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Don’t take away my fansubs!

Posted by Mark | Filed under DVDs, Links

I’m a bit of an anime fan. I’ve bought many a VHS tape, Laser Disc and DVD in my time and I plan to buy many more… unless the anime stu­dios shut­down the fan­sub­bers. For those of you who might not be famil­iar with the world of fan­subs; here’s the def­i­n­i­tion of a fan­sub from […]

Tags: anime, crap, dvd, Elsewhere, foreign, Japan, money, Movies, quotes, series, suck, television, tv, writing

Read more | Comments (0) | Feb 1, 2005

Yesterday

Posted by Mark | Filed under Computers, Life, Site News

Bah, I’m still a bit torked off about yes­ter­day. At work1, there’s been a per­son who keeps send­ing up emails with the wrong code in the sub­ject line. We use these codes to route the issues to the cor­rect per­son and putting the wrong code on the email can mean a delay of at least […]

Tags: broken, Code, dinner, dvd, email, HAL, home, iPod, linux, medicine, moving, nasty, problem, series, soup, Video Games, videos, windows, writing

Read more | Comments (1) | Jan 28, 2005

2005 Inaugural Celebration

Posted by Mark | Filed under Links, Politics

After doing a bit of house-cleaning1 and try­ing to fix a prob­lem with Ariesna’s com­puter2 when I decided to take a break and read some blogs off my por­tal page. At AWelkin’s page, I ran across this link: 2005 Inau­gural Cel­e­bra­tion. Esti­mated cost of the 2005 Pres­i­den­tial Inau­gu­ra­tion cel­e­bra­tion: $40 mil­lion Amount cur­rently pledged by […]

Tags: funny, Links, New Year, portal, problem, quotes, reading, water, writing

Read more | Comments (11) | Dec 31, 2004

Review: Ghosts in the Snow

Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Reviews

A while back on the advice of AWelkin, I picked up a copy of Ghosts in the Snow. I read it, loved it, got dis­tracted and never wrote up any kind of review. A cou­ple of weeks later, I read again. I still loved it but I still didn’t write up a review of it. […]

Tags: family, fantasy, foreign, Love, Reviews, Snow, weekend, writing

Read more | Comments (3) | Dec 9, 2004

Bah

Posted by Mark | Filed under Computers, Life

A four day week­end goes by and I posted noth­ing. Noth­ing I tell you! Why? Because I was tired/sick/busy. Is that a real excuse? Not really. Many blog­gers post under those cir­cum­stances. Bah. You want an update? Well, here’s one…

Tags: anime, beef, Computers, friends, future, GIMP, HAL, home, linux, MySQL, office, PHP, portal, problem, Quiz, Sick, tla, tools, weekend, writing

Read more | Comments (0) | Dec 2, 2004