It was great. (As expected.) There were awesome bands that i’d never heard about before. On the first day I was drenched in sweat (and very grateful that i had about 2000 calories for breakfast) by the fourth artist on stage, and by the end of the day i could hardly turn my head.
Dear music industry,
You’re hilarious. Cheers!
I’m doing a presentation on friday about the reasons, effects and possible countermeasures of piracy, and of course for that i need industry data. Preferably lots of it. Numbers, charts, and from reliable, referable sources too. That of course first led me to RIAA. If you somehow manage to suppress your sudden urge to throw up reading such horribly phrased, blatant propaganda against piracy (i mean, i know that “piracy is a bad thing”, but couldn’t they at least attempt to conceal their philosophy of “if you copy a song you’re a thief and deserve to die”?), it comes to view that most statistics (except for last year US sales) are not free. This is of course to be expected, but i’d rather not pay if there was data available for free as well. Not to mention that since i live and will do my presentation in Japan, i’d prefer global data instead of US-only.
Difficulty in Skyrim
I started a new character in Skyrim a week ago, and for some reason the game set itself to expert difficulty. It’s weird.
Hunting for jobs
Yeah, it’s not fun. Especially now that a certain music label giant’s group thought that my ideas to fight piracy the smart way instead of by brute force were not good enough, I’m not even really motivated.
Local jungle
A while ago i bought a Kindle-only book on the american Amazon. Now that i got a smartphone i thought why not get the Kindle app so that i could read stuff when bored on the train. I did get the app, but for some reason my books wouldn’t show up.
Black Mirror
A while ago I read about Black Mirror on Boing Boing, and even though i have a huge backlog of series i watched before (sitcoms, Misfits etc), i decided to give it a try. You should as well.
Anime
In the past week I think I watched more anime than otherwise in a whole year. I finished Strike Witches, i watched Railgun, Code Geass (both seasons) and Steins;Gate.
As a result, my biorhythm is an ugly mess. I’m actually making some “effort” to sleep at more healthy times for more healthy intervals, but of course that’s easier said than done. Especially when thursday nights i’m translating three shows – it was originally two, but for a few weeks now the translator for Sasami has been busy with school (i think), leaving me in charge of the show.
Tera
The other day I decided to give it a try and make myself a catgirl in the world of Tera. I googled the website and got redirected to the american one. There the problems started. I tried logging in, but it wouldn’t let me.
I thought I must’ve mistyped my password during the registration (no chance), but even after resetting it it took many tries until I could managed to log in. Then I downloaded the client, and I could almost see the figure of my catgirl, but alas, even after installing, it wouldn’t let me log in.
Fucking pissed
Well fuck these bloody retards who think it’s good idea to set the authentication cookie to expire 20 minutes after the last request on a recruitment website.
Guess what, you assholes, it might take a tad longer than 20 fucking minutes to write a thousand characters’ worth of self-marketing! And of course why set up some smart method to save the input!
Media in Ubuntu
The new Ubuntu isn’t doing all so well with media playback at all.
First of all all programs that are supposed to be able to handle my iPod can’t write the media database anymore (they had no problem syncing it before, but then after an ugly crash i had to factory reset it, and since then, nothing). They add/delete the files alright, but they’re unable to do anything with the database, resulting totally useless gigabytes of data on the player.
