Tag: english

Wikileaks

Now either there’s a website there, that mysteriously acquires secret documents an dumps them for the public. In this case, the chase after the site makes complete sense, considering how a canadian presidential advisor suggested Julian Assange (from now on, the Wikileaks guy) should be assassinated, considering how Wikileaks had to move to the Amazon cloud to handle the immense ddos attacks (and yet, it’s not accessible for me right now – either Japan’s censoring me, or the site’s down) and how some swedish court issued an Interpol arrest notice for the poor guy (on basis of some apparently made-up sexual harassment charges).

Or, the whole Wikileaks thing is created by CIA. This would explain how a website could so mysteriously obtain such documents. Also, in this case too, the persecution against Wikileaks would make sense, just that’d mean that the whole world is being trolled by the CIA.

Reading the articles (mostly at Ars Technica), i really laughed out loud at parts… like where american congressmen labeled Wikileaks terrorism in a white-hot rage. This just reinforces what Cory Doctorow writes in Little Brother.


The day of extremities

Today i wake up at the first alarm of my phone, then went back to bed as usual until the last one… And i found it strange that it was the next. Nevermind, i had breakfast, and headed for school. Of course i was late, but only by roughly ten minutes—or so i thought. As i arrived, in a few minutes the teacher ended the class, and i was totally dumbfounded. For a few seconds, then i looked at my watch and i realised that i wasn’t late by ten minutes but by an hour. Turns out i forgot to reset my alarm from the 9 am weekend setting…

But at least i slept well in class.

Then i came home and came another raging thirty minutes. The rice cooker didn’t turn itself off (lately this happens more often than convenient) so the bottom of the rice was burned, while the top wasn’t even cooked properly. In the meanwhile i turned the power on the stove too high so the topping got burnt too. Not to mention when i picked the rice cooker off the fridge to get the rice out, it slipped out of my hand covering half of my kitchen floor with rice.

Then english classes that i spent sleeping and having fun with puddi on /b/.

I went to buy coffee, then headed for the karaoke at the station, where i spent half an hour practicing the Slipknot songs (except Three Nil that they didn’t have). Even though the performance’s not going to happen…


Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1

After a long time i went to watch a movie in cinema again. The long awaited seventh (but not final) Harry Potter movie was most definitely not bad, but i don’t know how good it was.


I feel like shit

Yesterday coming home from the station i realized that from now on i’ll have to practice the Slipknot songs like hell. And then i realized something else as well. Deadline for bands to sign up is next tuesday, and the audition is the 14th. That’s where i got suspicious–don’t tell me the live would be when i’ll be at home.

But of course it is. I’m soo totally fucked screwed… I don’t even have an idea how much i’ll have to apologize for this. I’ve got the first mail back from the others and sure it starts nice “well there’s no helping that” but then goes into insane rage mode blaming me for not paying attention when the date was announced (i would bet a finger it was not) nor did i ask about it earlier, going as far as to suggest that i did it on intention.

I guess no helping this.

Thanks for your kind understanding in case you wanted to say something that starts with “haha you’re…”


Know happiness

Now it’s confirmed that i’ll have financial problems next year as well. Why? Let’s see…

March:

Sat 12, Tokyo, JAPAN, Super Arena (with Bullet For My Valentine, Rise To Remain)

Sat 13, Tokyo, JAPAN, Super Arena (with Bullet For My Valentine, Rise To Remain)

Iron Maiden Official Website

And also…

special guest

STRATOVARIUS

Japan, 20.02.2011, Sapporo, Zepp

Japan, 22.02.2011, Sendai, Zepp

Japan, 23.02.2011, Nagoya, Zepp

Japan, 25.02.2011, Fukuoka, Zepp

Japan, 27.02.2011, Osaka, Hatch

Japan, 28.02.2011, Tokyo, Zepp

Helloween Official Website

Shall i explain any further?


Bluebird’s Illusion

I think most Fullmetal Alchemist fans have seen those images of Ed as a homonculus. It’s also no secret that this Pride Ed is from a chinese fan game called Bluebird’s Illusion—something that many longed for and hardly any have actually played.

Whenever i stumbled upon a Pride Ed picture earlier i always set off on a googling journey to find an actual playable of the game, without success—until now. Today i was googling “pride” for a 4chan cap, and i’ve seen the pic linked above. This time my search was successful.

I found a website which has downloadables of the game, screenshots and partial translations. I did get the game and it’s indeed what it claims to be.

Now i have a reason to learn chinese.


Feeling worthless

Wanted to start translating, looked around, found a translation done already, checked it out, and it’s of a grade that even my best works can’t be compared to it. Feeling worthless, disarming of this emotion still underway, without much progress.


The plan for tomorrow

Wake up when the alarm first goes off. Turn it off, go back to bed.

Actually wake up when the alarm goes off for the fourth time. Toilet round. Eat breakfast, take cough medicine.

Go to school, try to perfect my skills in really falling asleep during class without missing anything important.

Come home for lunch, start new series torrents.

Go back for english classes, but this time bring something interesting to read (i’m reading Fish Story by Isaka Koutarou) so that i won’t die of boredom during the second one as usually.

Come home and after doing nothing, translate the second Star Driver and maybe the first Panty and Stocking.

Do nothing. Eat. Do nothing. Have a shower. Go to bed.


Wannalyze?

You can’t. What i’ve been trying to do is to get Analytics working properly through all valerauko.net subdomains, all subdomains separated and an aggregate profile. Not easy.

Earlier i was doing this by making totally separate profiles for the blog and the rest and then including them in the right places, but Analytics just couldn’t handle folders and subdomains correctly.

Now i tried to make one profile with a bunch of sub-profiles, a couple of filters and subdomain limiting in the include code, but this doesn’t seem to work that well either. The most apparent sign of this is not that blog posts show up in a way they shouldn’t, but even my own pageloads on my home server where i was testing the stuff before uploading (which is, for your information, a totally separate host with a name that doesn’t even resemble valerauko.net, not to mention its folder structure is slightly different) showed up mysteriously, even though the cookies should’ve been limited to valerauko.net.

So i decided to just stay put for a few days until it gathers enough data to actually analyze and then i’ll see what the problem is.


Infringed

Today when i got back from school an email was waiting for me from Youtube, stating that the little more then one minute long hungarian subbed scene from Star Driver i uploaded the other day is an infringement to Sony Music’s copyrights. I seriously wonder in what way.

Right, i’m no lawyer here, so i have no problems accepting that my upload of that video was a copyright infringement. Nevertheless i find it crazy that in one day all Star Driver fan videos were wiped from Youtube. First of all, it’s pointless. Even if they remove it from there, there are countless other sites that the great Sony won’t think of to check for their so protected content.

Do these people realise at all what insane potential the internet has for their media? Do they seriously think that without these “copyright infringing materials” anyone would ever hear about their anime outside Japan? Oh come on. The people who want to watch such videos on Youtube are the ones who will watch the series once it’s on tv and buy dvds and other merchandise, watch the related movies-ovas-whatever and spend the big money.