This site is now hosted on a Dreamhost plan. You can get $97 off of your first year ($22 for the year!) if you enter my promocode CAEK. While I get none of that*, you save alot. Enjoy.
*It also makes the person who referred me $5.
Finally the streak of filler and “fun” episodes ends. Until now the show has been about Yuji’s harem, Ike’s attempt to catch Yoshida’s attention, and school life. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy those episodes, but I like them spread out throughout the season, not 7 in a row.
This episode was a flashback to Margery’s past, and the episode finished before her flashback ended. The next episode should wrap it up, and maybe give more insight into what her past is like.
Here is a peek on the episode for those of you who haven’t had time to watch it yet.
On a side note, The animation and art quality this season is very impressive. I don’t remember the last season being this crisp and well shaded. Maybe thats because the resolution was lower, or because i still used VLC back when I watched last season…
I wanted something to check my anime for validity on my desktop. I run Linux on it, and needed something that could do it all from the shell. I wanted to be able to check just 1 file (for when i grab a release), or I wanted to give it a directory, and have it check all folders and all files [or limit it to video files only]). It can also output to a “log file”. I wrote it with anime in mind, but it will work with any other file type.
You can read a bit more about the script Here or you can skip right to the script.
Here is how to use the script. Be sure to remember to chmod +x crc32.pl before running it.
Ryan's CRC32 checker 0.1 usage: ./crc32.pl <options> options: -f <file> Get the CRC32 of a file -d <directory> Get the CRC32 of all files in a directory -v Verifies the CRC32 value by checking the filename for a match -vid Only check video files (avi, mkv, ogm, mp4, wmv) -o <file> Output to file (appends) - Note: this will run "silent" and only output to the file. example: ./crc32.pl -v -f [Conclave-Mendoi]_ef_-_a_tale_of_memories_05_[H264][1C06C6C4].mkv ./crc32.pl -v -d /mnt/Storage/Anime/ -vid -o animelog.txt
The script is BSD licensed, so for those of you who know what that means, or cares, have fun :p. Also, if anyone has constructive advice for changes to the script, please email them to me (my addresses are in the script itself).
Rozen Maiden has been one of those animes that was in my “to watch” list for quite some time now. I really didn’t know all that much about it, save for the internet meme of “desu” originating from Suiseiseki.
I started watching Rozen Maiden last Sunday after dinner. I watched the first 5 or 6 episodes and was hooked. I finished the 12 episode first season on Monday. Most of the time, to do a “marathon” watching of one anime like that, it really has to hook me, and this was no exception.
I watched the second season, Traumend, during the week at various times, with episodes 7-12 being watched tonight.
I can say now that Rozen Maiden (both seasons) have landed a spot as one of my most highly recommended anime.
They aren’t bad if you just sit in the house and stuff. Today, however I had to go to class. Now, normally rain isn’t a problem. Get in the car quickly, and I’m dry and happy for the next 40 minutes as I drive to school. However, when your car’s roof leaks - conveniently drips right above the driver and passenger seats - sitting down is like sitting on a big wet sponge.
Yar! I finally got around to customizing a theme. A good looking blog like this should keep me motivated to update moar. I want to write a big post on one of my favorite (so far) anime that is currently airing. Pretty much, Minori is amazing at writing storylines. More on that in an upcoming post ;)
To anyone who actually reads this thing: what do you think of the theme? I have an issue with the side bar, but can’t get rid of that stupid 20px (guess) on the right… if anyone has a tip on that, let me know.
I part thee with a picture.
I’m using the K2 wordpress theme now. It has some cool features and has a cool base look to it. I’ll customize it to give off more of a “me” feel to it when I get some time.
I’ve decided that I want to blog more. Its been awhile since my last post, and I really want to keep this thing updated and such. Comments and such are good motivators to update ;)
I posted this to a forum I go to. Maybe one of my… few readers could be of some help:
After about 5 years of sharing a web hosting plan between myself and two friends, we are going to let the plan die. We are all going to different colleges in different areas now, and some of the sites hosted on our plan were killed/given away to new people to run them/etc.
I am in the process of looking for a new webhost that costs around/under $10-14/mo. I am planning on going in on the plan with a friend, so it needs enough space and bandwidth to support 2 people (he will be lighter than my light web use). If we end up with one of those “megaplans” that clearly oversell, we would probably provide some anime ddl’s or something for new releases (unlicensed only, of course).
I’m considering dreamhost since for $10/mo they give you an assload of space and features, and we have a friend who can get us a steep discount. The downside is that dreamhost has crazy high loadavg’s (I’m talking upwards of 100’s and even have heard of people in the 1000’s). Also, their SQL servers are on a separate box, and the pipe between them isn’t fat enough, so you get high query latency. The price and features are good, but i want my site to run at a reasonable speed.
Can anyone recommend a good host, or confirm/tell me what i know about dreamhost is wrong?
On WP 2.3 now. Not that anyone actually reads this…
http://paluminum.net/ - My site that this blog runs on got a complete recode today by me. I had been meaning to do it for awhile, and never got to it. It took all of 2 hours to write, and I am pleased with the result.
I wrote it in php (stuck with 4’s features on my current host, but plan on busting out some php5 stuff on my next host). It is currently all flatfile/static stuff. SQL powered features are planned in the future (an irc QDB, for instance). We’ll see what happens though. I use mod_rewrite to keep the url’s all pretty, as well as facilitate mapping stuff. More on that later.
I also have an imageboard now, powered by futaba board, and some slight mods and “translation” where I figured out what text was supposed to be. It’ll probably never be fully translated by me, but whatever. It’s a good script for image sharing and commenting. I do want to keep image posts limited to people i know/friends. Basically, I ask that you don’t post unless you’re a regular in #team862 on irc.rizon.net (no, it’s not the official robotics channel, we kind of broke off from it, which is funny since I founded/own[ed] both…)
Also, i realize that there futaba clones that use sql and stuff, and are fully english, but I wanted the simple single file setup that futaba used. A more robust system may be coming in the future (Danbooru or Shimmie maybe?), but for now, have fun with futaba.