Another reason to be in Finland

Super-speed broadband could arrive as early as '06

It makes you wonder why Finland seems to be the place where a lot of innovations happen (IRC, fast "last mile" connections to every house, Linux among others), but the US seems to be getting more press as the center of innovation.

And why Singapore probably won't be there any time soon. Sure, we may have cable to nearly every home, but the outgoing connections are still limited and routed weirdly - why does my route to an Australian server go through Japan? and a connection to the Middle East goes through the US.

GTA:SA rating changed, and "getting the most out of your purchase"

Rating changed from M (15+) to AO18+

While I think it was not a particularly good idea on Rockstar Games' part not to disclose to the ESRB that GTA contained such hidden content when submitting it for rating, I feel part of the blame should also lie with the person(s) who created the patch and encouraged its widespread distribution.

( "Getting the most out of your purchase" )

Revived other blog

After a hiatus of a few months, I've started posting to it again. :P

Though I think cross-posting isn't a particularly good idea, so copy and paste it is.

Xiaxue hacked

More details including link

I think more than anything, this illustrates the importance of the following:

a) choose passwords wisely and as far as possible, don't re-use passwords
b) Keep your friends close, but your enemies even closer - considering the kinds of posts that she has made in the past, as well as her personality, I'm not surprised that this happened. That doesn't mean it was a good thing, though. Losing 3000 mails = ouch

edit: Apparently wonkytong was hacked by (possibly?) the same person. Rumor has it that a wireless sniffer was active during the bloggercon last week.