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Latest Beijing 2008 Olympics Medal Tally

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With still so many days to go until the Beijing 2008 Olympics wraps up, I am already tired from keeping track of the latest Olympics medal tally. Which country is leading in the Gold medals? I tell you, it’s like I am the athlete myself, sprinting from one website to another website, sourcing for the latest and most up-to-date Olympics medal tally!

What about my country? How are the contestants faring in the carious Olympic sports that they are competing in, like diving, badminton, shooting, etc? That’s why I decided to place this medal update on my blog to save me all the trouble. LOL

Computing & Internet

Diving Pig in Beijing 2008

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Google amuses me [even if they have spanked my blogs and has yet to lift my penalty].

If you use their Search daily during this Beijing 2008 Olympics, you can see that there is a different Google logo art every day to celebrate the Olympics.

What amuses me is that they are using the twelve animal signs of the Chinese horoscope to as participants in the Olympic Games, instead of the five Fuwa mascots, Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying and Nini, which they should rightly do.

I mean, what has the Chinese horoscope anything to do with the Olympics? Sure it’s originated from China and the Olympics 2008 is held in China but the link ends there. I would like to see, with a total of seventeen days the Olympics is held and only twelve animals to play with, including the Fuwa mascots on opening day, what animal will Google use for the other four days?

I feel that using the Fuwa Beijing Olympic mascots in Google logo art during the duration of the Olympics would be more appropriate, but still, it makes me laugh and look forward to the twelve different animals playing Olympic sports.

Click HERE to view the entire list of Google Logos For Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

Computing & Internet

Watch Olympics Online For Free

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Microsoft has allowed web surfers to watch the Beijing 2008 Olympics online for free but to do so, web surfers are required to download the new Microsoft flash player called Silverlight. While I have yet to read complaints from web users regarding this requirement, I guess mainly because we all want to watch the Olympics online for free no matter what, and what is yet another software on our computer, right?

People in the industry, though, have been saying that this is an anti-trust move, an aim at stifling their competitors, especially Adobe whose flash player is on the computers of most internet connected computers.

We have seen how the growth of Netscape Communications became stunted with Microsoft’s move of bundling Internet Explorer with Windows OS but as a web user, I know that if an application is good, I would continue to have it on my computer, even if I may be required to download Silverlight just to watch the Olympics live on the web for free.

What are your thoughts?

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Google Commemorates the Olympics

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If you are a regular user of Google Search, you will know that they sometimes change their “Google” logo to commemorate an event. Today, Google celebrates the Olympics in Beijing on 8th August, 2008 (08.08.08) with the following logo art.

Isn’t it cute that HuanHuan, representing the Olympic flame, is holding the Olympic torch and leading Beibei, Jingjing, Yingying and Nini carrying the Olympic flag?

I think that it would be awesome if for the duration of the Olympics, Google Search presents us a different logo art every day. It would be like a “set” of Google Olympic logo art. And if that happens, I would take a screenshot of it daily. 😀

I heart BeiBei, JingJing, HuanHuan, YingYing and NiNi!

Click HERE to view the entire list of Google Logos For Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.