I read two innovative idea on the news today. The first one is an automatic side mirror. The side mirror will tilt inward to cover the blind spot when the driver put on the turning signal. It will tilt downward in reverse gear to check the side curb when parallel park. The second idea is a chopping board with integrated scale. These two innovation are relatively low-tech, just put together existing ideas. However it is the creativitly behind the innovation inspire me. I think invent some part useful, but not totally useless thing is not very hard. There are many inconvinience in daily life waiting to be overcome. I already thought about an idea, self fold sleeping bag. It is always very troublesome putting the sleeping back into its bag. Many people have flash of interesting idea, but most of them never bother to spend time to make it happens. Most of innovation doesn’t justify the cost of production nor even the cost of development. Only a few great ideas flourish and become the new big hit. The problem most of the time, you can’t tell which idea will fly, which one will bomb. I want to be an inventor too but too lazy to spend time in making invention.

Finally I start the migration to the new web server.? I have bought the new linux box for a few months and it has been sitting idle most of the time.? I only use it for the FTP server and backup data in my Windows machine.? I could have waited a couple more month and get a faster machine with a lower price.? The old linux box is slow but still usable.? I procastinate the migration for so long is because it is not broken, why fix it.? However, I fully awarely of continous improvement is the only way to greatness.? Now once I had kick started the web server, any incremental update would be more easier.? I hope to use it as a platform to learn some latest computer technology, especially in programming.? It is very unlikely I would use the hand on knowledge I learnt in setting up a web server at work.? But I have a feeling gain some real experience in server would help my carreer in a long run.

Just come back from the annual four days three nights church camp. As usually, I didn’t sleep well in the camp, from both snoring of roomates and the unwillingness to go to bed at night. Luckily I don’t have to go to work tomorrow, so I can stay home to recover my energy. I am really getting old, I used to stay up all night and chat in the camp. Now I have to go to bed latest at 2 a.m. I had the least the expectation this year but I end up getting something inspiring from the camp. I chose not connect to the internet in the camp, although there is a wireless connection and plenty of laptops I can borrow. It is not a retreat strictly speaking, but to me without the internet is already quite a retreat. I am very tried now but I decided to write my reflection article before going to bed. Before I start writing my reflection, I have to catch up with my emails, disscussion in the forums I go to and reading the news. Gota get going now.