Entertainment Industry as Backseat Driver in Higher Ed
August 28th, 2008
College should be about broadening horizons, academic learning, and social development, not about policing file-sharing.
The entertainment industry already has an oh-so-brilliant aggressive campaign to sues its own customers. Now it has convinced Congress to pass a college funding bill with anti-P2P provisions intact under the guise of several higher education benefits with additional [...]
The Octopus Knows Your Language
August 25th, 2008
While in Hong Kong, I did some sightseeing with some American friends who were part of our group. They hadn’t been in Hong Kong before and my Hong Kong born friend had introduced them to the Octopus card so everyone in our group got this prox card (by paying a deposit), which is a [...]
New Seat Experience to Hong Kong
August 13th, 2008
I flew to Hong Kong on the Cathay Pacific flight I booked several months earlier on a 747-400 with new seats that were introduced last month, which included individual entertainment screens (no charge) that had plenty of options to keep you preoccupied including video games and seats that reclined in its own shell, plus a [...]
New Counter-Intuitive Airplane Seats
August 13th, 2008
I flew on Cathay Pacific with their new seats and noticed that the user interface for the entertainment screens weren’t as intuitive as I thought it would be. It took some confusion to figure out why it wasn’t behaving as expected. While the remote was docked, I expected the arrows to work as [...]