Best anime EVER. Ok, maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but it’s really really good. It’s so good that I watched 23 episodes in a row today, which I can’t remember ever doing with any series. Unlike for example RahXephon the plot just keeps getting better and never lets down as you’re drawn further in along with poor Renton in a world of girls who aren’t quite girls, heroes who turn out to be killers, mechas with a twist, likeable enemies and a fuzzy past.
ok, scratch the life is good remark, I knew I shouldn’t have said that out loud.
3000,- euro worth of car repairs in a week means I’m shit out of luck (and money) for the rest of the year… again.
The sun is starting to shine, life is good.
Got my contract renewed and a nice raise, so for the next year and a half at least I’m going to stay on as a sysadmin.
Then again I have a job interview as webdeveloper tomorrow which should be interesting. I only replied on their online job application thingie with a link to the site here and got a mail and call from their managing director, so I’m guessing they liked the site.
After work I’ll be picking up this beauty here on the side, woohoo. Finally an Apple again. This lovely machine is the missing ingredient for a lot of new things that will be started over the next months. It’s going to be the webserver which will host my new sites on a dedicated ADSL line. After I’ve added some RAM and stuff first ofcourse, the poor thing only has 384MB at the moment. It’s a G4@733Mhz Quicksilver for anyone interested in that sort of thing.
The only less than cool thing is a major car repair coming up next wednesday which is going to eat a lot of money… as usual. ¬.¬
Ah well, it can’t all be good news.
Haven’t had nearly enough time in the past week to stay up to date so here’s all the things that caught my interest today as I checked all the feeds I’m subscribed to;
Apple’s quietly released their revised MacBook Pro as the first versions had quite a few bumps with the screen humming, the fans being too loud and miscellaneous other stuff.
Then there’s a new blog devoted entirely to telling the story of someone making the switch from Windows to Os X. I hope it’ll be good and give me a few pointers, lord knows I’m sick of the ‘Apple rocks and does no wrong’ crowd as much as the Linux or Windows fancrowd. At least he’s a 30 year old techie like me so I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
And while we’re at it, another reason I want to use Os X for the server which will host the new (and current) site. Why doesn’t Linux have apps like this to manage services?
Something to drool over, for me at least; Optimus Prime CGI. Damn that’s sweet. It’s good enough to almost make me forget the sacrilege of Beast Wars’ Optimus Primal.
Ajax time! And this week, we’re learning how to code our own Ajaxified pop3 client. That’s yet another tutorial for the evergrowing todo list…
And speaking of Ajax, Lightbox, the awesome image script hits 2.0 and by god it’s gorgeous. Check out the image set example. I hope this will get wedged into K2 somehow, it’d be a match made in heaven.
This made me laugh because it’s totally recognizable. Each and every point. I should add a link to this entry for my IM list that opens as a popup with a ‘do you accept this’ button forcing people to read the rules before they even think about adding me. Mwahaha! Or something. Thank you Bryan for making me laugh.
And to think I could have been working there…
Ah well, have a look at the purty pictures on the top 15 skylines of the world, according to the guy who wrote the article anyway. Although I’m not disputing him on the Hong Kong one.
Thoughts of Imbalanced Mind