still have lots of work to do...
Thursday:receive my new computer
Friday:Essay writting
Saturday:Visit to Ponsonby.
Sunday:Visit to Avondale
I'm so glad that I can finally get over my 40 gigabyte harddrive computer today. Its my first computer in New Zealand and Fourth in my life.
But it is still a huge improvement from my first one: 1 gigabyte harddrive, Pentium 133Mhz and a poor little 33.5kbps modem. The modem was quite expensive at that time and slower than all the current modem today, but it was your only way to get online.
I'm just amazed how technologies changed in just little over 10 years, and sure ... a decade passed fairly fast: I still remember those last decade's things like yesterday.
Because lack of time in this weekend and possibly next week, I'm going to disappear for about a week, or possibly shorter than that.
You can still reach me by email.
Who you don’t trust the most?
It's 30 year's birthday of fair go, the consumer programme in New Zealand this week.
30 years ago the programme asked general public on the road about 'which occupation is most untrustworthy". Though the programme itself described the poll as "very unscientific", I still think the conclusion is quite right: car dealers and lawyers.
Personally I still don't like lawyers at all. In my opinion, lawyer is the kind of job that will put you in the hell, if there is one.
30 years after, Fair Go asked the same question again, in the same way, but the result was totally different.
Lawyers and Car dealers disappeared; the top two came to Real estate agents and police.
I understand the bit about real estate agents. Because they have their own interests in every transaction and usually that involves large sum of money, I rarely see an agent who acts purely to maximise the interest of buyers (sellers).
Police is the part I don't understand. I mean, yes the Police was on the news lately about the rape case, but if we are losing confidences with the group of people who fight crimes and keep our street safe, what we should do when encounter crimes? DIY and arrest them yourself? So what we need police for?
I'm interested to see what will be the answers after another 30 years.
School NCEA results published
I guess our Principle Mr Rugby player is probably having a headache at this moment.
http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/qualifications/ssq/statistics/school-quals.do?pc=85&year=2006&view=N&decile=N&type=ALL&gender=%#t
Overall it looks alright, no unusual results ... apart from the Auckland Grammar, which had nearly same results as this decile 3 school, because they are doing the cambridge at this moment....
It’s april’s fool again
I didn't do that "love you" trick this time.
However, Google started it's new innovative service to day... Google TiSP (Toilet Internet Service Provider)
From its press release, google states that "The Toilet Internet Service Provider (TiSP) project is a self-installed, ad-supported online service that will be offered entirely free to any consumer with a WiFi-capable PC and a toilet connected to a local municipal sewage system."
For more information, see here:
http://www.google.com/tisp/
It's a joke but I think it is also some kind of hope for the future...
Gmail got another interesting one: Gmail Paper, offering the service that send you hard copys of your emails for free.
When you click on any linksof this page it will say it is a April Fool's Day joke.
The clever thing is, there is a mailto link "Send the joke to a friend you think will fall for it" and gmail didn't forget to advertise itself and get more users from Microsoft:
" Did the links open up in a mail program you don't use? To set Gmail as your default mail client, try downloading the Google Toolbar for Firefox"
