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Unexpected Christmas gifts: THE IDOLM@ASTER

Einar — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 20:04:26 +0000

Sometimes Christmas presents are really unexpected, and today I found out I was given one such gift: the limited edition of THE IDOLM@STER 2, PS3 version. It was quite a bulky box, showing all the main characters from the game (and from the recently-ended anime) (click to enlarge):

Of course, having such a box means that there’s a lot of stuff inside. In fact, once opened, there are two game BDs (one being the actual game, the second being the first volume of Gravure for you! starring Haruka), a soundtrack (no songs, though), a booklet, a number of postcards (mine were showing Iori’s ending from episode 2 of the TV series), a booklet and also the first BD of the anime version:

It turns out the BD is also one of the limited editions, with a nice cover and more goodies, including a small booklet and a CD with the songs heard in the episodes:

And here are the postcards:

What about the game itself? Well, I have played it only briefly so far: I know it will be a bit painful to translate since the text is timed (having it stop, like in Neptume mk.2 is quite handy if you don’t catch something at first) and well, kind of different than the games I played so far. Still, in my opinion the various characters make it a worthwhile challenge.

I’m honestly surprised…

Einar — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:49:13 +0000

By browsing through sites, I noticed that the Spanish site Akihabara Denno Gumi Universe has posted a translation of an interview the webmaster had with me through email.

Here it is (Spanish language). It feels nice to recall some memories of the past once in a while, especially since I couldn’t still believe that dennogumi.org had been such a resource back in the days…

Moving hosts!

Einar — Tue, 03 May 2011 20:48:49 +0000

After many years of (good) service, I’m in the process of moving from Dreamhost web hosting to a Virtual Private Server (VPS) service hosted by the folks at Linode. It’s definitely more pricey but I like the control and freedom that I have at my disposal. Thanks to a number of guides and some help, I was able to set up lighttpd and php-fpm to serve web pages, and Postfix+dovecot+amavisd-new for email.

I haven’t moved off a few services yet (including my primary mail), but I’m rather satisfied at the moment.

Let me know if you encounter any issues with this blog, although it should have moved painlessly (hopefully!).

Holidays

Einar — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:18:08 +0000

Like every year, it’s finally time for me to go away and enjoy some hard-earned holidays. I’ll be spending next week traveling around France, then going to the sea. As such, my online presence will be reduced to the minimum: … Continue reading →

Camogli and Portofino

Einar — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:32:32 +0000

Yesterday I’ve been in Camogli and Portofino, two small towns in the eastern part of Liguria. The weather was nice and warm, and I took the opportunity of taking a few photos:

Those are samples, the rest are available in the gallery.

Moving on

Einar — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:30:57 +0000

Some say that all good things must come to an end. I’m not entirely sure that this is a universal truth, but I can say that at some point in life there are decisions that need to be taken.

In this case I made my own: today was the last day in Dr.Cristina Battaglia’s laboratory, a place where I spent my three-year Ph.D. course and one year as a post-doc research fellow.

Those four years were not bad at all. They were interesting, and provided a good learning experience. I think I owe quite a bit to that place, especially because I was able to learn and improve my skills alongside the analysis and research work. So my thanks go to my former supervisor (Dr.Cristina Battaglia) and all my colleagues. It’s been a fun ride.

New theme and 2.7

Einar — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:02:59 +0000

As you have noticed, I have upgraded FailWordPress to version 2.7, getting also a new theme in the process. The header image is temporary, until I or someone else gets it fixed. The gallery has also changed: I ditched WPG2 and Gallery 2 because they kept on breaking every time I upgraded WordPress (of course it’s probably WordPress’s API and schema instability to blame).

Therefore, the gallery had been organized and most likely older posts won’t show images anymore (I’ll get to fix those eventually).

Report any problems you find in the comments. Thanks.

DataMatrix page up

Einar — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:14:14 +0000

Ok, ok… my definition of “tomorrow” is not like what most people use, apparently. Although I took quite a while, now there is a static page on DataMatrix. There you will find a summary of wht I wrote in my other blog posts regarding this module. Of course, it will be kept up-to-date should I release a new version.

Aside that, I put a contact form on this blog. It may be useful for reports that aren’t directly related to the posts.

Posting from KOrganizer

Einar — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:46:00 +0000

Following the instruction from Mike Arthur’s post on planetkde, I tried posting on dennogumi.org from KOrganizer (KDE 4.1.1). Lo and behold, it works! It’s always better to use an application rather than a clunky web user interface…

DataMatrix 0.5

Einar — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:54:58 +0000

At last, since it’s been like ages, I decided to put out a new version of DataMatrix. For those who haven’t seen my previous post, DataMatrix is a Pythonic implementation of R’s data.frame. It enables you to manipulate a text file by columns or rows, to your liking, using a dictionary-like syntax.

In this new version there have been a few improvements and correction to a couple bugs (for example saveMatrix did not really save) and the start (only a stub at the moment) of an append function to add more columns (I’ll also think about a function to add rows).

DataMatrix is licensed under the GNU GPL, version 2 only. You can download the installer (Windows) or the source distribution (Linux and other *nixes). The only requirement is Python 2.5 or later installed on your system.

The README currently is a stub, but you can browse the pydoc generated documentation, which details how to instantiate and use DataMatrix objects (or you can turn to my older post).

Also, since git is the new “cool feature of the day”, DataMatrix is is hosted on github’s repository, and you can grab the source with

git clone git://github.com/cswegger/datamatrix.git

Comments and suggestions are welcome. I’ll be putting a static page on DataMatrix tomorrow, if time permits.