There are a couple of cool things I saw while browsing through the Interweb today.

The first one is this news that Honda successfully uses brain signal to control a robot to moves its fingers. Unlike others, they did not have to perform surgery to connect wires to your brain. Instead, they use MRI machine to capture the signal and send that to the robot. I think that’s pretty cool. Here comes the Age of Borg!

The second news is about this cloaking device. Several scientists have proposed of a way to make an object disappear! Yes, just like Klingon’s Bird-of-Prey or Romulan’s Warbird! This is not just some stealth technology that makes things disappear on radar, but actually make it disappear from your eyes! It seems that they (mathematically) came up with a way to make like light flow around objects like water (instead of hitting it and scatters).

Brain wave article
Cloak article

I remember seeing Cingular Wireless’s advertisement on TV recently. The one I’m talking about is the one with some girl(?) saying that some independent research company concludes that Cingular Wireless has the fewest number of dropped calls in the nation. Well, I really feel sorry for those people with other service providers. They must be having really hard times with their phone service. Over the course of about 45 minutes, I already had at least 8 dropped connections. As the matter of fact, I made a call when I started writing this blog, and it already dropped it about 2-3 sentences ago. Imagine what people with other providers are going through!!

P.S. If you do not sense sarcasm in the post above, then I think you are a little too naive…

I started reading The Da Vinci Code past Monday, and I finished it on Wednesday. It was a pretty good book. The way the plot was carried out was almost identical to Dan Brown’s previous book, Angels & Demons. Overall, I like both books, but I think that Angels & Demons was a little more interesting, and made me want to keep reading on more as I was reading it.

Anyway, the reason why I decided to read it last week was because the movie (The Da Vinci Code) just came into the theater. Because the book’s reputation, I wanted a taste of it before going into the movie. In a way, I think that it was a pretty good choice. Going into the movie before finished reading the book would pretty much spoil the ending. Having read Angels & Demons, I decided that I should fully enjoy reading The Code. So, I went to the movie with Scott and P’Yot today not expecting too much from it. There is no way that they would make a movie that would up to par with such book (unless if it were made into a 3-part movie or something). It turned out that even with low expectation, I considered the movie a piece of trash. Somehow, I felt that it strayed away from the book too much, and the characters in the movie did not portray the characters from the book very well (at least not the way I understood from reading it).
Well.. this is too much ranting for the day already… going to bed now…

I’m eating lunch at work right now. I had some leftover from last night. Chicken curry and roasted chicken is on the menu today (and yesterday)…

Just another blog (entry)…

While looking through firefox bookmarks at work today, I found a link to RFC 1149 at the Internet Engineering Task Force. I was going to post this a while back, but never had a chance to do so.

It might be a month late.. but here it is anyway..

Please also note that if you actually appreciate or find pleasure in reading this RFC, then you are classified as a geek, and may want to consider joining a GA (Geeks Anonymous) group.