A pleasant surprise

Listening to more of Coldplay's latest album, Viva La Vida (I refuse to type out the extended title of the album now; Chris Martin should've made up his damn mind about the name), I'm fairly impressed. In particular, I do wish they had made the first track, 'Lost in Technicolor', a lyrical track. The instrumental melody and the underlying beat is very good and much unlike the usual staid material from their first three albums.

Although Coldplay's lyrics undoubtedly still suck (I could be wrong), you can't say that they didn't mix it up. When most bands are comfortable sticking to a proven formula, they broke out and succeeded elsewhere.

Pretty nifty

I'm using Chrome, Google's new Web browser. Even without blocking ads, it's markedly faster than Firefox when it comes to loading most websites. I'll probably be using it for the foreseeable future unless Mozilla comes up with a way to optimize browsing speed. It's probably a good idea to give up on Microsoft ever presenting an iteration of Internet Explorer that will ever compete against Firefox and Chrome, which I predict will have a fair amount of switchover from Firefox users over time.

That being said, getting some kind of adblocker on Chrome is a must...it will probably speed up load times a reasonable amount.