1. Experts are clueless.
2. Customers can't tell you what they need.
3. Biggest challenges beget the best work.
4. Design Counts.
5. Big graphics, big fonts.
6. Jump curves, not better sameness.
7. If it works or doesn't work, that's all that matters.
8. Value is different from price.
9. A Players hire A Players.
10. Real CEOs can demo.
11. Real entrepreneurs ship.
12. Some things need to be believed to be seen.

After listening to the first track, I pre-ordered the CD/DVD - for a fan who has yet to watch their live performance, this is the only thing I could afford :P

It's 30th anniversary of Pacman, and this cool Google went and create a game at its frontpage.

Just go to www.google.com and click on "Insert Coin" to start the game.

Enjoy!

Chemical Brother is back!

This is their first single and I must say it's visually stunning!

I don't know what to say.

This 10 year old kid is simply amazing for his version of Lady Gaga's Paparazzi.

That earned him a phone call from Lady Gaga herself, to wish him luck.

via BBC

This song is emo, but it's good :-)

The MV is well done in depicting the lyrics - and it's a good idea of telling the 'flash back' and how one could start believing in 'love'

The scenery was amazing,
My heart said "Amazing!"

His question needs answer,
I then gave the answer.

"When are you coming to Finland"
I said, "I'm going to fairyland"



Apparently, the uncle was bored in the land of fairy tale


The city thru the 'eye'





It's hard for me not to think 'yang bukan-bukan'


Seriously


Fairyland



Pasar


I like the colour combination


Nice opera house?


I was like "What if there's a Hollywood scene that will break those beautiful glasses"





Inside


Outside


Fish/Whale

Ron shared the photo,
I stole the photo.

He granted the permission,
I blogged upon the permission.

He was lost on the captions,
I blogged on my own captions.


Gothic or what?


Cute arc de triomph


Cute hotel


7.50Euro drinks - looks really nice and tasty and refreshing

I called it "dual monorail track" - which they aren't.






Strawberry as the topping?


Reflected


Reflecting


Alternative edition of the sculpture

The sun is.. erm.. cool

Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is the latest 'gadget' by Nasa to help scientists to have better understanding on solar activities.

- To operate at least 5 years
- Has 10 times better resolution than the average high-definition television camera.

Read the full story on BBC

Jónsi made a medley of his debut album - Go.

So you can listen to the clips of the entire album's songs at one go.

Enjoy.

So my friend was featured on a magazine.

She's my first friend who's featured on a magazine.

Yes she's a videographer.

If you need a videographer for wedding - please get the contact from me.

Below is one of her works:

Go Do from Arni & Kinski on Vimeo.

In fact, I'm amazed by her courage to appear on stage to receive the "Worst Actress" in Golden Raspberry Awards.

On top of that, she brought the movie DVD and gave them free to all the audience so that they could watch it, really watch it.

Haha, I salute her for having the courage and took the award in a 'damage controlling' manner.

So, I might also watch "All About Steve" to see how worst it is :)

Update: She won the "Best Actress" in the Academy Awards in the next day. I seriously think this will be the first and the last case.

Read the wiki for more details.

Last 4 days were Fete des Lumieres, which took place in Lyon, France.

Some of the selected photo from BBC, which you can also read them in details, too.

Beautiful and fairy-tale-like, I must say.

Verdict: Soothing (but somehow, sad) 'popchestra' music. Solid performance by the duo and Icelandic Symphony Orchestra

Tracklisting:

01. Malmo Livs
02. For you and I
03. Not going anywhere
04. Sailor and Widow
05. One more trip
06. Ghost from the past
07. Where no endings end
08. Liberty
09. The world is gray
10. Inside
11. Que n'ai-je
12. Forward and reverse
13. Run in the morning sun

OK, I like all the tracks.

Not only I thought the music is carefully crafted with the orchestral pieces (hence pop + orchestra = popchestra), and FYI, this is a live album.

A little bit of the background - This also is an orchestral version of some of the individual compositions by Keren Ann & Barði Jóhannson with the orchestral pieces performed by Icelandic Symphony Orchestra. You may wanna check out their original version (I've listened Keren's acoustic version of "Not Going Anywhere" which made me appreciate more of this orchestral version)
It's a live performance and the performance + sound quality is superb.

But that also comes with the irritating part - after each and every track, it is also complimented with the audience applause - which is quite a drawback for the overall listening experience.

Yes, I, for one, would strongly suggest them to record a studio version.

You'll have cinematic feel with the first track, Malmo Livs, followed by a rather gray song, For You and I.

Situation turns a bit better with Not Going Anywhere, then a cheerful Sailor and Widow - before it turns into gray mode again.

It gets darker with: One more trip, Ghost from the past, Where no endings end

Sun rises again with Liberty, before the Nordic whines about The World is Gray.

Situation stayed the same with Inside & Que n'ai-je, and reached its worst with Forward and Reverse (check out the lyrics, and tell me if it can make your day)

(FYI, my sister likes this song and the whole album too, and she loves especially the orchestral part in the middle of that track.)

Finally, dawn is coming (again) with Run in the Morning Sun

So, even though it's a rather gray album, but it's nice to listen to.

As for the applause part - even though it's annoying, I would take it as a benchmark of the performance. The three minutes (a lot longer in real cos, it's too much?) of non-stop applause in the last track, by the audience tells a lot if they appreciated this performance.

A studio version will be all I ask for, after all.

Rating: 9.5/10

Francesco is the talisman, period

With him, I won two laptop in a week.

I'll let him blog about it.

Thanks to the voters, supporters and fans of Francesco.

This bear is amazing.

It's amazing to have him for 8 years.

Haha I love this ad.

You'll probably have to see it twice to get what it means.

And yah, getting drunk may help to see what is not, too!

Happy Halloween!

Streamyx felt threatened, at last.

I applaud the internet service provider to start advertisement war.

This is a WAKE UP CALL for the monopolised internet service provider Streamyx (aka Screamyx).

So, the winner will be the consumer, hopefully :-/

Sigg bottle - completed my 'To Do List', finally.

Big muaks thanks to Ian who bought me the bottle as my birthday gift.

I'm still reluctant to use this expensive bottle.

Now, I seriously believe that there'll be no more birthday gift.

Thanks!!

7 seems like the magic number

I've read and heard a lot of good comments about this new Windows.

I guess I'll give it a try, once Microsoft releases the first batch or two of the updates/patches for this brand new OS.

It's good to know Microsoft had done something right, finally, at least.