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I like this one on retro technology...

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid452319854?bctid=11354862...

I found this incredibly amazing technology which is able to put a massive number of images together and link each image on a relational basis. it also has huge zoom in and zoom out capabilities. what this means for example is that you can view an piece of text on a book right from an individual letter that fills the screen and seamlessly zoom out to (say) view it from a 100 meters away.

this video describes it best.

Recently BMW Malaysia concluded the "BMW Shorties" competition gaining 74 entries. The initiative was perhaps a welcome injection into the local film making & creative industry.

A friend of mine shared the following link.

http://www.netevents.tv/docuplayer.asp?docid=75

It is an interesting coverage of the one laptop per child project entitled "No lap un-topped - the bottom up revolution that could re-define global IT culture". The presentation was made by Nicholas Negroponte, who is a Motorola Director and Chairman Emeritus MIT Labs & Chairman One Laptop per Child. The presentation was dated 2 December 2006. More on Nicholas.

This site and many of my other website projects are run on the Drupal content management engine.

Therefore, i am excited that the new drupal 5 release is now out. For information, this site and my main "live" website my-kart.org are both using drupal 4.7.

4.7 is a fairly stable release and i am happy with it. however, version 5 comes with additional features (naturally), and productivity improvements such as a better user management system (something very useful for me). the rest of the improvements are contained in the release announcement.