Today I started building my new PC. Like all my desktop computers this one is intended to last a while so I tried not to skimp on the hardware too much. At the same time I don’t exactly have unlimited funds so keeping the price around $2000 was the target. I already have a nice monitor, sets of 2.1 speakers and a keyboard and mouse so I only need the stuff “in the box”, most of which I managed to acquire today: Read the rest of this entry »
Archive for September, 2007
I have just finished upgrading this blog to Wordpress 2.3. As of now I have only completed the actual migration - I have yet to start taking advantage of any of the new features of version 2.3 (such as tags) so expect those to be slowly rolled out this week.
I have also started work on a completely revised theme for the site which I hope to get finished in the next week or so. I’m using The Morning After as a base and making some pretty heavy customisations as well as a bunch of cosmetic changes. The interesting thing is that many aspects of the theme are a step backwards for me in some ways, such as the CSS being far more complex than it needs to be and the semantics of the markup being all out of wack. Still, it’s a good base visually and structurally.
If you’ve never heard of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya then what you firstly need to know is that it’s one of the most popular anime/novel series to hit the scene in a good while, to the extent of sparking a level pseudo-religious zeal, dubbed Haruhism, that comes as a sort of homage to one of the central premises of the show: that the eponymous heroine is, for all intents and purposes, God. The show itself is a superb blend of action, comedy and drama which includes plenty of deliberate fan service and a cast of strange characters, all seen from the point of view of the most incredibly normal and average person in world. Fans of anime in general will probably find something to like here.
The full Australian Anime News Network report on Manifest 2007 is up.
Stardust is a new movie based on the Neil Gaiman story of the same name. The plot is a typical fantasy/adventure romp and the movie successfully pulls off an enjoyable story that should be suitable for the whole family.
If you are in the business of creating web sites and applications you might find the following resources helpful:
Apache Ant Homepage
Phing Homepage
Building Web Applications With Apache Ant - Julien Lecomte
Trimming comments in HTML documents using Apache Ant - Julien Lecomte
Improve Your Build Process with Ant - ONLamp
Ant sucks for FTP deployment - What alternatives do we have? - Felix Geisendörfer