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A New Christmas

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:30:37 +0000

Where is the ghost of Christmas past?
It’s haunting has come to an end,
All chains are at rest, no moans to be heard,
The menacing shroud is no longer stirred,
No shadow of terror upon the wall,
No restless spirit that cries its call,
For you have come and lit my hall,
With love and laughter you’re all aglow,
And like a moth to the flame,
Burning while chanting your name,
I fly on wings that make no sound,
Towards the love that I have found.

Continously Updated Anime List

admin — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 03:03:27 +0000

Currently watching

Fate/Zero
Kino No Tabi
Dennou Coil
Mirai Nikki
Usagi Drop
Brave 10

Top 10

1. Berserk
2. Cowboy Bebop
3. Samurai Champloo
4. Death Note
5. Ergo Proxy
6. Akagi
7. Hajime no Ippo
8. Mushishi
9. Stein’s Gate
10. Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Canditates for top 10

Fate/Zero
Planetes
Wolf’s Rain
Evangelion (remake)
Escaflowne
Code Geass (1st and 2nd season)
Kaiji (1st and 2nd season)
Nodame Cantabile

Unrated but worth watching

Natsume (1st, 2nd and 3rd season)
Evangelion
Gekijouban Kara no Kyoukai: The Garden of Sinners
Hikaru no go
Ghost in the Shell (Stand Alone Complex and 2nd Gig)
Eureka 7
Texhnolyze
Gankutsuou
Last Exile
Full Metal Alchemist (1st series)
Shigurui
Broken Blade
Mononoke
Kemonozume
Kaiba
Rurouni Kenshin OVA
Hellsing
Gungrave
Trinity Blood
Xam`d: Lost Memories (Bounen no Xamdou)
Baccano
Durarara
Eve no Jikan
Eden of the East
Fate Stay Night
Witch Hunter Robin
Detroit Metal City
Monster
Kurokami
Darker Than Black
Kurozuka
Gosick
Now and then, here and there
Rainbow
Paranoia Agent
Lain
Kino No Tabi
Moribito – Guardian of the Spirit
Highschool of the Dead
Claymore
Grappler Baki
Deadman Wonderland

Ok but nothing noteworthy

Sengoku Basara

Undecided about (taken a break after a few episodes)

Fractale
Level E
Kemono no Souja Erin
Genji Monogatari Sennenki
Aoi Bungaku
Kyou Kara Maou
Hi No Tori
Aria the origination
Gilgamesh
Tower of Druaga
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
xxxHolic

Have yet to see

Gundam Unicorn
Gintama
Ride Back
Chrome-Shelled Regios
Asura Crying
Rah-Xephon
Soul Eater
Legend of the Galactic Heroes

Not worth watching

Ao no Exorcist
Dantalian No Shoka
Appleseed XIII
12 kingdoms (koku?)
Vipers Creed
Slayers
Dragonball
One Piece
Naruto
Blood+
Katanagatari
Inuyasha
Green Legend
Trigun
Black Lagoon
Fairy Tail

Can’t remember name of

Taking place on the moon with communications to earth cut off
Taking place on earth, some girl getting awoken in an underground chamber and her powers are wanted by some guy. Forest related somehow?
Some Macross 4 episode precursor OVA.
Martial arts anime with non weapon technique inherited from father to son.

Best Anime 2011 so far

admin — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 02:27:10 +0000

1. Stein’s Gate
2. Gyakkyou Burai Kaiji: Hakairoku Hen – 2nd season
3. Natsume Yuujinchou San – 3rd season
4. Gosick

How to avoid white artifacts in images with transparent background

admin — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 02:29:56 +0000

I don’t know how many times I have made images with transparent background only to discover, once implemented on the intended website, that they have white artificats in the transparent areas. This happens when you change resolution of an image with transparent background and then save for web and devices.

There are 2 ways around this:

1. Use the ordinary save function instead of “save for web and devices”. This is the best solution for gif and png.
2. Apply the desired resolution on the image and save (as photoshop file) *before* you save for web and devices as gif or png.

Highlighting menu items in wordpress with css

admin — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 04:05:35 +0000

With Wordpress 3.0 came 3 new style classes that allow you to fully style the menu items to your liking. The classes are:

.current-menu-item
.current-page-ancestor
.current-post-ancestor

If they are missing from your stylesheet – they probably are – make sure to add them and define properties for them. Together with the good old “.current-page-item” you can finally highlight the menu items all the way. When on a page, when on a subpage to that page, when in a category and when in a post in a category. These classes saved my day. I hope they will save your day too.

Time to highlight your wordpress menu items!

My favorite extensions for Joomla

admin — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 08:05:56 +0000

The exentension I always make sure to install on my Joomla websites are:

Kunena (Best forum extension)
uddeIM (Best private message extension(
Extended menu module (Best menu module)

Then something for google webmaster tools and google analytics. I will get back to you on this in a few days with links etc.

How to add a style sheet property to a sub element

admin — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 02:36:45 +0000

As you might have noticed, you can not use a class or an id for an element placed within another element that already uses a class or an id. To get around this you must define the element you want to style in your style sheet as a sub element of the principal class or id.

For example, if you want to have an image within a div and you want both the div and the image to use style sheet defined properties, then your style sheet must look like this:

.div {
define properties for the div
}

.div img {
define properties for the image within the div
}

You could also use id instead of class and it would then look like:

#div {
define properties for the div
}

#div img {
define properties for the image within the div
}

PayPal’s dispute system does not help its users

admin — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 02:28:29 +0000

A customer recently lodged a PayPal dispute wanting a refund. The funds associated with the transaction were locked and my paypal balance turned negative as a result. I topped up my balance to slightly above zero in order to avoid any problems. Then it was the matter of resolving the dispute.

This should have been straight forward but when I tried to refund the transaction via the disputes screen, PayPal stated that it could not be refunded because I did not have enough funds on my PayPal account. So here is how it works: PayPal locks all funds associated with a disputed transaction and unless you have additional funds on your paypal account, you can’t refund the disputed transaction. A totally ludicrous system.

What I had to do was ask the customer to cancel the dispute so that I, in turn, could refund the transaction. The customer would have been better off not starting the dispute in the first place for it certainly did not help him get his money back. PayPal’s dispute system clearly has the principal purpose of endowing PayPal themselves with more liquidity for the time being. The idea is not to help buyers and sellers resolve anything.

PayPal steals money as an integral part of the system

admin — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:11:24 +0000

I have a swedish paypal account but I receive all payment to my USD balance. When I withdraw money to my swedish bank account, paypal converts from USD to SEK. PayPals currency conversion rate is around 4% below market value meaning that they steal 4% of the money being converted just like that. This is only the beginning though.

It just so happened that I initated a withdrawal of 252 USD exactly 24 hours ago. This was converted to 1,617.02 SEK at an exchange rate of 1 U.S. Dollar = 6.41677 Swedish Kronor. At this stage my USD balance was zero. Unfortunately a customer filed a complaint about an order on the magnitude of -33.27 USD today, just 1 day after the withdrawal was initated. This turned my PayPal balance negative and as a consequence the withdrawal was reversed. However, the reversed withdrawal was credited to my SEK balance, not my USD balance. To get the money over into my USD balance, from which it originally came, I would have to use PayPal’s currency conversion once more and lose another 4% in currency conversion.

This is still not the end though. PayPal happens to have the kindness to display the value of all balances combined in the currency chosen as main currency which is USD in my case. After the withdrawal had been reversed it displayed 224 USD which is a far cry from the 252 I originally had. In fact, it is is only 88% of what I had which means that 12% has been lost over the course of 2 conversions. Part of the explanation might be a change in exchange rate between the two days but it is still ridiculous. There is no valid reason why my withdrawal should not be returned to me in the currency it was converted from in the first place.

This how PayPal cuts the corners and scims extra money off of its users. It is not enough with the transaction fees which normally vary between 3% and 15% depending on transaction size. They can take up to 12% more if you don’t have a bank account denominated in the currency you receive payments in, leaving PayPal with up to 27% of your money in their pocket just like that. They are criminals.

How to remove article id from the sef url on a Joomla site

admin — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:57:07 +0000

When you activate search engine friendly urls on your Joomla site the article ids tend to be included in the urls even though they are not part of the alias you have defined. This is annoying and there are two solutions:

1) Install a Joomla seo extension that lets you change the urls to your liking.
2) Add the article as a menu item (Article layout) in the menu manager and define the alias to your liking for the particular menu item. This way the article id will be omitted from the url when the article is displayed.