viva la vida.

I was going to attach this to my last blog post, but I felt it warranted it's own entry.

I LOVED Coldplay's debut album Parachutes, and I thought A Rush of Blood to the Head was a decent album. Hype was huge for X&Y and while I enjoyed the record, I felt that they were trying to be something else. They were going for really big arena-rock, U2 covers, and I didn't like that. My favourite track off the album (minus the leaked, demo version of "Talk") was "Swallowed in the Sea" because of it's use of guitars that reminded me of something from Parachutes. With that said, I was really nervous for Viva la Vida or Death and all His Friends, especially after I heard "Violet Hill" and it's larger than life, X&Y soundability. However, since Wednesday I have been listening to the new album and I think it's absolutely fantastic. From tracks like "Life in Technicolor" to "Lovers in Japan" to "Viva la Vida" I think it's phenomenal. A stellar recording all around.

lovers in japan.

I've been a long time fan of Firefox on Windows machines. In fact, I was even using and recommending Firefox before it was even called Firefox (it started off as "Phoenix" back when I started using it at version 0.4). However, when I finally had enough money saved up (and the intel transition was underway) to make the switch to Mac OS X, I realized that Firefox had several shortcomings on OS X. I still use Firefox every time I log onto a Windows XP machine at school, but I have been a Safari user since I switched to OS X. However, this past week Firefox 3 was released and I think I may be switching back. They've taken care of all the bugs that used to bother me about it, plus the speed appears to be quiet the improvement over Safari 3.1 (obviously this will change once the new WebKit gets implemented in Safari).

Anyway, to make an already long and boring story abbreviated - I recommend every one try the new version 3 of Firefox. To slighty modify Superstore's slogan "it's worth switching browsers for."

february song.

Ah, 3G iPhone, there you are.

I now impatiently wait for the 11th of July to arrive in Canada.

oceano.

I'm on a total Josh Groban kick this week and I'm not even ashamed to admit it.
Yeah, my mom likes him, but ah well, so do I.

On a side note, I found the most amazing book by accident the other day at Chapters. My sister and I were just browsing when she showed it to me, only because on the front cover some guy compared it to Pilgrim's Progress, which is a a sweet piece of English literature from the 1600s. Anyway, it's called "The Shack" and it's about a man who's 7 year old daughter is abducted and killed in a remote shack in the middle of nowhere, Oregon. 4 years later the man gets a note from God in the mail asking him to come to the shack for a weekend to get together with him. Anyway, the book isn't preachy or anything, although it does touch heavily on the aspect of God/Jesus/the trinity; but the way the story is set up is amazing. It may not be for everyone, but I really enjoy it.

bird flu.

I work too much. Today is my first day off since last Sunday, and my only day off until next Monday, or 8 days from now. I don't know my work schedule past the 10th of June, but I have a feeling I'll be working straight through until the 14th. So basically I'll have 2 days off out of 20 work days. Yeah, that about makes sense.