Google Chrome . . . so shiny!

I’m a bit of a Google addict. It’s true. I use Google Reader, Gmail, Google search, Google Calendar, this blog. I don’t do a lot of writing (as evidenced by the lack of updates here. :-P) but I do also use Google Docs on occasion. Not for my blogs ironically. I’m typing this in Windows Live Writer. Pretty damn slick I must say. Anyway back on topic . . .

My main and default web browser is currently Google Chrome. I just like it! It’s hard to explain why. I think I just got so used to my cluttered up Firefox that the speed and simplicity of Chrome, the idea of one tab not bringing down the entire browser and it’s newness was just too enticing. I also love trying out new stuff so how could I possibly resist this?? I downloaded it the day it came out and I haven’t gone back to Firefox since, except for a few particular websites. *ahem* I like living on the edge too and have it set on the Dev Channel so I get all the latest, possibly unstable, weekly updates.

Like so many others before me have lamented though . . . I REALLY miss extensions. My Firefox has over 60 installed. Not including Greasemonkey scripts. Some I miss more than others of course. Some only get used occasionally. Some you forget are even there because they just become part of the browser. And I have managed to live with out all of them for the last four months.

Being on the Chrome Dev Channel I do have the option now of enabling experimental greasemonkey script support. I tried it briefly and couldn’t get it to work so I’ll just wait until it’s a little further along.

Earlier I mentioned on twitter that Chrome had crashed. This actually doesn’t happen very often. The people working on Chrome/Chromium are pretty freakin good at what they do. :-D Anyway @TechFrog mentioned that he relies on a few excellent Firefox extensions so he’s not sure if he’ll switch once it’s out on a Mac. This got me thinking . . . which extensions do I really miss? I mean really! Hmm . . . LIST TIME!

• Adblock Plus 1.0.1
• Better Flickr 0.3
• Better GCal 0.3
• Better Gmail 2 0.7.2
• Better GReader 0.5.2
• Boost for Facebook 9.0.18
• Converter 0.7.1
• Cooliris 1.9.1
• CustomizeGoogle 0.76
• Download Statusbar 0.9.6.3
• DownloadHelper 4.0.2
• DownThemAll! 1.1.0
• dragdropupload 1.6.8
• Facebook Toolbar 1.2.1
• FoxyTunes 3.0.4.1
• Gmail Manager 0.5.5
• Google Reader Notifier 0.60
• Googlepedia 0.5.6
• Greasemonkey 0.8.20080609.0
• Image Toolbar 0.6.5
• Image Zoom 0.3.1
• Linkification 1.3.5
• MR Tech Toolkit 6.0.3.1
• MultirowBookmarksToolbar 3.5
• Tab Mix Plus 0.3.7pre.080721
• TwittyTunes 0.5.4.1
• Update Notifier 0.1.5.4

Wow . . . more than I expected. :-P I could probably trim the list down further, but this is all stuff I used or found useful regularly. This still doesn’t include any of the Greasemonkey scripts I have in Firefox. *lol* So hopefully, one day, when the Chrome extension system is up and running and people start hacking out extensions maybe this wishlist will get fulfilled. :-)

Alright, my brain hurts from all this writing. Until next time!

Later folks. ;-)

Weekly Linkage Roundup . . . or not.

I just realized I'm way too lazy to compile all the cool stuff I've posted to my facebook again on here. :-P So yeah, probably not going to happen. Sorry to anybody reading this. Which is probably no one. *lol*

Some other news . . . I bought Star Wars: Force Unleashed . . . Holy. Fucking. Crap! I played it for a few hours on Thursday night and from 6pm until almost midnight on Friday night. *lol* I am torn between wanting to tell you about all the awesome stuff and not wanting to ruin anything for you in case you play it! I'll say this . . .

You start the game by playing as Darth Vader. *lol* All the worlds are full and beautiful and just like you would imagine them I think, and the music is just as epic. I'm currently running around in the freaking Death Star! The first one, as it's being built. Mind boggling. Oh . . . and yeah I pulled a Star Destroyer out of the sky. *lol* It was hard, but I finally got it. You also get to fight Rancors! Painted ones!

The game is pretty combo heavy (eg. A+A+B+B+X buttons). As for the story itself . . . I'm going to go out on a limb here and say the story is better and all three of the prequals! Not even joking. I would love to see this as a feature film or two. It's a single player game only unfortunately. I would love to see some player vs player. :-D

I also bought Burnout Paradise which I am loving. :-D Cars go sooo faaaaaast! Unfortunately I started having issues with my 360. I'm hoping it's not a prelude to a RROD. :-(

If anyone wants to add me on Xbox Live my gamertag is sn0wb3ar

Testing BlogWriter Lite

So I downloaded this free app called BlogWriter Lite and I am currently typing this on my iPod touch. Pretty damn cool I think.

This will be awesome for writing when the mood strikes me, even if i'm not at home. It's not really a huge deal to me if entries can't be uploaded until I get home or find some open wifi.

Okay that should be enough of a test! *lol*

*presses send*

I had an idear . . .

After I posted that last entry I had a flash of inspiration . . . or something. It occurred to me that I could easily post my favorite videos from around the web every week . . . I mean I share them on facebook but they kinda get lost in the news feed and some people never even see them.

Although if I post them here it's pretty much guaranteed no one will wee them. :-P But that's not the point. Sharing the videos will give me an excuse to make a post, which will probably lead me into writing something to go along with it in the process.

So . . . we shall see. Do I do a weekly post with all the vids or break them into individual posts? Might not just be vids either. Might be pics too.

I might figure this blogging stuff out yet.

Deep Thoughts and Things to Ponder

Long time no post eh? *listening to the crickets* Yeah okay, anyway . . . I found these in a friend's facebook note. They are all uncredited but some of them do sound familiar. There were quite a few but I picked out just the ones that really hit me. My own comments in [ ] below.

"It's a small world. You gotta use your elbows a lot."

[No kidding, especially during Christmas. *facepalm*]

"If you let someone kick you once, they'll kick you once. If you let someone kick you three times, they'll kick you three times, but if you reach out and break their foot, ain't no more kickin' gonna be goin' on."

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."

[I consider myself more Agnostic than Atheist, but the sentiment still applies I think.]

"Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead."

[Heh. This one just tickles my weird sense of humor. ^_^]

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."

[I can think of quite a few different three word combinations but we won't go into them. :-P]

"Every man dies, not every man really lives."

[This is actually a quote from William Wallace in Braveheart. Gods I love that movie . . .]

"I think a lot of people look at me and say that I'm weird. But what I've noticed - and this used to worry me a lot when I was little - is that I don't know one normal person. I've never met one, actually. We all have our special, odd little things, and we should be proud of that"

[I know I'm weird. *lol* And most of my friends are weird in varying degrees.]

"It's the friends you can call at 4am that matter."

[Couldn't agree more.]

"Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right."

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

[I don't really mind the rain as long as it isn't all freakin day.]

"We will either find a way, or make one."

[I can't help but picture marines hacking through the jungle with machetes . . . ]

"There comes a time in everyone's life when you have to go forth and be vicious!"

[Grrrr baby!]

"A cause is not worth dying for. You only get one life, but you can pick up another five causes on any street corner."

[Kinda agree . . . kinda disagree.]

"Just when you're getting a grip on things, fate comes along and jumps on your fingers."

[Stupid fate. *shakes fist*]

"You don't make a soul strong by walking all over it. You make dents."

[Not exactly sure what effect dents have on a soul but it was an interesting qoute.]

"If you haven't got respect, you haven't got anything."

[Sounds like something a gang banger would say if you only take it a face value. There is respect for yourself, having respect for others and earning respect from others. They are all important.]

"The path to wisdom begins with a single step. Where people go wrong is ignoring the thousands of other steps that come after it. They decide to become one with the universe and forget to do the things that would give it any kind of meaning."

"The phrase 'someone ought to do something' is not, in itself, helpful. People never add 'and that someone is me'."

"Don't sweat the small stuff, and remember, it's all small stuff."

"Belief is a powerful thing."

[No kidding. Just look at how the churches have cashed in on it. :-P]

"You make your own timing. You only miss the moment if you don't seize it. Because you're too afraid of what might happen if you do."

"Feel the fear, and do it anyway."

[Easier said than done eh?]

"If you don't understand my silence, you can't understand my words."

[ . . . . . ]

"Never apologize, never explain."

[Sounds good in theory but really . . . not exactly practical.]

"It's not too late. One day, it will be."

"This is a fork in the road. It's just a choice. We can say, this is too hard, and quit. Or we can say, this is the bad part, the good part is just around the corner. We can decide we're going to make it."

"Better to die standing than to live on your knees."

[Well . . . for Men anyway. ;-) ]

"Yesterday is history. Tomarrow's a mystery. Today I'm still alive."

[*singing Still Alive by Jonathon Coulton*]

"No-one's going to give you power. You have to take it."

"Life is struggling to do the impossible - to succeed . . . or die, knowing you have tried."

[Seems rather dramatic doesn't it? :-P]

"Never refuse an experience."

"Doing the right thing can never be measured by the outcome of events. Judge yourself by what you do, not what happens afterwards."

"In the course of a lifetime, what does it matter?"

[It really doesn't.]

"Believe in fate, but lean well forward so she can see you."

"Just go in there and remember - you're fantastic."

"Avoid unpleasantness."

"What do you want to remember?"

"No fear, no limits."

"Show me a person who doesn't have a past and I'll show you a boring bastard."

Yeah so . . . uhhh . . .

This whole blogging thing . . . not going so well. :-P I've tried this a few times now and I do it for a few weeks and then it kinds peters out. I have a live journal I don't use much any more either.

I guess I kinda feel like all the personal stuff I could blog about . . . is too personal (I'm actually pretty private that way :-P ) and would just sound like a bunch of whining and complaining. And all the cool interesting news I could blog about I have usually read on other blogs or websites and is usually on my google reader shared page, which is linked here anyway on the side. So what exactly am I supposed to be blogging about??

Plus I do use twitter and have facebook so there are micro blogging things that take up most of the rest of the topics I could blog about with status updates and tweets.

So yeah, I guess I just suck at blogging. :-( Which is strangely disappointing.

Hell I doubt if anyone is even reading this anyway. :-P

But if you are, have a great weekend.

Anonymous Goes all Iwo Jima on Scientology. ^_^

This is fucking EPIC! *LOL* Oh man. I actually did LOL when I saw this. Click on the thumbnail to see the original flickr page. Photo courtesy of "anmoyunos".

Invasion: The Battle for Earth

Invasion: The Battle for Earth is an epic six-part alien invasion mash up by Dr. E. Bola, aka luckasc on YouTube.

Okay so this is probably the f**king coolest thing I have ever seen on the internet! EVER! I seriously sat here and watched all 5 parts of it with my mouth hanging open!

Go and watch them. Go! GO NOW! The link is to the /film Video Of The Day article with all the vids in one post, but all the videos are on YouTube if you prefer watching there.

Can't wait for part six!! WOO! 0_o

VOTD: Invasion: The Battle for Earth | /Film