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Just got this in the mail…

It’s the moment you Minorin fans have been waiting for! Online ticketing preorders for the AWSM(RM 250) and ELITE(RM 150) tickets are now open on http://www.daiconnews.com.

Just go to http://www.daiconnews.com/cm_ticketing.php, grab our Preorder Form and read the instructions there. Fill it up and send it back to us at ticketing@daiconnews.com and we will process your orders ASAP!

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The ticket prices are relatively reasonable considering the scale of the event. Hey it’s at least cheaper than AFA was! From what I hear, the AWSM tickets are pretty limited in quantity, so whoever wants them better go and grab them ASAP before it’s sold out.

Finally! The 250th chapter of Negima. The main story comes back in to play with further developments and revelations.

First off, the aftermath of the Ako hijack is sorely being noticed by Makie…

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This post is essentially a big “FUCK YOU” to all the foobar2000 devs for their decision to kill off support plugins written before June 2007 in foobar 0.9.6.x. Moving from 0.9.5.x to 0.9.6.x is actually worse than moving from Windows XP to Vista for me. At least I only had to relearn where stuff was in Vista, but for foobar? Those features aren’t available anymore!

So yes, if anyone related to foobar dev is reading this, please include “Stop after playback queue” and “Stop in… xxx minutes” for the next version of foobar. In the mean time, I’ll stick to the “supposedly” less stable 0.9.5.6 with it’s equally “unstable” plugins. If someone wants to recompile foo_uie_queuemanager or foo_timebomb to 0.9.6.x-compatible versions for me, I will be eternally grateful too (can’t offer you my first born though, already promised it to someone else).

LOL WTF? It only costs 60 yen to make the Prime Minister of Japan to say “gyafun” on NATIONAL TELEVISION, but 220,000 yen to look for a normal, nondescript (okay, she is kinda cute) girl. Juiz or Mr. Outside must be a real cutthroat.

I guess the concierge charges must be pretty relative for abstract requests like this, probably depending on how “useful” it is towards the “Save Japan” aim. Since the PM had like a 10% approval rate increase afterwards, that’s why it was cheaper than looking for Saki which has no real bearing on “Save Japan”. In other words, ‘personal’ requests get overcharged like hell by Juiz/Mr. Outside.

That makes me wonder how money that purple-haired bitch has left. They never did show her usage records so far. Poor Oosugi-kun.

Oh god, they’ve finally animated the legendary chapters of volume 8. Hayate staying over at Hinagiku’s house! Maria in seifuku and megane!

I think a significant amount of fans wished for a “what-if” situation where the scene above is in chapter 1 instead. Imagine the outcome……………..

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… pretty entertaining!

Actually I downloaded this over a month ago but I really didn’t get down to watching it till now, so that explains the really late “first impression” post here.

I had no idea that Orikasa Fumiko was in this show, but she’s really the reason why I am watching this. I just love her when she uses her “otome” voice, iykwim. Kinda lol’ed at her jumping on Claudio in the 2nd episode though. Her mom is quite likable too.

And surprisingly, I can really accept the FABULOUS-ness of the show much better, partially because it isn’t done in the over-the-top-with-sparklies-and-rainbows kinda way and it IS very gentlemanly (i.e. subtle).

Guess I’ll catch up with the show. Gonna grab 3 and 4 now.

… disappointed me. What was with that weird imagery of the girls doing some illegal live or some shit when they started singing? God damn KyoAni. Just show them singing in the hall!

Anyways, next week has loli Yui and Ui. God damn that was like the best part of the whole episode for me. Even Mio is getting a bit on my nerves now that KyoAni is overplaying her “shyness” factor to the absolute limit. It’s almost becoming irritating.

Because my Mondays until Thursdays are so god damn boring lately thanks to the lack of good blogging topics (in other words, shows), I went ahead and installed Windows 7 RC 64-bit, which was just released by Microsoft.

First things first, this time it was even more painless than the two betas I tried out before this, 6801 and 6956. Install took less time (comparatively speaking) than the two betas and Win 7 automatically installed all the appropriate drivers for all my hardware. I literally could run my PC out-of-the-box. I’m really impressed with Microsoft’s improvements on Windows Update for Windows 7, particularly in providing a reliable and trusted repository of drivers for just about any kind of common hardware.

Feature-wise, I’m liking the new taskbar even more now that it’s nearly feature-complete and refined over months of feedback from beta testers. Hell, Win 7′s development is probably the most “open” ever so far and I’m glad that Microsoft has really learned from the PR disasters of Vista. I’m still fiddling with the look of my task bar, but I’m definitely not giving up my Quick Launch despite the “pin” system. But I do wish MS would recode Windows Live Messenger to have an option to reside in the notification panel rather than taking up a slot at the taskbar permanently.

Stability-wise, it’s pretty rock solid and so far I haven’t been experiencing any trouble yet. It’s good that MS has made WoW64 a real painless process and I had no problems with my old 32-bit apps at all. Also glad that I’m finally able to utilize all 4GB of my RAM now… though strictly speaking it never gets used over 2.5GB so far, ahahaha.

Still having a little bit of problems with foobar 0.9.6.5 reading SJIS tags though, have to reencode them all to UTF-8. Japanese input ｗｏｒｋｓ　ｌｉｋｅ　ａ　ｃｈａｒｍ fortunately.　ありがとう　MS!.

Gotta say, Windows 7 is working up to be quite a decent release from Microsoft. I love all the little user-friendly tweaks all round (you notice them, really) like the Troubleshooter and better help files too. In fact, I think I might be getting a copy too if nothing major pops up further down the road.

Oh god, this episode reminds me of how much I missed the series. And it’s chockful of what it does best, the tsun-tsun-dere-dere relationship building between Horo and Lawrence and Horo being, well, Horo.

The last part between Horo and Nola was pretty damn awesome too, even though I’m uncertain I got it right. But anyways I can’t wait for the second season to start soon.

She sounds so sexy/flirtatious in episode 4. I know that it’s possible to fall in love with someone’s voice… but man, we’ve not even seen Juiz yet!

I do hope she is as pretty/sexy/cool in person as she sounds. And yes, Eden of the East is now on top of my Must-Watch list of this season after this 4 solid episodes coming from it.

EDIT: Fuck, no wonder. Juiz are the Tachikomas! Oh shit is this sum foreshadowing?