I have decided that I want to be a robot.
From Kyodo News....
Monday July 12, 5:12 PM
Nagoya robot developer to release 'Hello Kitty' robot
Business Design, based in Nagoya, will release the robot on Hello Kitty's birthday on Nov. 1 at an expected price of just over 400,000 yen. It hopes to sell 2,000 "Hello Kitty" robots this year by accepting orders through the Internet and other marketing routes.
The robot, which is 52 centimeters tall and weighs 6 kilograms, can recognize up to 10 human faces through a built-in camera, the company said.
The non-walking robot "communicates" with people by using expressions out of 20,000 memorized patterns of conversation while expressing its "emotions" by such gestures as moving its head and arms.
To develop the robot, Business Design used a software technology supplied by NEC System Technologies Ltd. Production farmed out to Futaba Industrial Co.
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More Kitty....(my girl Hello Kitty makes my blog look tight!)
Girl is cute, yo!
In other news: First off, Happy Canada Day!
Exciting News!!! I am accepting ghost writer submissions from my fan base. This is an attempt to write more without doing it myself. Unfortunately this has nothing to do with ghosts (note - I have several million international readers, so terms like ghost writing can be very confusing. They write and ask if I'm ok, stuff like that. Sweet people. All of them). Please submit to: smurff@tucows.com with "crap I wrote for your blog" and maybe send what drove you to do it and a head shot. Or maybe make that a body shot if it would improve your chances of getting posted.
Ghost Writer Kitty
All complaints on the pointlessnesses and unprofessopanilissism of this blog, global politics and medical diagrams please forward to my personal address: ross@tucows.com . Again, all head shots and body shots to the editorial review commission at smurff@tucows.com.
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Good quote from The Feature:
Vodafone started much-ballyhooed content filtering in the UK this week, and quickly found out why it's such a difficult undertaking. In an attempt to keep kids from accessing adult content, Vodafone users that want to have open access must prove they're 18, either by using a credit card or showing up to a Vodafone store and asking for access ("Hi, I want porn on my phone!"). The carrier launched its filters ahead of schedule, and apparently ahead of testing, as the system flagged plenty of innocuous sites, and let plenty of risque ones through. So Vodafone now has annoyed users, lost revenues, and kids that can still look at porn -- sounds like a winner.