Archive for July, 2008

My Wordpress Is Broken

Friday, July 25th, 2008

For the past week, I can’t seem to login into my Wordpress admin page. Initially I thought I installed it incorrectly when I upgraded from Wordpress 2.5 to 2.6. The problem didn’t only stop there. I had trouble especially when entering text, the form would go blank and I couldn’t fill in anything afterwards.

I reinstalled my Wordpress. I even tried removing the database and reinstate them and the issue remained.

I thought this page would need to foreclosure as I clear off all the stuff and recreate my blog.

Finally I found out from my web space provider that I’m using a badly coded theme. So far it’s been a week and every page seems to work fine without indication of any trouble. What a week for me.

Suesan 1.0

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Get your latest cute girlfriend, Suesan 1.0 at your nearest store today.

I recently had the honor of doing a photo shoot with this young bubbly girl. Interestingly enough, she has funny bone all over her and even the smallest subsequent action warrant a burst of laughter from her. The weather was overcast for the whole day and therefore we have lots of idea on how to handle our shots.

Some of her shots even attracted an attention of an elderly man waiting for a bus!

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Artificial Intelligent

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

AI Tachikoma

Interestingly, with Ghost in the Shell introduced something that is quite close what we have in development: Artificial Intelligent or AI. AI in GitS is somewhat placed in a neural-net where their minds can be expanded and have several application like maintaining the traffic or even help in maintenance. Tachikoma as shown above is a think-tank with a personality of curious children with the professionalism of a pro in covert operation. There’s one episode dedicated to them where they questioned their existence and since their memory are synchronized every night, they wonder how they are able to maintain their personality (it was because one of them had a oil spilled into their neural-net that has caused mutation in the AI development).

How I wish I have one of these in real life. It would be so easy to carry my luggage around.

I Need A Better Brain

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

A cyberbrain

This is called a cyberbrain and in Ghost In The Shell anime, this helps them to communicate through wireless means. Anyone with a cyberbrain talks to each other like having your handphone sending files via Bluetooth. Interestingly enough, cyberbrain has their own firewall and barriers, therefore making hacking impossible unless you allow it to. This allows for alienating society where everyone is so comfortable exchanging information all done in their head while their body is doing something else. The term ‘ghost’ is actually a soul that could not be proven by science but somehow it is there to make up for each individual. A full body that was duplicated could not function if no ‘ghost’ was present.

Who knows, you might even have Vegas vacations as a simulation while you’re waiting for a bus!

I Need Memory

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Hantu Dalam Cengkerang

I was very forgetful these days. I wish that we could just plug a computer memory in our heads that could help us remember things easily. This reminds me of an anime that I watched recently called Ghost In The Shell. It tells the story of a future society where human received prosthetic implants to help them function in the society. Accident victims that have badly damaged body have their brain transferred to a fully prosthetic body while people with natural limbs usually have a small chip implanted on the base of the neck that could help them to have a heighten memory and is able to recall even the smallest detail.

Think this detail would help me a lot in my work. This is the era where we’re burdened with lots information that we can become forgetful. We somehow need technology’s help to augment our abilities to think and handle our information in our head.