May

31

Elsewhere on the web

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Kamen Rider Hibiki episode 18 torrent out.
Unsubbed.

TV torrents.
Bookmark it and begin the countdown to the farewell message.

Malaysia to block Net porn.
“… action was being taken after news reports that Malaysians could access 1.5 million sex sites … While the Internet will not be censored in the Multimedia Super Corridor, a centre for local high-tech firms, Najib said the restrictions will be extended outside government offices to other sectors, which he did not specify.” Good luck enforcing that.

Why is this frog smiling?

May

30

WP 1.5.1.2

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WordPress has been upgraded yet again. Version 1.5.1.2 fixes a security problem so this meant I had to upgrade the WordPress installation on this site for the second time in a fortnight.

However, you can get away with a single edit to the template-functions-category.php file in the wp-includes folder. The upgrade notes don’t mention whether it’s possible to simply replace the 1.5.1.1 version of that file with the 1.5.1.2 version so I played safe and upgraded the entire thing. I’ve had practice so this wasn’t that big a deal.

To update my earlier complaints about WordPress 1.5, the 1.5.1.2 Dashboard now only displays the Get Firefox message if the user has a non-Firefox browser.

The Planet WordPress section of the WordPress Dashboard is still of dubious usefulness, though. While it’s nice to get security/upgrade bulletins, it’s unnecessary to get four different notifications of the same bulletin especially when they point to the same link in the WordPress Development Blog section of the Dashboard.

Four-peat

Even more annoyingly, personal blog entries are still showing up. To reiterate a point I made earlier, why does every WordPress user have to be notified of the author’s personal soul-searching?

May

30

Mighty Corny

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Julii

One hundred years before the birth of Christ, those of the House of Julii controlled vast swathes of the known world. From the Sahara to Britannia Inferior, from Lusitania to Crutia Triabus, all knew Roman ways and all worshipped Roman gods.

But this did not sate the hunger of the Julii and they soon set their sights on Egypt and the Pharaoh’s riches. The campaign against Egypt began well enough. Cyrene fell swiftly as did Siwa and a Roman army eagerly marched onwards to the Egyptian capital itself.

If the Romans thought Alexandria would fall as easily as Siwa and Cyrene, they were quickly disabused of that notion. Arrows, unerringly aimed and shot by the Pharaoh’s bowmen, mauled Roman legionaries even before they had reached the city’s towering walls.

Bloodied and disheartened, the Romans retreated to Siwa and regrouped. The Egyptians’ inevitable counterattack was not long in coming. But not a drop of blood was shed when Egyptians reclaimed their city; the treacherous curs of Siwa forsook their Roman honour for Egyptian gold.

With the fall of Siwa, the battle for Cyrene began in earnest and the Egyptians sent wave after wave to retake another of their captured towns. Many a battle was fought and many a proud Roman general fell in the sands in the ensuing years.

The Senate grew ever wrathful at the lack of progress but despite many exhortations, the forces of Julii failed to mount a serious effort to retake Siwa for they were too busy defending Cyrene.

The stage was thusly set for the one who would be known as Cornelius the Mighty to stake his place in history …

The Mighty

(My Rome: Total War campaign is approaching the endgame stage now and I’m completely engrossed in it. You can tell, right?)

May

28

Elsewhere on the web

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Toys first for Takara.
Takara is stopping its unprofitable ventures and concentrating on its core toy business in a bid to return to profitability before the merger with Tomy. (The toyco had previously attempted to diversify with products like the Q-car.)

Hibiki powers up.
That’s a lot of red.

Hankerin’ for some Hibiki-style rhythmic action?
Namco’s Taiko no Tatsujin is due to be released this August for the PSP.

PSP UMD movie sales encouraging.
“Two UMD movies have now sold more than 100,000 copies each: Sony’s House of Flying Daggers and Resident Evil 2, both released April 19. Sony’s Feingold calls the sales tally ‘remarkable,’ noting that it took nine months for the first DVD title, Air Force One, to cross the 100,000-unit mark.”

The accidental film star. [via]
Way before Reality TV, there was The Up Series.

May

28

Strike a pose

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Achilles

Click on the thumbnail for another photo of Takara’s Magneforce Achilles.

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