One of the biggest news recently

Vaccine for AIDS

The scientist who won the Nobel price for discovering the HIV virus, Luc Montagnier, says that we're looking at about 4~5 years until a vaccine for HIV is made. 

Note: it's not a cure, it's a vaccine used to stop the spread of AIDS. Fantastic. 

Some people on the news article left comments like "stop having sex: that's the cure". I thought it was a good idea until I remembered "oh, wait: I like sex." 

Kidding, but if we do that, in 80 years human race will be extinct... What an outrageous thought? Sex is a survival instinct, so might as well tell us to stop eating. 

And the religious zealots disagree with it as well because it's interfering with God's system of killing people... or something like that. I don't really understand Christian/Catholic beliefs completely but I'm pretty sure that those people wouldn't be saying such things if they had the disease for themselves. 

I just don't get people sometimes... This was supposed to be a good news until people with extreme beliefs/ideas came in to the picture. 

Less money means more health problems

Someone please define the term "news" to me. I don't even know why I still write these blogs.

But poor Canadians are more likely to enter the hospital.

Yeah... Isn't that common sense: Less money leads to poor housing, unbalanced diet, unhygienic habits... Of course you have a higher chance of contracting a disease more so.

GASP! Who thought of that! Me.

You wanna know something else that might be on cbc tomorrow?

1+1=2.

iPod is trouble

iPod-- I personally owned one myself for a year or two. It was the very first iPod Nano. And although I admit they have a nice design, I personally never wanted to pay a lot of money for them.

Few reasons that I don't like about iPods

1.) I'm a semi-audiophile. Meaning I take music quality very seriously. The thing is, iPods have a very mediocre sound quality. iPod Classics can take some high end encoding but I don't want a PORTABLE music player that is that big, and I don't have 30gb+ worth of music. And the headphones that come with iPods are shit.

2.) iTunes: I hate this software. For many it's love it or hate it; for me it's hate. It just takes up too much resources so I stick to the "Drag and Drop" based MP3 players.

And here's just a new reason to add on to all that.

3.) You have a high chance of getting mugged with those white ear headphones in your ear in public. Let's face it: there are lot of people out there who WANT an iPod and don't HAVE one. Because they are on the expensive side compared to other MP3 players. And because those white earbuds became such a blatant message of "I HAZ AN IPOD", you become an easy target of mugging. What's unfortunate is, as much as thieves want to steal these things, youths don't want to give them up.

Result? You get injured over a piece of property worth $150 to $350. If someone has a knife to your back, use your common sense and just give it to them. Get details and call the police and let them deal with it. But don't be a dumbass and confront them.

118th Pyramid found

You know, I've always just assumed that they already found all the pyramids that exist.

I mean, look at the famous Great Pyramid of Giza: it's massive. So how's it possible not to find them all when they can be seen from satellites from space (I think. Google Earth could anyways).

Turns out not all pyramids are that large. The one they recently discovered near Cairo was 5 meters high, but estimated to be 14 meters high before.