Novel Prize in Literature

From New York Times:

Doris Lessing, the Persian-born, Rhodesian-raised and London-residing novelist whose deeply autobiographical writing has swept across continents and reflects her deep feminist engagement with the major social and political issues, won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature today.

Ms. Lessing, who turns 88 later this month, never finished high school and largely educated herself through her voracious reading. She had been born to British parents in what is now Iran, was raised in colonial Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and now lives in London. She has written dozens of books of fiction, as well as plays, non-fiction and an autobiography. She is the 11th woman to win a Nobel Prize in literature.

I would love to read her novels to know how good she is.

Welcome to the world.

My mother e-mailed me that my sister just delivered her son. Wow, he looks like my sister. This means I just become an uncle. Of course, I feel very happy that he was born safely. Welcome to this world!

But son, as you will see, this world is a mess, there is no doubt about it. But boy don't worry, we all will teach you what we learned, so that you can have a higher chance to survive, so that you can take after this planet. I hope you will be a strong man.

We all are wishing good luck for you.

Cover - The cranberries- Ode to my family

I found a good cover of the Cranberries on Youtube. This is the best cover I've ever listened. She has such a lovely voice, check this out.

Experiment with reddit.com

I wrote:

"Write things that no one else knows as everybody else can easily understand. "

To achieve this purpose, I undertook one experiment. Since only a few people were reading my blog, I asked what will be happen if I advertise my blog on reddit.com or digg.com? I submitted my previous entry to them at the same time with an identical title.

The outcome was significant. As you see in the graph, I got more than 180 hits within a day. But I noticed that digg.com only gave me 9 accesses while reddit.com gave me almost 20 times more accesses.

from reddit: 178 accesses/ 1day
from digg: 9 accesses/ 1day

The conclusion of this experiment will be that reddit.com is a better place to advertise your personal blog.

Unbroadcasted scene -Nirvana Plateau-

The beginning of this scene was not broadcast on MTV, I think. Kurt's voice was always great, and makes me feel good.

What to write in your blog?

What should you write in your personal blog? This is the question I am thinking right now.

I thing a good blog is written abut things that only its author knows, and the author writes the blog as everybody else can understand. In other words, "Write things that no one else knows as everyone else can easily understand. " What are things only I know? Hum, I have to think about this more.

Alien's drawing?

I do believe that there are other intelligent creatures in this universe, maybe in many galaxies away. But I personally do not believe that the other intelligent creatures or aliens have ever visited the earth. All of the reports about U.F.O. were fake, I think.

But when I initially found this huge drawing on google map of Australia, I thought this may be written by an alien.... As you see, this drawing is too big to be drawn by ancient human beings.

Take a look at google map!

Cell phones save poverty?

The gap between rich and poor always exists in this world. However, in the near future, the gap might get bigger due to the advancement of the Internet. Richer people who can access to the network will gain more information and poorer people who cannot access to the network will fall apart.

When I was talking about this issue today, a guy told me very interesting opinion. He said that cell phones will solve this problem. People will be able to connect to the network via cell phones, and cell phones are much cheaper than computers. Therefore, most of people in the world will be connected to the network soon.

I am kind of impressed by this opinion. Because the cell phone technology to connect to the Internet has been most developed in Japan. Nowadays younger Japanese people do not use computer but only cell phones.

Japan should be aware of the possibility that their bigger chance on the network business exists in developing poor countries but not in the States or other advanced countries.

Picture of the day.

I should not remember any language.

It makes me return to your bloody heart.

The difference

10 years ago, when there was no company called google, what did you do to study a particular subject? You would probably go to a library to look for information.

Just 10 yeas later, what do you actually do to study the particular subject now? Most of contemporary people will google the subject first.

Please think about this difference. If you have to go to the library, you need at least a couple of hours or even a half day to achieve your search. But with the google, it takes a couple of seconds.

This is an informational revolution. People who know how to deal with the network, get enormous power called knowledge. The network gives you the closest shortcut to acquire essential knowledge or power.

In the near future, maybe in another 10 years, poverty will mean not knowing how to take out essential information from the Internet.