The Prestige (novel)

Reading kaywin's post was so enticing till i quickly rushed to Uncle Ho's branch in SS2 to get a copy *though kaywin is kind enough to lend me*. Unfortunately, it appears to me the movie is not exactly following the novel. Here are several differences (extracted from the always dependable Wikipedia but may be in the verge of closing down)

1. Both Bordens did not die in the end.
2. Both Borden and Angier did not physically injured each other due to sabotaging the performances.
3. In the novel Borden interrupts Angier's act by turning off the teleportation machine, but in the movie he interferes with the act without turning it off.
4. In the novel, Angier survives the events that have unfolded, but in the film he appears to perish many times.

many more here.

JSR 311: Java (TM) API for RESTful Web Services

Does this means RESTful is finally taking over the Web Service centre stage? If you have been following this space, there have been countless debates on the SOAP/WS-* vs REST due to the fact that the former is way too complex and the only real major implementation so far after all these years is WCF aka Windows Communication Framework from who else, but Microsoft.

The notion of REST + AJAX is just so simple to understand and build. Hopefully this workshop will bring more solutions to the table and solve this problem once and for all.

Hail Web Services !!

Update: If you are a REST basher, you may wanna join these people.

It is just never ending story.

Dee best web mail in the world

After nearly three years in the making, Gmail has finally opened up its doors. So, no more begging from friends and auctioning accounts in ebay that i think it is totally unnecessary and ridiculous. Even if its a marketing strategy, it wouldnt need to take them so long for this to happen, right? Anyway, i LUV Gmail.

and their Valentine's logo too. ;-p
*Apparently, there are plenty of blogs out there reported Google has finally screwed up their logo because of the missing "l" in the word. Its not, the strawberry stalk represents the "l". Valentine's day mah, so subtlety counts.*

Here is a video made by the Gmail folks. If you never try Gmail, you should.

Mashup

The word mashup has been popping up very frequently these days thanks to the popularity of web application hybrid in the world of Web 2.0 (AJAX + web API/RSS feeds)

Now, some folks around the world have decided to bring the mashup technique to the entertainment world too, such as this one.

10 Things I Hate About Commandments


And this
Neo versus Robocop


Basically, they have combined and edited multiple movie sources into one trailer.
More over here. Cool right?

Wii owners, collect all five colors now!

Looks like Nintendo is coming up with a few more color variations for Wii. Maybe to blend in with different home decos.

I kinda like the green one actually since it looks quite fresh. Black, as usual, will look cool on anything. What's your favorite Wii color?

(Jason, get the red one for Chinese New Year)

Toilet in Perth

Stole this from my sis's photo repository.



*Die die also i will not do it on the first one from left* ;-p