Nerdtalk

Google assploded the blogosphere yesterday with the slip up announcement of Google Chrome, their very own webkit and V8 powered web browser. Today they released the beta version and being a sucker for anything new I had to give it a whirl. I decided to use Chrome for the whole day to see if it really is worth all the fuss.

I have to say, I’m very impressed with it so far. It is clearly a beta, there are plenty of rough edges and more than a few sites have problems with the new Javascript engine (although no crashes so far, and I don’t think there are any memory leaks), but there is a lot to like and clearly a lot of potential in Chrome.

Never knew about the precursor to videogames til now. Game|Life’s latest video features the Musee Mecanique, a place with a large collection of mechanically operated games and thingamabobs:

Where'd my 4 months go? Ugh, really not good at blogging. I've been real busy for the year, and once I get this entry out the door I hope to get in here a little more (hahahah, yeah, right). I should also be writing about a few of my Drupal related projects, it's weird, last year I ached for some Drupal action, then when 2008 starts I get 3 projects all at once. Being busy is never really an excuse though, so to make up for lost time, here's a trailer for ONECHANBARA. WTH is ONECHANBARA?

Bikini. Samurai. Girls. Versus. Zombies. Nuff said!

Nuff said indeed.

Finally, an accurate guide on understanding nerd behavior, it's creepy how a lot of what the article says describes me. Here's a snip :

Your nerd loves toys and puzzles. The joy your nerd finds in his project is one of problem solving and discovery. As each part of the project is completed, your nerd receives an adrenaline rush that we’re going to call The High. Every profession has this — the moment when you’ve moved significantly closer to done. In many jobs, it’s easy to discern when progress is being made: “Look, now we have a door”. But in nerds’ bit-based work, progress is measured mentally and invisibly in code, algorithms, efficiency, and small mental victories that don’t exist in a world of atoms.

And there's plenty more here.