While searching for information on an End of Life Cisco router series, I unwittingly stumbled upon this.
Today ASSA ABLOY Australia is pleased to announce yet another improvement to this range. A new turn mechanism has been developed for use on 1800 and 2800 Series Brass Plate Furniture to improve the ease of installation of these products.
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Earlier today, the best university anime clubs in Australia (ahem) gathered at the Japan Foundation gallery for a sneak peak into some of the original art behind Neon Genesis Evangelion. Seeing the level of detail that goes into each frame, how all the different layers of colours and effects were added, it was an amazing experience.
We weren’t permitted to take photos of the exhibits themselves unfortunately, but the few photos I got from the event are on my Anime@UTS Flickr gallery. I have some handsome club members, let me just say that!
There was merchandise (of course!), and I was lucky enough to snag a shitajiki (aka: pencil board) to frame on my wall, along with one for Clara.
A few million years ago, I celebrated her annual festivities by presenting her a virtual birthday crown made of grass. She’s no longer grass, so instead have a four leaf clover by 綾兎! Why? Because you don’t see them out all that often, but when you do they’re special and lucky ^_^.
If that doesn’t win the award for lamest birthday greeting she got today, I’ll be thoroughly disappointed.
This originally appeared on PenguinCoffee, Clara’s and my old shared weblog.
From Zerochan, by Yume Shokunin
This originally appeared on PenguinCoffee, Clara’s and my old shared weblog.
I think Piyona is my new favourite artist, for many reasons, but this seems to be her drawing/rendition of Pocky-tan! Cute and edible? (Oh my.)
From Pixiv
According to this article in Xconomy, Google’s Eric Schmidt had this to say to people like me who dare to explore the privacy implications of Google Glass:
“Our goal is to make the world better. We’ll take the criticism along the way, but criticisms are inevitably from people who are afraid of change or who have not figured out that there will be an adaptation of society to it”
So they want to make the world better, by being patronising to people with legitimate privacy concerns.
This is disturbing trend, harking back to Scott McNealy in the 1990s. I blogged a few weeks ago about Robert Scoble crudly dismissing Om Malik’s concerns about Facebook Home. Google have really honed their technique over the years, even by going as far as framing (hah!) the debate on Google Glass as whether you look more macho using it than a smartphone. Oh please.
The good news is: you can defeat this by simply continuing the discussion.
There are amazing, fun, enabling new technologies out there that will push the world forward in ways we can’t entirely see or understand yet. It’s exciting. It doesn’t also mean we should sit down, shut up and lap it all up without also considering the broader implications.
As I always say, never trust those who tell you to stop thinking.
This originally appeared on PenguinCoffee, Clara’s and my old shared weblog.
This image reminds me a bit of Ruben’s post and another Miku illustration that was like it - though I’m not sure where I could relocate it now. Another image by Piyona.
From Pixiv.
As a child of the 1990s and early 2000s, I grew up with multimedia CD-ROMs. For the time, they were amazing. When drives were counted in the tens or hundreds of megs, a 650MB CD-ROM with text, images, short video clips and sound were amazing. Or perhaps I was just an easily amazed child.
The medium was largely extinguished with the advent of fast internet access that facilitated free, widely available and constantly updated material that an optically-powered sneakernet could never hope to match.
It’s that inflexibility that continues to fascinate me about the multimedia CD-ROM. With so much of the web being created, revised and lost on a daily (hourly… second?) basis, multimedia CD-ROMs are unashamedly frozen in time. While in the past this was a hindrance to wider adoption, today they can serve as time capsules into how the world was seen during the time they were made.
My favourite example: my DK World Atlas 1995 CD-ROM proudly states that “Singapore is the world’s largest manufacturer of floppy disk drives”. This is why I collect them!
So, long story short, while waiting for some Indian takeaway to be prepared, my father and I inadvertently stumbled across a second hand music shop. While he was immediently drawn to the shelves and shelves of $1 CDs, I ran to a dusty shelf near the door that was chock full of old computer CD-ROM discs!
Within half an hour of rummaging, and for $10, I had these:
Once I’ve cleared out my dearth of assignments, I’ll have to crank up my Windows NT 4.0 Workstation VM and explore some of these. ^_^
This originally appeared on PenguinCoffee, Clara’s and my old shared weblog.
I’m undecided on whether the cat fans will approve or not, regardless it’s a pretty cute manga which this do(ugh)nut-shaped cat is from - Donyatsu.
From Plastikitty
This originally appeared on PenguinCoffee, Clara’s and my old shared weblog.
I haven’t watched this, though I know Ruben is quite intrigued by the series and wants to watch it. I have a few episodes of it somewhere - good intentions but no motivation. Mix in some sukumizu and you have the perfect combo…
From Nyantype, via Konachan.
