Flock At A Glance

Posted on June 19, 2006
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Flock, the mozilla-based web browser has released its beta version. You can read their stories about their ups and downs on making this application.

Yeah I know that you think I’m so late and this release was an old-school news, but I’ve got my reasons, total non-stop tasks has made these past few days a very busy day for me, don’t have any chance to write something. Okay I’ve been toying around with this Flock creature; torture it, loaded it with massive image-based websites and finally here’s my say.

The First Match of England

Posted on June 12, 2006
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On June 10th, 2006, England National Soccer team held their first game on the 2006 World Cup against Paraguay. The eagerly awaited game was held in Frankfurt. England is hands down one of the favorites in winning this tournament. Their squad was said to be one of the best since Geoff Hursts era. The starting line-up was just same as in their warm-up game against Jamaica the week before.

From the kick off, England was looking very sharp and confident. They assault through, right from the start. On the other hand, Paraguay seems a little bit nervous in the early minutes of the game. Their defense looks very fragile against the hordes of England strikes. This early England pressure becomes a good momentum for them. In the 3rd minute, Beckham’s signature free kick was headed towards into the Paraguay own goal by Carlos Gammara, 1-0 to England. Right after this first goal, England keeps on charging the Paraguayan defense. But, some good chances from Lampard, Crouch and Owen can be neutralize by the Paraguayan substitute keeper, Aldo Bobadilla.

The New U2 iPod Special Edition

Posted on June 7, 2006
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Apple introduced their new iPod U2 Special Edition. This new version is based on Apple’s fifth generation iPod Video 30GB. Just like its predecessor, this new U2 iPod has a similar theme, black that is. From the bottom to the very end its covered in an all-black stainless steel enclosure with red Click Wheel in the middle. The different is this version has a larger 2.5″ screen.

The new U2 iPod is based on the fifth generation 30GB iPod and holds up to 7,500 songs, 25,000 photos or over 75 hours of video. Also, it features up to 14 hours of battery life for music playback (so they say).

One unique feature is that when a user buys this iPod, he/she will receive 30 minutes of exclusive U2 video that can be downloaded from the iTunes Music Store. It also integrates seamlessly with iTunes Music Store and the iTunes digital music jukebox. This iPod features a new Auto Sync technology that automatically downloads digital music, podcasts, photos, audiobooks, home movies, music videos and popular television shows onto the iPod and keeps them up-to-date whenever the iPod is plugged into a Mac or Windows computer using USB 2.0.

The market price for this brand new iPod is $329.

So why do we have to buy it?

It’s finally here

Posted on June 6, 2006
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After long hours in the making, finally this blog is launched to the world. New features will be added in time to time, but at this point I’m convinced that the development of this blog has come to a stable phase. Although my whole website, patvandiest.com is far from the word “finish”, but I myself am trying to prioritize the development of this blog more than anything else. The next project in this website will be the review system site that has a great chance to be launched late next week.

So here it is at its glory, my journal filled with notes about things and topics that I find interesting. I hope readers who visits here would find these topics are amusing too. I will make an effort to write here at very least once every week, because continuity is an important thing for the improvement of my writings.

Thanks to my colleagues who wait patiently for the upcoming of this blog. Special thanks for Jimmy who in the beginning brought this idea to make an account at Bluehost. Thanks to Wordpress for making a great and stable blog engine. Thanks for all.