Sep 13 2008

A sneak preview of my holiday in Namibia

Category: traveladmin @ 11:03 pm

Sometimes soon (which can mean anything between a few week and years), I will post photos from my trip to Namibia. Meanwhile a short film taken from a small plane flying over the Namib desert.

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Sep 03 2008

Google Chrome – first impression

Category: computersadmin @ 1:18 am

Ok, so unless you live on a different planet you have already heard that Google has released their own web browser called Chrome. After all the news stories I heard on the radio (even on BBC World Service), I decided that instead of going to bed like any normal person, I stay up till this stupid hour and try the new browser. As if staying up was not a sacrifice big enough, I also had to boot my computer in Windows Vista, as there is no Linux version yet.

The installation of the program is very easy. You need to go to Google Chrome page and download a small installer (about 400k). After that, the setup program downloads the files necessary for installation, but unfortunately it does not give you any indication how big are these files. Anyhow, they cannot be too big because the whole process took less than one minute (but some transparency would be nice).

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