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Hey everybody. I like greeting you. I hope it makes you feel welcome here, 'cause you are.

Anyways, my school started last week, and I went out of town for Labor day weekend. So that's why no updates for awhile. A few things have been going through my head.

First is that I saw a monitor that I want to buy at Best Buy. I kinda shopped around, and they had the lowest price on the monitor. It's a really nice monirot for that price. I have a nice 17" CRT monitor, and I like it, but I want an LCD widescreen monitor now. I want a nice one. I figured 300 bucks wasn't too bad for a 22" widescreen LCD with a high contrast ratio and a 2 milisecond responce time. But we'll see.

I want to dual monitor setup with my old monitor as the secondary. But my desk is too small for two monitors and all the stuff i have on it. I like my desk. The general design is great and what I wanted. I can't find a desk anywhere that looks like what I want in a new desk. Not to mention prices. So I was rolling around the idea of building one out of plywood. I've found some instructions on how to build one, and is easy to modify to fit your preferences. So yeah. I might do it. Plus my dad would be tickled to actually help me with something. I don't know. I'll have to price plywood.

Google released a web browser called Google Chrome. It's in beta. It's a lightweight browser, and works great to surf the web. I actually just downloaded it and started trying it out.

Oh my gosh i just found something really cool about Chrome! You can go incognito! What does that mean to you? Well this is how Google puts it: "You've gone incognito. Pages you view in this window won't appear in your browser history or search history, and they won't leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window. Any files you download or bookmarks you create will be preserved, however." That's cool.

Actually a lot of things are cool about it. Your homepage actually is a page that displays your most visited websites, a search place, and your most recent bookmarks. You can either type a web site, like www.fsdjlkjfsd.com, in the navigation bar or you can just type something you want to search and it will use your favorite search engine (you can change it from google to something else) to search for it. less cludder.

It loads websites pretty fast, according to speed tests on the internet. It's faster then the other web browsers anyways. I took some screenshots. Here's one of the homepage i was talking about. I had to blur out three bookmarks because they sounded akward and i didn't want you to make assumptions about me. They're not bad, it's just I don't want you to know too much about me. Ha! This one is just one of me visiting Royfuss's homepage. Then this one is of that Incognito thing. I cold go through a lot more screenshots, like how it downloads things (which is cool but I have a third party download manager and it didn't recongnize Chrome).

But I think I'll stick with Firefox for now. If I didn't use addons for Firefox, then I might switch, but I do use addons. I like having my Gmail notifier, my webdeveloper tools, colorzilla, and others. I'm curios why they don't have an email notifier thing. Let me check something. Nope nothing new happened when I checked my gmail with it. Anyways, the browser supports javascript, flash, and all those media things, so it's an awesome browser. I'm waiting for the full release to see what it'll evolve into.

Alright on to other things. First off I found an internet gem. It's called Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog [link removed]. It's a musical, but a great one. And free. It's only 43 minutes long and it's broken down into 14 minute acts. It follows a villian's road to super villian. Watch the first act. That's all I ask. It's really good quality and free.

I'll give you a little overview of the story. Dr. Horrible wants to be a super villian and has an alter ego named Billy. He's in love with a girls Penny and has to get up the courage to ask her out. The day he gets that opportunity to ask her out, he's on a mission to steal some Wonderflonium for his Freeze Ray (not Death Ray or a Freeze gun). Alas his nemisis Captain Hammar saves the day and stops Dr Horrible from getting his Wonderflonium, and makes it look like he saved Penny's life and Penny falls in love with Captain Hammar. It's professionally done and the songs are great. Like I said, watch the first act at least. So yeah. I'm gonna get it on DVD when it comes out.

It's new TV show time (and DVDs being released of last seasons of TV shows). I got House season 4 on DVD. That's an awsome show. The season fanale was epic. I just got Heroes season 2 on Bluray yesterday. Loads of special features with this. Even an alternate ending. Haven't watched it yet though. I preordered Supernatural season 3 from amazon.com which was a mistake because i get the DVD a week after it was released. I saved a little bit of money, but just a few bucks. Most stores have them on sale at a similar price as amazon.com so I won't do that again. I've watched a few episodes of season 3 of Supernatural but I haven't seen the season fanale (which i heard was interesting from a friend). Not to mention some key episodes.

I got interested in a little show called Dexter. It's about a serial killer that kills serial killers. It's really interesting. You get into the subconcsious of Dexter, and it's just awesome. He doesn't think of himself as "human" but as a "monster." I watched them on DVD (season 1 and season 2) and am looking forward to season 3 this fall. My DVR is going to be busy.

I have Showtime now so I can DVR that. I want to DVR the first episodes of season 4 of Supernatural and the first episodes of House season 5. My friend loves Dexter, and he doesn't have Showtime so I'll DVR Dexter every week for him. Do yeah.

"Games To the Video" will be published either this weekend or the next weekend. Before the 15th of September. Look forward to that.

Laterzzzzzzzzz.