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I am now part of the official and historical statistic. I am one of the people who is affected in this H1N1 pandemic.
But to be precise, not even my doctor knew for sure if I got H1N1 because labs have stopped testing and confirming H1N1 cases. Doctors are now treating all flu cases as if they are H1N1, hence my name goes into the record.
In order to qualify to take part in this event, I had to endure 3 feverish days and nights plus non-stop headache that has lasted for over 48 hours. And now that I have made it to the record, I have to continue to suffer through days of coughing and runny nose, all of which happen weeks before a product launch; and days before my business trip.
This morning, a killer headache woke me up and kept my eyes open. At the end, I had no choice but to come down to the kitchen and took some Advil. Under my doctor's instruction, I have been taking both Advil and Tylenol to the maximum daily dosage in order to control the headache, which made me feel like I was a pain-killer junkie or something.
Who cares, I am now quietly waiting for those two blue gel caps to do it job and take the edge off the headache.
Nope, no deep thoughts today. I think between headache and fever, most of my brain cells are dead already. All I want to do is to go back to sleep, if my body lets me...
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Monday, November 2, 2009
Too dumb, or too smart for our own good?
I have been following some IT news related to technology patents lawsuits. For your information, reading about the way patents are being awarded and some of patents that were granted are actually great sources of entertainment, it actually borderline on being comical.
But it is not the point of this blog.
The point is, all too often I would come across a comment expressed by people in the online community, “the existing patent law is faulty because most technologies are highly complicated, how can you trust the outcome of a multi-million law suit to a bunch of guys who are too stupid to weasel out of the jury duty?”
I am really not a big fan of that idea that people are dumb if they get selected for the juror duty. What happen to fulfilling ones civil duties? I remember the movie “Runaway Jury”, Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman were experts in juror selection and manipulation, and the same ill idea was spoken by Gene’s character earlier on in the movie.
I would approach it from another angle. God forbid if one day you are the defendant or the plaintiff, do you rather have someone knowledgeable and logical to be in the juror box? In another word, do you want someone like yourself to be sitting in that box? If you do, then I will suggest that you stop dodging this responsibility.
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
But it is not the point of this blog.
The point is, all too often I would come across a comment expressed by people in the online community, “the existing patent law is faulty because most technologies are highly complicated, how can you trust the outcome of a multi-million law suit to a bunch of guys who are too stupid to weasel out of the jury duty?”
I am really not a big fan of that idea that people are dumb if they get selected for the juror duty. What happen to fulfilling ones civil duties? I remember the movie “Runaway Jury”, Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman were experts in juror selection and manipulation, and the same ill idea was spoken by Gene’s character earlier on in the movie.I would approach it from another angle. God forbid if one day you are the defendant or the plaintiff, do you rather have someone knowledgeable and logical to be in the juror box? In another word, do you want someone like yourself to be sitting in that box? If you do, then I will suggest that you stop dodging this responsibility.
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."