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Finally.

March 4, 2007

This morning I finished watching the remainder of the original Naruto saga, including all of the filler (120 episodes of filler?).  That’s right all 220 episodes of the original series.

Naruto: Shippuuden is up next.  This two years later part of the Naruto saga begins with what had been alluded to at the end of season 4 around episode 100.  Naruto, two years older and stronger, now starts on the path to find Sasuke. 

Curses

February 20, 2007

Ayako is has only been releasing HD versions of of the Shuffle Memories sub.

Damn.

Gokujo Seitokai U.S. release

January 10, 2007

Special thanks to ADVFilms for bringing Gokujo Seitokai (Best Student Council) to the U.S.  The series containing 26 episodes will be released under the translated title The Best Student Council!.

I will be eager to see how well the dubs and subs turn out for this one.

The bundle announced

December 12, 2006

I’ve been particpating in the MacHeist project for the past 5 weeks.  MacHeist is the brainchild of Phill Ryu.  The basic concept is promoting shareware on the Mac platform by introducing users to some titles that may need more exposure to the Mac public through a series of ‘heists.’

Beginning Monday morning, the bundle was made available to the members at a cost of 49$.  Including such software titles as:

The great news is that 25% of the purchase price goes to the charity of your choice (from the selection).

One thing to note: NewsFire and TextMate will only be released in the bundle if 50K$ and100K$ are made to charity.

Check out the Bundle, make your purchase.

Replacing the battery

November 5, 2006

I own the first-generation iPod mini and lately the battery has been slowly dying. Sad.

CompUSA began running a clearance on the outdated iPod accessories so I went to check it out. Ended up by a lot of junk, but oh well. I picked up 2 replacement iPod mini batteries for $4. Great price.

Let’s see, they instruction say pop the endcaps, remove the metal guards, disconnect the ribbon cable and push. Yep. What a pain in the ass that was, yet in retrospect not too difficult at all. After getting the hang of popping the plastic caps off, the other fell quickly. Now to unscrew the top piece, first screw, easy. Second screw, err, argh, #!@*, loosen damn you! Stupid locking screws. Grab the soldering iron and heat that guy up, and unscrew! Success! Chucking the including useless tool aside, I grab a more appropriate tool to unsink the bottom guard. Alright. A little love and the guts spill out. A quick replace and the rebuild begins. As with most rebuild projects, I ended up with an extra screw, that damned trouble maker, oh well. It’s charging now and I’m glad.