Nothing Else Matters

Monday, December 22, 2008 3:14:14 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Oh how I cannot wait for this.....!

The tracklisting so far (though still to be expanded) looks like this:

Enter Sandman - Metallica
For Whom The Bell Tolls - Metallica
Fuel - Metallica
Hit The Lights - Metallica
King Nothing - Metallica
Master of Puppets - Metallica
No Leaf Clover - Metallica
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
Sad But True - Metallica
The Unforgiven - Metallica
Where I May Roam - Metallica
No Excuses - Alice in Chains
Turn The Page - Bob Seger
Hell Bent For Leather - Judas Priest
Demon Cleaner - Kyuss
Tuesdays Gone - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Blood and Thunder - Mastodon
Armed and Ready - Michael Schenker Group
Mother of Mercy - Samhain
Black River - The Sword

For me the item of most intrigue here is No Leaf Clover, a track which thus far has only been released live from their S&M DVD. However getting to play Master of Puppets will indeed make it all worthwhile.

Chrome Dreams II

Monday, December 01, 2008 5:00:08 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

dlpage_lg Although Internet Explorer is installed on all Windows machines by default, I have to say I never ever use it; to me it is bloated and very slow.

To combat this, a few years ago I started using Firefox (at the time Version 1, or possibly even 0.8b) as it was so much faster and cleaner to use. I never thought that I would move away from it but it looks like I've found a worthy competitor.

For the past week I've been using Google Chrome (itself only in Beta currently), and the truth is I am absolutely loving it. It is way faster than Firefox 3, which is WAY faster than Internet Explorer itself. It is so nice to click on a browser, have it open almost instantly and then type in an address and have it load immediately.

There are some really nice functions in Chrome, such as in-line searching, having a thumbnail homepage for favourites, desktop shortcuts for web-applications, and incognito mode. Currently there aren't add-on downloads for it (as per Firefox), but I have to admit I found they were slowing that browser down and had started to remove them all. There are some things which I am returning to Firefox to do at the moment, but I feel that I'll be a Chrome user 100% of the time very soon.

You should give it a go and let me know what you think.