THE FUTURE DOES NOT COMPUTE

Today Apple announced the long awaited Apple iPhone; Microsoft tremble. I cannot stress how exited I am about this product, first of all it is exactly what I’ve been waiting for, an all in one gadget with robust media capabilities. iPod, phone, organizer, camera, email and internet all in one with one cool looking gadget with the slickest interface out there for such product.

Make sure to keep posted for more updates. Check out Apple’s website for more info or go watch the Keynote.

If you didn’t know, the internet is under threat by big corporations planning to split to the internet into two. As it stands, the internet is one big highway with all sorts of traffic with different sized cars all in one road. What these corporations aim to do, is divide this highway of information into two lanes:

“Cable and telephone companies are talking, however, about creating a two-tiered Internet with a fast lane and a slow lane. Companies that pay hefty fees would have their Web pages delivered to Internet users in the current speedy fashion. Companies and individuals that do not would be relegated to the slow lane.”

This split will forever impact the internet. Please support net neutrality so this does not come to be.

This clip will further explain what net neutraily is all about and why it is important to you:

6:30 AM and I am getting ready to leave the house for work, I put on my pea coat, wrap a scarf around my neck and pack some gloves in my bag. It is early January and experience has taught me it is cold around this time of year in NY. I step outside and it is unusually warm, as I walk to the train station a drop of sweat runs down my forehead. I start to get uncomfortable warm with all the layers I am wearing and have to take my scarf off as it begins to make me sweat. I ask myself, it’s January why am I warm?!
The north eastern united states has been plagued by unusually warm weather. Some claim that it is due to global warming, others that is just a temporary climate shift. Records show over the past hundreds of years temperatures have been steadily climbing:

“Meteorologists say the warm spell is due to a combination of factors: El Nino, a cyclical warming trend now under way in the Pacific Ocean, can lead to milder weather, particularly in the Northeast; and the jet stream, the high-altitude air current that works like a barricade to hold back warm Southern air, is running much farther north than usual over the East Coast. “

This could very well explain the strange weather, yet I believe it is due to global warming. Records show that after the industrial revolution CO2 levels have sky rocketed.

Who knows? The northeast might be experiencing a warm winter but the plains have been plagued with blizzard after blizzard. Mother nature has truly gone haywire.

I sure hope it just a temporary change and that this is not a result of our wreck less damage to the environment. Let say this continues year after year, we might not have a winter after all. But lets leave all the worrying to the meteorologists and enjoy the warm weather while it’s here! BBQ anyone?