A story that is even more dramatic – and yet somewhat low-key – than the return of American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee from North Korea is that of Robert Park. Unlike the two female journalists who were captured and detained against their will, 28-year-old Korean-American missionary Robert Park wilfully and single-handedly crossed the [...]
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A while back, I commented on the movement to abolish State-level politics in Australia. While the idea of abolishing States and making everything Federal may seem politically impossible at first sight, I held and still do hold a strong view that there is a compelling case for such a movement: reducing overgovernance. And I half-jokingly [...]
48 hours on, I still have not been able to watch the video of Kim Yu-Na taking the first ever gold (and also podium finish) for Korea in Olympic figure skating. Basically, if you miss live screening on TV and if the country you reside in doesn’t offer an online service that lets you view [...]
I was listening to a sermon on the Internet and came to a small yet ground-breaking epiphany, which I can deeply relate to many of my own personal experiences and decisions. Here’s a well-known passage from the Book of Numbers in GNB, my favourite translation:
(13.30) Caleb silenced the people who were complaining against Moses, and [...]
The drama over the may-or-may-not-come-into-existence Apple Unicorn Tablet is REALLY spiralling out of control.
OK, so Apple is finally announcing the Tablet… What’s the problem?
Report: Apple tablet could earn $3 billion in a year
Apple 2010 Earnings Will Likely Be Affected by Tablet
More Hints at Apple’s Desire to Hold ‘iPad’ Trademark for Tablet Device
All this still remains [...]
I just learned that Paul Kangas of Nightly Business Report, a PBS production and my favourite television (now over the Internet) programme, had his final appearance as co-anchor on 31 December, 2009, marking the end of his 30-year career on the show.
I have been a fan of both Paul Kangas and his co-anchor Susie Gharib [...]
It’s time for 2010 tech predictions. Although there is no shortage of “authoritative” predictions for the new year such as ones published by Newsweek, I’d like to add some “lighthearted” ones of my own like I did last time. But before I get to the new ones for 2010, let me briefly reflect on [...]
Unlike Carly Palmer, I couldn’t finish the 509-page book in 2 hours and 34 minutes. Having finished it, however, I don’t think it’s possible to say what the Lost Symbol, after all, exactly was – because, well, it’s much more than just a symbol that had been lost. It’s actually a phrase, an idea, a [...]
Smartphones are selling like hotcakes and in a couple of years time from now virtually all mobile phones will be smartphones at least throughout the developed world. It seems odd, then, that the various smartphones and Mac OS X don’t seem to get along very well with each other. When it comes to synchronising [...]
I have been using Lorem Ipsum for project work a lot lately and it got me thinking: Why is industry-standard dummy text Latin of all languages? Why couldn’t dummy text have meaning? And then I thought of a perfect source of English-language dummy text that is meaningful, true, and even educational. It comes from [...]