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Ha.. I'm still too used to my old blog address at livejournal. It was a pretty good blog hoster (and a pretty cool blog too! I think I'm cool. =D If I don't, I'm pretty much screwed aren't I, being pessimistic all day.). It managed to stay off the radar of search engines for a while, but some still found it. I think it was because i didn't wanna disable some "Exclude out of search engine searches" option that had something to do with "meta" html headers. Hm.

Funny how Google controls most stuff around here. I mean the Web. I wouldn't quite remember Youtube being owned by Google if i don't think it hard enough, that's a good job on Google's part. Seriously, I wouldn't want to know Google is omnipresent. If I did, I would probably try to avoid Google places. Y'know, the all, no monopoly! Equality for the underlings of the net~!

Which is why I have Opera, Firefox and Internet Explorer! Internet Explorer for that annoying MSN messenger email popups, Opera for really fast loading, and Firefox for everything else. I don't like Firefox. People are hyping about it like it's so pro, but it's not all that. It has a really sucky RAM drain. Sucks up lots of RAM, especially if you're the "more than two programs" on the taskbar type. [I'mma Photoshop, Firefox, C# IntegratedDevelopmentEnvironment, WinAmp type. =D DRAIN!] Luckily there is a way to change Firefox's config file. 'Bout 3 out of the thousand plus settings, changing 3 of them will relieve RAM.
Opera's really fast, but it's CPU drain. That might be a good thing on most computers, we have more CPU than neccessary. RAM we need it for all the new fangled Web interactive devices that drain RAM, like Flash, ... and Flash. Oh yeah, Java too. But ... my computer has several svchost.exe running in the background, which eats 30% of my CPU. Curse you, you background tasks! I just delete them. Bleh system unstability.

[I have very much given up on centering my content based on my topic title....]

Just borrowed Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Raven Shield and LockDown from Tampines Library. No, I did not go there specially just to borrow it. My dad was looking for some "quotes from ancient chinese philosophers" book there and i just happened to see this huge collection of games that my region doesn't have [Bukit Merah and Queenstown].

My computer was too crap to play LockDown. It hanged. Twice. Just like Battlefield 2.
Raven Shield was laggy. Or that the game is sucky. The random jerking of the camera when moving or rotating really seemed life-like. Or that it has sucky controls. Or my computer sucks. Which is highly unlikely since Raven Shield uses Directx 8.
I was playing training levels, pretty fun. Twice, on 2 assault, 1 sniper training missions, i got a team totally annihilated. First was when i accidentally switched to the sniper team and moved them in sight of the terrorists. The second time was when i didn't see a terrorist at the side he shot my assault them down. I managed to track down the rogue terrorist using my sniper team. But somehow the level didn't clear. I was confused. So i uninstalled the game. =D

Good thing I didn't buy the game years ago. =D

And here's an exciting preview of what i did over the weekend! [Lolz] I like my new painting style. Pretty quick, pretty nice. Emulated the painting style of the cover page of One Piece volume mangas. Much better than cel-shading, much better than CG painting, IMHO.

Konjiki no Gash Bell rocks!! Don't say it ain't.

1. Konjiki no Gash Bell OP3 [Mienai Tsubasa] - Takimoto Takayashi
2. Bad Day - David Powter
3. Streets of London - Ralph Mctell