If you can read Japanese, it seems the second season of Gundam 00 is coming out this October, which isn't very far away at all. They say that the second half of the story will be played out starting from October as Season 2 of Gundam 00

Looks like there is some good stuff in the line-up this year. Although KyoAni has been rather quiet about it, word has leaked out that Haruhi Season 2 will be coming out this Autumn, and CLANNAD 2 doesn't seem too far away either, but there seems to be some news that has caught my eye on dengeki called Toradora. It is a high school love comedy about some ordinary guy and the top-ranking Tiger of the school, Aisaka Taiga. That looks like something that could be pretty fun to watch. *Jumps in anticipation. Meanwhile, look out for Toki's project on Zero no Tsukaima 3 that's gonna start this July 7th!

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Yes. I succumbed to the dark side, and I got myself a Mac. To be honest, I am quite pleased with it. There have been a few issues with it though, such as the absence of a decent MSN client (that has webcamming abilities) and a decent MKV decoder. I know about Perian but it does not decode my Macross Frontier episodes (1280x720) fast enough, and Macross Frontier cannot be watched at 5 fps, though it does pr0n Kanokon AVIs pretty decently.

PC feels awfully insecure now that the mac is sitting next to it, taking all the table space next to it, causing it to be THE place where I now throw all my stuff, including my girlfriend's stuff when she comes around. I should make a Mac PC video sometime.

I must say something about the speech recognition thing built into OS X though. Although cool, and free, the speech recognition kinda sucks at decoding my Malaysian accent. I always have to act out my quasi-american accent to be able to get it to work, but even so it works like only 10% of the time. My advice to Steve: MAKE IT BETTER SO I CAN TELL IT TO BUGGER OFF WITHOUT TOUCHING IT. Why would I not want to touch it? Well just look at it! It gets dirty every for every third speck of dust that falls on it, and is the ultimate fingerprint magnet at the moment (my PC is the current number 2). I wiped it 5 times ever since I got it.

All in all however, it is one lovely working/blogging machine. It is difficult to find games for it, difficult to get distracted from doing anything not work related on it and damn easy to switch between applications through Expose. The Mac lets you do your work only, and does that very well by leaving little to be desired. I find that most of the time I spend on my PC is finding a better piece of software or plugin to do something, and ending up looking at things that seem interesting, but are really JAPOC (just another piece of crap). On a Mac, I just don't get that feeling. Thus, in short, I am just so friggin productive on it.

If I ever make a living off this blog someday, the Mac is probably gonna be my favorite machine.

written by astrobunny \\ easy to use, mac, mkv, osx, perian, speech recognition

I know I'm a little late but bj0rN has started another AFM contest! He's going to enter national service soon (read: The Army) so he's gonna need all the support he can get! Go now and make him a song that he'll sing in the shower in the barracks! Of course, you'll also get to hear many other people singing away in their favorite tunes. Join now and let us bring t3h love to the people!

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I can't seem to think of anything to post right now, so here's a little something for y'all while I take a shower today.

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I've recently gotten my hands on a new Touhou game released in Reitaisai 5. Touhou Hisouten, Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, and I must say it does not disappoint. The thing costs $20 and I think that's not bad for a game with so much win packed into a CD-ROM.

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I never cooked a lot before. The only time I learned cooking was when I was flatting, because I was starving to death when I had nothing cooked to eat. So I burned my first dish. It was such a mess I couldn't bring myself to photograph it. Does anyone of you cook?

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Is 8 GB too much ram?

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Man I hate this map.

Being far down in one corner close to the end of the world, it's hard to get anywhere (read Japan) easily and coupled with the enormous distances we have to travel to reach the shrines of anime and manga in Asia and America, you could say that we're pretty far away from the fun. Or are we? Luckily, a group of entrepreneurs over here decided to set up an entertainment expo down in Christchurch. The first year it came last year, like many first-time expos, there wasn't much to see (read Nothing) and we browsed through everything (read Failcakes) in the morning and still had time to celebrate a friend's birthday party which was awesome (starting with an O) in comparison. More photos after the jump.

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I'm suffering from writer's strike now, so I'll post a nice big poster for you guys to ogle over. If there is anything to ogle over that is...

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The Japanese people have talent for making people go WTF. I know I'm late but this seriously boggled my mind for sometime, but I finally got it. Maybe CLANNAD bread was made because one of the main characters in CLANNAD sells bread! But why in a can? Is it easier to label this way?

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