Around the world on the couch

Today is wasted in productivity sense. I decided to read "Around the
world in 80 days" by Jules Verne. The book was so tense that I could
not put down. I just keep reading it until the last page, even when my
Palm give sign that it run out of power, I decided to finish it on my
desktop. The Character Phileas Fogg was so belieavable, unlike the
movie I saw (starring Jacky Chan as Passepartout???). I can see that
the movie was falling short compared to the novel. Although the movie
is quite good, the book is superb, and the character Aouda simply beats
Michelle La Roche all the way (although I think Aouda is a little bit
too good to be true, Michelle is more believable). The only curiosity
is how Phileas Fogg earn his money? From the novel I think he's not
born on a rich/famous family, his life is quite solitary, and from his
daily schedule he doesn't seem to work at all. Anyway, I think Monsieur
Verne is the greatest science fiction writer ever life in the world.
I'll read his other works. At the moment I'll prepare "From Earth to
Moon", but I'll read it someday (I'm affraid I'll be flat broke for not
working since I'm not Phileas Fogg).

GMail

Just found out that GMail's POP3 is not too reliable, some of my mail
cannot be retrieved thru POP3 service. In process, I also found out
that some people built utilities to make use GMail's huge 1 GB space.
Unfortunately the GMailFS utility is not ported to Mac OS X platform
just yet.

Today's prediciton

My today's astrocenter.com read:
"You may feel a sense of renewed courage when reaching for your dreams
today, Danu. In fact, you may experience the urge to set even higher
goals for yourself. The stumbling blocks that stand between you and the
target will look much smaller from today's perspective. Your sense of
determination and drive will take you a long way toward reaching
exactly what you want. Go ahead and reach for that brass ring!"
Boy, I think it's correct in some ways, especially after doing a lot of
talking with my father yesterday. At least now I know his fear, what he
think about what I'm doing now, etc. On the downside, I haven't really
got any prove that I've made something, and it seems that today I got
what's called writer's block, maybe because my nose is also blocked
last night (sigh, bad weather). Anyway, I think I'll stick to my
current plan, and seek more people to give more insight in this
business.
 
 

 
 

Another musing

There's a lot of things we can learn from old people. My mom used to
tell me my great-grandfather philosophy about cheap and expensive: "No
matter how cheap is the price, if you don't have money to spend on it,
it's expensive. On the contrast, no matter how expensive it is, if you
can buy that thing in ten, with no impact to your financial situation,
then it's cheap".

Interesting Era

Dear blog, I think at the moment we, human beings live in one of the most interesting era. Today I think about how our way of communicate has changed in the past few years. Especially ever since the acceptance of mobile phone (cellular, or hand phone, depend where u live) on public. Also the invention of radio and television. Today I mused about how our grandparents live in the early 20th century, maybe those things are luxurious goods. I kept musing about how night live in the family rooms before television. Maybe they're tell tales, read storybooks together, play music, etc.