A few days ago, there was a new service called Google Buzz that was launched, amid great press release coverage. It is a feature embedded into your GMail Web email, and it is basically a huge chat area.

Whan I first enabled it, it did remind me of the Facebook when it was first launched. No creepy looking applications and games. Just a plain social network that showed shared things from various people. I thought a little more and I came to the conclusion that this should have been the Google Wave. It is really easy to follow and like, and also instantly comment, and edit comments (unlike Twitter).

The only downside is that you have exactly one more inbox to take care of. But Google deals with it very efficiently like they always do, by e-mailing you a copy of the comment replies.

On another note, I just got dissed by yet another person who just bluntly thought the Website developed wasn't up to the mark, and promptly terminated my services. This when I have clearly mentioned and even written (to the referrer) that I have no flamboyant talent in doing impressive and creative artwork (I just don't draw stuff that well). I just do some CSS-based colour-design coordination, basic image editing, and useful interface layouts.

I don't do Web design, I do Web development. Though there is a fine line between them, they are still quite distinct.

Heck, I was even told to use the materials provided in the final e-mail, and yes I really did (judging from previous experiences where I was told off for not using them). This to which the person said was just for reference. What?! If there was a caveat that the materials were to be enhanced upon, I would have taken them as a guide and indeed enhanced it.

I am toally fed up of these kinds of people who just assume WAYYY TOO MUCH, much like Leo Lapote was. If anyone wants to work with me on making Websites, be forewarned.

Thanks for understanding, and have a great Valentine's and Chinese New Year weekend.

I am thrilled to have been given the opportunity to answer this simple question "why I like it longer". Seems strangely worded, but that is just my language pet peeve.

Well, first, I'd like my life to be longer, so I can see and enjoy this world and put some positive spin into it rather than all the negative news we have been hearing and seeing so far. There are scientists and researchers working on it. Go Google for "the search for immortaility".

Then I'd like batteries to last longer. Just about almost all devices with a battery, except clocks and remote controls, have not lasted a long enough time. Where is the fuel cell? Why is it still so darned expensive? Come on, it is TWENTY TEN already! Affordable or cheap green technology, please!

Whenever I buy a cordless electronic gadget, I have always had to take into account its battery life, despite all its marketing hype and sensationalism, battery life and environmentally friendliness is all that matters.

Swimming the length of a swimming pool equals twice or thrice the workout than swimming the width, so that is why I like swimming pools to be longer, but there are endless pools to get round that issue.

I work as a PHP Web developer and someone commented about me writing long codes of logic. Hmm, and we are also finding out ways to put those long codes in somewhere hidden and contained, accessing them using ever shorter and faster codes, but that is for another story. Apparently I did like things longer in that area too, though in a rather inefficient impeding way.

Hence concludes this post on the question, "Why I like it longer".

Epilogue...

Some guy jokingly predicted that the iPhone 4G will look LONGER like this (via a link shared by a workmate)...

To which this cool Korean company LG, formerly GoldStar, actually made a real LONGER phone and was not far off! Yay for their Flatron Wide monitor, the only LCD monitor so far with a swivel base (correct me if I am wrong)!

(Yes, it is very real and on sale, you have heard about it too, that is the LG Chocolate BL40 with a 4 inch 21:9 ratio high definition screen, so go ahead and drool all over your screen, keyboard, keypad, touchscreen, etc. you are seeing this from. LOL!)

Yes, they kind of minaturized the widescreen monitor into the phone and made it sensitive to touch too! Yup, I do like it longer, though I need longer pockets this time.

So I guess it is time to move back to good ol' pen and paper like I have been doing mostly. Or stop using Hewlett Packard printers.

Anyway, I don't use their printers per se.

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