Well now, I have so much to talk about I could fill a video blog. Well if I could be bothered, which I apparently can’t. Anyway as I am waiting for The Cell to start on Channel 4 I shall fill the time with a blog post on Nerd Federation before I begin to forget all the things I wanted to talk about although to be honest, that has probably already happened.
So let’s start with the changes over at Google. Well there are two basically. Three if you count the fact that the Google CodeJam has recently finished. But I am not going to. So first things first and this involves a later point I wanted to talk about. Google has launched Froogle UK which is like a shopping search thing which now is available on the UK. There appears to be an absense of Play.com in the listings but I presume it is because they are getting started and such.
The second Google thing is that Google recently had their official launch of Google Desktop. It basically indexes your web history, emails, AIM chat logs and certain files and allows you to search through them via Google Search. It adds an extra tab on the Google homepage (bah, yet they claim they can’t fit the dmoz tab on there) which allows you to easily switch to it. The other way to do it is to click on the icon in your system tray.
I wasn’t going to install it when I first heard about it as I didn’t really think I would have any use for it although I was talking to Nick earlier tonight and he was giving it some high recommendations so I decided to give it a go. It seems to work fine and all and indexed 20-30 thousand items although I don’t really want something else sitting in my system tray so if it doesn’t prove itself useful I will probably uninstall it eventually.
Anyway moving on to other crazy topics, today I ventured into the outside world and headed to the cinema to see Resident Evil Apocalypse. I actually thought it was an awesome movie although I think the fight between (spoilers!) Alice and the Nemesis creature (how did it take Alice so long to realise it was mat 😉 degraded it a bit. The one thing I did think was excellent though was the way the cover up worked.
Basically I liked that because usually in these times of films, there are loads of examples though the only one that comes to mind is Antitrust, the evidence gets out, the corporation is busted and the big CEO guy in charge is arrested and everyone has a happy ending. But would that really happen in the real world or would the corporation get away with it? That’s why I loved the ending to the film. Although of course it is crying out for a sequel. BTW the film seems to have bombed, it was only released 8 days ago here and the total people in the cinema was 16! That said it was the 11:45 am showing and the whole cinema was pretty much tumble weed at that time.
Onto what I think is the final matter to cover in this post – I still had a gift certificate from a while back for Borders which I never used. So I headed in there and on the top floor I found a 2 DVD’s for £10 offer which I decided to take up. I had a choice of Johnny English, Titanic and White Men Can’t Jump. I was about to choose when I came accross one film hidden at the bottom of the shelf – the orginal Blair Witch Project! Awesome find considering it was such a cool film with so many extras. In the end I went for that and Titanic just to add to my emo collection :D.
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