ok well the next cool little fact I would like to share about Hong Kong was the light show that occured every night around 7pm or 8pm. I’m not sure the exact time, because I forgot. lol If you go downtown Hong Kong then at the bay you can see a magnificient lightshow. The buildings surrounding the bay participate in this show. All the buildings light up and do mini lightshows. I really couldn’t believe how these buildings were able to pull it off. The lights went all the way up the buildings. I uploaded some pictures on Flickr of this interesting event. check it out at http://flickr.com/photos/brandonnc They mostly are all at the beginning of the page.

ok well everyone yes I didn’t have internet in Hong Kong until the last couple of days… It was very aggrivating. But I’m back here in the States and I’ve decided since I didn’t get to blog during my trip I’m going to be releasing little facts about my trip on and off throughout the next week or two. If you would like to see some of the pictures check them out on my Flickr page, my account name is brandonnc. Anyways the first little thing I’d like to share is breakfast in Hong Kong! lol well It’s an Asian country so they do have a lot of noodles and rice for breakfast traditionally but when we were there it was pretty similiar to the States except to key breakfast items! The French toast is nothing like in the States. It’s two slices of bread with peanut butter in between them and then deep fried! lol I did try some and it was pretty good but I didn’t want to eat a lot of it. The second breakfast item that is nothing like the States is the sausage! Dudes and dudettes all a sausage is in Hong Kong is a hot dog deep fried! And if you have seen a fried hot dog they do not look appealing. But overall food is extremely cheap over there if your coming from the States. You could pretty much get enough food to be well over for under $5. So that concludes random Chinese fact number one! See you tomorrow!

well unfortunately we have not had proper access to the internet here in Hong Kong. So I have not been able to do anything that I have been wanting to do on the internet. But fortunately we have it now and it’s lowest downspeed are 8megs! Thats like crazy especially in the States. But I’ll have to upload the pictures while I get home and what I’ll do is do some blogs like twice a week on different things in HK and China! I’m sad to leave this Sunday! Well I’ll talk to you all later!

hey everyone! I just wanted to give an update on my trip to HK and China! Only 6 days left and I’m really excited So if your interested to learn more about China and Hong Kong or see what I’m going to be up to from the 27th of June through the 6th of July. I’m going to try and twitter, of course blogging, and updating my flickr account! So I’m going to give a shout out to my twitter and flickr. http://twitter.com/branhow12 is my twitter account and my flickr account is http://flickr.com/photos/brandonnc. So I hope you guys check it out and especially during this time frame.

well I’ve actually had a few days to play around with Firefox 3! and first look it’s absolutely amazing looking on the mac. It’s done with a nice cocoa interface and a lot of translucent dropdowns. Upgrading was not an issue from Firefox 2 and it hasn’t crashed for me yet. Firefox 3 was just released on Tuesday and the people at Mozilla even had a special event for the occassion. They wanted to break the world record for most downloads across the globe in 24 hours. There has not been any word back from the guiness world record folks but it could be that the Mozilla corps actually broke the record. I’m not sure what the current record is but Firefox was downloaded by over 8 million people in the first 24hrs of it’s release. If you would like to check out the map of what countries downloaded Firefox check out http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/. I thought it was cool to look at how the rest of the world loves Firefox! Oh and one last technical note. Most of my extensions worked with Firefox 3, the only ones that didn’t see to work well were the themes. But this user interface looks very stylish already, so I won’t be needing any other themes. So everyone switch to Firefox 3 and ditch that lame old I.E! Check Firefox out at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/?from=getfirefox

well I’ve actually had a few days to play around with Firefox 3! and first look it’s absolutely amazing looking on the mac. It’s done with a nice cocoa interface and a lot of translucent dropdowns. Upgrading was not an issue from Firefox 2 and it hasn’t crashed for me yet. Firefox 3 was just released on Tuesday and the people at Mozilla even had a special event for the occassion. They wanted to break the world record for most downloads across the globe in 24 hours. There has not been any word back from the guiness world record folks but it could be that the Mozilla corps actually broke the record. I’m not sure what the current record is but Firefox was downloaded by over 8 million people in the first 24hrs of it’s release. If you would like to check out the map of what countries downloaded Firefox check out http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/. I thought it was cool to look at how the rest of the world loves Firefox! Oh and one last technical note. Most of my extensions worked with Firefox 3, the only ones that didn’t see to work well were the themes. But this user interface looks very stylish already, so I won’t be needing any other themes. So everyone switch to Firefox 3 and ditch that lame old I.E! Check Firefox out at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/?from=getfirefox

ok so Steve Job totally disappointed me on Monday at WWDC. I’ve watched most of the conference, but I was following @Fittorrent on Twitter during WWDC. The main focused of this conference seemed to be the iPhone… Well yes there was a lot of nice features that Apple is releasing with the 3G iPhone, but I was hoping for a 10inch tablet or something on those lines. I was really hoping for something new and a little more exciting than the iPhone update.
Well MobileMe is actually a nice update to .Mac. It really needed an update because personally I think it’s a waste of money! lol But I’m glad they bumped up the storage space and it seems a little more useful as in the sense of everything being able to talk to it easily. But MobileMe is kind of a lame name lol!

And I didn’t hear almost nothing on SnowLeopard!!! Except that it seems to be focusing on stability and security. I want to see it, but Apple did not put it in with the keynote of WWDC on their site! But I’m assuming it’s probably going to look the same and not too many impressive features are going to ship with it. But of course thats just my speculation. If you look at the OS X updates, I think the only impressive one lately was Leopard. Only because that added some under the hood features that are really going to benefit power users.

First off I’d like to say, no this entry is not about HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. That was like ages ago! Today the Format Wars pertain to something that everyone probably has gone through at least once in their lives, not being able to open a .doc file in anything except Microsoft Word! I believe that the business community has fallen into the trap of thinking everyone has Microsoft Word or Office. If we look at the web, the two primary formats that I see for documents are either Microsoft’s .doc format or Adobe’s .pdf format. Isn’t there some kind of standard that everyone can read? Well for the moment the .pdf(portable document format) is probably the best at delivering information. But Microsoft has all been about their proprietary format which is the .doc file. That has been one of the major selling points of Microsoft Office and in order for them to stay on top of their game Microsoft recently changed their format to .docx in Office 2007. There are convertors that can read this format for older versions of Word or other word processors, but if you do not have one of these convertors, you’re out of luck. Well recently there has been a large amount of interest in coming to one standard format. So as of the next version of Microsoft Office they will be releasing it with .odf, which was first introduced by the open source community. .odf actually stands for open document format (at least that’s what I believe). One of the major points is that by default it will write your documents as an .odf file. I think this is a very wise decision, because not everyone wants to shell out $150-$300 for Microsoft Office. So praise God for the open source community!

ok I’m going to be very frank and honest with this post. Every-time I hear Reverend Wright speak (Obama’s pastor) I become infuriated. This is both a disgraced to Christianity and the African American population. Let me elaborate. 

First off. I don’t care what nationality you are, if your claiming God as your Saviour and preaching the complete opposite of His teachings, you should be throw out of the pulpit. All you are doing is raising up a generation that is destined for damnation. This man is blaspheming against the name of God and preaching segregation. He is bringing damnation to the God he so call serves! God**** America. This is completely unacceptable and the Christian majority should kick him out of his church.

He’s also spreading a major gap between African Americans and the Caucasian American populations. The Bible teaches that we are all equal in the eyes of God. There is no difference between what color you are. Remember the song we used to sing? Red, yellow, black or white- we are precious in His sight! This pastor must of never heard of this classic Christian hymn. All he is doing is painting the African American population a negative color along with the Christian population.  This just gives a non-believer another reason to dismiss Christianity. 

Finally I have several African American friends that are pastors. I’ve attended several African churches and they have been very acceptive of myself. They were very welcoming and friendly. I think pastor reverend wright is a disgraced to all African Americans that stand for God. 

Reverend Wright or any of your followers. Don’t ever associate yourself with God again, unless you change your theology to one that is Biblically sound and that glorifies God. I don’t condone your adaptation to the Faith. I am praying that God will reveal Himself to you and make Himself apparent in your life. 

These are just a few of the pictures! I’ll be posting the rest later. If you want to check out the rest of the pictures for now check out http://www.flickr.com/photos/brandonnc/. Hope you all enjoy the pictures