Fantastic Four change to Three....

The comic world is going to shake again. This time round another death of another classic character. This death will not be as big as Captain America or Superman. One of the Fantastic Four will be killed off in comics. I have to wonder at Marvel Comics, or should I say Disney, since they own Marvel Comics now. Do death of major characters really helps in sales? Face the facts. Everything in comics is about sales. The writers may be saying otherwise such as better creativities and such but if it doesn't bring enough money in it will be cancelled. Here I read that they even kind of hinted the death will be permanant. I think they make a big maistake. The Fantastic Four are some classic characters we grew up with. To make them as Fantastic Three is just nonsense. What makes them think the Fantastic Three is better? Remember the old days when the Fantastic Four cartoon only feature three members and left out the fire guy? Can't remember the name now because I haven't read much Marvel since all the big big events that confuses more than anticipating. That cartoon doesn't seem right and they never rename to Fantastic three. All the major characters go died usually comes back in some ways. They might even add in a new character later on, and if it doesn't work out the original character will be back. Just look at the Flash, he died for years and the new Flash was doing well, but Barry (the Flash who died) still came back for the great Green Lantern event. Death been overused.

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This time, however, Marvel is adamant, noting that once the current story ends in No. 588, the Fantastic Four will cease to exist.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/2010/12/23/2010-12-23_fantastic_four_death_one_of_the_superheroes_will_die_in_upcoming_marvel_issue.html

cab-less or just plain luck-less?

Ever tried to get a cab but none avaliable? It is either you have no luck or there was no cab then. I don't take a cab but then yesterday I had to hail one for work related, there are no cabs avaliable. They are all hired or busy. To make matter worse, I can only go for comfort-delgro cabs. I had spent 45mins that I decide to go back to my company main lobby when a cab pulls in with an alighting passenger. So what could the problem be? Either that the cab business is doing well that most of them aren't at work yet or they are all at other places. When you don't need a cab they are all around you but when you need one none avaliable. Maybe it is just plain no luck...

Can't even handle a drink?

Spillage are happening everywhere and it seems no one really bothers, at least until that air craft incident. Actually, no one cares about the spillage more than the actions in the cockpit. Sadly spilling of drinks is happening, such as dining and drinks were being poured in and some spilled out or when you drank too fast some water spilled out. It happens at office when the IT technician came to check on a non responsive laptop and found flavoured liquid, more common such as coffee inside. With such liquid spilled on the equipment, you can say good-bye to it. Even plain water spilled on a keyboard will makes the keys go crazy. If it is just plain water, a bit of luck include, the keyboard will be back to normal after the water dried up. So at high risk locations such as the cockpit, the pilot could drink but if spills could occur because they like to drip the beverage then they either drink with a straw or drink away from the controls. The hijack alert due to spills maybe a relief but annoying and no one will take it seriously if a real alert comes on and the people on he ground might think it is another coffee break gone wrong.

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20110107/tod-odd-us-plane-alert-a929486.html

to update or not?

There is a new ios update for the iphone. So do everyone rushes to update their iphone with the new ios? I am not updating mine. I do not see the need. There are risks for doing updates, such as bad experience after update. While the new ios provides more sms ringtones, I do not need the other stuffs. So would you put your usage experience at risk by updating the ios?

Hotmail too hot for some....

Hotmail being too hot finally burns all mails.... :D At least whatever happened within Hotmail, it lost many many mails stored by users. It seems that when they finally increases their quota space, users get to store more, delete less. Now the mails all gone. If you haven't backup the mails, what would the chance of getting them back be? If the mails are just not accessible, due to some programming issues, they are safe and will be back. If it really is, removed by error, I doubt Microsoft will put in effort to recover them since there are millions of users affected. Such problem will plague any email provider from time to time. It is all due to human error. And it is also human error that users themselves did not backup their email, relying on the mail server to store the mails forever.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2011/01/hotmails_missing-messages_myst.html

Hair burnt more funny than news worthy

Just read some news on a woman's hair caught fire while in a bathtube, at a party. A singer, P Diddy, hosted some party at a hotel, with foam bathtube?? and some of his lady guest in the tube. Then the lady's hair kind of caught fire, due to a lit candle behind the tube. If the host is some nobody, it probably is no news at all. The security may even started chasing people off and (the hotel) suing people (the host). One thing I don't get it, why do well known entertainers most the west like to have bathtubs or even foam pool in a party? They even have candles around. And comments left on the site, I agreed with those writers. If the host is someone else, no one even cares. Anyway, I don't even know much about P Diddy. Give me MC Hammer anytime. :p

http://sg.yfittopostblog.com/2010/12/18/p-diddys-party-gets-a-little-hairy/

iphone alarm boycotting!

Looks like Apple got a instant black eye on New Year. Their popular iphones have a bug, the alarms all failed to ring. And I am a victim too. At least I am not so victimised here. Today is a holiday for me so it doesn't matter. All the while I thought it rang but I am too deep in sleep manage to slept through the rackus. Not when I watched the news that people all over the world encountered the alarm problem. So is the alarm boycott only on 1st of January? I hope so because many people depends on iphone for wake up call and now the iphone is boycotting, it will be bad. Fortunately I managed to woke up. I am going to wait and see if the boycott will continue or just for today.

http://news.omy.sg/News/Local%2BNews/Story/OMYStory201101011700-211652.html

iPhone3GS手机和iPhone4手机的闹钟功能，竟在2011年第一天“罢工”、不会响