MONOLOGUE

Too many thing on my mind...that's just gone into hiding.  Watched the movie Limitedless, interesting and entertaining.  Wish I could get some of those NZT (the upgraded version of course :P).

I just saw this news regarding an ex-convict Bob Riddler helped out during the recent QLD flood in cleaning rubbish and other volunteer works.  He was nominated to receive a reward and then the invitation to goto the ceremony/reward was rescinded after his criminal record was made public. It is understandable for the organisation not wanting to reward/be connected with an ex-rapist.  However, if the news of rewarding this guy had already gone out previously and then cancelled, it is also perfectly logical to think that Mr. Riddler will feel he is forever not going to get back to the society.  What will happen next?  Back to the dark side?  I hope not but I fear that is probably going to happen now this news broke out.

Apple unveiled OSX Lion with new features, and iCloud. The so-called "new" features and functions provided by "Lion" and "iCloud" aren't really that much of new ideas.  Most of those features can in some way be provided by 3rd parties soft-wares.  They do, however, make OSX/iOS becomes very very adhesive. I have used OSX and I owned an iMAC before.  It was very good but I could just switch the platform because most of the soft-wares I use are not platform dependent.  So I could use Linux today, Windows tomorrow or OSX/iOS as long it's about me doing something on the internet (not play special games or trying to use special accounting soft-ware). OSX Lion and improvements just joined those functions/soft wares together, so when I start to use it, I don't have to look somewhere else.  Once I started paying for those service, it would be very hard for me to use other supplier (another reason I haven't really start buying any music/books/movi...