Posts from — July 2003

Today I managed to post to my Typepad weblog via

• mail
• mobile phone

Ain’t that grand?!! :-)

Go here to check my blog

A pause…

This is to announce a temporary suspension of blogging on this weblog

For the next few days, I’ll be located at a new place on the web, carrying out my blogging activities as usual. This is the result of my being one of the beta testers for TypePad. So, while this blog remains static until further notice, I shall be actively blogging on the brand new TypePad blogging system.

My new temporary address is http://optimystic.typepad.com

So please head over there to catch me blogging and continue to leave your valuable comments and opinions!

Harry Potter house up for sale

The house that played host to the loathsome Dursleys and their magical nephew in the Harry Potter movies is on the market, newspapers reported on Tuesday.

With fans gripped by the fifth book in J.K. Rowling’s series, the owner of No 4 Privet Drive — in reality No 12 Picket Post Close — is putting the house up for auction with a price guide of 250,000 pounds.

Go on! Bid on it!! If you are able to buy it, then you’ll have to excuse the occasional appearance of Dobby, the house elf or the swarm of owls that descend on the house every once in a while!! ;-) :-P

Reaching Through the Net to Touch

Researchers at the University at Buffalo, New York, announced last week they have developed a system that lets one person experience the sense of touch felt by another. They said they could transmit the sensation across the Internet.

In about five years, people may use the system to feel the force and pressure Tiger Woods experiences every time he wallops a golf ball. It could be used in e-commerce, enabling buyers to feel fabrics before they buy…

Hmmm… and not just that. Maybe a gentle touch by that special someone too!

What’s more, the sensory data can be saved, allowing one sensation to be accessed indefinitely.

So that you can feel that special first touch years later when you are relaxing in your easy-chair with your dentures in a glass of water on the table nearby!! *Heh*

But then… you wouldn’t want to use this technology if you are a regular in adult chatrooms!! :-P