生日

昨晚老婆在枕上放了生日卡，又大一歲了。。。婚後第一個生日，一大早八點沒到，被祝賀的電話吵醒了，跟家人通過電郵，如以往一樣沒怎樣慶祝，過了如常的星期天。重要的人在身邊已很足夠了。
Wish everyone a happy, happy day!

merry christmas

Though it's no surprise we would get an amazing gift (actually 2) from the company for this holiday, it's still an incredible joy to have received it. What a step up from the Nexus One. The Nexus S delivers what Android has promised to users and beyond.

Thanks!

Nexus S

fragmentation

One problem in the Android ecosystem today is fragmentation. If the phone is not the nexus one, chances are the OS is older than Froyo (2.2). Even for new phones at the time of writing, I still see Donut (1.6) being shipped. If the device is not released by Google, it seems that its version is always lagging behind.  In the spectrum, only a small percentage made up by these Google branded privileged devices will have the most up to date OS. The rest, and majority, of handsets will be at best one version behind. Now that Google no longer sells its own devices, these privileged devices will become smaller and smaller as the market grows. This fragmentation will be more pronounced unless some sorta rule enforces the manufacturer must keep up.

A lot of friends asked when they will see the OS upgrade (eg Eclair to Froyo) for their non Google branded devices. It's a popular question I too see in various social forums. Of Nokia, this question used to be more popular than others. 1. Nokia has shipped more devices than anyone else. 2. Their Symbian OS was stone aged with historical problems and patches all over it. So people look for fixes in the upgrade. 3. Its sick distribution strategy creates a problem where some regions get an upgrade while others don't based on the product code. That's why software like Nemesis exists to help users with their product code.

Android excels in the mobile market with a phenomenal momentum. Unfortunately, though, its increasing number of users are also asking the very same upgrade question. No one should be mistaken that the device manufacturers like Sansung, HTC, Motorola, oh yeah Nokia, are product companies. At the end of the day it all comes down to how many products they have sold. It's the revenue and profit their stockholders look at every quarter. Obviously it's their best interest to sell more devices. Upgrading the sold devices, however, is costly and most of them don't even have the infrastructure such as OverTheAir, user friendly firmware tools, to do so. And most importantly, upgrade doesn't add to sales numbers. Following the money trail, it makes a lot of sense for these companies to make new devices with the new OS versions than to create an upgrade path for sold devices. With some clever marketing campaign, users will be buying the new shiny device with the OS version we have been waiting for to upgrade. Why bother to upgrade. Just buy a new phone. That's a win situation for product companies.

A personal example was the Galaxy phone I got. It was shipped with Cupcake. Samsung was to release the Donut upgrade later last year. Never happened. But of course it shipped with new phones with Donut and Eclair shortly after. And it's not just Samsung. That's how they all do it.

the plan

休息了半年，終於忍不住回來，其實我沒離開過，只是工作和個人的事情太忙，沒有以前的時間來嚤咕兩句了。這段時間，我的生活多了點變化，我要結婚了。遇上了一個我值得全心去愛的人像不可能，但確實我遇上了，一個可能是廿年前已訂下的緣份。雖然我倆分隔兩地，但感覺很真實，因為我倆都肯為對方付出。而這點正是她與其他人的分別。

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秋天的童話

最近有機會重溫這套經典的電影，八七年的故事，八七年的紐約。相比第一次看的時候，現在確有好多共鳴，房屋，環境，Brooklyn Bridge，JFK，甚至人物，十幾年變化像大，但又好像沒什麼變。小時候怎想到自己能親身經歴，回想過去的１０年，到處遊覓，若不是有機會離開香港，也沒有機會能接觸到這些體驗，能看到世界其他面。更深的想法是，工作，生活體驗，以及朋友，現在的一切不是因為我懂廣東話而來，是英語 （之後國語）讓我來到這裡。日後，我亦想我小朋友能更早有機會看下，認識到這世界有不同面，看事物可以有著不同的考慮，不被一個小地方，國際不流通的語言，這個框框所規限。

代價

有回報就有風險這個道理在投資角度上一點不陌生。一直我覺得感情亦是如是，想有回報必然會有風險，賭的是幾萬元的介指還是十多年的青春，甚至一生的所有。過去損傷太多，覺自己已沒這本錢。有是生活，沒有也是生活。快樂仍要看個人的觀景角度。