Each time a year closes, most of us take time to look back at the dozen months or 52 weeks that passed us by. While some of us believe that this is an exercise in futility, a mere waste of time, the rest of us consider this activity an essential year-end ritual.

While there is nothing more that we can do to change what had been done—lies told cannot be untold, hurting words can no longer be unsaid, mistakes and indiscretions cannot be undone no matter how hard we would like to try—we can take comfort from knowing that we will have another chance once the new year comes.

Nobody is encouraging anybody to do foolish things that are bound to be cause for regrets and remorse later, but isn’t it comforting to know that each year, we all have another fresh start?

Spanish Wind

A couple of weeks ago, according to an Agence-France Press story, wind power “supplied a record 43 percent of all electricity demand in Spain.” Monday saw the country’s wind farms generating some 9,253 megawatts.

Earlier this year, the wind power industry set a previous record of 40.8 percent one stormy day in March.

Spain is one of the top three European Union countries in terms of wind power generation. Still wondering why our politicians never run out of hot air?
OLED Phone

The FPD International 2008 technology trade show in Japan saw Samsung introducing a mobile phone that opens like a book to unveil a large OLED screen. When unfurled, the 5-inch OLED screen turns the mobile phone into a virtual portable media player.

The OLED screen’s flexibility allows the phone’s display system to open and fold seamlessly.

Toshiba’s 16GB microSDHC

Toshiba recently launched a 16GB microSDHC card, currently the largest of its kind in the market in terms of storage capacity. Also, the company announced 8GB and 16GB SDHC cards with fast read and write rates.

Toshiba seems serious in becoming king of the market for small but terribly gluttonous cards.

Nintendo Wins Anew

After winning the game console wars, Nintendo has set its sights on the handheld game platform market. Results of a market survey conducted by Ascii Media Works, meanwhile, revealed that the maker of the bestselling Wii console has sold about 543,000 units of the DSi portable game consoles in Japan since its November 1 release.

Nintendo plans to launch the DSi overseas in 2009.

That’s all for the meantime, folks. Join us again next time as we keep on watching IT.