Google Chrome

Google released their own web browser yesterday, called Google Chrome.  I downloaded it and so far I like it.  It's fast and simple.  I like the minimalistic approach.  Scrolling with my laptop's touchpad seems to be broken.  I can scroll down, but not up.  Seems to work fine with a mouse scroll-wheel.   I don't really like the new start page.  It shows your recent bookmarks, most visited sites, and history.  I prefer iGoogle as a start page, because I have news, email, and my feeds there.  They just have to add plugins and themes and then it'll be the best browser out there.

I just realized there's no RSS feed detection thing.  Why did they leave that out?

Beijing Summer Olympics 2008 over

Just finished watching the gold medal game for basketball. Spain put up a good fight and so did Argentina in the last game.

The opening ceremony was freakin' beautiful. I watched it stream live online since NBC had a ten hour tape delay, so they could put in commercials and shit. Then I downloaded an HD copy of it later. It was revealed that the firework footsteps leading to the bird's nest stadium were CG. I couldn't care less. It was 5 seconds of CG fireworks... so what? Not like rest of the fireworks were faked. People freaking out over nothing. The one thing that was kind of messed up was the lip-syncing in the opening ceremony. Apparently, they used a more cute little girl to lip-sync, because the real singer had bad teeth. Yeah, kinda messed up.

I didn't watch everything on TV, but I did pay attention to some swimming, gymnastics, basketball, volleyball and track. That Phelps dude pulled achieved 8 golds, which is amazing. But in the end... it's just swimming. Kitajima of Japan won a few races. I gotta cheer for Japan. Thems my peoples. He later said that he used the Nintendo Wii to train mentally for competition. What a great plug for that crappy system.

I watched gymnastics, because Nastia Liukin is hot. (Thank God for Blogger's autosave. My browser just crashed.) And who could forget this moment. I wonder what she was thinking in the back, LOL. There are some hot chicks in indoor volleyball, too.

Then a guy named Usain Bolt started getting some media attention. Never heard of him, but now I have through all his showboating. But he has the right to, since he broke a few running records.

Man, they did not air any taekwondo on TV at all, but at least it was all available online. None of the famous Lopez family won gold, but they did earn medals. I had to cheer for Korea, since it's their sport. And holy crap at Cuba. He kicks a ref, because he got a DQ for taking a too long injury timeout. Banned for life. What an asshole, but very exciting! I did notice some rule changes and crappy score judging this year compared to Athens in 2004. Out of bounds seemed to be a problem this year and they would get a penalty for going out. They had a lot more room in Athens. About scoring; the WTF said they'd try to come up with an electronic scoring system some how. I'd like to see what they'll come up with. Kinda makes me want to get back into TKD. I'm a blackbelt, but been out of it for years. Overall, TKD was less exciting this year, because there were no knock outs like this.

I also tried to watch some Judo, but when I did... nothing happened. It was a snooze.

In other news, China jails pro-Tibetan protesters as usual.

Olympics

Damn. I'm excited for the Summer Olympics. There's always something to watch on TV with the games going on. During the '96 Summer Olympics, I would fall asleep watching volleyball or some lame event that was happening. I also remember when that pipe bomb went off. They kept on replaying the same footage over and over of the hurt people.

Well, I'll be cheering for Japan, because I love Japan, and I guess the USA. I wanna see the tae kwon do event, because I have never actually gotten to see it happen live. I watched clips on YouTube and I noticed that they all suck at blocking! WTF! I think judo might be exciting to watch. It'll be easier to catch the events you wanna see this time, because Microsoft and NBC will be streaming them all live online.

Oh, and I saw Wall-E, and EVE's voice is sooo cute!

2008 Academy Awards

The movies nominated for best motion picture of the year are: Atonement, Juno, Michael Clayton, No Country for Old Men, and There Will Be Blood. I've seen all of them through except There Will Be Blood, and here's what I have to say:

Atonement: Boring.
Juno: Good movie, but hell no for best motion picture of the year.
Michael Clayton: I enjoyed this one, but I don't think it'll win.
No Country for Old Men: This is my pick for best motion picture of the year.
There Will Be Blood: Only seen the first 45 minutes of it, and it didn't really capture me.

Sunshine is another film I really liked. The music was so great in it. Really added a great atmosphere to the film. Wish they would release the soundtrack to it, but there's some kind of conflict keeping it from coming out. John Murphy is the composer of the score and I really dug his other works on the 28 days and weeks movies.

OK, enjoy the oscars! See ya.

My old site

I bought my old domain name again, souks.ws. This time I registered through godaddy. My last registrar overpriced so much, it's should be crime. I don't even know what I'm going to do with it. Maybe just host my pictures. I thought about hosting my own blog there, but I'm too used to these other services, and I really like the community of livejournal.

My new year's resolution is...

To blog more. And draw more. I'll post it here.

The main point of this blog is to post my drawings and hopefully see improvement as time passes and as my posts add up. Receiving some feedback would also be nice, so don't be afraid to tell me I suck, but also tell me how I can improve.