Much Ado About Everything

In case you don’t know, GIMP is an image editor that strives to compete with Photoshop.  It’s open source and as such free to use, and it’s been around for many years.  If you ask around, it’s well regarded, both in terms of what it does (it’s supposedly very powerful and feature loaded) as well [...]

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Steven has graciously bought Wild Arms 4 and borrowed it to me! I am looking forward to playing it, once I’m done with Final Fantasy 8 of course. I haven’t done anything regarding that game today though. No rush! For a change, I watched some western movies today. Western, as in “made in anglo-saxon culture”. [...]

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Oh man, what a ride!  Disc 3 starts a bit slow but then it’s one spectacle after another.  A hidden city-state that looks way out of place on that planet.  A big city, with lots of locations in and around to investigate.  That part was still slow, until they send you to… a space station.  [...]

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I was having a lot of problems lately with my wireless connectivity.  My Toshiba Portege R100 laptop – which is Centrino platform – would lose connection to my D-Link DI-624 Rev. C router quite frequently – several times a day – for no apparent reason.  And it would often have trouble automatically reconnecting, forcing me [...]

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Yes, that’s right – the snow is falling in Vancouver right now!  That’s somewhat rare.  It won’t be staying on the ground though, it’ll melt right away since the temperature is above zero.  For snow to stay, now that would be rare.

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I just finished watching these first two episodes of the new season of Bleach as fansubbed by Lunar. Well, they didn’t waste any time introducing new set of villains. Once again, they are mysterious and elusive. And they’re kidnapping Ichigo’s friends left and right. What the hell? I hope they get to the bottom of [...]

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Steven was right, Life is a nice song to end an episode of Bleach.  While it doesn’t feature in latest episodes (its last appearance is the Episode 63 special), it did feature in best episodes.  I found lyrics for it as well.

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  Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora – final, 6th episode is out.  This is a short series dealing with a very sad subject, love where one person doesn’t have a long time left to live.  I just finished watching it, it’s fairly nice and touching, but sad.  It sidesteps most of cliches that are [...]

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So I got to disk 3 of Final Fantasy 8.  A considerable plot twist occurs at the transition, just like between disks 1 and 2.  At first I thought it was deus ex machina but after a while I will acknowledge that the signs were visible earlier.  It’s still a very convenient explanation, and while [...]

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