Netphotography Journal

I am showing up in more dance classes just to practice. It is quite fun actually and a great place to socialize; in fact the best place for a single guy like me. I am registered in one class which is level II and III and I am showing up in two more basic classes because there is always shortage of guy partners. I also get a chance to review what I’ve learned and improve the little moves.

I really enjoy it. It has the best effect on my mood, and it is a great exercise too. I’ll be doing 4.5 hours a week which takes care of my partying cravings.

I went for a run this morning on Ambleside Beach. It is bit chilly with overcast skies. I could smell Sea Salt and Sea weeds in the fresh see breeze. That is when you know you live in heaven.

Except the part that a Seagull pooped on me, I really enjoyed the rest of it.

I just bought a new 100 GB 5400 prm Hard Drive and a 512 MB RAM for my Powerbook from this online store. Now all I want that my Powerbook to bear with me for another 10 days or so until I receive my package. I’ve been using a Titanium DVI Powerbook 1GHz G4 for the last 3 years, and I rate this machine 10 out of 10. I love Macs, truly superior machines. This is the 4th machine that I’ve bought.

I am going to use my laptop for another year, until the new Intel based Powerbooks hit the market, then I’ll buy the top of the line powerbook for myself.

Rastin

Interesting Article , and I can see it coming. Web is indeed the next computing platform. We are already doing our banking, taxes, email, online learning, shopping on the internet. I can see the time that we would do our word processing and spread sheets online instead of using a desktop application.

See also Web Based Office and Sun’s Schwartz says AJAX to play a role in OpenOffice. Here’s my bet on how.

There will be a day that we could get CPU power from the internet on demand using the power of Distributed Computing. One could render a movie on a little hand held device, because the client side is nothing but an elaborated GUI, and rendering is happening on a group of servers out there. Believe it or not it is much more secure as well, your request from the thin client is broken down to smaller bits, encrypted, distributed randomly on a group of servers, processed, and return to you and be assembled in one piece. In this model the only way to hack a user’s private information is to read the punched keyboard keys.

That means all the software companies that are focused on Desktop applications will lose some market share to web based computing. How much? let’s wait and see.

Last night I had the strangest dream.

I killed a large yellow snake in my bedroom. It was the bedroom I had when I was a teenager. I cut its head off while it was trying to bend its head bite me. I managed to hold its head and finish off the job. Then I looked into the snake’s body to make sure it is not moving.

I was shaking; felt very disturbed, and woke up. It was about 5:00 AM. My dream was so vivid and real that I can still remember every detail of it. I don’t usually have dreams like this, it was very unexpected. In that moment I felt that I am protecting loved ones, I’m not exactly sure who though.

Apparently killing a snake in your dream means that no matter what the opposition or how hostile, you will succeed in overcoming it.

I am not superstitious, but I do think that brain as a complex biological computer creates a video clip using the available ingredients in this case images and sensations to tell me something.

Something very unusual happened! … the girl in our dance class is not from some fairytale children story book, neither she is a science fiction character nor from scene of a play in the theater.

She is just a next-door North Vancouver girl who likes to dance. She is actually a young artistic nurse!

I still think she is kindda cute though. We went out and had tea together she is a sweetheart.

Although I think I am a bit too old for her. I am turning 31 in 2 weeks, and she is in early 20s. So perhaps this is another non matching marble out of the bag for me.

An interesting article about the notion of Intelligence in the Internet Age. According to this article in the internet age, it is not about how much data you have in the memory bank inside your brain; it is about how you can relate and analyze blocks of information. That is exactly what we do in Software Engineering by creating Entity & Relationship Diagrams.

Basically the brain of a smart person is not a hard drive; her/his brain is a large CPU and a large cache. In the Internet Age we do not need to use our brain as hard drive to store data. Now we have things such as google to do it for us.

I know our school system emphasizes a lot on using our brain as hard drive. All the hours we had to memorize, names, locations, poems, … I was thinking so what !!!

And those with good photographic memory would ended up with higher grades that those with lower memorization skills but more analytical ones would ended up with poor grades. Basically a show like “Who Wants to be a Millionaire ” is rewarding all the walking hard drives, not the walking processors.