Thursday, February 22, 2007

Dell powered by Linux?

Apparently Dell is going to ship computers pre-installed with a Linux distro! This is great news for the Linux Community, and we see a great awareness increase between the people who still believe that the rounded E from Internet Explorer is the INTERNET... finally!

I've always thought Desktop Linux was something you would install on an cheap box yourself.. like installation was part of the fun. Would be interesting to see how this will go though.


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Monday, February 19, 2007

Google developing Artificial Intelligence

In a speech Friday night to the Annual American Association for the Advancement of Science conference, Google co-founder Larry Page stated that Google was developing Artificial Intelligence and that the company wasn't far off from completing real AI.

Google AI.. or Google Brain maybe..? The way their search engine collects and processes info and spits it out as you request it.. guess it may not be that big of a leap for them to start building an actual AI.. Hopefully this is not the beginning of the end..


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An Eraser Shaped Like A Delete Key - Designed by Art Lebedev

The palm-size Tersumus eraser is shaped like the well-known key on a computer keyboard.

Nice... hope it "deletes" as well as it looks.



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Monday, February 05, 2007

Muay Thai


4th Match - Counters
Originally uploaded by stonetako920.
Went to this Thai restaurant in Ayase where there's a small Muay Thai ring INSIDE the restaurant and you can watch matches live while dining and drinking.

They had 5 matches scheduled for the evening and the pic is from the 4th match of the night (photos were not allowed for the main event). The guy in blue is apparently a former champion from some major venue in Thailand. His opponent, the Japanese guy in black, fought well but was no match for the former champion.

One thing about this restaurant is that you get to watch the moves exchanged between fighters literally right before your eyes. I mean, our table was probably just about 1 meter away from the ring.. I guess sometimes fighters get knocked outside the ring and end up landing on customers' tables..

By the way the food there was OK too. The service exactly wasn't the best but oh well. I don't think people go there for food nor service anyway..

Anyways, the atmosphere is very unique and I definitely recommend this place to anyone that likes martial arts. Not very often that you get to watch matches this close at a reasonable price.

Wong Wen Jai (オーエンジャイ):
http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~wongwen/