Stumbled upon a blog post that tells of love the IT way. Instead of duplicating the exact post, I’m giving her the credit for getting me to read what otherwise would’ve been much like a junk mail. Not that I don’t like inspirational stories, just that one of my main email addresses has been getting an influx of such emails that they often end up flying straight away into the junk.

Guess who’s intending to join the browser wars. Google has announced — or rather illustrated its plans to develop a more robust browser by the name of Chrome. This isn’t really that surprising. After all, it’s just a matter of time. Some found it strangely amusing when it released its own mobile platform but for such a web apps mammoth a browser shouldn’t be any different.

Whether or not it’s correct to say they are joining the browser wars, I think we can be sure of one thing - developers and designers alike will have something to be excited about.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

Great design by Weightshift. They were appointed to do the identity too. Mr Hicks must be busy.

In the most gentlemanly manner, I cautiously made my way through a few passengers. With “excuse me’s” and “sorry’s” I eventually reached the other side though it was a chore having to squeeze along with a bulky field pack. For a moment, I felt a sense of achievement. I was certain I was saving up few crucial minutes to get to the bus interchange on time. That was until I saw a reflection of people crowding by the opposite door which all along I had been standing next to. I ignored. I was confident I would be the first to alight because I had to otherwise I would be serving time doing unnecessary sentry duties past office hours. The train was still moving, but in about a few seconds it would drive in to the station and stop by the platform. But it became more obvious as crowd grew bigger on the other side. I turned halfway to get a glance only to see an office guy giving me a puzzled look but I knew he wasn’t the only one.

It all became clear. The door opening was the one I moved away from and now I was stuck behind all the passengers, cringing in embarrassment. Still in denial, I immediately planned a cover up to reduce the impact of probably one of the most humbling moments in life. I pretended to be talking over the phone, smiling at myself as I joined the crowd on the way out. Well it was a bad move and I know that didn’t work but that was the best I could think of.

Everything would have been an okay experience, a typical mistake I could have easily smiled away. But all that happened with myself in my Smart 4 uniform that clearly displayed my name and the organization I belong to. So much for being in SMART 4.

I remember heavily using some of his character designs on a personal website some 7 years ago. Not that I’ve been trying hard for almost a decade now, his works were fitting to the anime-themed kiddyish web design I was doing back then.

See more of the talented Korean artists at http://studiosis.com/.

It’s quite funny though every time I look back at those cases. Time goes by and new things come up and we have the iPhone and whatnot to drool at. But the culprits back then actually killed for a Nokia 8250. I know it was the hot thing at the time, but it still sounds stupid now. Maybe they too feel stupid every time they see the latest Nokia hand phone, especially knowing they killed someone over a device that’s no longer manufactured.

The thing now is, it’d be more of an impulse buying considering it more as a want than a need. I still have one that works and as much as I would like to, it doesn’t seem about time. Nevertheless, it’ll definitely still be on my to-buy queue.