04 August 2006 Friday

Google Talk does voicemail

Get yourself the latest version of Google Talk (currently 1.0.95) from File Hippo and download the Latest Version (upper right corner).

01 August 2006 Tuesday

Song of the day

Song of the day: The Spill Canvas – The Tide

Heaven’s not a place that you go when you die — it’s that moment in life when you actually feel alive..

Excellent song.. been a while since I’ve heard it.. grabbed me easily again when it came up on random; first time I fully paid attention to it.. Listen to the whole story!

26 July 2006 Wednesday

My new love

My mother went out to visit a friend in California last week.. She came back with lots of new things.. and introduced me to a new very good friend…

07 July 2006 Friday

hahahahahaha

awesome scene…

just started watching the show ReGenesis, since it’s been so highly recommended....

and… hahahaha…. they’re dealing with this…(LOL…seriously) avian flu epidemic or something…(sorry…that’s really not the funny part) where the chickens have been infected and they’re not sure how far it spreads…

21 June 2006 Wednesday

Ooh. found a copy of Tokyo Drift with Chinese AND Bahasa Melayu subtitles (Malaysian).
Now I can transcribe the good scene.

GOSH DARNIT they lost a chunk of that scene!!! You have GOT to be kidding me. They killed the whole only section I wanted.
oy.

20 June 2006 Tuesday

Opera 9 is out.

12 June 2006 Monday

Hoobastank

and Staind's 'Mudshovel'

I actually try not to like them and I don’t listen to them much. But for better or worse, I do like them.

13 April 2006 Thursday

Google Calendar

yay! Google calendar is available now.

of all days to leave my spiral calendar at home…
i’ll play this eve… or after taxes are done.

... added: 11:27am~ first day = popular and busy = slow
calendar program’s moving really slow. must be serious server load from everyone jumping on it for the first time.. and probably increasingly throughout the day. google’s usually good about beating this by staggering access to their new programs. usually they overcompensate for everything. seemingly not on this one..

...really slow. changes are seemingly not taking effect, and then some (not all) are suddenly showing up several minutes later.

not really surprising or corrigible, considering the circumstances: certain unbelievable server load due to overwhleming interest in the new application. but i am still a lil surprised that Google, so good at overcomping for most everything, did not have checks in place or crazy server capacity already installed.

... added: 2:21pm~ Google apps
the new Google Calendar applciation is pretty thorough.. what I’d expect from a google app.. normally fast (I trust), colorful (i’d prefer more color options though. I could so run out of the existing ones. and maybe icons would make good markers. surely that’s in the works), and pretty easily editable. can’t get a thorough feel for it until the server/system is working optimally. but I’m confident that Gcalendar and I will be good friends.

Unrelated to the calendar, the ONE thing I can think of in which Google has ever failed me and thoroughly disappointed me is that they built a lovely instant messaging client (Google Talk) to integrate into their lovely existing web-based email (Gmail), and they even finally added conversation logging that tied the two apps together seamlessly, BUT it still remains that when I use the Gtalk app to send a message to a friend who is offline, it sends me a lousy “User is offline; didn’t receive your message” response, rather than simply offering up the quick option to automatically send messages to their gmail/email (without opening up a browser window or email client). ICQ figured out offline instant messaging logging YEARS ago when all of this was pretty new. how come everyone else, including Google, is so slow to get with it?

29 March 2006 Wednesday

What Opera has over Firefox: search within forms.

I’ve been using Firefox quite exclusively for the past monthish.

Before that I had always gravitated back to Opera, despite all of firefox’s fun extensions, etc.

Firefox was not as polished, resource capable/efficient (I typically open dozens and dozens of pages/tabs at a time, and actually would often memory leak and crash, whereas Opera was more stable for me. Firefox was also slowing up a lot and being very sluggish with loading webpages—but I recognized that this was more or less unique to my computer setup, and was not the norm for other users.

But I couldn’t figure out a way to get a BlinkList bookmarklet into Opera (current version 8.52), so I’ve been using Firefox (current verison 1.5.0.1) lately and have been quite happy.

But now I’m about to start doing web development again, and the key firefox shortcoming reemerges: Firefox does not have the capability to search within forms.

For example, while I’m typing this up in my Textpattern admin panel, I can run a search for anything in this form that I’m typing in…because I’m working in Opera. And when I am searching for a piece of php code or a selector in my stylesheet (all in webforms), I can find what I’m looking for if I’m working in Opera. In firefox, you can search all over the page, BUT it won’t return anything that’s inside a form. I don’t understand why. I’ve looked for an extension or something that’s fixed this problem, but so far no luck. Does anyone out there have a solution that I’ve just completely missed?

22 March 2006 Wednesday

My favorite Firefox and Thunderbird Extensions

I was upgrading my mother’s firefox and thunderbird, and trying to add useful extensions for her… My old list on here is wayyy outdated, so here comes a new one for future reference.