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While we’re on the subject of Haruhi, I can’t wait to see the movie with English subtitles when it becomes available! From the poster though I have a couple of observation questions, or questionable observations. Wait, that first one was phrased better.
And here I was worrying that CNET’s standards would slip when CBS bought them out. Glad to see my fears were unfounded, groundless and unwarranted. Hey, I didn’t even need to use a thesaurus for that one.
As I was walking through Borders in Wheelock Place last night taking a break from scanning (topic for a future post no doubt) and checking my tweets on my iTelephone (that just sounds wrong for some reason) @Jlist made a remark about Haruhi.
I know I just poked fun at Wikipedia for its unnecessary verboseness and repetition, but like the hypocrite I am I’m going to poke fun at repetition by performing a repetition of blog post topics. Here are the first three paragraphs of the Canberra article on Wikipedia:
With all this furore about the iPad not having Flash, I thought I’d share this screenshot. Yes Adobe, I would have begrudgingly installed your Flash drug in the past because I felt as though I "needed" it, but having been forced to give it up when I moved most of my machines to FreeBSD (which you don’t support) I was forced to get clean and as a consequence I no longer use it even on platforms you do support!
Friends, don’t let friends use Flash.
Jonathan Schwartz’s departure from Sun has inspired me to write my own departure note as it were. Hey I like that segue, I’m going to run with it. After a few [non-consecutive!] semesters in Adelaide I’ve decided to transfer to Canberra. For those who really care about the angst of a 20-something student (no, really), feel free to read.
It’s official, Jonathan Schwartz is no longer an employee of Sun Microsystems, now a subsidiary of Oracle Inc. Fortunately for us in his goodbye blog post he’s said his blog will be transferred to a new address and maintained, and he’s even jumped on Twitter again.
I know these two quick observations are oversimplifications of broader, more complex issues, but I’m going to observe anyway. Have you ever noticed oversimplification is a less simple word than simplification?
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Dear CNET, I provided my location in my account profile with you, please don’t send me spam that doesn’t even relate to me. Sincerely, Ruben in Singapore and Australia.
This sort of thing happens to me all the time, and not just from CNET. How hard would it be to check a user’s provided country before sending them offers and competitions they’re not eligible for? One or two extra lines of code?
Much like science fiction and inexplicably awesome random shows like this, I tend not to watch an anime just because its in the latest season lineup. Personally I prefer word of mouth recommendations, or in the case of Omamori Himari (translated as Protective Charm Himari) if I see a hilariously bad motivational poster.
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