Word: birthdaying
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...wasn't so much the occasion, which was ostensibly AIBO's second birthday party. Nor was it the AIBO pet tricks contest I'd been drafted to help judge, though that was certainly amusing. No, the real reason AIBO became more of a viable mass-market proposition that day was a piece of software that will be released for the mechanical mutt this August. It's called AIBO Messenger, and it has the capacity to be a killer app - that all-important single piece of software that consumers desire so much they have to rush out and get the machine...
...Palmas security guard Eldrin Morales and R.J. Recio, 8, who left his father Luis behind. The gunships and troop carriers then moved in, picking off the snipers and pounding the two buildings. The surviving rebels appeared to relish the prospect of death. Remarking that the Prophet Muhammad's birthday was two weeks off, an Abu Sayyaf leader told TIME: "It's jihad time. And what better time? It will be a rare privilege to die on his birthday. Thanks to the Abu Sayyaf...
...really scared. She didn't know what was going on. She didn't think I was drinking. On my 15th birthday I was picked up by the cops on runaway charges and was sent to live with my Dad. I was pretty much loaded the entire time I lived there, and I realized later that my dad thought that me loaded was me sober. He didn't know me any different. Eventually I ended up in treatment, and was sober for almost a year. Then I took one sip of beer and my life fell apart instantly. Within 24 hours...
...wrote down the address, the time of a meeting, and didn't go. I started dating a drug dealer. That was the beginning of the end, and I realized I had to face up to my addiction. I was only a few months sober when I spent my 21st birthday in Ireland. They were having St Patrick's Day celebrations, delayed because of foot and mouth disease. The first thing I did was go to a meeting...
This is how it goes with technology. Every invention is accompanied by passionate claims for its sensational applications. What follows is an inevitable period of adjustment: How do I actually use this thing, anyway? A year or so ago, my wife gave me a Palm Pilot for my birthday. Not knowing what to do with it, I put it in the charger. After two months, and with visibly hurt feelings, she finally asked me about it: "I think it's probably charged by now," she said. Ha, ha. I guiltily forced myself to use it. As it turned...