Miscellaneous

Steve Jobs reportedly had a liver transplant according to the Wall Street Journal. It would be interesting to see how Wall Street responds to this piece of news on Monday. Personally I hope the stock price continues its upward trajectory.

Iran is still embroiled in social unrest as the election is seen to be rigged by the incumbent. Neither the supreme leader nor the security force can convince people to stay home and be good citizens. People are taking it to the streets. Meanwhile twitter is claiming much of the credit or receiving accolades from the mainstream media, in facilitating information outflow from Iran. Twitterati are going to pat themselves in the back for promoting freedom of speech and democracy.

One piece of good news from last week was two journalists Tahir Ludin and David Rohde were able to escape from the Taliban in Afghanistan after being held captive for some seven months. It's a triumph of the human courage and spirit. What's going on with the two US journalists held in North Korea? I hope somebody is doing something to secure their safe return.