According to this article, even if your iPhone is OFF, it will still connect and try to fetch email. First of all, the iPhone should not be doing this automatically when it’s realizing that it’s on roaming. Secondly, this is one of the two reasons why removable batteries are so important. The other reason is unwarranted surveillance.

This is where we live, Foster City in California (in the Silicon Valley area). My pans are not very smooth, I can’t seem to manage them. 720p HD version available here (83 MBs).

I was reading this Associated Press article earlier:

“An out-of-shape, out-of-touch Britney Spears delivered what was destined to be the most talked-about performance of the MTV Video Music Awards — but for all the wrong reasons. […] And, perhaps most unforgivable given her once-taut frame, she looked embarrassingly out of shape.”

I have one thing to say to Associated Press & CNN who carried the article: GET A CLUE.

I am by no means a Spears fan (she seems to have an IQ of 50, just like her friends Lindsay and Paris). But calling her body out of shape, is preposterous. Look at her body, of that mother of two, once more, carefully. That’s not an out of shape body. That’s a NORMAL body. Not thin, but normal. Since when “normal” is a negative term? If only 1/3 of the women were like that the world would have been a healthier place.

I demand that the journalist who wrote that trash publicly apologizes.

“I haven’t been privy to the private conversations of Steve Jobs, but listening to his keynote the other day, it’s difficult not to pick up on at least some antipathy the man seems to hold towards the entire mobile phone industry”, writes Crunchgear.

Well, is it possible to actually like the cellphone industry? I think not, especially in the US. I hope that Apple introduces its own VoIP service (to be used with the iPod Touch and unlocked iPhones) after they get that 5% in the cellphone industry, and then the ONLY customization they should accept to do for the carriers is to leave on or remove that VoIP engine. For everything else, they should not be dictated by anyone what and how to do things. If the carriers don’t like it, let them not use Apple’s phones.

We had sex this evening. JBQ has bruises on his hips. I am too much of a Klingon for him it seems (complete with crazy hair, ugly teeth, old fashioned ideas and terribly bad temper).

“Two teams of scientists hope to be able to create stem cells from their work that could unlock the secrets of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. The so-called chimeras will be 99% human and 1% cow, and will be destroyed after 14 days”, writes Daily Mail.

I blogged about genetic engineering a while back and expressed my views there. I am still fond of stem cells work when it’s really needed. I am just not so sure that this is the only way to battle Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Maybe it is, I don’t know.

PS3’s Netfront-based browser is nowhere as good as Nintendo Wii’s Opera. When it’s on standard size it doesn’t use the full TV size (it just uses a thin vertical strip and it’s unreadable in 1080i), and when it’s set on widescreen, it’s out of the safe zone. In fact, ALL the PS3 game demos we tried so far are out of the safe zone (while the PS2 and Wii don’t have this problem in our 55″ CRT TV).

However, the biggest problem I have with the PS3 browser is the Flash performance. On YouTube, it drops frames — especially when in full screen mode. I get about 5 fps. The Wii, a much less powerful device, doesn’t sweat at all. So what’s up with that? Is the PS3 that much rocky still after so many firmware upgrades?

Another proof that nothing is what it seems:

“Last week, Apple and NBC-Universal’s relationship ended in a messy split. The usual he-said, she-said followed: Apple accused NBC of wanting to double prices on some TV shows; NBC said no, they just wanted to have some flexibility in pricing. There may have been another factor at work, however: Apple’s desire to cut prices drastically on TV shows”, writes ArsTechnica.

Early this week I laughed at NBC for wanting $5 per episode, but Apple’s own plan for $1 per episode is not much better either. I don’t think that an ad-free TV episode should be priced the same as a song. Writing and recording a song can be the work of a single day, of a single person. Finishing up and wrapping up a TV episode is a work of 10 days, that involves up to 100 people.

Sorry, but Apple needs to get more objective here. They obviously want to drive iPod sales simply because they make no real money out of iTunes, but they should not do that by shitting on their own partners. If they really need the money, then they should consider NBC’s idea of upping the price of the shows, maybe at $2.49, and then split the extra revenue between them. A fair increase for the consumer too, IMO.

Thom is hosting an interesting topic on his blog, about cosmetic surgery and photoshopping covers of magazines. He fears that photoshopping magazines creates insecurity to some women. And this is my blunt reply, copied here:

“I agree that there should be a fine print somewhere explaining that some photoshoping has taken place. But other than that, I believe that consumers do want it, even if they won’t admit it or realize it. Proof is that providers had to do that in order to sell more.

As for having women feeling insecure just because another woman looks better than them, well let them feel insecure, and hopefully die out of insecurity, so their stupid genes don’t survive in the human gene pool. Let Darwin work his magic baby.

I am very short, I am fat, I have an ugly tooth (it’s out of alignment, and if you see me smiling from a specific angle, it looks like I have no tooth there at all). And guess what: I don’t give a f*ck, neither I try to hide it by not smiling. It didn’t stop me from finding and getting married to a much prettier person than I am too. I have zero complex about my appearance, neither I try my best to look good. And all has worked out just fine, so why feel insecure?”

Update: Me and my ugly tooth. 😀

On December the 3rd season of “Lost” will be released on the Blu-Ray and DVD formats. Until recently my idea was to continue buying the DVD version, as my other two seasons were also DVD-based. But now I realize that this would be a mistake. Because when “Lost” will finally finish HD players will be so common, that I would be banging my head on the wall for not having bought the HD versions, and I would ultimately be spending more money re-buying them in HD.

So, JBQ agreed with me that the logical thing to do is buy the (more expensive right now) Blu-Ray version, EVEN if we didn’t have the PS3 yet. In fact, JBQ was buying audio CDs over 20 years ago, and he didn’t have a CD player yet… It’s about looking to the future and making purchases that will last more.