Hey!!! It's SHUTDOWN DAY tmr( 3 may 2008)!



It is obvious that without computers we would find our life extremely difficult, maybe even impossible. If they disappeared for just one day, would we be able to cope? Be part of one of the biggest global experiments ever to take place on the Internet. The idea behind Shutdown Day is to find out how many people can go without a computer for one whole day, and what will happen if we all participate!



Mission

Shutdown Day is a non-profit organization registered in the province of Quebec, Canada. Shutdown Day was founded with the sole purpose of spreading awareness about the pitfalls and dangers that lie in the excessive use of television, computers, and computing equipment like game boxes, cell phones, music players, online social websites, etc. that impinge on social space and interaction amongst our communities. Shutdown Day also aims to partner with other like-minded organizations in promoting sustainable development, especially in the area of social behavior relating to the effects modern technology. Shutdown Day is a Global Internet Experiment whose purpose is to get people to think about how their lives have changed with the increasing use of the home computer, and whether or not any good things are being lost because of this. The idea of Shutdown Day project is simple - just shutdown your computer for one whole day of the year and involve yourself in some other activities: outdoors, nature, sports, fun stuff with friends and family - whatever, just to remind yourself that there still exists a world outside your monitor screen.



History

Shutdown Day started off in early 2007, when Denis Bystrov, a computer programmer living in Montreal, Canada, realized that he spends too much time with his computer and wants one day to spend entirely with his family. Denis then teamed up with his friends Michael Taylor, a former trade floor occupant in stock markets in London, England and David Bridle, a part time film maker from Cardiff, Wales, to throw up a challenge on the Internet, through the website, called shutdownday.org The idea was simple: "Do you think you can stay away from your computers for at least 24 hours a day, and if yes, can you pledge to do so?" What began as an innocent question, fire-balled into a mammoth Internet chain reaction, drawing millions of viewers from across the world. Here is a summary of the results from the Shutdown Day 2007 campaign:
The Shutdown Day website received more than 1.6 million visitors in the one month of the campaign.
More than 65,000 people participated in the campaign by actually shutting down their computers for 24 hours on the 24th of March, 2007.
Shutdown Day promotional clip was broadcast on YouTube and received more than 1.1 million hits.
450,000 visitors signed up for country locator on Shutdown Day website.
The idea of Shutdown Day featured on more than 200,000 online forums discussions, and also in television interviews, and popular media, including Globe and Mail, CNN, Fox News and TV5. Later in 2007, as Denis was discussing the future of Shutdown Day with another friend, Ashutosh Rajekar, also a career software developer and first hand victim of excessive use of computer technology, he realized that both had some interesting ideas to share regarding the future direction of Shutdown Day. Eventually, both Denis and Ashutosh decided to team up to register as a non-profit organization in the province of Quebec. Now Denis and Ashutosh, assisted by a few close fiends and hundreds of volunteers from different countries, aim to make the Shutdown Day project a success, and help people realize that outside computer screen there is indeed a beautiful world to be enjoyed.

http://www.shutdownday.org/



Actually i think for a complete shutdown, please refrain from using all electronic devices( e.g. handphones, i-pods, psp, tv etc) Enjoy the nature for a day!!!

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Okay for a proper post now. A random someone just reminded me to blog about our outing today, which happens to be me treating him ice-cream at Island Creamery. Yay i know how to spell Island Creamery. Wangyi you should so read this! haha.

And now he says i can't niao him or else.... But i decide that i should just dao his threats. Hehe

So...

Before heading towards IC, he said he wanted to return a book to his junior. He claimed that he might not recognise his junior who's short. Guess what?! Turns out that his junior is taller than him!! I had a good laugh. =D LOL

Then at IC, we bought a tub of teh tarik. My very first island creamery ice-cream. =) But i forgot to take a picture of it=((.Never mind, there shall be next times.=P

Oh I must announce that
TAN YI RONG ALVIN can't eat ice cream properly without spilling ice cream on the floor, flicking ice cream over me and him and breaking the spoon. I seriously think he broke the spoon on purpose because he knew that he would break it later anyway. Anyway, the ice cream was yum yum at first, then yucks yucks in the end. I got so sick of it. I don't think i'll drink milk tea for a period of time. And that's saying something since i drink it every time i eat out.

And we had an intellectual discussion about me being man or girlish. It was a tough match. We came to a consensus that I'm boyish. Muahaha. I'm not girlish nor am i man. LOL

Once again, he requested me to send him to his bus stop. Seriously, i think i'm the guy and he's the girl la. But of course,being so intellectual, i had a better idea.* bulb lights up above head* Yup, i think my idea rocked. Win- win situation. =D

So tt ends our session of spoon breaking and ice cream flicking.

2 things i learnt today:

1. Loitering is against the school rules?
2. TAN YI RONG ALVIN is very very very lame. Gosh i'm sorry but i'm so tempted to tell everyone how lame you are.

Me: See how la.
Him: Deborah how?
Reaction: o.O

I'm so dead after this post