the bad thing about working is having no time, no energy, and no shortage of false transperth infringement accusations. the good part is having a bit of money to throw around. of course, then you have to find time to enjoy what you spend the money on. which means the end result is 睡眠不足 (lack of sleep).

i decided it was about time i got my own pair of headphones for my yamaha keyboard – i have been stealing my dads at every opportunity over the last couple of weeks. after doing a bit of research, i was pretty keen on the audio-technica open air AD900s.

they are ever so comfortable, and the sound quality is unquestionably better than any headphones i have heard up until now. works especially well with the keyboard – the grand piano soundbank sounds nothing short of awesome!

i also didn’t pass up the opportunity to pick up something to replace my falling apart 3-year-old sony headphones. enter the Ultimate Ear s3 canalbuds. while i haven’t really tested these out, they definitely put out sound that at least equals my old sony headphones, in a much smaller footprint. it will probably take a few days to get used to having plugs in my ears, but will be good for blocking out the idiot aboriginals that catch the train at the same time as me every day!

(｀□´)　以上である!(爆)！

just thought i’d mention the progress on upppy.  i’ve been spending around 80% of my non-working time pouring code into this project, and there are a few visible results from the last couple of days.  mainly, you will notice that there is now the option for image replies.  this means a single thread can hold an unlimited number of images.  i’ve worked a lot on the smaller nuances of navigating the posting in these thread and hopefully it will be quite simple to use.  the replies begin in a collapsed state, but the first 5 images are thumbnailed to show you vaguely what is coming.  the number of thumbnails here will be a preference setting (along with a few other new ones) coming soon.

i don’t know if anyone noticed firefox refusing to scroll in some areas of the page?  i sure did.  and i finally fixed this bug.  it was to do with the way firefox (fails to) renders the display:table css elements.  basically you can’t mix table-cells with non-table-cells when they are block elements next to each other, or parts of the page are considered to be void!

comment sanitisation has been fixed, and links are converted to hyperlinks amongst a few other enhancements .

oh and i will take this opportunity to say that i don’t take any responsibility for the content of upppy.  even if i am the one uploading the images.  disclaimed! muhah

i mentioned a while ago that i have been working on a new project. as it is at a pretty stable point, i’ll make an official post about it. it is (as a lot of you will already have found out) a new version of my upload board system. i have spent many, many hours perfecting its features, and i believe they are very unique at that.

one thing i will always be glad to receive is feedback. positive, negative, either works. it is the only way i can make improvements beyond my own imagination! go try it out, and use it regularly if you find it useful . itd be nice to build a small userbase to make posting to and viewing the board an enjoyable experience.

noteworthy to mention that you should not visit uppy using internet explorer. and if at all costs you must, use IE7, where it is actually usable (but fails to display some elements in the correct place). i plan on adding ie support at some point, but this is very low priority. who uses ie anyway?

lastly, and probably of equal importance, is the move from psrv.ath.cx to my new domain – ppy.sh. things are still not in place yet – i am planning a full overhaul of this blog, as well as the site residing at the new domain. therefore i will probably post another update regarding this at a later stage .

if you aren’t convinced that you need to watch this sequel yet, then you probably shouldn’t watch it. i had pretty low expectations after seeing the 1.5hour preview that aired a couple of weeks ago, but the first episode really did start this series with a .. bang!

two groups are hard-subbing… what a pity. noone has officially dedicated themselves to doing soft subs. its a pity i don’t think i have enough time to get some together or i would . i did find some soft subs some b**** made for the first episode (trust me, you don’t want to see her website).