Monthly Archive for July, 2001

Macs = Less Viri

Published on July 31, 2001 in Macintosh. Closed

With the Code Red and SirCam worms floating around the Net, I’m glad I have a Macintosh. Viva Apache!

Sigh. They changed the story around in The Planet of the Apes. I was hoping for an exact remake of the classic sci-fi. The Simpson’s parody was even more close to the original story than this one was. “Take your hands off me, you filthy ape. He can talk! He can talk! I can sing!”

The More You Know

Published on July 30, 2001 in General. Closed

There is only one race: the human race! It is our individuality that makes each of us unique. Embrace and tolerate those differences without prejudice. What kind of world would it be if everyone were the same? A dull and boring one… The more you knowâ„¢

Puma

Published on July 18, 2001 in Macintosh. Closed

The day has come. MacWorld NY! The Puma build of Mac OS X is simply impressive: improved application launch time, DVD player, Data CD Burning, super fast window resizing, and improved dock. Coming in September (sigh, I was hoping that it was going to be release today).

HAHA, the DVD player crashed on Steve. Works fine the second time he launched it. I’m sure the bug will be removed when Puma ships two months from now. I can’t hardly wait.

Sigh. Time to catch the bus and goto work and school. I wonder if I can call in sick. I’ll watch the rest of the archived keynote when I get home.

Good Ol’ Pasadena

Published on July 13, 2001 in Games and Movies. Closed

Today is a pretty good day despite the fact that it’s Friday the 13th. I love hanging out at Old Pasadena. Good food, good shopping, and lots of beautiful people. What more can you ask for? The food at the Cheese Cake Factory are pricey but very delicious. I had the best shrimp pasta that I have ever tasted.

I am both impressed and disappointed with the movie, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. The computer graphics are simply mind-blowing. The skin texture looks so real, you can even see the veins and winkles.

The storyline needs a few more revisions. At the end of the movie, I was like “Huh? What? It’s over already? You call that an ending?” The movie has a strong resemblance to their Final Fantasy 7 PSX game: meteor, lifestream, gaia. In fact, the ending sequence looks like the ending scene of FF7 where Holy emerges.

Gran Turismo 3

Published on July 11, 2001 in Games. Closed

My little brother picked up his Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec game that we had reserved for over three months. The graphics are so photo-realistic. I am so amazed by the processing power of the PS2’s Emotion graphics chip. He sure is making full use of the PS2 whereas I am only using it as a DVD player.