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My very own X of the Year 2007

9 Jan 2008

It’s about 9 days too late, but I figure it’d be fun to just throw these out and see if anyone else enjoyed the same things I did in 2007. PC Game of the Year This has definitely got to go to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. The single-player campaign was short but visually [...]

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Konata Izumi in Edge Rails

In: Anime|Open Source|Ruby on Rails

15 Oct 2007

You wouldn’t think that Konata Izumi (a character from the anime, Lucky Star) and Ruby on Rails (a web MVC framework) would somehow be associated, but they are! I took the opportunity to fill in the missing ActiveRecord::Base#to_json documentation with examples using Konata Izumi and it got committed unchanged in revision 7905. Cute. I hope [...]

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Most sensible post on the Odex controversy in Singapore

In: Anime

20 Aug 2007

RE: the recent anime and IP controversy in Singapore, everyone affected in Singapore should read this sensible post by Dark Mirage. He offers really good advice on what you should and shouldn’t do should you find yourself the recipient of one of Odex’s letters. Be sure to read the comments too. More reading: Odex on [...]

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Haruhi Season 2 announced!

In: Anime|Asides

6 Jul 2007

Season 2 of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzimiya was announced in the August 2007 edition of NewType Japan – check out the scans. The announcement isn’t official, but there’ll be one on the 7th – that’s 7/7/2007!

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Lucky Star: Konata-ism

In: Anime

11 May 2007

I’ve never much blogged about anime before so it’s probably a little known fact around here that I’m a huge anime fan. One of the anime series I’m watching now is Lucky Star, an anime adaptation of a 4-panel comic strip by from Kyoto Animation. This being the same studio that produced the excellent The [...]

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