How many times do you rack your brains to make up an excuse to end a terribly loooooooong phone talk? Now you’ve got some sound helpers to make your excuses sound more “sound”. Check this out. Be sure to practice before you put it into practice.
How to end a conversation with a CSR? The shortcut is to repeat “I wanna cancel it I wanna cancel it I wanna cancel it I wanna cancel it I wanna cancel it I wanna cancel it…”

Apple lists 10 reasons why people should switch to Mac. What’s your first impression with a Mac if you’ve never got the chance to put your hands on it? A powerful eye candy that never crashes? A guy named Russell Beattie stands out to tell you no. He came up with 33 reasons to switch back and the comment aroused an interesting debate. If you are thinking of joining the Mac world, read through the post and face the fact: Mac is not perfect. Actually it’s still far from being perfect.
My own experience with Mac fails to support the hype that Mac never crashes. Yes it does. And the worse thing is my only solution is to press the power button long enough to shut it down manually. The other reason keeping me from totally switching to Mac is its poor support for SPSS, the statistical package I live on. I can’t blame Apple since SPSS inc. should be responsible for that too. But no matter what, SPSS is hardly usable on Mac. That parly explains why my iBook serves like a 12-inch-screen iPod now.

From time to time I torture myself by playing a hide-and-seek game with all my gadgets. Where is my Razr phone? It’s under the pile of textbooks and sandwich bags [ ew ]. Where is the Bluetooth headset? It lies with the checkbooks, bills, maps, and chargers in the first drawer. The thumb drive(s)? Right next to my pillow. Is my iPod still in bag? Oh YEAH! Where did I place the TV remote? It’s…Wait…Hmm…Anyway, buttons on the TV still work so just take my time.
Things like these take place almost every day in my life. I can’t blame manufactures since numerous researchers and engineers are racking their brains to push digital products to the edge of limits–smaller, smaller, and smaller. Actually more functions are integrated into more compact size. Isn’t it cool to carry a device around that can take pictures, record videos, make phone calls, arrange schedules, wash dishes… especially in the size of a flea? Absolutely. But, the smaller these gadgets become, the more efforts I’ve got to make to locate them. Cell phone is always the easiest one to be found unless I set it to “silent” or “vibrate”. Thumb drives are okay ‘cause I attach long neckbands to make them bigger objects. Fortunately, 4G iPod is bulky enough to be caught sight of with ease. But how about iPod Nano?
So that’s the microworld we’ve got to confront. The living space is getting crowder and crowder while human being’s desires are becoming bigger and bigger. How can we survive the microworld before our eyes evolve into a 200X microscope?

Thanks go to Discovery Channel for bringing up such a touching documentary on the stories of people who left four years ago. Before today they were strangers to me but now I know something of them, something that will last in my memory for long. When facing the aftermath of disasters, we are usually shocked by the number of how many people suffer from that. We should be, but should be more than that. Given more chances to delve into those people’s lives, they are brought to life again, at least in our hearts. They are no longer the forty lives that were taken by a terrorist attack; they are forty lives that ever lived among us. Remember them.
Christian Adams
Lorraine Bay*
Todd Beamer
Alan Beaven
Mark Bingham
Deora Bodley
Sandra Bradshaw*
Marion Britton
Thomas E. Burnett, Jr.
William Cashman
Georgine Rose Corrigan
Patricia Cushing
Jason Dahl*
Joseph DeLuca
Patrick “Joe” Driscoll
Edward Porter Felt
Jane Folger
Colleen L. Fraser
Andrew Garcia
Jeremy Glick Lauren Grandcolas
Wanda Green*
Donald F. Greene
Linda Gronlund
Richard Guadagno
LeRoy Homer, Jr.*
Toshiya Kuge
CeeCee Lyles*
Hilda Marcin
Waleska Martinez
Nicole Carol Miller
Louis J. Nacke, II
Donald A. Peterson
Jean Peterson
Mark “Mickey” Rothenberg
Christine Snyder
John Talignani
Honor Elizabeth Wainio
Deborah A. Jacobs Welsh*
Kristin White-Gould