7 May 2008 | Photography | No Responses
We went out the last week of April to a chain of old neighborhoods east of Qianmen that are scheduled for demolition. Some of the homes are just common homes; some of them were the residence of relatives of Qing Dynasty nobles; all of them are coming down.
It took several days to pick through the 4GB of shots, clean them up and get them up on deviantART, but I finished the effort on Monday. I am pretty happy with the series, an it is the first time I have primarily photographed city life, and also the first time I have done so much free-hand work with my new Nikon.
Thumbnails of the series follow the jump. For full resolution photos, check the gallery on deviantART or click the link in the preview frame.
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7 May 2008 | Ubuntu | No Responses
I have compiled and released a patch acpi-cpufreq.ko module for Hardy Heron kernel 2.6.24-17, which is currently in the repository for proposed updates. You still need to install any Linux-PHC initialization scripts, but this will help any fresh Gutsy to Hardy upgraders or Hardy installers who accidentally grabbed the proposed kernel and found their PHC dead.
You can grab the patched module from this Ubuntu Forums post. The same thread also has a module for kernel 2.6.24-16.
21 April 2008 | Random | No Responses
Once upon a time, this Web site was JumpStation.org and it had a forum. It, and its forum, got assassinated. Since then, there has not been a good forum on the Internet — at least not one I looked forward to reading.
While I can hardly hope to recover the great group of people that forum had in 2002 - 2004, I have started a new forum on this site. You can get to it from the “Board” link in the blue bar at the top of each page: that is five clicks right of the big graphic for my illiterate readers.
It is a very simple one powered by bbPress. You have to make an account to post, and you have to make a Gravatar account if you want to have an avatar.
Right now there is only a General forum, because two accounts are hardly enough to spawn a second one. In the future I may add a forum to offer tech support for some of my old programs or translations. I may also re-route post comments to the forum.
21 April 2008 | Random | No Responses
Apparently the good people at PlayGeneration have taken it upon themselves to help with distributing Sonic Eraser. They are also selling the King Colossus, Pulseman and Battle Mania 2 translations by MIJET, as well as Neverending (NE) Soft Team’s Shuihu Fengyun Zhuan (水浒风云传).
While I am flattered my translation of such a shitty game would ever appear on cart, a complimentary copy would have been nice.
It would be a real shame if someone were to e-mail SEGA of Japan about two of pirate versions of its games being sold at most likely what appears to be without license.
17 April 2008 | Memory | 2 Responses
Those who have been stalking me might remember Manufactured the “album” byuu and I made back in the earlier part of this decade. After six years of being unavailable on the Internet in any form, I have decided to re-release our monstrosity.
Last year when the Der Langrisser translation project drew to a close, byuu and I talked about revisiting the concept and doing better songs. At the time, we were really just screwing around. The album is incredibly unbalanced, and you can figure out precisely how we learned to put this together if you listen from the first track to the last.
At the moment, the script we used to generate the songs is missing in action, but I will try to explain what we did below.
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14 April 2008 | Photography | 3 Responses
After considerable trials, I finally have a new lens for my Nikon. This gets me past the limits of the Nikkor 18-55mm kit lens it came with and puts me up to the 210mm range, meaning it almost equals the 10x optical zoom of my old Sony Mavica CD-1000.
The Mavica’s optical zoom was near legendary as point-and-shoot cameras go, and I’m glad to have something that can get me into that range again since I enjoy dabbling in macro photography.
Endless thanks go out to scorpio5361, the best Taobao seller ever and a really good guy in general. It’s hard to imagine a seller going to the lengths this guy did to make us happy.
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