Long Weekends Are The Bomb (And I Am Freaking Tired)

Finally. The weekend's here and I finally get to have some down time before all hell breaks loose on the 5th. I'll have several days of non stop work which means I may not even be able to blog much. In much better news, I finally forked out some dough for a sub RM 20 keyboard. Not state of the art, but I figure I don't need the built in wireless network adapter just yet.

Trawling through some of my favourite sites today I'm amazed at how intense the search engine wars have become. Where we used to be satisfied with Google and its seemingly unending wave of features, we get other contenders like a9, and most recently, Ujiko. Taking a user centric approach to its searches, Ujiko may have that customisability Google lacks. For now.

In any case, testing Gmail has proven to be rather uneventful. I'm still trying to get as much mail as possible to test out their filters and stuff. For one thing I have to commend its use of a conversation-like thread to keep track of replies to particular e-mails. And for now at least the text ads don't really bother me. Maybe because most of the e-mail I get/send is relatively harmless anyway (and no, I don't get porn in my inbox). On an unrelated tangent, you may want to check out this interview on wired with the founder of j-list, a popular online retailer dealing in anything Japanese (read weird). It may provide an insight into the weird world of Japanese sub-culture (and those irritating mosaics you get in their porn).

Well, I'm off to vegetate, blow up some enemy mechs in Mechassault, finish up with a good book and generally be lazy. Have a good weekend, and like I always say: If you can't be good......