Believe it or not John Lennon Number 9 Curse

Lennon was convinced that he was cursed by the number nine. He was born on October 9th, 1940 in Liverpool and the band was "discovered" on November 9, 1961. The Beatles played The Ed Sullivan Show on February 9th, 1964. He met Yoko Ono on November 9th, 1966. The Beatles later broke up after nine years together. His son Sean was born nine years after he met Ono, on Johns birthday, October 9th. Tragically, he was shot and killed on December 8th, 1980, but in Liverpool, where he was born, the date was (you guessed it) December 9th.

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UK thinks UMPC is OK not OK

Pen-based computers could still get the thumbs down
Jack Schofield
Thursday March 23, 2006
The Guardian

"One of the great events in the history of computing came in 1963, when Ivan Sutherland, an MIT student, presented his PhD thesis on Sketchpad: A Man-machine Graphical Communications System. Sutherland showed how you could interact with a computer using its monitor and a light-pen."

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Sent to me by Richard Bassett of the UK - an M200 carrying, Dr. Neil convert!
Welcome to the Blogosphere mate :-)

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• What do we think? Is all the hype surrounding UMPC distracting us from the arduous task of breathing and eating - the English Journalists seem to think so!

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When seeing is NOT Believing

*UPDATE 16th May 2007 20:53* Paul has posted a YouTube Video describing his efforts and I think it is worth watching - if you want the logic behind this endeavour. It seems as though I am having late night camera-in-hand affects on people. Is anyone else up to weird stuff thanks to me?

Cheers Paul, nice work!

I think most of you know that my Tablet PC geek-iness is so far out of control that it is almost irreversible now. I still remember vividly a video I shot demonstrating how The Origami devices would work well before they had been released. It caught a lot of attention and highlighted two things:

• We can create Virtual Hardware experiences and still learn a lot;
• People will go to extraordinary lengths to make the intangible tangible.

Why all this rhetoric?

Recently I was pinged by a fellow Aussie and passionate follower of bleeding edge technology who had gone down a similar path to me, i.e. creating Virtual Hardware. I thought it was so amusing creepy intriguing enthusiastically replicated that I had to share it with all of you. For the record his name is Paul Stanway and his passion is papier-mâché sculpture origami Gadgets!

Oh…and so you know…NONE OF THESE DEVICES ARE REAL. ALL ARE MADE FROM HI-RES PRINTOUTS FOLDED TO SCALE TO REPLICATE ACTUAL DEVICES ABOUT TO HIT THE MARKER. LOL.

Apple iPhone, Nokia E90, HTC Shift

Q1 Ultra, OQO 02, iPhone, Nokia E90, HTC Shift

Q1 Ultra, OQO 02, iPhone

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