Archive for October, 2007

Gundam 00 Preview (Up to Ep 4)

So Sunrise has released another installment of their popular franchise, the Mobile Suit Gundam series. This time I was pleasantly surprised, and also equally as disappointed with this Gundam series.

First of all, gone are the days of confusion in battles about who is who, and who is on who’s side. This time, enemy mobile suits actually look the same as all the other mobile suits on their side. This was what I call a big failure in Gundam SEED.

Story

Also, I think the story has improved greatly over SEED. While SEED was interesting, it didn’t quite glue me to the TV… Continue reading

Web Page Design Tips

Over the past few months, I have gotten active in web site design, particularly for the websites about my home village of Idaikkadu in Sri Lanka. After several emails being sent without a response, and a lack of motivation from the admins to even change their sites, I’ve decided to write a little guide that hopefully they will read, and hopefully others will read, so people don’t make mistakes in their web designs.

  1. Do not use frames!!!!
    Frames were all good and fine back when the World Wide Web was still young. However now, it is the worst thing you can do

Amarok Music Player Review

Amarok is probably one of Linux’s most popular music players, not just because it provides an easy-to-use and intuitive GUI, but also because it’s features blow away any other music player created for computers. Best of all it’s free!

Amarok 2.0 is scheduled to be released in the near future, with a version of the player that can run on Microsoft Windows. However, they need € 5,000 for server expenses including distribution costs. However the point of this post is not for that, but to give potential Windows users an insight into how great Amarok is, and how great free software… Continue reading