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LANパーティーで新しい年を(笑

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

After many weeks of coming close to getting peoples together to play some new wii titles, but no real success, i was very doubtful that we would experience the awesomeness i anticipated 4 player wii sports to be.  Surprisingly, enough people were free new years eve that we managed to do just this!

It is kind of a pity that the wii does not support over 4 players simultaneously – we had wiimotes falling from the sky.  We went through the rounds of wii tennis, bowling, and a bit of wiiplay thrown in for some variety (albeit only supporting two players).  It is a pity that rayman has to be completed single player in order to unlock multiplayer, or that could have been added to the list of playable games.

By far though, the gamecube games were what provided the most enjoyment.  Mario Kart Double Dash, Mario Party 4(?) and Super Smash Brothers were played for many hours.  These three games are really great with four players (although mario party got a bit tiresome by the 10th turn).  I think this is definitely one of the less mentioned selling points of the Wii – there are a lot of very playable gamecube games out there, which adds value to a system with a very short list of currently available native titles.

This was also my first chance to see Gears of War.  Very impressive graphics and gameplay – almost makes me want a 360.  DOAX2 was also… impressive in the graphics department ;) .  HMM.

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wow its 2007.

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007

あけましておめでとう。happy new year.

feeling pretty sick atm and back at work.  should update soon though!  we had a very awesome new year celebration which involved much wii, gamecube and ds gameplay.  pictures to come :) .

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browse the wiinternet

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

opera trial was released today it seems.

good

  • plays flash
  • renders pages accurately
  • full javascript/everything you’d expect from opera

bad

  • doesn’t run at fullscreen res – ugly black border
  • zoom breaks sometimes
  • can’t navigate with d-pad
  • can’t hide toolbar
  • no gestures! :(

even though its named a “trial”, i would call this a beta.  or an alpha.

thunderbird 2.0b1 is niice.  i’ve been using it at work all week and am now convinced that i should swap my home client from outlook2003.  as it was the last day at work for a week or so, i spent some time tidying up my desktop.  nice and clean it is :) .  its amazing how much more of a pleasure it is to work when you have a nicely setup pc.

seasons greetings to all, and stuff.  enjoy the stinking hot weather while you can!

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odaiba with tencho!

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

wtf? i never actually posted this — its been on private for like 9 months ^^;. oh well, ill just post now.

today’s balls.. i mean photos

we finally got around to meeting up with tencho. odaiba sure is a nice place compared to others around the tokyo area – there are benches, there are rubbish bins. its kind of like a heaven in the middle of…. japan?

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anyways, we went up テレビ東京’s observation tower and that was quite a good sight (albeit an expensive one), and explored the many department stores in the surrounding area. we were searching for the honey & clover cafe for a long time, then found it right at the end when we already stopped looking >< .

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we took a really cool sky-rail train to get there from shinbashi, and returned by ferry. what a fun day it was!

full of balls... lol