Nerd Culture

I’ve always been an avid supporter of web standards, so I was glad to here that Gecko 1.9, the layout engine used in the Firefox 3 beta, passes the Acid2 test, but I found the future version of Firefox is still lacking one single thing that I feel holds it back rather significantly from being what it could be. That features is the RSS Updates counter that Safari has had for pretty much ever. How long will it take before Mozilla catches on that Firefox’s lack of this simple feature is a deal-breaker for many people? I guess I’ll have to continue using two browsers until Mozilla catches up.

Technology, Uncategorized Acid2, Firefox, Firefox beta, Gecko, Gecko 1.9, RSS, RSS Counter, RSS Update Counter, Safari

This is a somewhat pointless post, but I thought it was pretty funny when Google gave me this result on a search I made a few minutes ago. Anyone else have any amusing stories of the occasionally quirky behavior of Google’s search system?

Uncategorized Google, Search, Search Engine, Wrong

For the longest time my MP3 Player was an iPod which, in all appreciation for how it changed the portable media market, is vastly inferior to some of the lesser known Portable Media Players to come out in recent years. The most significant, in my opinion, being the Cowon A3–the perfect portable media player for an anime lover such as myself. Why you ask? Format support–this thing can play just about -anything-. It can play H264 (unforunately it doesn’t yet support Main Profile) and XviD and most importantly; supports all sorts of container formats like OGM and MKV (Matroska Video). What does that all mean? Well, I’ll let you put two and two together; more than half of fansubbed anime is released in H264 format in an MKV container. Until now those have been unplayable on any form of portable media! That’s just the beginning of the A3’s awesomeness!

Anime, Manga/Comics, Movies, Music, Technology 1SEG, 3D Surround, 720p, 800x480, A3, ASS, Audio Recording, BBE, Cowon, Cowon A3, DMB, DVB, DVD, DVD Resolution, FLAC, H264, HD, High Definition, iPod, Line Out, M3U, Mach3Bass, Matroska, MKV, MKVExtract, MobileTV, MP Enhance, OGM, PMP, Portable Media Player, PSP, PSP Screen, SSA, SubResync, SubStation Alpha, Subtitles, Video Out, Video Recording, VobSub, XviD

For awhile I’ve been using a video service called Stage6 which was similar to YouTube except they offered High Definition video uploading…it wasn’t very ideal though as it needed a proprietary DivX Player to play the videos. Not long ago they closed up shop, so I decided to look around and see if I could find a better video service than YouTube. Well, in my travels I discovered this wonderous creation known as Vimeo! You can upload HD videos up to 720p and they are way, way faster than YouTube! Check the shiny HD video below to see just how awesome Vimeo is.

Technology HD, Stage6, Video Streaming, Video Upload, Vimeo, YouTube

Normally my tastes are more manly than chick flicks, like playing football and showering naked together with other men in the locker rooms…okay, maybe that was a bit of a lie, but I feel it needs to be emphasized that you don’t have to be some scrawny, girly wuss to enjoy the NANA movies. If you like JRock or most any kind of modern japanese pop culture medias you will likely enjoy these movies just as much as I did. The music is really great, the characters and their interactions are very believable and the writing is quite interesting. Basically NANA is a chronicle of the struggles a small rock band endures after being torn apart by the seperation of their bassist and their adventures as they attempt to rise up again and take the music scene by storm.

Movies Fujieda Naoki, Honjou Ren, Ichinose Takumi, JRock, Komatsu Nana, NANA, NANA 2, NANA2, Oosaki Nana, Terashima Nobuo