I have no clue why this was so difficult to find and then why I have to register in order to download it, but for my own future reference or in case someone else needs it this is how you can read Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts on the blackberry.

This is for a Blackberry Curve 8310 for AT&T.

BlackBerry Handheld Software v4.2.2.312 (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean)

Package Version: 4.2.2.312
Consisting of:
Applications: 4.2.2.170
Software Platform: 2.5.0.30
File name: 8310CJK_PBr4.2.2_rel312_PL2.5.0.30_A4.2.2.170_AT&T .exe
File size: 75.12MB
Note: The Software Platform and Applications version numbers can be found under Options-About screen on the handheld.

Download from this link:

https://www.blackberry.com/Downloads/entry.do?code=577BCC914F9E55D5E4E4F82F9F00E7D4

Will post in the private sector of RazorNylon later.

According to BookofJoe:

“It may look like a torch, but the FlashPoint ES is actually a pocket-size mini-microwave ‘Exo-Stove.’ Point, twist to ‘focus,’ click ‘GO’ and within seconds your tea/soup/corn on the cob is zapped and piping hot. Invaluable to explorers, mountaineers and round-the-world yachtists, and a boon in the office when your coffee goes tepid. Complete with rechargeable battery, combination safety lock and lanyard attachment.”

[via James Ferguson's "Pat Pending" feature in today's Financial Times "How To Spend It" magazine]

There are a lot of skeptics and people screaming that this is a hoax.  While there main basis is on how microwave technology works, and that there is no supporting evidence on this article that it even exists, I think they are jumping to conclusions.

There is a flashlight that is capable of setting paper on fire its so bright.  In fact it can only be used for 3 minutes at a time for fear of burning your hand.  Its called “Wicked Lasers Torch“.  You can see a video of it actually setting paper on fire there too.

While claiming that this is a “mini-microwave” I don’t believe that it can be completely interprited as using microwave technology but as an euphonism to reference its ability.  At the very least I hope its real as it would be very useful while out in the field.  Although I don’t see the need for the lanyard.

After saying to myself for years that I will never own anything made by apple, I finnally realized that I am serriously out of touch without an iPod. My new car even has an iPod mount in the center counsole.

I probably should of waited until christmas but this field problem is boring the hell out of me. Plus I just finished paying off the wedding rings, and what I am getting from Google for advertisements now is rediculious. So with all of that it feels like a large raise and have the ability to spoil myself like this.

I never knew that so many things came with an iPod. I thought music and video was it…, didn’t know anything about games or podcasts or anything like that. Now I am spending most of my free time trying to fill this thing with extra shit so I am not as bored in the field. I have already picked up two new TV shows which is not a good thing. Prison Break and Numbers.

My and the wife got new phones this weekend. The battery in hers wouldn’t stay charged for more than a couple hours so we have been talking about buying her one for a while. Then my phone, well after falling off the fourth floor railing there wasn’t much left of it. So seeing I had no phone at all and she needed one we decided to buy matching ones at the same time.

She wanted the pink Motorola RAZR, which isn’t a bad phone but not much of a pink fan myself I opted for the black.

The phone doesn’t come with as much special things as my last phone, but its about half the size so that makes up for it in my opinion. It does come with an MP3 player and camera plus some other small bells and whistles but nothing special. The one thing that I really like is the software you can download from thier website. Let me put it this way, when I installed it I got this message.

It imports all my contacts, schedule, to-do list, and everything else from Microsoft Outlook. Plus it gives me the option to save all my text messages incoming and outgoing. The MP3 is a different program called Melon, which if you watch Korean TV you have seen the commercial for it. Its all in Korean so its going to take some time to figure out, but with my wifes help I should be able to get some MP3’s I want on it.

In order to download anything from either of the sites, including the phone software, you need to create an account. Which in Korea means you have to use your “Secret Number” which is the equalivant to the U.S.’s Social Security number. So if your in Korea and already have a RAZR phone or are thinking about getting one, you might want this software. It comes with all the cables and everything else with the phone, but if you don’t have a Korean “Secret number” which odds are you don’t download the software here.

Motorola_PCSync_MS500_ENG_v2_4_17.exe

I can remeber when my father bought a VCR. He paid about $2,000 for it and was the first one out of anyone we know that had one. It was like having a porsche in the driveway with my friends. It was so much better watching a movie that we could never see cause it was on past our bed time over at my house than pretending that some sticks were swords or see how many bricks high we could build the ramp for our bikes. (Yeah Dad, you sucked at hiding those video tapes of those R rated movies you recorded off HBO). I still have a VCR in my house, not the same one of course, but a VCR none-the-less. When I tell people this everyone responds with the same answer…, “WHY?”. It makes sense that technology evolves, and everyone wonders where we are going to go next…, then you have the people that are so burnt out from trying to invent something new they will just about invent anything just to market it. Here is one of those things.

Underwear. What’s so special about underwear? Nothing, except these have a built in MP3 player. And how many bones will these set you back? Don’t ask me, in fact don’t even bother asking Pl>y Underwear the manufacture that makes them cause they don’t know either. Above you can see the female version of the “iboxer”. There is a male version too but I didn’t really care to post a picture of a guy in his underwear here. Pl>y doesn’t really give any stats or any other product details besides the pictures so its really hard to say much about them. They are however a proud sponsor of “National Underwear Day” which will be taking place in Manhattan on August 9th this year for the fourth year. What is National Underwear Day? I don’t know, this is just getting too retard to write about anymore, but I am sure it will be something like a bunch of guys running around in thier underwear hoping to catch a glimpse of the 2 girls that showed up.