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  • Digital Dark Age

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    I vow: To not delete content. To preserve URLs (or redirect them if all else fails). To keep this site up for as long as I am able. To make sure that the Internet Archive can see my content, in case I fail at any of the above.

  • Ender’s Game Movie

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    All in all, I’m actually quite surprised with how well the adaption of the Ender’s Game novel to the big screen went. There were changes made – but for the most part, they really did make sense. A fairly significant amount of material was dropped, but for the most part it wasn’t really story-critical and…

  • The pull of MusicBrainz contributing

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    MusicBrainz contributors tend to be quite… thorough sorts of folks. Lets take a look at what I’ve been up to over the course of the past few days. Day 1 I’ve worked on a few Picard patches recently, including one that allows tagger script to access metadata from loaded files, and another that saves MusicBrainz…

  • Fall 2013

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    Hmm. I’ve been looking a bit at the upcoming season based on the announced series. There’s, well, not really that much that interests me listed yet. But here’s a start to my list: SHOWS THAT LIVE UP TO THE HYPE SO FAR Kill la Kill Shows I took a look at Nagi no Asakura: I’ve…

  • Best Anison from Summer 2013

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    Here’s just a quick list of the songs that I felt were particularly great this season: The WATAMOTE opening: 私がモテないのはどう考えてもお前らが悪い by 鈴木このみ n’ キバオブアキバ. It sure wasn’t what I normally expect, but it works perfectly. The KINMOZA! opening: Jumping!! by Rhodanthe* (anime cast). It sounds suspiciously similar to some of my favourite Doujin music… because…

  • Windows 8 Benchmarking Timing?

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    It’s kind of curious that there’s a bit of a ruckus going on with regards to benchmarking accuracy on Windows 8. From what I’ve heard, the actual cause of the inaccuracy is quite simple: Windows 8 appears to use the processor’s TSC as a timing source on modern processors. There is absolutely nothing wrong with…

  • Migrated to WordPress

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    So, my site is now looking a little different from how it used to. I’ve actually changed how I’m hosting the service, completely. My original site was on Google Sites via my Google Apps account, but I’ve never really been satisfied with Google Sites and the limited control that was offered. So I took the…

  • Network UPS Tools (nut) and systemd

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    Thanks to the Fedora developers, nut does actually ship some unit files for systemd. Unfortunately, those unit files provide a somewhat minimal functionality, with fairly fixed startup order and without taking advantage of systemd’s unit activation features. This caused some problems when I was building my new server a while back. This new machine is…

  • Release version 1.0.0! (And 1.0.1, you know, because)

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    There is now an official release version (or two) of the image-id tool! This release is the final result of both porting image-id to use the latest 2.0 API version of libmirage, and adding support for reading MCN and ISRC numbers from disc images. There is some work in progress that might allow these to…

  • Summer 2013

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    I have now rejoined the ranks of the anime-watching, I guess! Here’s the list of things that I care about in the upcoming season. Expect this page to change over the course of the season. Just to note, this list is way absurdly too long. I wonder what I’m going to end up dropping. Continued…