Sleipnir is a web browser from Japan based Fenrir & Co a software company from Osaka. Recently an english version was released after being only available in Japanese for many years. Sleipnir currently has about 100,000 users but intends to capture a bigger slice of the worldwide web browsing market from Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.


I downloaded Sleipnir and took it for a spin around the internet block and while it has no revolutionary features it combines quite a few features from other browsers mainly the thumbnail view from Opera, but one of the best features I have found is the ability to switch between Trident and Gecko layout engines. Trident is used by Internet Explorer and Gecko is used by Firefox. While this functionality is regularly used by me in Firefox via a plugin it would good to have that feature built in to Sleipnir and I am thinking about replacing Avant as my backup browser with...you guessed it...Sleipnir. [Read More!]

The rumours finally became true as as I blogged about recently in seems a Draganball live action movie is coming from Twentieth Century Fox. The movie is expected to be released next March (Friday the 13th). The poster featured Canadian actor Justin Chatwin who stars as Son Goku in an orange suit holding a powerball with the Japanese character Kame which means turtle on his back.



I really really really don't know what to expect from this movie, but I know I am looking forward to it and hoping it doesn't suck (too badly) but a part of me knows that there is a 90% chance it will. [Read More!]

A recent survey found that 37% of the world's 70 million blogs are in Japanese. Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications even more recently found that about 20 percent of Japan's over 88 million Internet users involved in blogging in one way or another.



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E3 is in high swing and the press conferences of the big three are already over. One of the more interested trailers that I've seen at the show is the latest trailer for Red Alert the upcoming sequel to the grand daddy of strategy games. The trailer introduces Japan as the third faction in the game after the Soviets and the Americans and boy do their units look badass!

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Miss Universe 2007 was Riyo Mori the Japanese beauty who went on to dazzle geeks and otaku worldwide in the shortened season 2 of Heroes. Riyo Mori has probably bought more visitors to this blog more than any other person since her name was first mentioned here through search engines so why not stroke the fire with one more mention and a photo of her with 15 of the Miss Universe 2008 contestants?

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Believe it or not we are now only 25 days from the start of the Beijing Olympic Games. Most countries have already chosen their teams and China is putting the finishing touches on their Olympic venues and plans. Jamaica's Olympic trials was held a few weeks ago and from the placings on athletes in those trials the team was selected.

The competition was stiff and many big names didn't make it into all the events they are good at or didn't make the team at all.

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After a successful season 1, Gundam 00 will be returning as planned this October. I enjoyed season 1 although it went off to a slow start when I made my first impressions post but eventually grew on me and came into it's own as can be read in my Gundam 00 season 1 review and I have high expectations of season 2. There ar already various theories and so called spoilers floating around the internet but from the Official 00 character list it seems at least one character thought to be dead dead is back?

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I've spotted something interesting from the 2008 G8 Summit in Toyako Japan. Sharp has developed a 26 inch low power consumption liquid crystal display TV and new cost effective solar cell modules that is says is perfect for third world nation.


Albeit a bit small and not as feature rich as regular bigger and brighter LCDs what could be a solar powered LCD today could turn out to be a revolution that could affect all home electronics and appliances especially in a time when alternative energy sources are a big topic everywhere.
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Each year the leaders of the world leading industrialized nations meet. The countries that make up the Group of Eight are France, United States, United Kingdom, Russia, Germany, Japan, Italy and Canada. Various other leaders of developing countries are also invited to partially participate in the meetings, some of the countries invited this year are South Africa, Ethiopia, South Korea, India, CHina, Mexico, Brazil and others. There is think political cloud that obscures the meeting each year with various forms of protesting and very tight security and this year is no different.


The main topics to be discussed at the three day summit are Africa, Climate change and sustainable energy, Intellectual property rights, the World Economy and Nuclear Non-proliferation.
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One month flew by fast and my trip to the states is over. I took a lot of pictures and could have taken much much more if I hadn't misplaced my camera's battery charger and so was without the use of my cam for almost 2 weeks. I enjoyed myself and was almost never home bored. Check out some of the pictures from my trip below, higher quality and more "scenic" pictures are being uploaded to my flickr account often. SOrry for the low quality of the pictures had to adjust their size and quality so they load easier.

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Finally my home sickness is cured

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WoOt...tall buildings, mostly white ppl and lots and lots of food!

Going to the US on "vacation"