Now and Future
Written by WishBoNe on December 20, 2006 – 2:57 pmThis year has been quite a few ups and downs for me. I have the habit of changing my mobile phone due to the feeling of “freshness”. Aye, quite an expensive habit, I must add. My latest baby is Dopod 838Pro. I’m starting to like it a bit more even though there were initial problems I had encountered. I’m still hoping that the year 2007 would have more such gadgets to choose from. Which I believe have been announced. Cool 
Not everyone’s excited about the release of MS Vista. To me, MS products haven’t been exactly that fantastic until it’s all patched and updated. Usually takes at least 2 to 3 years to stabilise. By then, another version is up. Typical.
As usual, there’s the flurry of activities such as GoogleTalk launch, free spreadsheet by Google, viruses being discovered, etc. The most memorable for me would be the day my PC short-circuited itself. It was on until it fell down on its side, hard. My heart just broke. It was an accident that could have been prevented. By changing the chassis. I don’t want to change the chassis because my CD writer used to be ivory in colour (as you can see, I’m too busy about other things to clean it). The new chassis is blue. So, I bought the chassis because I like the colour and the USB drives in front. In addition, it has a cover door to hide the odd coloured CD writer with the new chassis.
The day it felled, it was switched on and the cover door was ajar. Some strength from the leg and whoom! It was down and out. 
I had to spend some money to change the mainboard. Thank God, it was only the mainboard. It just told me one thing, I have to either change the furniture or I change the position of the tower. I did neither because the one who put it down is now more careful.
As for the future, there will be more products fighting for our money and love. Sony may change it’s strategy in releasing games for Wii to encourage buyers. Microsoft may hold tournaments to promote XBox 360. Apple may release iPea that is so light and waffle thin that those who have iPods may dump theirs to buy it. iPea would be cloth-like so there’s no worries about it being scratched. It works on body heat and motion, thus, there’s no need to buy or recharge batteries.
Other interesting reflections and predictions for the coming year can be found here.
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December 20th, 2006 at 8:04 pm
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December 20th, 2006 at 8:24 pm
Nice post ..next year more gadgets and gizmos will be released but i hope they are cheap …
December 20th, 2006 at 10:17 pm
I hope they’re cheap too but such hopes are always dashed only to see them get cheaper but when new gadgets arrive
December 21st, 2006 at 1:23 am
Oh no, that sucks! LOL at the iPea ;).
We also participated in this project, <a href=”http://lilduckduck.com/to-think-a-lost-cell-phone-started-it-all/544″ rel=”nofollow”>stop on by</a> if you get a chance!
December 21st, 2006 at 7:57 am
I feel the same.3 yrs back when my pc was giving a problem i felt like my gf left me.Lol no kidding i spent 2 days just sitting on side trying to fix it.Sometime it work and then litle shake it booms.
I also got entry in darrens project.
http://technospot.net/blogs/index.php/2006/12/19/predicting-the-evolution-of-techspot-insideout/
And i am feeding your blog.There wont be another chance to meet so many bloggers
December 21st, 2006 at 8:39 am
@Mama Duck
Yea, I was like “Urgh!” Now that it’s settled, I pray that it will live longer
@Ashish Mohta
I believe that’s the kind of feeling! There’s not much you can do at the moment and yet you still wish something can be done
December 21st, 2006 at 12:53 pm
aww, I’m sorry about your accident, hon. I’m glad you fixed the ‘boo boo’.
I have a mobile fetish as well. It is darn expensive and I finally gave it up all together. *spasm* Not an easy feat, I tells ya!
I hope you’ll have a lovely New Year
December 21st, 2006 at 1:53 pm
@Jennifer
Have a wonderful New Year 
Not sure if I’m able to change mobile only when needed.
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December 24th, 2006 at 10:52 am
Please come vent ! You can enter ‘it takes a computer to really screw things up contest’ Or just come visit anyway.
I also wrote an article for the Group Writing Project.
Your story is perfect!! for the contest
December 24th, 2006 at 11:19 am
[...] It’s Christmas Eve and I’m sad that my PC has gone kaput. This time, I suspect is the hard disk. I was so happy that the change in motherboard had saved it. However, I was happy too soon. Well, I try not to spoil the mood. Here’s something to add to the mood of Christmas. Hopefully the embedded can be played. [...]
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March 26th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
[...] the system is disabled and gives me a long beep sound. It sounds like a hardware problem but I had changed the motherboard [...]