Cold chinese tea is a VERY potent laxative.

Look at this.. you let them sleep with you in your bed, and they forget who's the boss.

There's a new type of rechargable batteries available around town.. Ok.. they've been around for a few months but I haven't gotten around to talking about them since well I only recently gotten a pair myself and they needed some time to prove their worth to me. I guess the best way to call them are.. 2nd generation Ni-Mh rechargable batteries?

You must have seen these on the shelf before, marketed as the Uniross Hybrio, or the Sanyo Enerloop. The easiest way to identify these new generation rechargable batteries is that they always market themselves as ready to use after purchase and there's no need to perform an initial charge.

The main appeal about these batteries is that, they are able to hold their charge for a long time. And thus make them very good candidates for digital cameras since you don't use them all the time, but you wouldn't want to be in a situation where it's time to take a picture but your batteries had already discharged themselves.

One disadvantage is that the capacity of the battery is lower than current, seems to be 2000mAh compared to the 2800mAh that you get with normal batteries.

Definetly recommended if your camera uses AA batteries and you don't use it that often.

 So you're walking towards your office, and then you see a box near the entrance to you office, filled with a gazzilion glass fragments, like some unlucky schmuck must have smashed through a glass door nearby.

You give the box a feel kicks, and you like hearing the sound of tiny glass fragments jiggly around and ringing like a chorus of bells. Cool! you think as you turn to enter your office building...

Not so cool anymore...

The first digital camera I ever gotten had this nifty trick which aided in to taking multiple images to form a wide panoramic image, though after taking said images I'd had to use another program to stitch it together since technology then didn't allow the camera to have enough memory to perform the stitching onboard.

It was a neat trick which I liked having around... and lo and behold... the new HTC camera program in my Dopod C730 also has such panoramic functionality!

Yes.. my place is a dump.. and, note the ghost images near the connection parts. To take good panoromic images it is essential that when you pivot to take the next picture, you pivot using the camera lens's center and not on your feet.

Why the fark am I interested in such old tech? Probably because I haven't seen it in use for a while and I'm getting nostalgic over what I used before and what is possible now.