12.31.07
Happy New Year 2008!
Happy New Year everyone. It’s time for another presidential election and summer Olympic games. Hopefully schoolwork won’t be too difficult, so I can continue anime blogging and managing my clubs.
http://moe.imouto.org/post?tags=parent%3A11519 – New Years’ mikos from Lucky Star.
12.29.07
New hard drive
Should say that I got my new laptop hard drive in from Newegg. It’s bigger and faster than the old one — not by too much, since this is always going to be an older machine. I’ll buy a brand new everything soon enough. But this laptop just needs to become operational again, and it is.
I’ll still investigate ways to recover my old data throughout next semester. But now it’s time to rebuild settings, recreate record files, and reinstall programs.
12.25.07
Blogging strategy
Anime blogging is a lot more fun if you do it -while- you’re watching the episode. Seems to save time, and everything is absolutely fresh on your mind … because you’re streaming the information live. It makes summaries easier to write, and they can be nice and long, too. I wonder if that’s how other bloggers do it. And then I make notes in the Impressions section to expand upon once the ep is over.
Often, I’ll replay the ep from the beginning as I write the Impressions, so I can review whatever I missed. I’m proud of my typing skills and can generally do it without looking or thinking as I do the summary, but I’ll pause the video sometimes. Plus, even though I may be putting 20% attention on typing, I don’t have 100% on the anime episode, so a second rewatch helps me catch context clues.
Having a lot of anime to watch, plus Persona 3 being a delightful distraction, leaves me needing efficient anime blogging strategies. :X
12.22.07
Wasting away
Heh, I’m so irresponsibly spending my holiday break. Sleeping at odd hours of the early morning, hardly leaving the house. I would nearly appear to be a hikikomori you didn’t know me previously. But there’s lots of anime to watch and blog about as many fall series are ending. And Persona 3 is a lot of fun.
I bought a new hard drive for my laptop from Newegg; it should arrive shortly after Christmas, so that’s good. Hopefully everything will work, too and I didn’t mess anything up by opening up my entire laptop the other night when I was investigating other issues with it. I tried putting the Windows CD in it and booting the laptop without a hard drive, but it just doesn’t make it. I figure it would at least have a BIOS in which I could navigate, but maybe not.
12.19.07
Lost a hard drive
Platina
( July 30, 2003 – December 19, 2007 )
Well not precisely. It’s more like:
Platina’s Hard Drive
( July 30, 2003 – December 19, 2007 )
Greatest loss is all of my schoolwork since I bought the thing. I never did make an external backup of it. I’ve only backed up chat logs on my external hard drive .. and only up to the middle of this year (but that’s a whole lot better than losing everything). Anime is okay, since I have it on hard drive save for a bunch of recent episodes. Games I don’t care much about — software I kinda do. It really goes down to the school files, though I could try to recover various things from Gmail — the ones I emailed in to professors at least.I’m not all that upset about it .. but it probably hasn’t hit me yet. Or I’m really just that detached. Well, this is probably the “best” time for my hard drive to fail, since there’s no school and no immediate responsibility. But bleh. I still have my second laptop, but I need to get it up to speed. Or just get a new laptop for Christmas…
It happened out of nowhere; I’m just on my laptop, and I hadn’t recently struck it or dropped it or anything. It was sitting peacefully like always, and I suddenly hear this clicking noise. And I finally realized it was coming from inside the computer, and then the hard drive. And then I was having trouble closing windows. And that’s when I figured it was all over. It hasn’t restarted since. I opened up the whole thing to see if there was anything else, but I believe it’s just the hard drive. I think the disc arm / disc reader broke or fell off .. or something. I’m trying to figure out how it could happen as a result of four years of wear and tear.
How much are laptop hard drives? The computer itself is just fine…
12.11.07
Testing feeds
Testing feed import to my blog on MAL.
http://myanimelist.net/blog/Crisu
I wonder if it’s automatic, or if I have to reimport regularly. If the first, then I may have accidentally done it twice, which kinda wrecks things. How would I undo that if that were the case?
12.10.07
Commitment
Heh, you don’t realize how much watching 10+ series at one time is until you start writing about them all. Thank goodness for high-capacity hard drives. And winter break. Without research papers to worry about, I can just watch anime all day.
But I ought to remember to exercise a little every now and then. And finish up Persona 3.
Bring on the snow. Not so likely here in the South, but I wish for it every year. Although with temperatures still being in the 70s in December, I’m just a little concerned for the state of the world.
I have an extra copy of the latest two Megami magazines. Should figure out a way to sell them.
12.09.07
Tokyopop website
Huh.. I’ve been out of the loop. When did TokyoPop’s website become this huge online community? Where’s the news section or, you know, stuff about the company? I’m looking for a list of new releases.
Oh well; I found it on ANN.
But I never knew you could hang out on TokyoPop. o.o
Itsy-Bitsy Bracelet
Do want this.
https://www.dynomighty.com/product_detail.php?Itsy-Bitsy_Bracelet&d=jewelry%2F07-DY-005b
The embedded YouTube video on the page is great — perfect advertisement. I kinda want one to play with now. According to the FAQ, it’s not immediately dangerous to electronics (like wearing the bracelet while you type on your laptop or hold a cell phone); you’d have to deliberately hold the unconnected pieces up to a device if you want to screw it up.
12.08.07
Ranked post
Ha, that’s awesome. My Lucky-Star/Clannad post in BH ranked among the Top 100 posts of the day, at 49. It had 220 views in the previous day (midnight to midnight, GMT). It helped set a new record for daily blog visits in BH — over 500.
But the most viewed post from the blog is CJ’s Matsuricon cosplay pictures entry. I wonder where she’s spread that link, because it has been getting 40+ views daily since mid-October, all while the post was originally written at the beginning of September. If it’s essentially become viral over the web, then that’s great. XD
WordPress stats are fun to read.
