Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence - Scene 19: Togusa's House

• August 19, 2006
• James Skemp

[19 Togusa's House]

(Batou's dog comes out, and runs towards Batou. He stoops and picks him up.)

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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence - Scene 10: Festival

• August 19, 2006
• James Skemp

[10 Festival]

"Batou!"

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"You sure have gotten informal, Lin. Since when do you skip the 'Sir'?"

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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence - Scene 9: Orange Sky

• August 19, 2006
• James Skemp

[9 Orange Sky]

"This area was once intended as the Fear East's most important information center, a Special Economic Zone in its heyday. These towers survive as a shadow of the city's former glory. Its dubious sovereignty has made it the ideal haven for multi-nationals and the criminal elements that feed off their spoils. It's a lawless zone, beyond the reach of UN or E-police. Reminds me of the line, 'What the body creates, is as much an expression of DNA as the body itself.'"

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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence - Scene 18: Laboratory Development

• August 19, 2006
• James Skemp

[18 Laboratory Development]

"It's absolutely silent. They must have sealed it off."

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Installing Eclipse 3.2 to a Windows XP SP2 machine

• August 19, 2006
• James Skemp

In this guide, we'll be installing Eclipse 3.2. The environment I'll be using is as follows. HP Pavilion a620n 2.20 Ghz, 960 MB (1 GB) of RAM Windows XP Home, SP2 What is Eclipse? “Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing a vendor-neutral open development platform and application frameworks for building software.” (From the Eclipse.org Web site.) In other words, Eclipse is an open source editor capable of helping you write the necessary code for a number of programming languages.

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Installing Ubuntu really isn't that bad (assuming it can access the file system and your hard drive isn't toast)

• August 18, 2006
• James Skemp

After attempting at least twice before to install Ubuntu onto a computer, I've finally done so this evening. As Gavin would say, "Woot!"

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How Charter Madison stacks up - Speedtest.net

• August 15, 2006
• James Skemp

On CNET this morning I ran across Speedtest.net.  Like sites and tools that have come before it, it's meant to test connection speeds between one computer and another.  Unlike previous ones, however, the UI is much more attactive (i.e., more Web 2.0-like). If you haven't tried it out yet, I recommend you do so.  My results from Charter, in Madison WI, are below. It'll be interesting to see just how long this stays up.

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Did the media forget that Kill Bill supposedly sucks, or ..

• August 13, 2006
• James Skemp

... where they just wrong?

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If there's one thing that I don't like about WordPress ..

• August 11, 2006
• James Skemp

... it's that updating is such a pain in the behind if you have to work remotely via FTP.

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Four working browsers (at least)

• August 10, 2006
• James Skemp

There's just something about having four different browsers on your computer, to say the least. I do believe I've Lynx installed as well, but it's hardly used these days ... for better or worse.

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