Boy sues mother for not buying him a PC
Wednesday 10 November 2004
AN ELEVEN year old boy in central China has taken his mum to court for breaking a promise to buy him a PC if he did well at school.
According to the China Daily, the mother told her son that if he ate all his greens and scored average marks of more than 94 per cent for his school work, she would buy him a computer.
However, when the kid did so well that he managed to get this grade, she told him that she couldn't afford it.
Unfortunately, the boy, from Xingzheng, Henan province, had also been helping his parents run their business and knew a thing or two about hiring briefs when people welch on deals.
So he went to court asking a judge to make his mother honour the verbal agreement.
However, it all had a happy ending apparently the judge reconciled the mother and son, although we don't know if he ever got his computer or not. What a heart warming yarn it all is. If true.
XBox builds in workout so you can cope with the real world
Wednesday 10 November 2004
A PERSONAL TRAINER programme targeting unfit geeks who have spent far too long in front of their XBoxes has hit the shops.
Peddled as a video game to fool the couch potatos, Yourself!Fitness lets you set up a personal profile and walk through a fitness evaluation.
Then a virtual personal trainer will create a customised health and fitness plan that will have you kicking sand in the faces of muscle bound he-men at the beach.
You can tell it is marketed at geeks rather that geekettes because the personal trainer is a nice looking girl who is unlikely to want to talk to people who spend too long in front of an XBox but, if she ever did, they would certainly listen.
Maya can change your workouts based on your progress and your commitment to the program. Although we suspect that if they had a virtual strip version of the game it would create some of the fittest geeks in the galaxy
