Hot.

After experiencing 37 degrees almost everyday while I was in Nanjing, suddenly enduring temperatures like 34 degrees in Hong Kong doesn’t seem that unbearable. That said, I’m still a winter animal.

I spent US$9.95 yesterday to get the iPhone 2.0 firmware for my iPod Touch and to be honest, it was one of the best deals that I’ve made for this whole year so far! Now my iPod Touch is literally an iPhone that does not have the capabilities of a mobile phone – almost everything you can do with an iPhone can be done on my iPod Touch! This firmware upgrade was brilliant as now I can run iPhone applications. Yesterday while I was playing with the Google Maps on the gadget, it was able to accurately pinpoint to the location that I was in (which prompted me to wonder if there is a GPS device inside the thing), and even calculated the fastest route for me to get home from school (a 9.5 kilometer trip that should take only 13 minutes by car) – just like the Google Maps on the desktop! And this firmware upgrade also (finally) included handwriting input support for both Traditional and Simplified Chinese, and its accuracy for identifying the characters are actually pretty good.

A nice gadget made even nicer by Apple. Now I don’t think I need to buy the HTC Touch Diamond already. W00t!