final fantasy xi – 

Aht Urghan Mission 35 - take 1

Yesterday, at an unusual late hour, I and my group attempted the 35th mission in the Treasures of Aht Urghan line. Preparation was the matter of watching a few (very interesting) cutscenes then we were off to a BC to fight a single enemy, a ninja (the name is a spoiler, so keep on reading only if you know what you are doing).
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anime · s.t.e.a.l. – 

A small project

Since I’ve been aggregated to the AnimeBlogger.net Antenna I noticed a number of new visitors coming to my blog. I’m taking the opportunity (see post title) to bring the attention on a pet project of mine, which is also quite tied to anime.
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anime – 

Underrated anime: The Skull Man

I’ve seen very little talk about this anime, inspired by a short story by Shotaro Ishinomori, despite its obvious quality. I’ve seen five episodes so far (out of 12) and I can say I’m quite impressed by the results.
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linux – 

/ borked

The title will already give an idea of what happened to my laptop two days ago. Due to a bus problem and a forced reboot, my root partition got corrupted. Luckily no data was lost as I keep /usr and /home separated from the rest. However reinstalling proved to be a very difficult task.
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science – 

More meta-analysis difficulty

UPDATE:  Today I found out that J Brooks (the corresponding author of Zhao’s paper) has agreed to send the  data I needed. Thanks a lot!
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final fantasy xi – 

Lifeless people

When starting a run in Dynamis-Beaucedine, some person in charge of my brother’s Dynamis linkshell stated that over a whole Dynamis run (approximately four hours) you should not leave or be away. This statement is misguided at best, and personally I found it rather offensive for a series of reasons:
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