linux – 

My KDE4 impression

Since Beta 3 was announced a short time ago, I thought I would try testing KDE4 on my computer. Here I’m reporting on my first impressions and I’ll try to provide constructive feedback as much as possible: the developers are being already (and unjustly, in my opinion) bashed enough.
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general · linux – 

Script to make captures of movie files

The other day I was thinking about how to make screencaps for the anime I watch. Windows users often use Media Player Classic, which can create a video contact sheet (i.e., a series of captures) out of a movie file. I had two problems with this:
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anime – 

Clannad 1

Straight out of my anime backlog, I watched the first episode of Clannad. I don’t know much about the original name (save for the time it took to be released), but I knew that the animation studio who did this series was Kyoto Animation (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Air, Kanon and Lucky Star).
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anime – 

Prism Ark 1

From the already large backlog of new series, I recently watched the first episode of Prism Ark, an anime adaptation of the H-Game PRISM ARK ~ PRISM HEART II ~ _by Pajamas Soft (I wonder how some Japanese companies get to choose their names…). It is being directed by Masami Obari, who did _Dancougar Nova the last season.
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general – 

Blogging scholarships!?

I just read from Weblog Tools Collection that CollegeScholarships.org is hosting a vote for a round of $10,000 blogging scholarships. Now, I may be a little out of the “Web 2.0” trend (actually for me “2.0” does not relate to Tim O’Reilly’s buzzword, but to real and interesting technologies like the Semantic Web), but I find this absurd.
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general – 

New theme

After some thoughts, I switched dennogumi.org to the dKret theme. Please report any errors you may find. The header is the default image, but it will be changed soon (hint: Melissa, you already know what to do…).
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science – 

SOFT file woes

Today I started working on a data set published on GEO. As the sample data were somehow inconsistent (they mentioned 23 controls when I found 28), I decided to parse the SOFT file from GEO in order to get the exact sample information.
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