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Bumming around YouTube this morning I ran across yet another video featuring an attractive woman and largely about nothing, entertaining, but still about nothing. This one has the double bonus twist of hitting two of my weaknesses, cute Asian girls, and British accents. I like accents in general, but British accents are probably my favorite […]

The iPhone launches today and as I’ve said previously, I won’t be getting one. I’m planning to wait for a cheaper and better one later. But long before that happens, there may well be an army of iPhone clones to choose from. One in particular that has just caught my attention is the Neo1973 running […]

Honestly I really don’t care anymore about the US Supreme Court’s rejection of school assignment plans that use race as a factor. What I’ve seen in my life time is that if people don’t want to be with someone because of their race, then they’ll use whatever means they can to avoid it. The schools […]

I guess I enjoy hype about as much as the next person. So even though they are plenty of reasons not to buy an iPhone, go ahead, buy one anyway! No really, buy one! Heck, buy two! Why? Oh, I don’t get a commission or anything like that. But I am very selfishly motivated nonetheless. […]

The iPhone is coming out on Friday and while I’d love to have one, it’s just too expensive right now and I can live without all of the whiz bang features it has, for now. People have compared it to Sony’s PSP, yeah, crazy people!^_^ I don’t really think it’s a sensible comparison, but there […]

Sakura by NIRGILIS is one of my favorite songs and especially fits the way I feel today. The mix of sadness with a spark of hope is just perfect and I found the perfect AMV for it as well.

This has a been a morose, depressing day for me. After spending a good portion of it unconcious, I finally got out of bed, read some news, got incensed about immigration reform, then I took a silly test, the results of which you will find below. I mostly did it for the Matrix graphic!

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The New York Times editorial, Gitmos Across America, well illustrates the kind of abuse immigrants in the US can face, legal ones or not. And once again illustrates, as I’ve written before, that it is the fact that because the rights of illegal immigrants are not spelled out, they are left open for abuse and […]

AT&T has just announced the cost of service plans for the Apple iPhone, and according to one analysis, it isn’t too bad at all. Basically, the cheapest plan includes 450 minutes of voice and unlimited data for about $60/month. Considering that my current carrier, Verizon charges $40/month just for data on smartphones add about $40 […]

Here’s the awesome geek tech story of the day, imho at least. John Lam writes in his blog that Google developer Steve Yegge has ported Rails to JavaScript line by line in 6 months! Ruby on Rails has become my favorite coding framework, and while I’m no huge fan of JavaScript (caps or no), having […]

One of the nice things about the California races are the late starting times relative to the central time zone. This allowed me the chance to go to Chicago’s Pride Parade and get back home in time to witness one of the most exciting race finishes of the year. I had the great pleasure of […]

Bumping about YouTube looking for episodes of .hack//roots in Japanese, I ran across something I did not know existed. I found a fandub of the show. Yep, a fandub in which the English dub audio has been replaced by fan produced English dubbing. Given the religious wars in anime fandom concerning dub vs sub, I […]

Ugh, had to turn the ol captcha back on due to spam spam spam spam spam. Desu desu desu….sigh…

The Verizon CEO says he’s not worried about the iPhone. I think he should be because while he’s correct that Verizon has phones that will offer more in services and functionality than the iPhone, which isn’t even 3G yet, a features checklist will not win the battle for cell phone customers. In Asia, it is […]

It turns out that the Destiny’s Child game I mentioned here earlier, has been announced by Square-Enix! Yeah, that’s SE of Final Fantasy fame. Why Square? Oh why? In all fairness of course, the game could be great, but it does seem a bit off of Square-Enix’s usual fare. But hey! Change can be good! […]