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Since from my last post there are more news related to the safety of air travel. A gun went off in a USAirways jetliner, a passenger door fell off from the jet during the take off process, AA grounded 45% of their fleets for the safety checks. All those happened in such short period of time between from my last post about the air travel safety to today. I think I will go by car at this moment.

The fellow blogger talks about the Senator John McCain have been adcovate on the disability rights and that he had been served for Gallaudet’s Board of Trustee for 11 years while he was in Senate.  If you are still not sure who to vote for, you should check out that blogger’s entry.

John McCain for President 2008!

During my childhood days, I always dreamed to fly in one of those jumbo jetliners. It was fun and awesome (prior 9/11). Now ever since after 9/11, the airlines continues to struggle to make the ends meet. Now they are gambling themselves by reducing the maintaince expenses which affects the safety of the aircraft and the passengers. Southwest got issued with the largest safety violations because their 117 aircrafts have missed the safety inspections!!! How scary is that!!! One little block falls off from the aircraft and it might will end up exploding like the concordes ?

Also one American Airlines passenger died because she got refused for the use of the oxygen tank when she as asking for it then finally when she got the tank but the tank was literally empty!   So for you who are working for airlines, do you want your job to be secured, then think twice because we passengers bring you money and pays you and your company so without us you are well out of luck!

Going to the airport with bunch of TSA security rules are a load of BS since there’s no standards so the fun of going to the airport and flying on the airplane have seen its best days and I miss it sorely.

Let me start you off with a brief yet most exciting US history!! Her husband, Former President Bill Clinton unveiled the universal health care back in 1993 and he have appointed his wife who is now running for president to over see this committee. See that was more than 15 years ago and its not established and running ? What up with that ? So why would we want a leader who can not finish a weee simple leadership job that they were assigned to complete ? It can be found at here.

So how can she lead us out from Bush’s empire and flee us from the United Oil of America back into United States of America ?

To me, she is no different than our current president Bush with his millions of failed efforts! So why do we want another Bush ??

Think long and hard.

Is it me or the Congress is giving it in to President Bush ??? Approving the $70 Billion dollars more for the wasteful Iraq War ?? How fu!@#$ked up is that!? I thought we are going to commerce the partial troops withdrawal but issuing them extra $70 Billion Dollars implies very differently which is that the war will go on! The Congress of United States, are you deaf and blind ?? The Americans have spoken loud and clear that we frown at the War which where it is going right now and yet you are still writing new checks to President Bush to continue the directionless, pointless war ? Wake up and, stop slacking and get on the program! Also, get your priorities straight!!! Start with the social security reform for the starters, and you lazy lawmakers already knew that the social security is going to bankrupt and you are still throwing money away to President Bush ? Wake up and smell the coffee for crying out loud!!

My rant response to this article at http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/12/bush.war.funding/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

I have purchased a 6 to 7 foot tall christmas tree from Home Depot for $25.95 (what a bargain!!) And my tree surely looks good I also bought a holiday train set cuz I always dreamed in having a christmas train that runs in circle below the tree…so this one is a starter train for me and I have attched a short video clip of my tree and train below:

Wasteful Spending – Said by President Bush.

Wasteful ? How can it be wasteful if our Social Security is struggling to make their ends to meet as well as our American Schools are extremely underfunded and the NCLB (No Child Left Behind) is making very little or no impact to our education system as the federalized test scores from among of US students continues to drop from the day the NCLB law was passed!  How about insuring all those uninsured American children and you vetoed those bills ?  It appears that your oil empire is more important to you than serving the Americans, you will be sorry a$$!!!

The truth is that the wasteful spending is the freaking wars!!!! President Bush, yes you heard me right! You are wasting BILLIONS and BILLIONS of US Dollars on the pointless wars and you are crying for $50 Billion dollars more just to start the troops withdrawal ? Gimme Break!!! Mr. President, you have been asking for the extra war funding for like what ? 50th time for last 4 years. Also, how many times have you tried to reform the Social Security ? Probably only twice…..wasteful huh ? I think not since almost all of our domestic programs are extremely underfunded.  And, don’t forget that the tax dollars is NOT YOUR money, its the Americans money who paid in taxes!

A piece of advice, think before you speak, because you are bound to be caught.

Yep you read the title right, Microsoft is developing a program where you can store your most memory cherished memories into the computer! However, would that be safe since the internet is associated with various of threats such as hacking into the system, potential take over the system and becoming it as a zombie ? Will it be the part of Microsoft’s plan to associate it with the coffee table PC where it is currently in development where the people can get together in a living room and someone can show them the photos off from the coffee table monitor ? Only time will tell.

 As any Baby Boomer will tell you, Americans have more information to cram into their memories than ever. Yet, as we age, our capacity for recall grows weaker.But what if you could capture every waking moment of your entire life, store it on your computer and then recall digital snapshots of everything you’ve seen and heard with just a quick search? Renowned computer scientist Gordon Bell, head of Microsoft’s Media Presence Research Group and founder of the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, thinks he might be able to do just that.

He calls it a “surrogate memory,” and what he considers an early version of it even has an official name — MyLifeBits.

“The goal is to live as much of life as possible versus spending time maintaining our memory system,” Bell explains.

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Perfect surrogate memory would be supplemental to, but ultimately as good as, your original memory.

It could let you listen to every conversation you had when you were 21 or find that photograph of the obscure date you had on summer vacation.

As Bell says, it would “supplement (and sometimes supplant) other information-processing systems, including people.”

MyLifeBits isn’t quite there yet, but Bell’s nevertheless “gone paperless” for the past decade as part of the project, keeping a detailed, digitized diary that documents his life with photographs, letters and voice recordings.

So that he doesn’t miss out on important daily events, Bell wears a SenseCam, developed by Microsoft Research, that takes pictures whenever it detects he may want a photograph.

The camera’s infrared sensor picks up on body heat and takes snapshots of anyone else in the room, adjusting itself as available light changes.

Not only does MyLifeBits record your life’s digital information, but the software, developed by Bell’s researchers Jim Gemmell and Roger Lueder, also can help you retrieve it.

“MyLifeBits is a system aimed at capturing cyber-content in the course of daily life with the goal of being able to utilize it in various ways at work, in our personal life — e.g. finances, family, health and for our future memory,” Bell says.

Simply enter a keyword such as “pet,” for example, and the search engine will find all available information on your childhood puppy.

It also can run more intricate searches, allowing you to cross-reference all associations linked to certain people or places.

If you’re having difficulty remembering where you were and who you were with on a certain day, MyLifeBits would remind you.

And just how much data is needed on a day-to-day basis?

“All the bits that we can that will likely have value for our memory in the near and long-term future, a few bits just for the hell of it,” Bell says. “We end up with more bits because we need them for relationships.”

Still, is recalling every single detail of an entire lifetime too much? How can anyone guess what’s going to be important 20 years from now?

“It is impossible to know what will be required in the future,” says Bell. “Furthermore, recording everything allows one item to be used to find another item that may have been created at the same time.”

Bell says MyLifeBits could have another important benefit: It may actually improve your real memory.

According to Bell, being reminded of someone in a photograph or screensaver strengthens our recollections.

We constantly are reminded of other events when we delve into our past to find snippets for which we are looking. This reinforces a whole host of links to other memories we otherwise may have forgotten.

But since all this is digitally recorded, what if hackers find it? Couldn’t MyLifeBits be a threat to privacy and a boon to identity thieves?

Bell doesn’t seem overly concerned.

“MLB introduces no new problems that aren’t present in modern computer systems,” he said, “except that we present a larger cross-section that makes all the content potentially more valuable.”

Additional passwords are being built into the most sensitive documents, he explains.

An even bigger hurdle for the project is cost-efficiency.

The Microsoft team predicts that by 2010, a 1-terabyte (1,000-gigabyte) hard drive will cost less than $300.

That could easily hold all text documents, voice files and photographs of a person’s complete life experience — but if it came to video, it would be only enough for four hours per day for an entire year.

On a somewhat smaller level, Sunil Vemuri, co-founder and chief product officer of Hyderabad, India-based QTech, Inc., has been working to develop a “memory prosthesis” that can help people with common, day-to-day memory problems.

QTech’s “reQall” service provides a toll-free number that allows clients to use any phone to record reminders of events, appointments or thoughts as and when needed.

It then saves and organizes the recordings and sends daily reminders as needed.

“ReQall is meant for anyone who forgets, for anyone with a day-to-day memory problem,” Vemuri says. “The aim of reQall is to provide a long-term service that is available to everyone right now.”

Vemuri sees great growth potential for reQall. He wants his team to refine the service to suit users’ individual memory needs, whether that involves helping patients remember doctors’ appointments, friends remember birthdays or even journalists remember specific quotes.

More ambitious is Vemuri’s “What Was I Thinking,” a project he worked on while a graduate student at MIT.

That centered around software running on a Compaq iPaq personal digital assistant, similar to a Palm Pilot, which then synced to PCs running Mac OS X, Windows or Linux. It was capable of recording data and using a number of search tools to help the user find forgotten memories, using a range of built-in triggers.

“Many things can serve as good memory triggers: the smell or taste of homemade cooking, the smile on a child’s face, a good joke, the roar of the crowd when your sports team scores, etc,” Vemuri explained on his MIT Web page.

“In our case, the device records audio from conversations and happenings, analyzes and indexes the audio in an attempt to identify the best memory triggers, and provides a suite of retrieval tools to help the wearer access memories when a forgetting incident occurs.”

The device’s retrieval tools included an analysis of audio recordings to determine if conversations were heated, calm or humorous and a transcription of audio files to text files by means of a speech-recognition program.

In this way, the text files could be searched for specific words or speech patterns that can trigger those elusive memories.

In the future, some variation on these memory prostheses could change our lives on many levels, from settling a squabble over last week’s football scores to assisting an elderly patient remember if she has taken her medication.

We rely on our hard drives for saving our music, photographs, e-mails and videos — so perhaps life-logging software and memory prosthetics are simply the next stage in the evolution of our relationship to the computer.

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