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Posts from ‘April, 2008’

Newest iMacs

Apple has release the newest specs for their iMac series of computers. The iMac is Apples midpriced model of computers with prices starting at $1200 for the 20inch 2.4Ghz version up to $2200 for the 24inch 3.06Ghz version. When I was planing my Mac purchase I deside not to go with the iMac mainly because [...]

Vampire Hunter D Novel

I was in the book store a few weeks back and picked up the first Vampire Hunter D novel. Up till now my only experence with D was the original 1985 anime movie. This is the book the original movie was base on, the second movie Bloodlust is based on book 3, so the plot [...]

The Power of Automator

One of the worries of anyone running a website on a computer they don’t control is what happens if when the computer fails. For a long while (pre Mac days) I handled it by, at least once a month downloading a mirror of everything on the site’s server, and backuping the database manually once a [...]

ArtStorm's Ruka Hoshikawa and Kotone Kusuhara

This just came up on Goodsmile’s site today. Coming from Art Storm is this pair of figures from the ergo visual novel Hoshiful. The girls are Ruka Hoshikawa (the blond) and Kotone Kusuhara (the brunette). The girls are scheduled to come out in September for 5,800 yen each. Both are 1/8 scale and stand in [...]

New Site Feature

Well with the upgrade to WordPress 2.5 and the addition of a plug-in a new site feature appears. The ‘Other Posts of Interest’ are at the bottom of each post both on the Main page and on the single post pages. This will make it easier for new visitors to find older posts that they [...]

Upgrade to WordPress 2.5 Complete

Well the Upgrade to WordPress Version 2.5 complete. The upgrade went fairly easy with only a couple of small hiccups. All of the plugins seem to be working ok. There is a small problem with the Now Reading Library not showing up right. If I remember right I had this problem before, and it wasn’t [...]

Steampunk Mac Mini

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There are those of us who like Mac. There are those of us who like Steampunk. There are those of us who like both then there are those of us who like both and have the skill to do something about it. What you see in the pic above is re-skined MacMini and not only [...]