A fulfilling life…

“A fulfilling life comes from thinking and living simply.” — Translated from a quote in the book, “Once Upon a Time.”

Finished reading William Least

Finished reading William Least Heat Moon’s Blue Highway this morning. Here are at least two things I learned from the book: 1) Least Heat Moon’s book works because he talks to people, and 2) people, in general, are suspicious of those who wander.

Saw two movies in

Saw two movies in two days: Matrix Reloaded and The Pianist.

Hero

Just watched Hero, the latest movie by Chinese director Chang Yimou. I thought some of the fight scenes dragged on too long and the special effects were a bit tiring, but the unpredictable story line - coupled with excellent character development on all fronts - was brought out to an immensely satisfying conclusion. The movie argues as such: a real hero is one that manages to throw out his convictions - sometimes at the last minute - for the well being of the common.

Happiness

“Happiness is where you will find it.” — R. L.

Motorcycle Touring

Mr. Wanderlust is looking forward to touring by motorcycle. One thing about doing a long trip on motorcycle is that it forces one to take the minimum of things. This would be good training for someone like me who always overpack.

Zapped by my computer

On April 30 Mr. Wanderlust blogged about my computer zapping me. It might just be a simple case of not properly grounding my laptop. I should replace the two-pronged cable from the AC adapter to the outlet with a three-pronged cable. Will report later if the zapping continues.

Potential Switcher

If Mr. Wanderlust had switched to Macs today, what would he be missing most about Windows PC? The answers are 1) Microsoft Bookshelf, 2) Microsoft Encarta, and 3) the seemingly lack of decent money management software on the Mac OSX platform. The first two are such excellent references that despite Mr. Wanderlust’s dislike for most MS products he find it difficult to part with those two gems. Other than that there is not much holding me back and I anticipate a jump to the Mac platform sometime this year.

Jumping ship (Radio Userland)

Mr. Wanderlust uses Radio Userland as his blogging tool, and he is generally pretty happy about it. Although he feels that Radio could be even better if 1) it supports two-byte characters for users of non-Western languages and 2) support multiple authors for blogging with one copy of Radio.
The nature of Radio also makes it difficult to blog on the road without bringing a laptop with me; this is an inherent weakness of Radio that is probably impossible to change so Mr. Wanderlust is contemplating jumping ship to Movable Type in the near future.