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Merry Christmas 2008--my wishlist

Nov 4, 2008 11:03

This is looking to be a memorable X'mas 2008. Hedge Funds redemption date is just a few days away from X'mas 2008, December 31, 2008, and way before that bear traps abound in the stockmarkets. Markets are rebounding right now, but even today the rally is fading. Obama looks set to win, but if he doesn't it'll be a nightmare scenario. General Motors and Ford both announced a 45 percent drop in sales of passenger cars in North America. Tens of thousands of job cuts per country compound tens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands of mortgage foreclosures. And the list of crap news goes on.

Utterly memorable.

Fallout 3 has come already making an early Christmas for many. I bought a state-of-the-art consumer camcorder already. Not enough time to use lenses for my dSLR. Not about to buy an Xbox 360 and have a PS3 and a "built" PC already with the latest graphics card. Yes, I'm a working guy, so such tech toys are not too expensive over the years.

So what I want for Christmas are stuff which are more than state-of-the-art, something which the developers need to sit down for months to make. This, to me, is the true Christmas present, something so difficult to obtain, yet still possible. Most stuff are within reasonable reach, rendering them meaningless as Christmas presents.

1) DLNA support built into the PSP. That'll be the bomb. Watch video anywhere in the house in range of your home network.

2) A super Web-based bill paying service without affiliations with anybody, just pure bill paying. Today, you can't pay your Citibank credit card bills using your DBS Internet banking because of all kinds of corporate affiliations. Just give us ONE SITE to pay all bills, thanks, with the ability to attach your bank accounts and credit card accounts to.

3) A blanket license for unlimited downloads--pay a sum of money to an organization and download whatever you like, however you like. This organization will distribute the money to the IP rights holders properly according to the monthly download frequency indexes it keeps.

4) That CNET improves this blogging interface--it leaves a lot to be desired.

5) My Google phone offered by a Singapore telco. Anyone.

Man... I must be close to achieving nirvana. This hasn't been easy for me to write.

See what the rest of the bloggers want this festive season.

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limshengming says...
"That CNET improves this blogging interface--it leaves a lot to be desired"

Darn right!

Nov 04, 2008 13:36

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ifam says...
i wish if i can get a sony ps3

Nov 09, 2008 12:34

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Michael Tan is lucky enough not to have to choose between his job and his passion. He is the responsible for all aspects of developing new businesses and sourcing new productlines for a regional IT distribution company. He also oversees the company's legal affairs as General Counsel. In real life, he is a technology enthusiast, from both the fun and business viewpoint. The only choices he has to make are whether to play with his astro telescopes, his PC games, his Wii console, hit the track, tweak his car, or refine his biofilters, post his blogs, research for a new digicam, scour every forum to feed his habit further, play with his son… You can reach Michael at michaeltanyk@gmail.com ALL BLOGPOSTS ONLY REFLECT MICHAEL'S OPINIONS AND NOBODY ELSES'.