2005-02-21 18:08:00
Currently listening to " Prodigal son" by Billy Idol.
I've added a blog section regarding our work for the Anime 2005 convention to the Anime/Manga section. I will try to keep on updating it semi-regularly to give you guys an insight into what goes into our festivals.
kilala.nl tags: anime 2005, anime 200x,
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2005-02-21 08:30:00
Currently listening to "Press Conference rag" from the musical Chicago.
What a relief! we finally managed to move NIS+ to a new Master server. We put in about twelve hours on saturday, but we finally got that bitch tamed! :) Proper credit needs to be awarded, so I would like to say that our success was mostly due to the scripts which had been crafted by Jeroen and Roland.
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2005-02-14 18:34:00
It worked! Remember how I told you about that hybrid Warcraft 3 CD-ROM that wasn't very hybrid? Meaning that it wouldn't run on my Mac. Well, as I wrote about a week ago I sent an e-mail to their techies, they told me to fax them my receipt and since then I had not heard a thing from them.
Well, today a small package came in the mail, over from Germany and it contained a replacement CD-ROM! And it works! :) Strange though that it had to come from Germany instead of the UK, but I'm not bothered :)
Also, OS X 10.3.8 installed without a hitch. That's always nice :) So even-though I was feeling under the weather today (I even went home early, 'cause I was feeling really crappy), I'm all smiles now.
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2005-02-14 06:49:00
Currently listening to "Bella" by Ricky Martin.
Kind of a fitting start ot Valentine's day, isn't it? And also quite fitting to how I feel about Marli, who's my beauty :) Now I just wish I knew what that Martin guy's singing about.
/me runs off to learn Spanish
Aniway... FINALLY! After two months of moping about how slow my Powermac was booting to the desktop I figured out what the problem was. Ever since I installed 10.3.6 getting to my desktop from the login prompt would take something like 1.5 to 2 minutes. That's of course horribly long. I'd heard many things suggested at Mac Freak and the Apple fora, ranging from caches to fonts. I however _never_ suspected that the problem lay with my fonts, since I always took care to install them in the OS repository.
Not! Apparently I'd fucked up a long while ago, because in ~/thomas/Library/fonts were 512 fonts!! And 90% of those I'd already removed from Font Book.. Deleting those fonts solved my problem perfectly! Nowit only takes 1'05" going from power-on to desktop. Now _that's_ the way I like it!
On a completely unrelated subject: I've been having some trouble editing the "Naze nani, japanese pop music" DVD. The music tracks for the video contain all sorts of horrible artifacts, which I can't seem to get rid of :( I've asked a number of people for advise, so I hope we can still get this part of the show on the road.
kilala.nl tags: apple, problem,
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2005-02-09 07:23:00
Currently listening to the album "Nine objects of desire" by Suzanne Vega.
While I started off my day pretty damn happy yesterday (mostly due to a documentary on Bobcat/Lynx kittens), I've been in a blue state of mind since yesterday afternoon.
Don't really know what exactly happened, but it's one of those moods that can be dealt with in two ways:
* An overload of cuteness, like kittens, Digi Charat or Tiy Snow Fairy Sugar. Chocolate ice-cream also helps sometimes.
* Watching my favourite combination of fim noir meets absolutely perfect humor: Cowboy Bebop.
Unfortunately I have time for neither today, so that's gonna be exciting -_- The Suzanne Vega album isn't helping very much either: it's both highly melancholic and charged with memories.
/me switches album to "A real live/dead one" by Iron Maiden.
kilala.nl tags: meh,
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2005-02-07 22:56:00
Currently keeping half an eye on some modern rendition of "Hamlet". Not a very good one at that.
Here's some news regarding Warcraft 3 for the Mac.
There were rumours going around that the Battle Chest set available in shops contains a working hybrid CD-ROM, and I was quite happy to find one of the last remaining boxes at Media Markt in Amsterdam. Unfortunately, when I came home I found out that, alas, even this CD-ROM was broken :( Checking the disc using "diskutil list" and comparing it to the Frozen Throne CD enclosed in the set shows that the WC3 CD is missing the full HFS+ partition. Hence, it is lacking the native Mac OS code.
So I set out to contact Vivendi, the European distributor for Blizzard. Unfortunately they seem to be having some weird issues with their e-mail system, since address A bounces, and e-mails sent to address B are replied with e-mails coming from address A. ^_^ Anywho, the bottom line is that I was asked to fax my receipt from Media Markt to Vivendi, so they can send me a replacement CD-ROM. More information will follow as soon as possible.
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2005-02-07 07:00:00
Currently listening to "Kirchensonate" from Mozart's Requiem.
Man, I'm feeling crappy this mornng :[ Not only do I have to travel double the usual time to get to work, but my damn stomach's acting up as well. Instead of going to the office in Amsterdam I have to be in Rotterdam today, to fix a bunch of things in our server room there. And as I said, instead of travelling the normal hour by PT, this time a oneway trip takes me about two hours.
What else is there? Oh, I've resumed work on my second article, which I'd let lie for quite a while now. But of course I need to finish it sometime soon, so I'd better take care of it now. I expect it to be finished by the end of the week. Then I'll get it reviewed by a couple of colleagues and friends, after which I'll put it up on my site. Speaking of articles, I'm anxiously waiting for this month's copy of :Login;. I really can't wait to see how my first aritcle turned out ^_^.
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2005-02-03 07:07:00
Currently listening to the album "Debut" by Bjork.
Marli's first day with her new class was interesting, to say the least. Apparently she's the only girl in this class (and from what I hear also one of the only ones with a proper brain), which leads to some weird situations. I can only try and remember what my class was like, back in '97. Actually I don't remember us being so weird about the single girl we had back then, apart from the people who weren't used to hanging around with women anyway. Which leads me to conclude ... ~_^
What else is there? Work is like always: work. Some interesting jobs mixed in with a bunch of tedious ones and added to that some nasty political crap. Also, my work for Anime Con 2005 is coming along nicely again. It would seem that I've caught up with myself again :) Oh, and finally: Nina, my brother's girlfriend, came over to the Netherlands for the week. So that's nice :)
Oh yeah! We also bought Wario Ware for the Gamecube yesterday (welcome to the civilised world, Thomas and Marlijne! nice of you to finaly join us) and I must say that it's all that it was cracked up to be! 30 euri well spent I'd have to say.
kilala.nl tags: school, work, games,
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