Manny 'Pacman' Pacquiao Faces Ricky 'Hitman' Hatton

In two days, Manny 'Pacman' Pacquiao and Ricky 'The Hitman' Hatton will finally have their face-off at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday, May 2 (Sunday, May 3 Philippine time).Dubbed as the "Battle of East and West" by TopRank and Golden Boy Promotions, others tagged it as the "War of the Worlds."It has long been touted that Hatton might put the black dot on Pacquiao's winning

GSK Offers 30-50% Price Reduction

Early last month, Glaxo-SmithKline (GSK) announced a price reduction on its most major brands. This is to expands Filipino access to its globally-trusted medicines. It has dropped the prices of most of its major medicines by 30 to 50 percent in a bid to make quality medicines affordable.This is the first time the company embarked in this wide-ranging reduction not only in the country, but in

Live at the Fleur Cafe

The Monaco summit is over. For the finale, half a dozen teams competed in a 48-hour hackathon to show that a one-or-two person team can put together a social networking app in two days of coding using WRT. Beyond the gimmick there is a compelling story. As one speaker said, we shouldn't really be calling them widgets - these are not necessarily widgets at all, these are apps. It's a theme we'll be exploring and developing on Mobile Innovator. Meanwhile, there may never have been such hunger for your apps, or so many routes to market. Samsung has an offering there too, of course, with the Samsung Mobile App Store. But no more cafes. Back to the airport, back to my desk. -- Ben.

I go Green LED Lighting at Home!

I have been searching the whole Ap Liu Street, and shops nearby West Kowloon Centre, finally I found one shop "Cosmos Telecom" at G/F 169 Ap Liu Street. They have all kinds of LED that I am looking for, and they are not the same stuff as the street store and you may not find them tomorrow.

The Shop keeper, likely the shop owner, he told me they make their own LED light bulb using Luxeon, K2 LEDs!

Well, I said "show me!" He showed me reels of K2 LED, packs of Cree XRE, Packs of Seoul Opto LED. Seems that they are keen on the quality using the real good stuff!

I bought two K2 X3 3W LED bulbs, now I am testing at home. If that is OK , I may replace all in my house. Price is HKD136.00 each. They also have Philips MasterLed but it is not the same connector as we used to use in HK. So I had to give up!

This is the first step to LED illumination at home!

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Nothing rhymes with 'Office'

There are only two television shows I like enough - and know that I like enough - that I will go out of my way to watch them. For all I complained about Scrubs the other week, it's probably my favourite still-running show - and I'll talk more about it as the "will there be another season?" saga draws nearer to an end.

But this post is about the other show I make sure to see every week, The Office. Three episodes to go in the season, and it's really bounced back from last year's mild disappointment (which I blame on the writers' strike). The now-resolved Michael Scott Paper Company subplot added a nice bit of deviation from the norm, which was exactly what the series needed. Bringing in Charles as essentially a straight man - a normal, real-world person who had to observe all the hijinks that take place in Scranton - didn't quite live up to its potential, but was still pretty good.

Now the gang's all back together - albeit with Pam in sales and a new, thus far dull receptionist - and things can go back to normal. There's still the matter of who will be brought in to fill the role Charles had (overseeing all the branches), and I'd really like to see them come up with a character who is competent at the job, gets along with Michael, and yet remains entertaining. We've had two sorts of crazy and one count of by-the-book, let's go with something more in line with what Scranton would want.

When I talk about TV shows or movies - Scrubs and Gander being the first two examples to come to mind - I seem to complain about relationships a lot. So let me make it perfectly clear that I *can* find a televised relationship I enjoy (or at least find realistic), and in fact The Office is pretty much full of them. While I doubt that any real-life person could be anything like Michael, were there one, their relationships would be equally bizarre and self-destructive. Angela's simultaneous relationships with Andy and Dwight at least managed to make me laugh (and if the same two guys are going to start pseudo-competing-while-pretending-they're-not-competing over the new receptionist, I think it'll make me laugh in an entirely different way), and Pam and Jim are cute and awesome and such.

(As an aside, the number of times I've seen an episode, then been talking in class or wherever to somebody who hasn't seen it yet [usually a girl, if that makes a difference], and the first thing they ask is "did Pam and Jim break up?" and make a face as if they wouldn't believe me if I said yes...yet they keep asking...seriously, if they do anything other than get married and live happily ever after, it's the end of the show.)

It's still not a perfect show, though. My one complaint would be that the producers are a little *too* aware of why people like The Office, and are overexposing that sort of thing. Two main elements:

1) The scene where the documentary crew is interviewing somebody, and an awkward pause ensues. Funny the first few times, predictable the last few years.

2) The scene where the entire gang is doing something random, fun, and decidedly not work-related. In the past season alone, we've had them throwing Cheetos into each others' mouths, debating the hotness of Halle Berry, and of course, planning and holding parties with various degrees of success. Yes, office life is sometimes actually fun, and those instances usually occur when the least amount of work is being done - but at times it feels like the producers are trying to make people go into work the next day and say "did you see The Office last night? Did you see where they talked about Halle Berry for half the episode? Wasn't that awesome?" Seinfeld worked as a show about nothing, I'm not so sure The Office does.

Still, minor gripes. Considering how well the show does some of the subtle things I like - keeping continuity straight (David Wallace assuming Jim was still the second-in-command), and being able to have recurring characters in believable roles chief among them - I can easily overlook any of the rest of that.

Three episodes to go!

--Ryan

After the flood

The sun came out. Most interesting for me - (1) runtimes, particularly WRT and Flash. These are not silver bullets, they are technology Swiss Army knives, mix and match cleverly and they will get you to market. I think everybody gets it. Of course, it's already fragmented. That lies ahead. (2) Well - runtimes. JS as the language of the imminent future, and not so distant past. JS is not to be confused with the garbage you find embedded in many a web page (3) The device is the killer app. I've believed that since my Psion days :-) Did I mention that the sun came out? -- Ben.

LED on shower head

The LED Shower Light is a brilliant idea. It installs to a standard shower pipe in mere minutes. When you turn the shower on, the water powers a turbine and the LED Shower Light…well, lights up! Blue let’s you know the water is chilly. When the water warms up to 89° F (32° C), the light changes to red. Now you can step in and not freeze your giblets off. And you don’t even need to turn on the light now, because your whole shower glows.
The LED shower light is available to buy online for $39.99 from Think Geek
Also available in the UK for £29.99 from Iwantoneofthose.com