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I just read that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 will be out Q1 2008 and weighs in at a hefty 1GB! OMFG, how in the world has it come to this? How do you grow an OS to such size? There’s no good reason that this should be the case and IMHO, Microsoft needs a […]

I saw Rush Hour 3 today because at the time I had nothing better to do. Well, nothing would have been much better to do than see that piece of sh*t movie! Rush Hour 3 totally sucked! It was unfunny and the action uninspired and, in light of the unfunniness of the film, too short. […]

It’s been a few weeks since my last foray into the virtual world Second Life. I’ll probably logon this weekend having heard that the Second Life Community Conference is taking place right here in Chicago. Even if I wanted to go physically, I couldn’t because the event has been sold out for a while now! […]

After watching on the sidelines for well over a year, I finally bought the Pink DS I’ve been wanting. Birthday time is just around the corner and I knew there was no way I was going to be getting this kind of present. It just never happens… So I decided to treat myself! :3 I […]

Actually, I walked a two mile round trip today to get a copy of Kashimashi Girl Meets Girl volume 3 today. It was actually part of my normal two mile lunch walk, but the route I chose was chosen in the hope of finding this on the shelf of the Michigan avenue Borders. Not only […]

While very popular, MySQL is a database with a number of sometimes annoying quirks. On Windows, MySQL stores table names in lower case and does case insensitive comparisons by default. On Linux, it stores table names in their original cases and comparisons are case sensitive. This has obvious implications if one is trying to develop […]

I’d been working the last couple of months on a new anime music video using clips from Neon Genesis Evangelion and a Rush song when I absolutely fell in love with Yasashisa to Yowasa wa Chigau (gentleness and weakness are different) and decided to do something with that first. Inspiration comes like a whirlwind and […]

I used to just ignore contests and promotions, but something about Zazzle’s Talking Food contest just sort of grabbed me so I decided to enter this weekend and was inspired to create a talking potsticker! It just popped into my head along with some Cantonese I’ve learned over the years. Will it win, who knows? […]

I think my interest in anime and cosplay has made me more observant of fashion in general and hair styles in particular. Yesterday I had the pleasure of seeing a woman near the Apple Store with her hair spiked in the back like the soul reaper Kenpachi on the anime series Bleach. The spikes weren’t […]

My oldest daughter recently returned from Japanese camp and now we are both eagerly watching the Gravitation anime series which I was quite happy to find at Otakon this year. I’ve always enjoyed the weirdness of my life in general, so it is with a great deal of pleasure that I find myself watching […]

My son and I, thankfully, do not have a Darth Vader - Luke Skywalker kind of relationship at least not yet. But this weekend I couldn’t help but feel a little Jedi-like as I helped him work on writing a video game in Multimedia Fusion 2. Even though there isn’t a lot of direct coding […]

I’ve been seeing stories on digg about US Presidential candidate Ron Paul for months now. I’ve seen so much there, that quite honestly, I doubted that Ron Paul was a real person rather than some new internet meme. Well, Ron Paul is real and there’s a story on CNET today.
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As I’ve been making my way through season two of Super Gals, a series that really grows on you, I’ve found another hauntingly beautiful song in the closing theme, Dakishimetai (I Want A Hug). And I was lucky enough to find the video on YouTube.