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This is my homepage. I don’t see anything valuable here; do you? Anyway, here is a brief list of my crazy pages, websites and other projects:
The time in Tokyo is:
Will you make a contract with Mayoi? (767 KiB, interlaced PNG) (If you do not understand any part of this, do not worry.)
Are you looking for Digimon fansubs?
* The DVD raw PositronCannon used for episode 17 is not exactly the same as the one Densetsu Team later released publicly, so the double range compression may have been present in the raw. Nevertheless, what matters is that the ranges are wrong in PositronCannon’s release and correct in Densetsu Team’s. Positron–LS’s other episode releases have correct ranges.
Raws are available at digimon_japan but most of the fansubs above use better-quality video and soft subs, so you should really just demux the video from them. There is a catch unfortunately, and that is that most of these fansubs also use clean opening and ending sequences, which means you do not get the original credits and song lyrics, and if the visual sequence slightly changes between episodes, you get only one variation of it (although Puto actually created a clean version of the special opening visual sequence of the first few episodes of Tamers). They do not even use ordered chapters (yet; Ryuu-Rogue is going to use them in their v2 of Adventure), which makes using clean versions not only evil but also rather pointless. I wonder how much space is saved… I should check this at some point.
I am working on my own version of raws for Digimon Tamers, but do not expect it to come out for a long while. The other series? Maybe after Tamers.
If you are wondering what the hell Ryo’s story is, go read this. (Oops, now you’re on TV Tropes.)
A note on the International Baccalaureate’s choice of programming language for the Computer Science course:
Good programming style can be demonstrated by program listings that are easily readable, even by a programmer who has never used the program. These would include small and clearly structured Java methods, sufficient and appropriate comments, meaningful identifier names and a consistent indentation scheme.
… program listings that are easily readable …
… a consistent indentation scheme …
… You see what I am driving at.
My opinion on the search for extraterrestrial life is very well summarized by the XKCD Web comic issue entitled The Search.
The single most irritating thing in window-based GUIs is when windows spring up on top of existing ones when I do not explicitly ask them to do so. Especially when at the moment the unwanted window appears you are trying to enter some text, invoke a keyboard shortcut or click something, especially having enabled the mouse pointer to move automatically to the default button in new windows. (I have that disabled, in case you were wondering.)
Kill Macromedia/Adobe Flash. It is stupid. Kill it.
Also kill most XML-based formats and uses of pure XML and the people at W3C and elsewhere who invented them and especially those who made them to standards and requirements for something else to work. The reason is that these formats are superfluous, overly complex; simply speaking, not suitable for their intended use. In a few cases, the intended use is incorrectly defined, while in the rest, the formats are in fact useless, created to serve a purpose but botched up as soon as it was decided to base them on XML; better suited formats exist and should be universally adopted. Let’s take a look at some examples: which text-based format is most suited for storing configuration data? An extended version of INI. Which text-based format is most suited for storing, let’s say, a list of links or a dictionary? The most primitive TXT. Which text-based format is most suited for storing mathematical expressions? One can argue here, but I believe the most suited is the one understood by OpenOffice.org Math; the two next-to-most-suited formats are troff/eqn and LaTeX. Now if we ask what formats are the most suited regardless of their text-basedness, then the winners are almost always, if not totally always, ad hoc binary formats, as they offer the least superfluity and represent what they actually should represent, not some stupid stuff. Thus it is a win-win: on the one hand, the files take less space (and as an additional bonus can be transferred in less time), and on the other, they are processed faster.
Saving screenshots as JPEG is stupid! It is not any photographic data, or rather, it should not be regarded as photographic data! That’s why we don’t photograph our screens and post the photographs, but instead take screenshots! Rule: screenshots should be saved with lossless compression. (Reduction in color depth might be an exception to this, but should nevertheless be avoided.)
About as stupid is making JPEG the default output format in screenshot taking facilities.
交響曲 【こうきょうきょく】 (n) symphony; (P)
(EDICT; looked up on coming across in Wiktionary)
Just in case you can’t (yet) read hiragana or use my (or any other) kana‐to‐rōmaji transcription or transliteration tool: the word is pronounced as kōkyōkyoku.
豆腐の角に頭をぶつけて死ね 【とうふのかどにあたまをぶつけてしね】 (exp) take a long walk off a short pier; go stick your head in a pig; lit: bash your head against the corner of a block of tofu and die
(EDICT)
По‐русски говорят проще: убей себя!
Рекомендуется — об стену, об дно бассейна или пассатижами.
And today I saw ./configure for GNU libiconv print this:
checking for iconv... no, consider installing GNU libiconv
