The amorality of Web 2.0 (by Nicholas Carr)

From the start, the World Wide Web has been a vessel of quasi-religious longing. And why not? For those seeking to transcend the physical world, the Web presents a readymade Promised Land. On the Internet, we’re all bodiless, symbols speaking to symbols in symbols. The early texts of Web metaphysics, many written by thinkers associated with or influenced by the post-60s New Age movement, are rich with a sense of impending spiritual release; they describe the passage into the cyber world as a process of personal and communal unshackling, a journey that frees us from traditional constraints on our intelligence, our communities, our meager physical selves. We become free-floating netizens in a more enlightened, almost angelic, realm.

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Social Networking; Connect to your friends but no beers.

In real life, people connect and socialize themselves to update their knowledge or just to degrade their IQ level. Or even, just for the sake of being accompanied.

One thing when you sitting on a dark room, when no one else watching, you can also socializing with people on the internet. No, I’m not talking about realtime communication chatting program or even email.

I’m talking about social networking websites like Friendster, My Space, Linked In, and Facebook.

Just join with one of those website and you can invite your friends and therefore you networking tree will grow (and for some people, they really are enjoying to watch it growing).

This kind of sense, a sense of having friend, is giving a false positive that you are having a friend. No, that’s not the term. They don’t say that you have friends. They just say that you have a network.

I can’t digest this information telling that having a friend on social networking is actually real. That’s nerd and weird!

Well, I don’t think I need to understand what’s really happening. Some people just say, “Embrace the change!”.

Wireless issue on Leopard

I didn’t think it was going to be this quick. Apple updates its Leopard to fix Login, Keychain, and Wireless issues (Article ID: 306804). I realize that I have wireless problem after several days of using Leopard. The signal strength has decreased and intermittent flapping issue although I’m using wireless within 5 meters range with nothing blocking the signal.

After updating Leopard, seems that it does not fix the signal strength problem but the network flapping issue seems has been rectified. Let me monitor it for the next several days.

There is also a forum discussing these issues.

MBF Call Center

Rep: Hello, MBF call center. How may I help you?
Me: I went to MBF branch @ Burwood Westfield and they told me there is one Remedial Massage center on Burwood road. Can I get the address for it?
Rep: Unfortunately, we can’t give or recommend one. You have to call Burwood MBF branch.
Me: Ok, What’s the Burwood MBF branch number?
Rep: Unfortunately, we can’t give you that.
Me: I don’t understand, why?
Rep: Because if we give the branch phone number for inquiries, they will get busy. Therefore, You have to call the call center.
Me: ???

From failing you learn, from success, not so much.

People always thinking that having a failure is not acceptable compared to gaining success.

Me? Hahaha, don’t ask. Mere mortal who made lots of failures. You, who read this lame article, are probably on the same team as I am. We have been through failures. Probably not deliberately, but surely made at least one.

The problem then how the story will continue. Are we then turning the light off and stop working, self pitty or even blaming others for failures we got?

Consider failure is a delayed success. Thomas Edison knew 1000 ways not to make the light-bulb. That was what he saw the failure came.

Failure is certain, but stop not. Because we don’t know how close we are from success.