Cirque du Soleil – Zaia

Tonight I went to Macau’s Venetian Macao, Cotai Strip to watch Canada’s Cirque du Soleil’s latest permanent show, Zaia.

I had always planned to watch the show, but did not get around to buying tickets. A friend of mine had tickets that she could not use, so I bought them. But I was not able to choose the seats.

For Cirque du Soleil shows I normally like to seat about 20 rows from the stage on center, this time my tickets were 2 rows from the stage and off center. Although, I get a real close look at the performers, but it was too close.

Cirque du Soleil shows are designed so that seats near the back of the theater are still good seats, so being too close to the stage is actually a disadvantage. Where I was seating because I was too close to the stage there were actually performance near the back of the stage I cannot see. So if you had not purchase your tickets I suggest you purchase tickets behind row O and center.

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Google Launched Satellite

Actually, technically it is GeoEye who launched a mapping satellite on September 8, 11:00 (PST). It has a capability to collect 0.41 meter ground resolution black and white images and 1.65 meter color images simultaneously. Although, there is no mention of Goolge in GeoEye’s press release, but the satellite has a Google logo on its side and the Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page attended the launch.

As US licensing restrictions limit commercial images to a half-meter so will this addition improve the qualities of Google Map and Google Earth? Do we really need more accurate images?

May be with Google having private access to a satellite there will be more up-to-date imageries in future Google products.

Will this be the first of many satellites exclusive for Google’s Android phones?

Google Gears Arrives in Safari

On the weekend Google released its Gears technology to the Safari browser on Mac OS X.

You may still have to click on the “Mac” platform link if the Gears’ platform test script still claims that your Safari browser is not supported. Alternatively you can go directly to the Gears Macintosh platform .dmg download.

For those who does not know what Gears is you can check out Gears’ FAQ page. In short it enables web developers to create offline versions/components of their web applications.

Like with most things that Google does, Gears is opensource. Although this is true I am still trying to figure out why one would code to Gears rather than the more Standards compliant HTML5? If anyone like to share their thoughts, please submit a comment below.

Movie Review: Bangkok Dangerous (2008)

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My Rating: 3Stars

This evening I saw the movie Bangkok Dangerous at AMC Theater, Pacific Place, Admiralty, Hong Kong.

Not one of Nicolas Cage‘s better movies. He has some fairly bad ones lately, like Ghost Rider, The Wicker Man and The Weather Man just to name a few. Cage really shows his age in this movie and the type of characters he normally plays in movies like National Treasure are not longer believable.

There are really no one who can do it like Sean Connery and still plays an action hero well into his late 50s. Actors like Nicolas Cage should be more careful in choosing characters where he can play a more believable character.

You will come out of this movie feeling unfulfilled and cheated of 100 minutes of your time. So, if you are a fan of Nicolas Cage try to rent it from iTunes when it becomes available, otherwise choose  something else.

Rating Legend:
5Stars Not to be missed
4Stars Wait for the DVD
3Stars Buy from iTunes Store
2Stars Rent it on iTunes
1Stars Waste your time elsewhere

Google Chrome Makes Its Debut

Several days ago Google made it known; both intentionally and unintentionally, that it will release its own WebKit based browser, Chrome.

Today (Sep. 2nd EDT) Google had done so in over 100 countries around the world.

For all Windows users, you now have yet another browser; among Firefox, Safari, Opera, and others, to choose from. So why not go to Google Chrome and give it a try. Of course, like many things that Google does, Chrome has Google’s “Beta” moniker to imply that “it is work in progress”.

Since I am a Mac user, I will not be trying it any time soon via Parellels. I love to hear feedback from Windows users regarding this new browser from Google.

PS: please be sepcific, comparison with it and IE 8 and/or Safari will be great.