Back then, it was Live Aid made possible via satellite uplink. Now, it’s You Tube to bring much-needed aid to Haiti. http://www.youtube.com/wearetheworld#p/a/u/0/Glny4jSciVI Cool! That’s what technology and wisdom of crowd are for: rushing in to lift the death and dying out of the rubble. After all, aren’t we the world? Yes, we are the world.…

SoS Clinton sends New Year greetings to Asian and Asian-American, restating “mutual respect and mutual interest across borders and races”. http://www.vnexpress.net/GL/The-gioi/2010/02/3BA18CB0/ Yet in Little Saigon, Westminster, CA a Tet (Lunar New Year) parade draws fire. Reason: Gay and Lesbian group is also participating, follows the tradition their counter parts have set in San Francisco Chinese…

It begins to look a lot like Microsoft back in 2000 i.e. domination with a shade of abomination. Google provides phone, fast broadband for up to a selected half a million, and is busy acquiring Ask-your-friends query site. This is after its rolling out of Chrome and Nexus One. Deja vu! Meanwhile, Microsoft is trying…

A new study so our grad assistants wouldn’t be succumbed to the very symptom they research i.e. Boredom tentatively leads to higher rates of heart attack (because people would smoke, drink and lead unhealthy lives). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1249073/You-really-bored-death-scientists-discover.html I read somewhere that retired spies normally died within their first years out of service. Boredom. How could someone…

When Ted Turner decided to start a 24-hr news channel (CNN) people thought he was crazy. Now we have 24-hour channels for everything, including the weather. And we still don’t get enough: snow in DC, mudslide in LA  and earthquake in Chicago? http://www.wptv.com/content/breakingnews/story/earthquake-chicago-illinois-midwest-4-3-magnitude/0Rs69-jI_UOmc58fXVc7YQ.cspx Heartland America gets hit. This time from underground, not twisters from above.…

The Year of the Tiger is here, knocking on our doors. The Lunar and Western Calendars are having an “eclipse” : Lunar New Year  and Valentine’s Day both on Sunday (Christian Calendar). While Valentine’s Day barely takes hold of Vietnamese youth culture, in other years, this year old tradition overshadows young hearts. Red lucky envelopes…

Catharsis! At various level. Half time deja-vu of the Who (40 years under the bridge). And the Happy Ending for Bourbon Street. I was there before they let people with tickets in at Tail Gate. Just to take in the SB44 scene. A lot of expectations. But Colts’ fans seemed to outnumber Saints’ in visibility.…

Each carried a “tax preparation” sign, the two women dressed in green “statue of Liberty”  and waved at passing cars on opposite side of the road. I guess it’s Census time, Tax time and Super Bowl time. And the seasons turn, turn, turn. Our reclusive Salinger was gone for ever in the rye field. His…