I’d just like to announce that I’ve finally sorted out a (better) layout / theme for this site. I think it looks much better and much less generic; the previous theme used the default layout.
Any feedback on the new layout?
Thanks for visiting and keep up the support!
I stumbled across an interesting website today. What they’ve done is archived (nearly) every single website on the Internet since 1996 - so you can type in a URL, click the year you want to see, and you’ll then be taken to a page showing you what the site looked like back then.
Google.com and Apple.com were two I came across as very interesting. It’s amazing how the web has changed over the years; today’s web designers are definitely amazing. What are websites going to look like in 5 years?
Click here to visit the Wayback Machine
I’m sure we’ve all been to YouTube.com, a place where honestly, you can pretty much find videos on just about anything and everything. In fact, I’ve seen people manage to spend an entire day on sites like YouTube; watching video after video.
Here’s an interesting extract about YouTube from eWEEK:
YouTube, the leader in Internet video search, said on Sunday viewers are now watching more than 100 million videos per day on its site, marking the surge in demand for its “snack-sized” video fare. Since springing from out of nowhere late last year, YouTube has come to hold the leading position in online video with 29 percent of the U.S. multimedia entertainment market, according to the latest weekly data from Web measurement site Hitwise. YouTube videos account for 60 percent of all videos watched online, the company said. Videos are delivered free on YouTube and the company is still working on developing advertising and other means of generating revenue to support the business.
The site specializes in short—typically 2-minute—homemade, comic videos created by users. YouTube serves as a quick entertainment break or viewers with broadband computer connections at work or home.
In June, 2.5 billion videos were watched on YouTube, which is based in San Mateo, California and has just over 30 employees. More than 65,000 videos are now uploaded daily to YouTube, up from around 50,000 in May, the company said.
YouTube boasts nearly 20 million unique users per month, according to Nielsen/NetRatings, another Internet audience measurement firm.
Damn, imagine the money involved with a site like this in advertising itself! And my last entry feature two YouTube videos 
This one’s at Princess Juliana International Airport in St. Maarten. I’d probably want to go down to the beach everytime a plane is about to take off just to feel the force throw me back!Â
This one’s from our good old Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong. Update: I just found out that Kai Tak is in fact one of the hardest airports in the world to land, thus only highly experienced pilots can land here. Anyhow this guy is still quite a pilot! 
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Yesterday was an amazing night out at Tribeca, haven’t had quite as much fun as a I did for a LONG time. Was great meeting all you guys and girls - here’s a shout out to the following people I met, remember and will now show a lot of love to:Â
Calvin, Eugene (both), Grady, Raymus, Brian, Phil Collins (and your ‘brother’ from KGV, forgot his name), Jeran, Jason, Anthony, Jack, Raymond, Lianne, Joyce, Pearl, Fion, Francis, Esther, Charmaine, Michelle, Trish, Jade, Flora, Sharon, Victoria, Irene, Ivy, Helen, Hannah, Nat, Celine.
I’m sure there were a few more - i.e. the guy who knew Christy, the girl who had Brian look after her phone, and the girl who kept calling me ”that kid” but refused to tell me her name - but I just can’t remember your names! Respect anyhow, even if I forgot your name!
Look forward to seeing you all again. Rock On!
UPDATE: If you want photos, gimme a shout.
This is an article I wrote back in 2004. Although slightly outdated, still an enjoyable and applicable read:
A Gigabyte is like that spare copper at the bottom of our bags, we don’t want it. What I want is terabytes and petabytes and zettabytes and brontobytes. But, how much storage is enough?
When do we hit the point where we have too much memory? Does having too much storage space on a gadget exist? Not so long ago, I purchased and treasured my little 32MB Yepp MP3 player; a little beast capable of carrying half a dozen tracks. Obviously, choosing which tracks got the privilege of sitting on my MP3 player was complicated business.
Around that time came the sexy first generation iPod. In comparison to my little beast, this was a giant. Within it held the ability to store 5GB worth of stuff. Enough to crush and destroy all my old cassettes and MD’s, and let’s not forget, my humble 32MB MP3 Player. Back then, I didn’t even have enough songs to fill up 500MB, especially when MP3s averaged at 64kbps, let alone 5000. My music library was in its childhood, only time would tell how great it would grow.
Push forward to 2004 – and 5GB is nothing. A mere 100 album’s worth of storage is considered child’s play, which just proves we want more – and when we get more, we’ll want even more.
There is an entire universe worth of data out there today, and we can stick our hands into it easier than before. We have much more than our select library of CDs and DVDs to store. Millions of songs and movies are now available through the internet and peer-to-peer file (P2P) sharing. Our appetite for each and every one of these files just got bigger. Applications such as the growingly popular BitTorrent are making the download process of such files even faster. BitTorrent shares the file you are downloading, whilst you are downloading. This normally allows you to get the file you want faster because you are downloading at the combined bandwidth of everyone else uploading; this being the basic concept of P2P file sharing.
Surprisingly, it’s not the handful of suspects you’d expect causing all the chaos. A survey carried out recently showed that 75% of European broadband subscribers use P2P networks every month. The survey also showed that over 35 million Europeans have downloaded music from such P2P networks. If you thought that was interesting, hear this – the total population logged onto any major P2P network, at any given time pumps up to roughly 8 million, sharing over 10 million GB in data. With such numbers in mind, it’s not hard to recognize why Apple’s Mini iPod (with 5GB) is just not enough for most consumers. Their MP3 (or any other audio format) libraries are growing real fast. Can producers keep up?
Similar to how megabyte machines pushed out for gigabyte machines, the gigabyte will soon become zilch in our minds. Bring in the terabytes! A terabyte is equivalent to 1000 gigs, and before you know it, it will be on every gadget-lover’s mind.
Taiwanese manufacturers are supposedly launching a new memory card format that has a big enough stomach to swallow two terabytes of data. Alongside this, researchers at London’s Imperial College are developing ways to store 1TB worth of data on DVDs. Just one of these disks could hold every single episode of The Simpsons (plus commercials).
If you think terabytes are pretty big, maybe you should consider a petabyte; 1000 terabytes. Hitachi Data Systems already has a product called the Universal Storage Platform, which can support up to 32 petabytes of storage. If all this technical gibberish is confusing you, picture the ability to store 7 billion MP3s (assuming an average MP3 file is 5MB in size). Now, that’s one load of songs to have in your library. If you’re not so much a music fan, you can store 49 million movies, if they are encoded to approximately 700MB, in DivX for example. If these numbers still don’t clear up your mind, the Internet Movie Database (imdb.com) currently has a catalog of 411,547 movies (at time of writing). Obviously, such a product is not designed for the average home user. A professional set-up with this amount of storage will knock you down roughly one million US dollars.Let’s look beyond the ever-powerful MP3. There’s a sexy new generation of portable media players, such as Creative’s Portable Media Center. Such a device shows that we don’t only want music on the move. So why stop at music, when there’s plenty of space for movies? In fact, why stop at movies when we can store our entire life’s worth of work and entertainment, on one marvelous device? By then, there will be no need for shoeboxes full of photographs, CDs and DVDs in our attic. We can find other ways to fill up that space.
If there’s one thing I learnt in my life long interest in gadgets, it’s that what we have now is never enough to satisfy us. We’ll always find ways of filling up the space available to us, however big that space is. So, when do you think that brontobyte iPod is coming out?
Firstly, thanks for dropping by! Right now, there definitely isn’t very much on this site - mostly because I haven’t had time to do much, but it’s getting here. So what’s coming?
Apart from this place being my personal blog site (one with probably the shortest & easiest to remember URL, as well as being worth quite a fortune - yes i’m proud to own it!), I’m also going to be throwing in the occassional news I think you’ll find interesting, and my own articles and perspectives on things.
Anyway, although I’m supposed to be enjoying my summer holiday, sitting back legs up and relaxing, I’ve actually got quite a lot of things going on around me. Here’s a quick list of things that I’m currently engaged with:
I hope you’re all looking forward to what’s coming!
