Zen of Tofu

The NBA had their all-star break this past weekend and it was quite eventful and fun to watch. Taking place in New Orleans, the festivities included the Celebrity game, Rookie Challenge, Shooting Stars, Skills Competition, Three-Point Shoot-Out, Dunk Contest, and the All-Star game.

The most notable events were the Three-Point Shoot-Out, the Dunk Contest, and the All-Star game. Toronto’s Jason Kapono easily defended his title against some of the league’s best 3 point shooters including Dirk Nowitzki and Peja Stojakovic. In the much anticipated Dunk Contest, Dwight Howard was quite literally “Superman” and I can’t help but feel that Jamario Moon would have provided a better challenge for the smiling giant Howard, than the serious Gerald Green. In the All-Star game, other than the poorly designed uniforms and the abundance of turnovers, the action was competitive and great at the end. It was exciting to see Ray Allen steal the game away from the West when Chris Paul was leading them to a come-back after being down by ~10 points for most of the game. Somehow LeBron James racked up some serious stats under the radar and was named the game’s MVP. Personally I thought Ray Allen should have received the honours after coming off the bench, knocking down 26 points, and winning the game single-handedly, but stats are stats.

Well that concludes the All-Star weekend summary, and I look forward to seeing how the US team fares in the Olympics in Beijing.

written by tofu \\ tags: NBA, Sports

If you have the new Mac OS X Leopard, be sure to run your software update to get the latest updates to the Leopard system.

I like the new taskbar Time Machine icon. It’s definitely better than clicking through System Preferences to see the status of my backups!

I’ve yet to see too many other changes but if there’s something significant I’ll definitely report it here. Cheers!

written by tofu \\ tags: Mac, Tech

Recently my hard drive went to the grave, and I popped in a brand new Hitachi 200GB 7200rpm 16mb cache SATA drive.

I was just happy to have my MacBook up and running again so I didn’t think much of the upgrade/replacement. Then today when I was running on battery power, I noticed that my “time to live” indicator showed that my battery still had another 6 hours and 20 minutes left of juice! I was baffled! Could the new hard drive be saving me that much battery life? After some research, it’s indeed true! Efficient hard drives save battery life!

So if you find yourself with some extra bucks, think about upgrading that 2.5″ mobile drive and compute your way to longer battery lives! Long live the battery!

written by tofu \\ tags: Tech

I was reading through my news feed this morning and saw a post about the Apple.com site being down, and immediately speculation arose of product updates! Well they were right! I don’t think many people saw this announcement coming so soon, and I bet Steve Jobs wished he could have thrown this product update into his “investor disappointing” keynote.

Many people have complained about the capacity of the flash memory in the iPod Touch and the iPhone, and finally Apple has delivered! Today Apple has introduced the 32GB iPod Touch and the 16GB iPhone. I’m sure this will spark even more growth in the company’s stock price and I almost wish I bought some stock when the stock price went down after the Macworld keynote!

I believe the new Touch comes with the latest software update included and the new 32GB model comes with a $499 USD price tag. The new 16GB iPhone comes with the latest software update as well, and a $499 USD price tag as well. So pretty much if you want the expandability and cell phone features of the iPhone, then your decision is already made for you. But if you want more capacity and don’t need the cell phone features and can get around with just Wifi then the Touch may be just what you’re looking for.

written by tofu \\ tags: Apple, Tech

This American election is really stirring up some buzz. I was watching KTLA this evening to find non-stop political adverts saying you should vote yes or no on proposition 93. It’s amazing how much buzz on new media that the election has created, and it has become THE way to reach out to the young voters.

I believe it was Barack Obama that started the online strategy first on Facebook and it clearly has turned some heads. I’m sure CNN has tonnes of viewers all across the nation, as these candidates vie for everyone’s votes.

It will definitely be interesting to see either an African-American or female president of the United States. Either way, there will be many changes for Americans to accept and not everyone will be happy. I think Canada could do with a change in leader as well, but all I can do is vote and see what happens.

Remember to vote, because a dictatorship is the lack of democracy.

written by tofu \\ tags: Politics