Charlie Chaplin

Oh my God! I cannot believe they made a video for his birthday!!! Who, you said? Charlie Chaplin!!!

It is not possible that you don't know who he is. But just in case (really, just in case) you let's say, forget: there're pictures to remind you of him.

Oh, yes... the video Google made. Here you go:

Happy birthday, Sundae!

Wait, "Happy Birthday, Sundae!"?!!

Well, yep! :) Who can resist celebrating the birthday of such an important culture? Certainly not Google!



Oh, and what do you know? Surprise, surprise... Sundae have its own website!

Google's Fools Joke 2011

April Fools? Nobody takes it more seriously than the engineers at Google! Here's a video of the joke:

And if you were tempted to "Get Gmail Motion", you'd be politely presented with the following screen:

Got fooled? It's not so fun to be on the fooled side, but then, you have to admit they are very good! Didn't buy it? Well, to their defense, the world is getting older (people live longer), so the requirement may come one day to make this happen...

My stand? A Google fanboy will always see the funny side of things, so by coining Mickey-D, I'd say "I'm loving it". :)

Animated Laboratory: A Tribute to Robert Bunsen

If you've never wondered why a Bunsen burner is called a Bunsen burner, it's because Robert Wilhelm Bunsen invented it. Google's animated laboratory is the perfect tribute to Robert Bunsen (and illustration to the connection between Science and Coffee).

Happy Birthday, Harry Houdini!

That's what the tribute looks like, and as usual, for a quick search you're allowed to click the icon and get the following page! Nice summary, wiki!

Chromium App: Alchemy

Have you guys checked out the new features of the chromium browser yet?

Here's one to try:


Have fun!

What do you call a shattered heart?

"Your lost one will come back to you. Just a phonecall. Or even a visit. An email."

Wanna know what I think? B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T.

The Four Deadly Sin

I started playing Ming Dynasty a couple days ago. In one of those quests I was given, there was a saying as such:

Apparently, gluttony is bad for the stomach, lust consumes excessive energy, greed makes people crazy, and wrath is harmful to the liver.

The NPC referred to the four qualities as the Four Deadly Sins. Here's how google defines the four deadly sins:

Pacman is 30 years old! Yeay. It's playable on Google for a while, but suspiciously easy to beat. For once I won. :p

In the meantime, the official google at US launched a search via SSL. Don't know what it means for our searches though...

Google Chrome

Oh, have I failed to mention that Google Chrome is back in business on my laptop? No, I didn't solve the SCIM problem. The story goes like this:

When I first tried Google Chrome for LINUX, I was unable to have Chinese input in Chrome, and Chrome causes SCIM (the Input Method (IM) that I was using) to entirely crash and not able to load. Then I removed Chrome and SCIM worked OK again. Then I installed Opera, which version 10.52 was supposedly announced, but yet to be available for LINUX. Opera 10.51 did not make SCIM crash, but there's no input in Opera itself. So help was seek from Google, the almighty (yea, I'm a fangirl, so?). Apparently, SCIM does not support well the browsers (or any application, for that fact) that uses QT. Ah, so no wonder I had problems with frozen input on my instant messenger that uses QT.

Then comes more googling and a surprise (ta-daa): Ubuntu Karmic Koala ships with iBus, an IM recommended by net users. I swear if you never poked around in the Administration tab, you will never know of its existance. iBus is apparently a build-in IM for non-ASCII characters! So, I removed SCIM, totally! Yea, well, switching over was a bit hard. The native iBus IM only inputs one character at a time and it does not input Chinese punctuations, so it was a pain. But then, more googling brings me to install the ibus-pinyin packacge, that supports both the function missing in native iBus. Cool! And so, it's proven again that Google can do anything.

Ah, back to Google Chrome... With the IM problem solved, I was happy with Opera for a few weeks, until it starts being weighted down by reasons unknown to me. It started to startup really slooowly and started to load pages slower too. And then, one fine morning I had a lightbulb: if SCIM is out of the way, then Google Chrome should be a breeze, right? Except I have to test if it works with iBus. So I reinstalled Google Chrome, and had aptitute look for an update (and there was one so I installed it), and then viola! Google Chrome is back in action on my laptop and I'm one happy user!

All the apologies to Google for previously damning Chrome. And more to readers (if there were any out there) for an unexpectedly long post on Cookie-googles.