After reading an article [click] on the website Digg. I then signed the petition to stop the “artist” doing the same again and it got me thinking - what can actually pass as art nowadays? If starving a dog to death is passed as art rather than animal cruelty then so could things such as bombing buildings and torturing unwilling people. It seems like humans are persistent on trying to find new shock values, and if they can somehow call it art the Officials will not frown upon it.



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Recently I’ve been thinking about the newest laptop from Mac, The Macbook Air. I watched the keynote with Steve Jobs, and the unveiling of the MBA. I admit I was impressed by the size of the laptop but the most impressive thing was the technology behind it and the specs, the fact the 1.6GHz/1.8Ghz Dual Core CPU chip is 60% smaller than a usual CPU chip and the motherboard is no bigger than a wooden pencil with 2GB of RAM. However the were several cutbacks on this laptop, and that is that there isn’t many USB Ports or anything and as expected there is no Optical Drive.
About two days after I had watched all of this I noticed an article on the internet that a member of Digg had posted. And that was that Sony is not even impressed by the MBA. So I decided to read on in the article, turns out in 2004 they released a laptop the Vaio X505 that at the thinnest point of it was 0.3 Inches, where Apple is boasting it’s 0.16 Inches. This means about 4 years ago Sony were already ahead of Apple with the thinnest laptop until now. However the only downside of the X505 is that the specs are far worse than that of the MBA, but that was because the technology and the size of the components aren’t at what today’s standards are. Sony also cutback on the Optical Drive back in 2004 just like Apple have done now but the difference is that in 2004 it wasn’t what the consumers wanted. Now because of USB keys and wireless it’s not as necessary, I’m just starting to wonder when CD’s will be taken out of the picture all together and that all PC Games, Software and Music will be sold on USB keys. I’m also wondering if this is the way gaming consoles are going to go as well.

Another laptop that seems to be making an impact on size and weight is Intel’s Metro, although I have been having difficulty to find it on the the specs of it and how much and when it will be available as it is only a concept at this point. The only information that I know is that it’s got a Core Duo inside it, it’s 1KG in weight and the thinnest point is 0.7 Inches, the wireless notebook also has a feature in which the user can switch between WI-FI, Bluetooth and WiMax with in aerial. The idea behind it is that it is completely wireless for the user, and there is one nice feature of the notebook and that is, even when the laptop is switched off there is a screen on the outside that stays on that lets you check your e-mails, news etc very quickly without having to boot up.
So in the end I’m not convinced by the WBA as of yet seeing as Sony already made a laptop back in 2004 close enough to it’s size but I am convinced by the technology inside it so we’ll just have to wait to see what happens within the next line of laptops from other company’s if they can get their hands on the technology.

Miami Herald -
A woman whose husband has kept about $600,000 in lottery winnings from her says she has a number for him: half. And Donna Campbell is suing her husband in her attempt to get it.

But American Airlines mechanic Arnim Ramdass disappeared after his wife confronted him about the secret, so process servers haven’t been able to hand him the lawsuit papers yet, Campbell’s attorney said.

“Here’s a guy who for years has spent marital money on the lottery and at casinos, and he’s always lost,” Bruce Baldwin said. “And now he finally wins, and he’s trying to keep it from his wife. That’s pretty low.”

Campbell, Ramdass’ wife since 2005 and girlfriend for five years before that, said she suspected he was hiding something when he disconnected their phone and kept their television off. A postcard offering congratulations on a new house purchase was her final clue.

So Campbell did an Internet search on “Ramdass” and “lotto” and saw a news release from the Florida Lottery about a pool of 17 airline mechanics who won the $19 million jackpot on June 20.

“I said, ‘Do you have any news you want to share with me,’” Campbell recalled telling her husband. “He said, ‘No. What are you talking about?’ I said, ‘The lottery.’”

Ramdass told her he had bought the ticket for his daughter from another marriage, but Campbell didn’t believe it.

“He had been buying those tickets for years, and he never, ever said one of them was for her,” Campbell said. Ramdass and his co-workers have for years pooled their money every Wednesday and Friday for Lotto tickets, Campbell said.

The group opted for the lump-sum payment of $10.2 million, so each got about $600,000 before taxes.

An American Airlines official declined to comment on Ramdass’ job status, citing employee privacy, but his co-workers said he has taken a leave of absence.

“Right now, all I want is justice,” Campbell said. “With time, I will file for divorce.”