Some several month ago me and my wife have recorded some Japanese poem for a friend of mine who's hobby is making music (and pretty nice music BTW!). So finally the track with our voices is complete and you can enjoy it if you follow the following link:
It's been in my mobile phone for a couple of weeks may be but eventually I have rediscovered this picture during the import of photos from the phone into computer.
So, here's the photo of my first sighting of Blu-ray disks on sale here in a local computer store at Nagoya. Man I don't even know for sure if recorders are available for sale! And if they are, how they work etc :) Talking about technology illiteracy ;)
The price is about whopping $30 for a single disk. Jeez.. do people really NEED to use Blu-rays instead of ordinary DVDs THAT much? :)
Final Fantasy XII - "Potion" - is being on sale for almost a month in Japan, and there is a set of "official" FF12 drinks which you can buy and actually drink, and may be even live after that :)
I have tasted it and although I didn't exactly die, the drink was not very tasty either :) Kind of normal drink, a little sour may be, but the after-taste is pretty medicine-like. Oh well, what do you want from an official drink of the game called "Potion" after all? :)
Here's there picture :)
I have finally fixed my RSS feed!
Here's the working link: FEEEED ME
After I have installed BootCamp on my Mac, I have spent pretty much time playing games I wanted to play for a looong time. Well.. long time could mean several months in case of F.E.A.R. or more than a year in case of HalfLife 2.
And bloody hell… games advanced so much for the last few years. Absolutely stunning lighting, shadows, the water looks anything but fake. Absolutely stunning. And yeah I was living in a cave called Mac, and actually don't really have any regrets ;)
There are some games I am yet to play (think Far Cry). And also there is that black box called PS2 waiting for me right in front of the TV :) Life's pretty short if you think about all there games to play and movies to watch (yeah, Lost, I mean you:)
Talking about movies, we've been going to "V for Vendetta" with my wife this Saturday and the movie is very-very nice (not surpsizingly though at is was created by the same 2 bros. Wachowski who created Matrix). The balance, tension, soundtrack, story, and originality are all top-notch. Highly recommended.
In the other news, it looks like one of my previous employees got some bug in their head because I was notified I might be going to be sued because (presumably) I rejected absolutely slavery part-time job contract from them. I'm still yet to hear from the company's lawyer and I really wonder what will they put as the reason of the lawsuit. Was trying hard and still don't see any reason for them not even win, but just create a meaningful suit. Oh well I'll look and wait :) Although I'm pretty tired of being stalkered by people who seemingly have nothing to do but to chase their retired staff. (Hint-hint: do some projects which make you some money so you can hire a professional to do you the job which you can't do inside the company?)
Oh well. Will I get sued for this post I wonder?..
Oh my god.. HalfLife 2 just rooolz…
end of entry. :)
Yeah! It's out and now where are those finger of mine to touch the new version? :)
I've been learning Ruby on Rails during the last 1.5 weeks. And the framework is absolutely stunning at how much functionality you can add with just a few lines of code. No, really! It's like I have read at some site - writing with Ruby on Rails is kind of using Jedi-force magic.
If you write in something like PHP, it's like.. to drink a glass of wine in your fave chair - you get up from the chair, walk the room, take a bottle of wine, pour the wine into glass, return to your chair and start enjoying the drink.
But using Ruby's secret ninja-magic all you have to do is to reach out your hand into air, make a wish and.. you already have a glass of fine wine in your hand :)
Anyway, there's a very nice tool with RAD development with Rails, which is, not surprisingly, named RadRails. And I've been fighting trying to make it work on Mac OS X. There was some problem with the paths configuration which prevented RadRails to find required command-line commands to run ruby's commands - so no project creation, code generation, WEBrick control from inside the RadRails.
I have tried solutions from RadRails web-site to set the environment paths for user processes on my computer, but with no luck. Until I have found another solution.
What you need to do is:
- open Terminal
- type cd ~ to go to your home directory
- create new directory named ".MacOSX" (mkdir .MacOSX)
- and change into the new directory cd .MacOSX
- now, create new environment.plist file with pico : pico environment.plist
- copy and paste the following code into Terminal (to insert into the newly created file)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>PATH</key>
<string>/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin</string>
</dict>
</plist>
- save the file by typing Ctrl-O
- log out and log back in
You're done. Enjoy the coding :)
Our crossgrade version of FinalCut finally arrived this morning. It took exacly one week after we have sent the application papers along with old version DVDs to Apple. Not lightining-fast, but pretty fast I'd say, as it took 1.5 days x 2 for transit alone between Nagoya and Tokyo.
So.. I have finally have a version I can use on my Intel Mac at work!!
The install tooks quite a bit of time though. 2 hours overall!! But oh well it was almost 30Gigs installed so…
The overall experience? I didn't touch anything much except for Motion. And Motion is BLOODY fast! Of course I'm comparing to my old PowerBook G4 1.25 with only 1Gig of RAM, but man.. you can really feel the difference and the sound of software crunching numbers like there's no tomorrow :) Nice.. All that being set, what do I need to become an absolutely happy Intel Mac user? Oh right.. Adobe's software! Dreamweaver and Photoshop. But both of them at a looooooong time to wait. Next year…
It was another shiny morning, I came to work and… WOW :)
Only meaningful for my Russian friends though :)
