The Nintendo Wii..

The first thing that comes to my mind is the Wheee! Firefox flick by Jeff Gill. Except this time the IE logo is replaced by the Nintendo Wii logo... and the other logo's are of the other gaming consoles. Although it might have better features, this is just how I feel about this console (and the same infact). But it's too early to say something, I guess all of us have to wait and see what happens to Wii.

Update: Okay, so the Wii has officially been launched, and I hereby conclude that it is no longer a crappy console, and it's name is totally misleading. In fact, the truth is, it's actually a really great console. After playing around with for a while at my friend's house, I think I can say that I'm in love with it. If I have more time, and some dough, I might actually invest in this gem of a console myself, but sadly that is not the cast at this moment. But I'm actually hoping that I can do so and hopefully also write up a review of the Nintendo Wii, in case anyone is interested!

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Squeet Vs FeedBlitz

It recently came to my attention that Feedburner has been promoting Squeet on some feeds and FeedBlitz on some. Both basically do the same - notify you when there is a new post on a website or a blog.

I'm using both of them right now and there seem to be evident problems in each of them. For example Squeet's CSS is not to my tastes... although this isn't a flaw I think they should have a better design and layout in their e-mails that they send. And as for Feedblitz, they're e-mails always seem to be outdated and they have that big logo of theirs as well. If I post something today I'll get a e-mail tomorrow (well midnight anyways) as opposed to Squeet which gives you the e-mails after about 3 hours or so.

I'll be back with more interesting data as soon as I use these two after a while of course. I'm not the kind of reviewer that likes to post something without taking a look at the product properly. Unlike Lifehacker... okay, I'll stop picking on them now.

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The IE Blunder

Update: If things like this happen then I guess Microsoft might have wasted their time after all...

I think it can now be safely said, in hindsight, that Microsoft's entry into the browser business and its subsequent linking of the browser into the Windows operating system looks to be the worst decision - and perhaps the biggest, most costly gaffe - the company ever made. I call it the Great Microsoft Blunder.

I couldn't have said it better... I think Dvorak has an excellent point here, but I think he forgot that almost 80% of the people in this world probably use IE, and it would be a shame if Microsoft pulls the plug and stops making it.

Hell, I don't think many even care about which browser they are using... all they do is click on the 'e' logo and type in the URL of the website. So I guess it's more sensible for Microsoft to make it, rather than stop making it and dissapoint the people.

Besides they've got some Indians working on it (over at my old hometown in Bangalore I think), so I guess it doesn't really cost them much to keep the updates coming.

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Business Registration

Over here in Ontario there are many things that are necessary to make a business, or that's what my teacher says. Basically you need to have a license in order to have a business. And along with that you need to have a great understanding of taxes. Here's the great article over at about.com that my teacher pointed out a while ago. It is great in terms of explaining the processes that go on when creating a business. Although they don't talk about the tricks of business I think it is a great so make sure you read it.

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No More Green

Today I took 5 minutes off hectic schedule to remove most of the green (almost all of the green) in this site. Many of my friends (especially Nishant) were complaining about the amount of dark green in the site, so I decided to get rid of it. Of course this is just temporary until summer starts but at least now it isn't overcrowded with green. Along with that I also made the font size larger so that people can at least read it now. And since I usually practice what I preach I followed what I said in this post, along with keeping the web 2.0 design trend in mind.

Hopefully you can use this until I get the time to go fix things up and have a better design.

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My Business

In my business course right now we are creating a business as our final project for this year. For my business I decided to create a business like businesslogs except my business is going to be for anyone who wants to get websites, brochures, logos and flyers designed by us (or me, since I'm the only one involved in this fictional business).

This business is named 'Media PowR' since I wanted to include R in there somewhere. Plus I don't think there is any business by that name, although this has to be verified. Although my name isn't exactly perfect (at least according to this post by my friend) because there are 2 business called media power however it is inevitable to get a business name that is not taken by someone so I think this should do for now, unless other problems pop up.

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Todays thoughts

Great news, now you can get a newer version of the great performancing extension from the mozilla site. This version has many new features, out of which the one the one that stands out is the Metrics feature which now seamlessly integrates with one's metrics tracking account. Great stuff, I can't seem to stop using this extension now (especially since I don't seem to get the atom error now)! Along with that and the other features, the feature that I like a lot is uploading picture right from the extension! A feature that Jed said that he was going to put a while back. Although I've not tried this for blogger yet I think it should work (hopefully).

I was also trying out the Wizz RSS News Reader instead of NetNewsWire or Sage today and that seems to be pretty good as well. More on that later.

Now let's talk about something that we all love (or atleast us Canadians anyways), Hockey! Here are my predictions for the first round (since the playoffs start today). The following teams are going to be advancing: Philly, Dallas, San Jose, Ottawa, Carolina, New Jersey, Detroit and lastly the Flames. Although Montreal and Edmonton are awesome Canadian teams I'm not quite sure if they are going to make it, but keep an eye on Montreal they seem to be extra hot right now. You might say that this might not be true, but I'm quite sure that these are the teams that are going to advance to the text round, and we'll find out soon enough.

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