http://www.ninenines.net/ninesblog The Life and Times of A.T. Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:25:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en No matter how hard I try, the World of Warcraft somehow finds a way to pull me back in. Back in the beginning of October, I had this extremely plentiful amount of energy and free time, which I spent on working on a new site powered by Joomla, and it ... http://www.ninenines.net/ninesblog/blog/2008/losing-my-life-to-world-of-warcraft/ I've been spending the last 2 weeks putting together a new site using Joomla. It was a little overwhelming at first, but with the experience I've had using Wordpress, I didn't have to worry too much about the system's capabilities as I knew the program would have everything I was ... http://www.ninenines.net/ninesblog/blog/2008/a-new-site-in-the-works/ So I finally got my hands on the official Melancholy of Haruhi DVDs so now I can remake my original AMV without subtitles in the way. Maybe it will open things up for maybe a whole new AMV somewhere down the line. For now though, I just wanted to experiment ... http://www.ninenines.net/ninesblog/anime/2008/haruhi-amv-remake/ Yes, yes, it's been a while since my last post. I've been in the works for the last 2 weeks of transferring from one web host to another. The transfer was finally complete sometime a few days ago on Wednesday, and I haven't had much of a chance to talk ... http://www.ninenines.net/ninesblog/blog/2008/new-host-renewed-vigor/ I finally got around to figuring out how to stream HD flash video without having loading issues and the like. So here's official 'working' version number 1. [flv:watchmen-trailer.flv 600 251] All it took was to encode in H.264 to mp4 format, run a little program that I found to move meta/header ... http://www.ninenines.net/ninesblog/blog/2008/watchmen-trailer-hd/ Took a good two years of saving to get this, and it's exactly what I wanted. Black on black with nav. And it's no 250 weakling. Got it last week, but too lazy to get a photo in or a post in, but I had to get a picture of ... http://www.ninenines.net/ninesblog/blog/2008/my-new-is350/ Upgrading Wordpress from 2.5 to 2.5.1 So after seeing a daily flux of spam comments, I finally decided to update to 2.5.1 for Wordpress. I figured that must have been the security hole WP was referring to for 2.5 so I had to do it. At least everything is up to ... http://www.ninenines.net/ninesblog/blog/2008/website-update/ From Utada Hikaru's album, Heart Station, it's track 2, which is aptly named "Heart Station". [flv:utada-heart-station.flv 600 362] http://www.ninenines.net/ninesblog/favorites/2008/utada-hikaru-heart-station/ Yes, I saw this about a month ago, but I've been lazy in blogging it. I really need to stop being so lazy. Anyway, let's get on with the last episode. It's the obvious grand finale to this three-episode arc. At Bal Masque, Bel Peol talks about how their plan ... http://www.ninenines.net/ninesblog/anime/2008/shakugan-no-shana-second-episode-24-review/ A huge blue dome of energy surrounds the clock tower with Yuji staring at the Reiji Maigo in the possession of Hecate. Back at where they keep the Silver, the mad scientist explains how they've had Sabrac place a location tracker on the Reiji Maigo, how they inserted a defensive ... http://www.ninenines.net/ninesblog/anime/2008/shakugan-no-shana-second-episode-23-review/