So lately when I log in to WordPress, I get a nagging message that I need to upgrade my Firefox. I’m like, WTF? Why does WordPress give a fuck about what browser I’m using and the why the fuck do they have to nag me about it? Let Firefox nag me about Firefox and let WordPress mind its own fucking business.

For your information, I have installed your latest browser on my desktop PC and the fucker crashes all the time. It locks up on the second email that I try to open. So no. I’m not upgrading my laptop browser until you get your shit together.

I’m so glad that Irene wasn’t as bad as well all had anticipated. We have had way too much excitement this week, what with the earthquake and then the hurricane.

Hellsing follows the anti heroic vampire, Alucard, and a police girl-turned-vampire, Seras Victoria, two vampires employed by the vampire-extermination group of England, the Hellsing Organization. Slowly but surely, through their active duty, they find a new breed of vampires beginning to arise.

Hanatsuki Hime-

When Lys was born, her heart did not beat at all. To save her, her mother made a contract with a devil: Lys can borrow his heart until the day she turns sixteen, but after that, he will eat her body. Together with her companion, Siva, someone whom she met by chance in the desert at night, she travels around as a dancer girl to find the devil who sealed her fate. One day, while they were traveling, they suddenly meet an egoistic prince and a ring spirit… “A Thousand and One Nights” romance begins between the devil and the young girl.

It was awesome to see these videos along with the family and friends that gathered that day. I have to hand it to my brother setting the whole thing up. Maybe one day one of us will take the time and put music together with them all, but that will take a lot of time and effort so I don’t see it happening any time soon.

Koudelka-

This manga is something of a side story to the PlayStation game of the same name, though you don’t have to have played the game to understand it. London, 1899: A girl with special powers runs away from the sanatorium, a hospital where she’d always been kept. Her name is Koudelka, but that’s all she remembers about herself. She meets up with this boy called Joshua, and together they flee from the agents of the sanatorium, who seem to be totally obsessed with her. Will Koudelka be able to escape from her pursuers, regain her memories, and discover the mystery that is her own power?

Beelzebub-

Strongest juvenile delinquent, Oga Tatsumi, in the most random events, finds himself with the new infant son of the Great Demon King and is a threat to humankind, Beelzebub. After being “greeted” by the baby’s maid and caretaker, Hilda, it become obvious that Beelzebub doesn’t want to leave Oga’s side. With his close friend Furuichi and a bunch of other characters on hand along the way, Ogafinds that he now must raise baby Beel and prevent the world from total  destruction.

Defense Devil-

Mephisto Bart Kucabara is a devil lawyer. In order to return to the demon , in which he was exiled from, he needs to collect enough Dark Matter. In order to do this he creates a plan to claim the Dark Matter from the souls of sinners that have been sentenced to hell. Prove the soul’s innocence and the Dark Matter becomes his. But how can he gather enough Dark Matter when his kind personality causes him to continually use it up in order to defend the soul from the Shinigami that has come to take them.

One Piece-

Before he was captured and executed, the legendary Pirate King Gold Roger revealed that he had hidden the treasure “One Piece” somewhere in the Grand Line. Now, numerous pirates are off and looking for this legendary treasure to claim the title “Pirate King.”  One such pirate is, Monkey D. Luffy,who is a boy who had eaten the Devil’s Fruit and then had gained rubber powers. Now he and his crew are off to find “One Piece” while battling scores of enemies and making new friends along the way.

So don’t be surprised if you see some of her writings here from time to time and that you will find them enlightening, entertaining and educational as well. She is a good kid and I want to continue to encourage her to write however she may choose to.

I’ve all ready managed to get some of my Christmas shopping done through out the year. Picking up things here and there instead of waiting for the last minute like I’ve been so prone for doing in the past. I’m also going to try and stay away from stores and malls as much as possible and get the majority of my shopping done online. That way I don’t have to deal with all the hassles that go along with the yearly task of Christmas shopping.

Retailers, consumer goods and other companies that require a high level of color or image coordination could implement the technology to offer services that help their customers select the right products for their needs.

The color matching technology, which is currently in prototype, builds on HP’s expertise in imaging, color science, mobility and networking

This is how it works, instead of sitting down with a consultant at a beauty counter, a shopper photographs herself using a mobile phone camera and while holding a specially designed color chart. The person then sends the photo as an MMS (multimedia message) to an advisory service. That system locates the person’s face within the image and color corrects the image for camera and lighting discrepancies.

Skin pixels are extracted from the color corrected image of the person’s face, and then compared to an existing database of previously captured and analyzed images of skin tones of real people. In a matter of seconds, people using the service receive a text message response with a recommendation on the shades of makeup that are best suited to their complexion.

The technology can work with any mobile operator and on any mobile phone equipped with a camera. Photos demonstrating the color matching technology are available at www.hpl.hp.com/about/media/mobile_image/

Google services mashed up
Take some AJAX UI components, data from your users and Google services like Google Base and Google Maps or external feeds and mash them all together using our simple framework. We make it easy with the Google Mashup Editor.

Common web technologies doing uncommon things
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Simple tools for sophisticated apps
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Store and serve application resources locally
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Heard from the Google System blog that Google plans on launching a new service called iGoogle which will allow users to share their own writings, photos, lists and other creative efforts, as well as to give consumers personalized views of the Web through use of their geographical location and search history. From the Blog it says users can do 7 things for now which are…

1. Photo album – add up to 7 photos that can be rotated.

2. GoogleGram – enter seven greeting messages.

3. Daily Me – type what you are doing.

4. Countdown – count the days until a special event.

5. Simple list – you can use it as a ToDo list, shopping list.

6. YouTube videos – up to 10 videos.

7. Freeform gadget – add an image and some text.

Should be interesting to see just how good it works and how much it charges for I would certainly buy one when it comes to a store near me.