I just got this in the mail and I thought it was a quite funny idea. Shampoo bottled up in what looks like oil bottles. Nice.

Gear Head Camaro shampoo [gearheadshampoo.com]

I hereby announce that this MPF blog will be removed soon (i.e. all posts apart from this one). If you want to do backups - do it now!

I invite you all to join me at my new (and final) personal blog at:
ejr44.blogspot.com
(and feed URL is: http://ejr44.blogspot.com/rss.xml).

There is no comment moderation in that new blog and since it is hosted by Google I have no information about IP address of commenter if he posts anonymously. All comments are posted and not removed there.

Thank you for reading this MPF blog in past and please join me in the new one!

What's cooler than the Internet and cooler than outer space? Why, the Internet in outer space, of course. This month, NASA is building on ten years of work by testing an Internet-esque communications protocol designed for data transmission in deep space.

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I’m having some network cache and transition error due to a heavy load of people looking me up for my sites for economic issues and of Barrack Obama winning the Presidential Election.

Network load is currently ULTRA HIGH so I will be toggling the redundancy servers as soon as the modules allow me to backend them. Thanks for your continued support.

FROM GAMERTELL - Amazon is offering a pre-Black Friday deal today (November 19, 2008), where if you buy 2 or 3 select PC, PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 titles, you will receive a $25 or $50 credit on a future Amazon video game purchase. MORE »

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Nokia E71 finally coming to AT&T as E71x originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Every now and again the debate stirs up over the merits of desktop vs. web based software. The debate ends here! And the answer is simple - it’s both!

My co-worker and friend, Nick Bradbury, sums it up in one line:

“PS: As I’ve written before, I think the so-called battle between web and desktop apps is overblown. It’s a hybrid world, not an either-or situation.”

CBC News:
CRTC to rule on Bell's throttling on Thursday  —  Internet watchers are on the edge of their seats as the CRTC is set to make a landmark ruling Thursday on Bell Canada Inc.'s throttling of speeds.  —  The regulator will hand down its decision at 9 a.m. after twice delaying the ruling.

Of the things that happen to me is a mental writers block and the thing to loose is one’s own creativity to procreate designs and errgh what am I thinking and blabbing about. Blogging is a little sort of organismic passion where one writes down in the diary of life, recording it as it goes along..and in the case of CHEDET, the former Prime Minister of Malaysia Tun Dr Mahathir Muhammad …book his blog posts.

I mean how easy it is to pen almost 24 paragraphs of sentences and long one might one add to a post. Ouch. That even is something I can NEVER achieve. Think positive. Trouble with me is that people don’t like me to talk much of my life as a plankton without a theme to it, and so I have to be creative and break down things in the sense of substitute and breaking them down into different categories. IT and one, and life and others.

Itchy me finally got off my bum and restarted my initial project which I scuttled almost 10 years ago with my CHAT.NU domain and installed a multi-user blog. Community blog like what I should have done with my BBS.NU but the term BBS is no longer relevant to the new world, unless it’s the BBC. Likewise, the numerous number of themes and plugins I have to endure modifying to make sure it works is another uphill talk. Like 87 themes big. Yikes. No wonder Blogmas gave up and sold his systems.

In the downtown economy, saving up for a rainy day is something we should do. However if everyone shutdown and stay at home…don’t eat out..what will happen to the economy? Chain restaurants will close down and retrenchments will happen and in effect it will effect the community of workers who depend on the minimum wage pay and in turn the landlord, their restaurant suppliers and their workers and it’s like a domino effect. Take out one and the ecology of life is disrupted abruptly.

Airlines, in my opinion is a rip off,mean kind of people where when prices of fuel goes up they hastily raise prices and impose fuel surcharges and when it’s down to the levels prior to China’s Wake Up Call… they refuse to do so as it will kill them more. Heck, don’t they understand and learn something from the Chinese? Sell it cheap and Fast. Volume counts. No use of flying on empty when your surcharges costs more than the air ticket alone.

Take for example a trip from Kuala Lumpur to New York City, be it JFK or La Gaudia airport or New Jersey slump of an airport ( can’t remember the name..but it’s what the TV says…a cess pool). You know that it normally cost about RM2700 return but the YQ surcharge, aka fuel surcharge is more than RM4000 alone for that round trip. On the other hand, budget airlines will sure want a piece of the pie to the United States of America despite the DHS imposing so many rules along side with the TSA with their ever so stupid laws and hazards to their own health by making people take off their shoes and well, they really should try with a bunch of Singaporeans who just got off their reservist training in Taiwan, field camp what not, unshowered for days…and with their boots and socks…..and when you ask them to open their boots for X-RAY, heck even a thousand banglas and indians in Serangoon Road will be beaten down , face down with the stench of a company of soldiers.

Of course they have to drop by the ever so cruel checkpoint of either San Francisco or San Jose (that’s San HOSE-EH for you stupid Singaporeans..) or in Los Angeles where you wait patiently in line for about a few hours just to get checked out. Talk about super efficiency of the Homeland Security where Kepo-Kek of Singapore wants to be like so, ‘on the ball’ but forgetting that the ever so lazy Singaporean will always have the SAF (Serve and Fly off) mentality where shortcuts are norm and well, their brains washed to the tune of ‘Do whatever you want but don’t get caught’ or cover it up.

Thank the British for that mentality actually as they are so slacked and relaxed and cock ups are a standard norm of life in their cuppa tea, thus always signing on at the job center, and occasionally signed on enough money to go on a holiday to Miami with Virgin Atlantic cheapo flights. Yes. Virgin is getting rid of their surcharges but then…I can’t get to the UK silly. Never mind, at least their ESTA system allows me to enter for the next 10 years without any let or hindrance. I don’t need to work in the US despite the ads and calls by Cheap Hotels asking me to go check ever hotel out…on them.

It’s fun to travel out. Just hope I save enough to bring the entire load up in the US. Call this a mental Writers Block but what I wrote was spontaneous without any sponsorship from Starbucks or Genting Highlands whatsoever. Just lest I need to see if I can actually write as long or heck longer than the missus and well, The New Republic gave me a new lease of life to inspire me of talk rot journalism.

What I do need is an overhaul of my engine mind block.Anyway, if you are going to the US or somewhere, do use those online services like Cheaper Than Hotels.com or similar but like I used a few of them, these online sites does offer cheap rates, even better than corporate or even membership ones at last minute whilst the hotels want to fill their vacancy cheap. Thomas cook or whatever you call it, it’s similar to those agencies at Bus / Coach / Train stations dishing out last minute rates for Bed and Breakfast but this on offer far better..and in style. Well, I am a stingy person….what U expect?

After yesterdays announcement that Adobe was working on Flash for both Windows Mobile and Android, we mentioned that a brief demonstration of Flash running on the G1 was shown. Don’t believe it? The proof is in the pudding. The delicious streaming video pudding.

While there are a few apparent framerate stutters, this is by all indications a work in progress for Adobe. The element was embedded on a bare page, without any other elements whatsoever - not exactly how they’re generally served. This is presumably to ensure that this not-yet-optimized version of Flash had as many resources as possible for the demo, but hopefully the final version will be able to handle more than standalone SWF files.

[I4UNews via AndroidForums]

Crunch Network: TechCrunch obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies

Asus is laying claim to the title for the fastest smartphone in the world, and there's little reason to doubt them. The news, though, is hollow: P565 with its 800MHz Marvell processor is objectively impressive, but underneath the oppressive, unflattering veil of Windows Mobile 6.1 it's not likely to blow anyone away. Carrying a dense 480x640 touchscreen to complement a solid range of specs — HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS and 24fps video recording to name a few — the P565 is nonetheless fighting a software war with hardware improvements. On the other hand, if you're one of those odd folks for whom any superlative is an automatic selling point, then this may be your ultimate handset. [Reg Hardware]

Reuters - China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile service provider, said on Tuesday the tender for construction of the second phase of its parent’s third-generation mobile network had been completed.

Original post by Reuters

Is blogging really dying?  Is TechCrunch headed to the dead pool? That seems to be a vibe that has been circulating lately.
According to my feed reader, NewsGator?s awesome FeedDemon, I am certainly seeing what appears to be less activity and a bunch of repetition in my subscriptions.  So, does that mean blogging is going into the can or is something else going on here?

I decided to do some investigation on my own to get to the bottom of this… I think one of the strongest indicators of blogging?s health is the amount of comments that are posted. So, I went Geraldo style and wrote a script (see script at bottom) to scrape the number of comments from the popular tech blog, TechCrunch, over the last three years.

As you can see from the chart below (piped the script output -> Excel), the number of comments on TC is steadily increasing. TechCrunch is definitely not headed underground; it is doing very well!  Blogging is not dying… yippee, but it is most definitely changing.

So, what is going on? Well, I think blogging is just turning into another channel for the same type of media it was supposed to replace. Blogs are rolling up, trusted authorities are rising to the top, and the rest is just noise or repetition or gone bye bye. We already have too much going on in our lives, so it is only natural that this organic filtering would occur.

Here is the Ruby script if you want to see for yourself:

require ‘rubygems’
require ‘open-uri’
require ‘hpricot’

@url_base = “http://www.techcrunch.com/”
@response = ‘’

begin
File.open(”comments.txt”, “w”) do |file|
2008.downto(2005) do |year|
12.downto(1) do |month|
url = “#{@url_base}#{year}/#{month}”
begin
open(url) { |f|
@response = f.read
doc = Hpricot(@response)
(doc/”div/div/div[3]/ul/li/div”).each do |comment|
post = comment.innerHTML.split(’,')
file.write “#{post[0].strip},#{post[1].strip}\t#{post[2].split(” “)[0].strip.sub(”No”, “0″)}\r\n”
end
}
rescue Exception => e
print e, “\n”
end
end
end
end
rescue Exception => e
print e, “\n”
end

• This week's LBP download haul - Sack-in-the-Box and LocoRoco Costumes
  

Nokia 6650 More Photos - View Specs

AT&T today launched the Nokia 6650, a stylish clamshell featuring Symbian-based S60 platform.

Designed with premium materials and customizable illumination, the 6650 features a sharp 2.2-inch display with QVGA (16 million colors) resolution.

It has external audio playback keys, external soft keys and a 1.36-inch display that captures photos, controls music and changes profile settings without ever having to open the device. A built-in 2.0-megapixel camera has an integrated flash to snap high-quality images even in low-light conditions.

Running on AT&T's 3G network, customers share live video while participating in calls via AT&T Video Share, or listen and download music from Napster, eMusic or XM Radio.

"Nokia created this device for the thriving consumer appetite for navigation, multimedia and entertainment essentials in one stylish, affordable package," said Ian Laing, Vice President of Sales at Nokia. "We are excited to introduce this device, built on the most open and mature mobile platform in the world, to AT&T."

The Nokia 6650 will be available in red and silver colors beginning Nov. 14 for $69.99 with a two-year service agreement.

- Nokia 6650 Specs

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Samsung Behold (SGH-T919) More Photos - View Specs

Related New Samsung Cell Phones

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• Samsung Knack (SCH-U310) Phone (Verizon Wireless) - Q4 2008
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AT&T, the nation's largest network operator, has come together with Korean cell phone manufacturer to launch the LG Incite.