After three days of determined reading, I managed to read through the entire archives of Wicked Alchemy (which turned out to be much longer than I expected), and it's now been added to the Bookmarked Comics list. This means I no longer have a backlog to read through, so I'm free to have a go at all that manga and anime that's been piling up.
I've still got writer's block though.
After two days of determined reading, I managed to read through the entire archives of Mystic Revolution, which has now been added to the Bookmarked Comics list. That only leaves wicked alchemy, which doesn't seem that big all of a sudden.
I'm currently dry on ideas for articles, so I guess one will arrive whenever something inspires me.
An update, and the review of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is now up. I've also made a very long overdue update to my Bookmarked Comics list. In other news, I splurged again after promising I wouldn't, and got more stuff:
But seriously, can any good anime/manga otaku blame me? This is all grade A stuff, and I got the lot for a little over £80! It'd be a crime not to buy it!
In PC news, I'm very much enjoying fully working sound (Amarok currently playing: Asia no Junshin, by Puffy AmiYumi) and GVIM seems fully smooth, which it should on a Core 2 Duo E6750 with a GeForce 8800 GT and full hardware acceleration.
Finally, archiving of April material is now done. Won't be long until I have to do that again.
pointlessness is not dead!
I decided to hold off on updating pointlessness until I finally had my old files copied over and my old 'webdev' directory back on my main PC. As you can see, this took quite some time to achieve.
Back to actual updates then. Shizuku is working (with full sound!), I have a Kodak EasyShare P850 (which is nice, if a bit fiddly at times), and I've seen Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (which I will likely write a review of later on). Once things have settled down, I'll do the usual housekeeping, then get back to writing articles for pointlessness. I haven't been doing nearly enough this year so far.
I've managed to get Shizuku mostly online now, but I'm still waiting on an external hard drive enclosure so I can transfer all my old stuff. I'll likely have that done in the next few days, but first, Debian.
It didn't work out. Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r3 installed correctly, but completely fell over when it came to my LCD monitor. The X server failed to detect any monitors, and unceremoniously dumped me at a command prompt. Kubuntu 8.04 on the other hand installed correctly, fully detected my monitor, and only failed on the Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer that ended up being used instead of the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS, which was to be expected.
My only criticism would be with the manual partitioner. The Debian text-based installer allowed me to specify partition sizes in any unit I wanted, tebibytes, gibibytes, mebibytes. The Kubuntu graphical installer on the other hand would only accept mebibytes. So, what's 25 gibibytes in mebibytes? Anyone? I actually have to calculate with a pen and paper to work out that I wanted a 25600 MiB partition. Surely that's not how it should be. Otherwise though, fantastic work by Canonical, a class act.
Just uploaded a small update to the FAQ and finally fixed the test section. All pages there should be working again.
March archiving now complete.
I've got a new desk, speakers, and keyboard here (all of which are great). I should have a new PC either on Saturday or some time next week. I've figured out how my wireless router works, so I shouldn't lose my internet connection at all. I'm planning to try Debian GNU/Linux with my new PC, so my feelings about that may be on pointlessness in the near future.
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