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Regina Spektor – Far (+misc)
Piano-pop music (a bit similar to Ben Folds). Really like the album, but the incessant repetition of some of the lyrics goes on my nerves, as do the Hallelujahs. Stand-outs: Dance Anthem of the 80′s, Eet, The Calculation. Other music … Continue reading
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Revisiting old movies
Bad example: Ghost in the Shell 2.0. The CGI just doesn’t feel right, and it feels like messing with the film just for the sake of messing with it. Good example: Evangelion 1.0 — You are (not) alone. In contrast, … Continue reading
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Solid-State Drives and You
While solid-state drives (SSDs) seem to be all the rage in net-/laptops at the moment, most of their advantages (mostly negligible access times) also make sense for a desktop system, whereas their disadvantages (price / small size) are not as … Continue reading
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iPhone Puzzle Games
PuzzleManiak €3.99 – includes a lot of Nikoli puzzle games (in fact most of the ones from here are in there), all are randomly generated with different difficulty levels and includes a daily Web Challenge where you compete against other’s … Continue reading
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WowPlot 0.1.3 – “Echoes of Doom”
WowPlot has been updated to version 0.1.3, featuring support for the new 3.0.2 combat log events (and subsequently removing support for 2.4.3 ones). Only tested with a single Kara log, so please get in touch if you’re having trouble with … Continue reading
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Richard Morgan – The Steel Remains
Fairly short book, and about 3 quarters of it feel like exposition (although there’s plenty of things happening) and build-up, but it covers a lot of ground; a fair amount of it in flashbacks. Nevertheless, it ends in a nice, … Continue reading
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Apple’s MobileMe and timed-out IMAP servers
As I was trying to clear out the folders of the mailing lists I’m subscribed to on my mail account (Apple’s MobileMe, née .Mac), I ran into a bit of a problem: I couldn’t delete any messages from some of … Continue reading
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Dan Simmons – Olympos
This is gonna be a bit of a rant… First off, it’s not as good as Ilium, but it’s still a fast-paced page turner. If you skip all the useless prose. It isn’t Science Fiction. It’s Future Fantasy or something. … Continue reading
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WowPlot 0.1.2
WowPlot has been updated to version 0.1.2, featuring the following improvements: Added an option to automatically create new plots when splitting (by holding the Alt(⌥)-key). Added new 2.4.3 combat log events (at least the ones I could find). Removed PetFixers … Continue reading
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Alastair Reynolds – The House of Suns
As usaul, hard SF-ish. Gives a very good impression of time- and space-implications of galaxy-wide colonisation using relativistic travel. There’s a reveal about two-thirds in (complete with “sit down for this”) which on first thought is a bit “meh!”, but … Continue reading
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WowPlot 0.1.1
WowPlot has been updated to version 0.1.1, featuring the following improvements: loading / saving of plots more speed (back-end is now multi-threaded using NSOperation) Sparkle auto-updating better parsing some error-messages more consistent splitting
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Announcing WowPlot
WowPlot is a graphical analysis tool for World of Warcraft® combat logs (compatible only with the new combat log format introduced in version 2.4). Its main focus lies in evaluating time-dependant combat performance in a very free-form fashion, which is … Continue reading
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