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There was this movie commercial on TV right now. I wasn’t watching TV directly, I just had it on in the background while I was surfing. But then I heard this tune that sounded very familiar. I turned my head to the TV to see an image of a guy cheering in a hockey jersey, and then the commercial ended. I don’t know what movie it’s for.

I have realized where I’d heard that tune - on the soundtrack in the movie A Knight’s Tale. The music seems like it one was written by a composer specifically for the movie.

So that got me wondering, are the original soundtrack music (or rather, the score) of a movie reused in other movies?

I suppose it doesn’t matter if they are, as long as the music matches the tone of the movie. I love movie soundtracks, both the songs with lyrics and the instrumental ones - they add to the whole experience of the movie. Like the Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King soundtrack, which I’ve been listening to the past few days. It’s so amazing.

You know what? They should have a website that provides a listing of all the songs that are played in a movie. Like the ones that are shown in the movie credits, but also with descriptions of when the song is played. This is done for some TV shows already, so, why not movies? Sometimes an official soundtrack for a movie is released, but it’s not complete because it doesn’t include all of the songs played in the movie.

Lord of the Rings - The Fields of the Pelennor

Hahahaha, in the title I just realized I made a spelling mistake.

While looking for words to put in my words blog, I found a list of commonly misspelled words. I know I’ve managed to misspell a lot of them before.

You know what word that I used to misspell a lot (that isn’t on the list)? Environment. Because the “n” is silent, I’d always put enviroment. But after a lot of mistakes, this is one of the words where whenever I write it I automatically check that I put the “n” in it.

In this article, they mentioned that Bill Gates said computer viruses and hackers helped make Microsoft products more secure. That could be true, but at what expense? Millions of users who rely on their products (mainly the operating system) are going to suffer because it wasn’t secure in the first place.

It reminds me of this thing that my friend said, that if you get sick when you’re younger, it makes you grow taller because your body becomes stronger while you fight the virus. I didn’t believe her when I heard it, but a lot of the people in my class at the time believed that too!

Oh, and while I’m still talking about viruses, there’s a new worm floating around. I got a couple of suspicious looking emails today, which might have been that.

Edit: Also, what’s this?!? Sir Gates?

Yay! I finally got Max, my virtual boyfriend, to say he loved me! After 897 hours and 18 visits (that’s what he counted, anyway).

It’s this flash game where you “meet” and “go out” with this boy, and you get to choose the outcome of the game.

Political:: Contributions
Concentration:: Mind
Fish:: Sausage
Lunacy:: Madness!
Red:: Envelopes
Imply:: Hint
Recognize:: Instantly
Sexist:: Pig
Commercial:: Industry
Stricken:: Cold

(from Unconscious Mutterings)

Travis - Side

[sight]:: What is the most visual stunning website you know?
That’s a tough one. One I guess is csszengarden.

[taste]:: Can you order any kind of food through the web from where you live? Have you ever ordered?
Nope, I don’t think you can order food here. I know in Toronto there is grocery gateway, but I haven’t ordered from them before.

[smell]:: With the digital scent technology developing, what would you like to smell over the internet and how do you think this will affect how we interact with the web?
Wow! This is the first time I’ve heard of this technology. I don’t know if I’d ever be able to associate a website (like Yahoo) to a certain smell, but it would be nice to smell food, and body lotions and things like that.

[touch]:: How fast do you type and what kind of mouse do you use?
I type somewhat fast. I tried many of those typing tests on the net and they showed ~ 55 - 60 words per minute. I slow down a lot when I have to type in numbers, though.

I am using a Val Gear optical mouse with a scroll wheel. I bought it because it was cheaper than the other ones, and I like it because it’s really light!

[hearing]:: Have you ever paid for downloading music from the internet? Do you usually hear music while you surf the net? What kind? Streaming or local?
I haven’t paid for downloading music before, but I think eventually I may. If I listen to music while I surf the net, it’s usually from my collection of mp3s. But occasionally, I’ll look through the radio library in Winamp and listen to the stations from there.

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I’ve put up a new skin! It features sheep. I think I started this 1 1/2 months ago. :p My fav part is the little sheep icons, which are just screenshots from this freeware program.

Other things:
- I’ve reorganized all the stylesheets in all the skins to follow a basic structure. This took a while to do, but in the end it makes things easier to change in the future.
- Both blatherskite and words have new matching layouts.
- Put in a few words. I’d been neglecting that blog lately. I am going to aim for adding at least one word in there for every letter in the alphabet.
- New page: stats.
- I put in BlogTimes, which is a dynamically generated graph of the times I post. Check it out here.

As you may or may not know, the Chinese New Year is coming up soon, and it’s the Year of the Monkey. To celebrate, apparently, some women are buying their husbands underwear with monkeys on them. It’s cute, but I wouldn’t want my guy (*cough* if I actually had one *cough*) wearing one of those!

I’m still not finished with the site maintenance yet. It’s going slowly. I wasn’t going to blog anything until I was finished, but…

I came across this site blogging.la, and I was most surprised to see the domain extension, “la”. It turns out the city of Los Angeles has its own official domain registry! It sounds so cool! My family (and a lot of chinese really)  say “la” or “ah” a lot. For example, “Yvonne ah, take out the garbage” or “Be careful la”. Once we went on this tour to China, and the tour guide said “la” all the time. My brother and I would count how many times she said it, it was over 100.

Imagine a conversation between the owner(s) of blogging.la and a person.
Person: What are you doing la?
Blogging.la owner: Blogging la.

Er, well, I find that funny.

On the site there’s a chance to win a free .la for life. I entered, just for fun, not that I’d win it of course.

Finally went back and wrote up all the closed entries I had mentioned earlier. Am now in the midst of testing out a new skin. Which means a couple of the pages on this site (archive calendar, history, search) will be looking a bit wonky for a bit for several days since it is taking longer than I thought. Now this is why I am reluctant to get started, because I know it’ll take forever to get it finished!