The Suits just can’t leave well enough alone. That’s the way they are: scared and greedy. If something succeeds, just do it again. And again. And again. Until it’s bad and dead!
Hence, Kenneth Johnson’s groundbreaking original mini-series V was sequelized into something worse. Then it was tricked out like a tramp and put out on the street each week in the form of V: The Series. Which is now on Joost.
Yecch.
The Crying Game by Boy George, from the movie
Theme from Harry’s Game by Clannad
You by the Aquatones
I first heard that when I was single-digit age and never, ever forgot it. The voice of an angel. Lynne Nixon, R.I.P.
This made me laugh beyond a reasonable point …
Laptop Magazine continues to update its blog as they put the CloudBook through a variety of uses. One of them really excites me. Look:
That’s the web interface for WordPress, the same blogging service I use here! That’s just what I wanted to see and to know. The CloudBook will suit me perfectly for tote-around blogging!
Over at CloudBooker (a site that I think every CloudBook owner should visit), they’ve posted about reseller ZaReason and the behind-the-scenes activities that contributed to CloudBook shipping delays.
The company has already shipped 20,000 of the notebooks to retailers including Wal-Mart, Newegg, and TigerDirect, said Paul Kim, director of marketing at Everex. Wal-Mart will start selling the product on its Web site on Thursday, he said.
Emphasis added by me. TigerDirect?!? That’s a new one! A search there comes up empty.
I’ve scoured the Net and can’t find anyone in possession of a CloudBook (other than Laptop Magazine). But one fellow claims his is on its way to him:
I got some great news from Vincent in Shipping @ ZaReason tonight. My early pre-order for the Cloudbook won me a spot in line for the first Cloudbooks to be shipped out! I should have it by early next week.
I also came across this strange promo video Everex did for it, on YouTube:
Er, Everex, that’s rather pathetic.
The following video is about installing Adobe Flash Player in gOS, the OS the CloudBook uses. It’s probably irrelevant to the CloudBook as I expect AFP will already be installed. However, it does provide some good information for eejits like me who know nothing about Linux:
So, the wait continues. Next week will probably bring some activity.
Swedish boffin turns mobile phone into electrocardiogram
Just what that says.
I’d like a version for the iPhone. Except I want an option of not sending the data out to anyone. I just want to monitor my own cardiac activity and be able to save each session to a Mac, a PC, and even the iPhone itself.
My heart acts like a toothache: once it realizes it’s going to be under the scrutiny of a professional, it gets on its best behavior! I want to trap it in the act and show the evidence to the relevant doctors. Based on what I’ve seen and read just in the tech world, there is a large market for this!
Mike Cane 2008 
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