I wonder if this means my beer belly is an insurance against baldness?  I keep my frontal hair long to avoid looking like a young oriental Nixon.

I got too many ideas and not enough resources to implement them all.  If there is a ready team of 10 top notch engineers whom I can point at will, I'll be in heaven.  I suppose I can split some of them off but the juiciest part is a set of interlocking ideas.  Argh.

I usually wake up with odd thoughts as if dream overflowed.  This morning it was what it would be like to make a living in year 3004.  Frankly, it wasn't specifically 3004, but some time far in the future when people no longer had bodies and lived entirely in the cyberspace.  Since it is difficult to predict when and if civillization would reach that state, I just added a 1000 to now.  Hey, it could happen.  😉

If I don't have a body, a lot of expenses disappear.  Will there still be reasons to work for a living in 3004?  Of course, you need to run somewhere which will cost money.  Rich folks will live on dedicated machines with layers of protections against failures and viruses. Poor folks will have to make do on cheap shared machines.

What about copyrights, privacy, and piracy in 3004?  I sure wouldn't want people copying me or reading my bits.  What about desirable experiences?  Taste of a perfect cup of coffee can be played over and over if I get a copy.  Will our coffee come with DRM to limit replays?  What about companionship and sex?  Will guys choose to buy the Perfect Wife 7.0 or turndown the lonelyness meter?

If people can change their mind or appearances at will, what will the impact be?  Hey, how much you want for that set of splines buddy?

Will morality become just a club?  What is the point if you are just bits?  If a copy of me sleeps around and then 'resync' with the original, is that cheating?  Isn't that more like watching a movie?  Will there be room for President Carter's dirty thoughts in the future?  I know what you played last night and I want it erased from your mind!

You see what I mean by 'odd'?  Heck, it's entertaining too.

My post from May of last year got published in the English edition of OhmyNews which debutted recently.  Cool.  Only problem is that they made me look sleepy in the picture on the front page.  I am gonna have to come up with a better picture soon.  Maybe I should use the nose picking one Joi took.

I have been hearing a lot about Bloglines lately so I checked it out today and found this blog in their list of Most Popular Blogs.  Cool!  Here is the Bloglines page for this blog where you can subscribe via Bloglines. 

Read this article by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.  Now even pig farmers are getting a piece of the action.

Bill Burnham has another enjoyable post in which he trashes developing VC frenzy around the social networking scene.  Like him, I see little value in current crop of social networking companies.  It's no more compelling than standing bare naked in a large hall with thousands of people, mostly strangers, with nothing to do except talk.

Blogosphere is a social network of sort, but the social network is a by-product of the blogging, meaning social network is the effect rather than the cause.  Social networking companies are attempting to go in the wrong direction.  Another major difference is that they are building closed social networks where blogosphere is an open social network. 

Tentative date and time for the Corporate Blogger's Dinner is March 24th at 7PM.  Location wise, it will be Venture Frogs in San Francisco.

As to who should attend, don't worry too much about it.  I would like to encourage blog software and service companies to attend also so they can understand the needs of corporate bloggers (what ever that means).  I am organizing the event for the same reason.

Please comment to this post if you are planning to attend.  Even if you are not attending, please pass on the news of the event.

Update:

Venture Frogs will be the location, mainly because the place has parking.  Also, I felt Cafe Bastille was too noisy.

Hmm.  I think I got a short blogger's block coming if I am not already in the middle of it.  What this bookworm needs is a meal.

BTW, I'll be at Microsoft's BizTalk Server 2004 launch event at Mountain View tommorrow.  I hope it doesn't put me to sleep or give me an idea too good to ignore.  Having another great idea at this point is like being a married man chased by a supermodel.

The location is Jing Jing and the time is 6PM.  I might be there.  Dun Dun noodles have been calling me lately.  Scoble is offering directions by phone.