Gone were the days where television used to have good contents. When Astro, had TechTV on, I thought that they had made a channel with shows tailored specifically to me.

Then the G4/TechTV merger / acquisition thing happened and it all when downhill afterwords. The channel is no longer on Astro. I haven’t watch much of anything from Astro ever since then. I got all I need on the Internet thanks to media companies like Revision3 and others.

Revision3 is one of the few media companies that truly gets it. Born from the internet, designed to cater for the internet crowd, an ever growing on-demand generation. Revision3 is not YouTube, it is an actual TV network, producing its own original broadcast quality shows made for the web.

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Robots, this will be a regular topic here. Hollywood has made it obvious that robots will one day take over the world. They (the robots) will be all friendly, cute and helpful at first before they initiate their master plan of world domination and kill us all.

Anyway, this cute little robot called ApriPoko developed by folks at Toshiba is a talking robot that also functions as a voice-operated universal remote control for multiple home appliances. It is a prototype and still in development and testing phase.

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Last Saturday music lovers gathered at the Polo Pavilion Bukit Kiara Equestrian and Country Resort for a 12 hours of fun filled music festival. Sunburst KL 08 Music Festival featured over 26 artists span over 4 stages, 2 each side of the field and both of them are running simultaneously.

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Tomorrow I’ll be going to the Sunburst KL 08 Music Festival at Bukit Kiara. Being a geek, I’ll be twittering and tumbleloging live from the event. Follow my tweets and check out my tumblelog for live updates from the event.

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Nine Inch Nails is doing what artists in the music industry should be doing as their distribution model for years. Nine Inch Nails are one of the few music artists comfortable being on the Internet. Most music artists and their record label companies generally fears the Internet and have being fighting a crusade against it being a distribution medium.

Trent Reznor, the person most people blamed for the web shenanigans Nine Inch Nails have being causing on the Internet lately, have been vocal about his thoughts on record companies and their relationship with musicians. He has been experimenting with alternative methods of getting Nine Inch Nails’ music out directly to its fans, most of the time it involved the use of the Internet.

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