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1. Snow Leop­ard is on shelves world­wide today, 28th August 2009. and… I haven’t got it!
2. I think we have got very lim­ited copy in Malaysia.
3. I received email from Apple yes­ter­day to Pre-order Snow Leop­ard for RM109 (retails)
4. Switch™ send out email 1 hour ago in announc­ing the Snow Leop­ard. Penan­gite can visit Switch@Gurney Plaza and Switch@Queensbay Mall at 7pm to wit­ness Snow first hand. If you’re lucky you will get to buy the lim­ited copy.
5. Apple boost the prod­ucts as — The world’s most advanced OS! Sorry guys, I have to agree with Apple
6. I am going to get one myself!

(Image source: http://infreemation.net/cloud-computing-linear-utility-or-complex-ecosystem/)

Cloud Com­put­ing sounds very tech­ni­cal and con­fus­ing for many. From con­sumer level, Cloud Com­put­ing will change how we use and access our com­put­ing needs in the future!

Google already had few apps online that you can test drive and expe­ri­ence how Cloud Com­put­ing will ben­e­fit you. Lets hope that this ser­vice will be free for use for long time, Stor­age needs will not be always free for sure! (Exam­ple Amazon)

I saw Microsoft Office 2010 on a teaser/trailer video last month, Imag­ine in the future you pay for MS Office soft­ware with­out need­ing full instal­la­tion on your local hard disk! That’s should equally be very inter­est­ing

The most painstak­ing process in new sys­tem build­ing is installing appli­ca­tion soft­ware and look for the suit­able dri­vers. I’ve just install Win­dows 7 RC on my new replace­ment moth­er­board. In just few min­utes, I have got my Email, word pro­cess­ing, spy­ware scan­ner, virus scan­ner, photo web album and etc ready for use!

Win­dows 7 Task Bar. As you can see, basic com­put­ing needs is all there for free and ready for use.

All these made pos­si­ble with one sin­gle installer, the Google Updater. Very convenience!

Pic­ture: Google Docs. The good thing about Cloud Com­put­ing is that you can access vir­tu­ally from any mobile devices that has access to the internet!

Cloud Com­put­ing = browser, No browser no cloud!

Peo­ple want to get to their email instantly, with­out wast­ing time wait­ing for their com­put­ers to boot and browsers to start up. They want their com­put­ers to always run as fast as when they first bought them. They want their data to be acces­si­ble to them wher­ever they are and not have to worry about los­ing their com­puter or for­get­ting to back up files. Even more impor­tantly, they don’t want to spend hours con­fig­ur­ing their com­put­ers to work with every new piece of hard­ware, or have to worry about con­stant soft­ware updates. ~ google­blog

Google Chrome OS will ride the cloud full swing with net­book indefinitely!

Pic­ture: The Insp­iron Mini 12/ source http://apcmag.com

I am not sure If I will be own­ing a net­book with Google Chrome OS or with Win­dows 7 in the future but due to the nature of net­book was a low-powered com­put­ing, mak­ing it start up light­ning fast (like DVD, CD player) and access appli­ca­tion online in sec­ond does make whole lot of senses.

In my opin­ion, it’s still too early for an adop­tion. Aspect some incon­ve­nience in print­ing, pre­sen­ta­tion, viruses, pri­vacy and etc

In the end what I really aspect from cloud would be the con­ve­nience to access my data, appli­ca­tion, and com­plete my daily task with­out any has­sle from any devices.

(This one off topic) Matt Mul­len­weg have a very good voice!

It was 4th August 2009, 5.20pm and I was about to reach Mr. Chin’s house a 3rd/4th stage colon can­cer sur­vival hero 4 years ago! Today, He is well and healthy! This man is quite a story!

Just as I turn­ing left and park­ing my car my phone rang! +8613678941853 dis­play on the screen.

I have to men­tion that my inter­est and atten­tion is to the see Mr. Chin and to hear his story to help some one dear to us. There­fore, I am not pre­pared to pick up a call that may some how too good to be true!

A very friendly yet seri­ous in his own way, He call me by my sur­name. “Mr. Jong, I’m call­ing from Bei­jing and I like to see if you could help or inter­ested in my busi­ness! Are you con­ve­nience to talk?”

I told him I’m dri­ving and not con­ve­nience. He still very friendly and prob­a­bly with busi­ness inten­tion emo­tion and a smile, he said “I see, why don’t you give me a call back once you are free”

Very spon­ta­neous and a child­ish act­ing, feel­ing dis­please and uncom­fort­able yet curi­ous I told him “didn’t you call from Bei­jing and for me to call you back it would cost a bomb!”

Right there he shoots me deep and hard! Today, I can still feel the pain and I am writ­ing this piece of shit to ease the pain!

He said, “Cost a bomb? I have a big busi­ness to runs and I think you are not a RELIABLE BUSINESS MAN TO HELP MY INSURANCE NEEDS!”

I was shocked and again with my child­ish act­ing try­ing to look for the excuses to cover my hole and that’s where I notice I talk to a noise­less phone and myself! HE BLOODY CUT ME OFF!

Most of you should know that I am an insur­ance agent by now!

Here’s a few seri­ous questions

1. Does this guy gen­uine? Did he being sincere?
2. How did he know my name? My busi­ness? (I only met one Bei­jing lady friend last 2 weeks. The irony – she is from Bei­jing and I never gave her my con­tact but she does know my busi­ness but this can­not be too coincident!)
3. Should I sus­pect that this is a gen­uine call and I have just lost a busi­ness pro­posal, prob­a­bly cost millions?
4. If he is gen­uine why did he com­mand me to call back? I have been doing sales all my life, I have never asked my cus­tomer or my poten­tial client or any big bosses to call me back with the inter­est I have on them! My expec­ta­tion maybe wrong – you can’t always hope peo­ple will treat you back the same way you treat other! Did he means well by ask­ing me to call back or he is using his psy­cho to trick me to call back into believ­ing and agree­ing on some­thing I may not intend to com­mit when I did call back?

I do not like being a loser, los­ing a busi­ness pro­posal caught with my pants down on a wrong tim­ing! I can hon­estly tell you, what he point out partly true and I just can’t help myself to ignore the remark.

For bet­ter or worse, I should have use a proper and pro­fes­sional man­ner in show­ing no inter­est to his unspe­cific inten­tion or interest.

Morale of the story, always be pre­pared for your worse sit­u­a­tion every sec­ond to secure the golden opportunity.

I learn a great deal of lesson!

(I would really appre­ci­ate if you could take some­time to leave your con­cern on the com­ments col­umn below)