Impatience got ahead of me again (2 hours left till new year at the time of post). Happy New Year, everyone.
I’ll say two things for now:
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11:42 GMT+8 at the time of writing, but that doesn’t matter, no?
Merry Christmas everyone. Enjoy the holidays, and enjoy opening up those presents.
Two people commented from my how-to install the antifail chaos;head TL patch that there was a bug. If you’re experiencing these symptoms:
- Black screen a few lines after at the game intro
- Game stops responding at this point
- Music still playing in the background
Then you may want to continue reading.
Of course, thanks to chichiwomoge and takumi for reporting this.
It was a usual day at a mall, on the usual trip to the video game store and what I saw was this.
Sure, took me awhile to grab a copy but that’s what you get when exams are abound. Add in the woes of messing with chaos head’s code.
EDIT: wat, I didn’t save the rest of my post? *blames iPod* wtf. anyway…
To those wondering why there hadn’t been any progress in chaos head ( for my parts, at least), or why I’d been idle lately, it’s because of one thing.
You know it, and you may be taking it too.
Finals.
Now that’s done, time to get back to work again.
I read this from Digg: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/03/AR2008120302106.html , an article about how text messaging continues as a major source of income for telecommunications providers.
Anyway, screw that. This is the highlight of that post (for me at least.)
Americans now send double the number of messages that Europeans average each month. Filipinos lead the industry with an average of 755 messages per subscriber each month and Chinese subscribers are hovering just over 100 messages a month.
QFFT.
Ever since I was in grade school, cellphone text messaging was already a fad and even up to now, just made better. Back in the day, sending an SMS would just cost P1.00 ($0.02). Up to now, this rate has left unchanged for all providers nationwide. Still 2 pennies worth. EDIT: By the way, we don’t get charged for receiving text messages AND calls. Quite handy for emergencies, really.
Midway through, tonloads of services were introduced, such as unlimited texting, (I forgot the rates now, although my provider, Globe, offered P15.00 ($0.30) for a whole day’s worth of texting. Cheaper rates for in-provider (local) text messages (e.g. Globe-Globe, Smart-Smart, et cetera), and even providers that offer cheaper solutions for the masses. You could say that texting in here is similar to instant messaging, only much more widespread in both usage and numbers (nearly everyone has a cellphone, even kids.)
Funny how I never get spam mail even with this rate of messages at a time.
Oh, and I think we’re partly responsible for having Nokia prosperous back in the day (all hail widespread 3210s, 6210s and even 5110s ages ago!)
P.S. Lastly, 3G here costs P20 ($0.40) per hour. Being in Metro Manila (Capital City) can give you an HSDPA connection that would allow you to view streaming content at a fair speed. (no buffering)
Brb posting from an ipod.
…how ironic, I didn’t expect to be an owner of such an overhyped, pricy gadget.
P.S. Plus points for multilanguage / keyboard support.
I can’t string decent Japanese sentences although I’ll just leave this here…
ーーその目だあれの目？
Oh, either link leads to the same video, by the way.
damn, I’ve seen this video (and looped it, endlessly) for about a week and two days now. AND I CANT STOP. So much for my first video viewed on NicoNico when I made an account recently.
Very addicting. I guess they called it a “Daily Dose” for a reason.
