音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

Akiko's new release "wokashi" has been delayed to September 16. Not really a problem as I'm so good at waiting (?). And it indeed reduced my new orders' arriving jam (I've been ordering weird items since April and the coming one will be so crazy that I never imaged I could actually buy).
Although I wanted the special pack, as a fanatic with a yet parsimonious mind as the bottom line, I eventually moved to aim for the Animate special since it includes an extra CD. That was in the end of July, and today, I happened to have another visit, for no specific reason -- and the tracklist has been updated!

All are new songs as expected (although I don't mind if "Akakakushi" being there). I'm so happy that "Otoshimono" will now have a vocal version (my new year's wish now comes true!). And then, my eyes were fixed onto track 5..
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That's Akiko Shikata after all! I'm not surprised.
判る人は自然に判る…
--People who know the truth know what I mean. (´・ω・`)

Besides, track 3 is titled "百鬼夜行 (Hyakki Yagyou)".. I clearly remember I fell in love with another track with the same title from xxxHOLiC's soundtracks -- seems it's a magical title! and for track 6, long time no see, Ken-san! xD
>>Pure Japanese style. I feel like to play some Zero again (I've been stopping playing this series for a while after the exhausted ghostlist completion for all of Zero 1-3...).

On last Sunday, I did my first "serious" php script. So far, what I've done was limited to "include XXX" and that's the end of story. But, blame that an index.php is configured to be recognised by default while index.cgi is not, I had to do a deeper dive into it as none of available scripts/templates/etc I found online served what I was aiming for.
I did have a hard time finding out the proper built-in function, but at least I didn't spend much time on figuring out how to use them.
While I agree php is apparently a better solution for web based scripting, it can't be helped that I'm already dependent on Perl and tend to add a "my" on every new variable! Others are like "#" for commenting, and "$fh" for an opened file. :3
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There's no magic on google plus so every feed generator has to utilise its API. As long as I can assure this, I'm better with what I've done. If you can make something exactly suits your own specific need, why use others' stuff that isn't 100% satisfactory?

In terms of a RPG character, my current status must be HP 1/999 and MP 0/999, while the numbers were given for the sake of an easy looking. Why I switched to do the php coding was in fact driven by my Saturday's MP draining out experience -- both of myself and my laptop.
Regardless a cache of 10 GB has been so normal for me..

So what's the situation? I'm crushed by my girls? or my dream hina dolls? ^^;

Since my girl's birthday had already passed, I'm allowing myself another week for HP/MP refill, and give it a final finish during this weekend -- although I think my HP will still be just around below half for fairly a long while in future.

At the very beginning, Happy 9th birthday to my little girl! ヽ(・∀・ )ﾉ
I can feel you growing year by year, if that's not day by day. And you definitely grow faster than me when I was 9. So what I was doing back to the age of 9? Seems I don't have any clear memory -- it began a year after I guess. Perhaps I can still dig out my ancient age diary book, but it's way too embarrassing for me to have a read. orz

Actually, I'm tending to be more off-line recently -- which I don't mean I can live without electronic devices -- but it's all mainly about:

1. a cat -- no wonder that I'm the type who can be healed by just staring at a cat's photo.

2. an elegantly curved magical box -- still awkward but I believe it will eventually come.
Yet I don't want to bring too much here. Maybe I will sometime (much) later.

3. a shogi board -- I just began for less than even a week, but I'm already in it, deeply. It has much more fun than chess. The captured pieces can be turned into your own side, and most pieces can do a "transform" after going across the "borderline". While still not memorising all the pieces' moves, it's still quite challenging to me, and I simply keep failing, but losing is fun too (and I'm definitely not M)!
Also, I feel so good in another sense. At least in future when people ask me what's my favourite sport, I have an answer.
Meanwhile, I was wondering, what will happen if I have a computer vs. computer? That I'll have a try soon or later.

Thus, even though about 3 weeks ago I got the idea and made the overall draft arrangement, and I finished most basic outlining/colouring 2 weeks ago, all my attention has been transferred into those mentioned above. It could be strange as none of them is completely new to me, but this was just what happened.
So sorry I can't make it for your birthday! >_<
Maybe next year I'll give you a full hina-set! ^^;

Last night, I finally saw the get windows 10 app gave me some good news. My upgrade was ready! But since it was close to zero hour I did the upgrade tonight.
I initially had Win 7 home, then I hacked it to Win 7 Ultimate. When Microsoft just (?) released Win 8 I purchased it by only half of the regular price, and a year after from Win 8 to Win 8.1 with some huge improvements, and now, the free Win 10 upgrade.

Due to this or that, all of my OS fighting ended up with a fresh installation. This time, I decided to trust Microsoft and let it go. The experience was indeed good. The upgrade began like a regular system update, then from copy files, getting drivers to personal configs, I watched all the changes. The biggest thing was about the drivers, which could be observed easily through the change in screen resolution. Before I was worrying that might be another hassle in dealing with my laptop specific drivers (my previous lesson made me uploaded them into an online cloud), but it didn't happen this time. Display is good, touch pad works (even the long term problem of scrolling in Opera is fixed on Win 10!). Then the files, just like from win 8 to 8.1, not a worry at all. Nothing was lost, including my custom mouse pointer files stored under the "system32" dir. And finally, all my programs are there, my settings for each program (such as fb2k and notepad++, even the cmd colour and size) are all untouched.
The classic windows' start menu is back -- I don't really care about it though. I've said for a lot of times, that I need to thank win 8's removal of that so I get used to the mighty cmd shell. Win 10 is supposed to have an even better performance compared to Win 8.1. As I'm not good at such I'll (positively) believe what they claimed.

However, standing out from all these good things, I couldn't stop being bothered by its snow white window title bars. I don't understand why an advanced OS doesn't let you to choose whatever colour you want. It's not a small phone that to get a good colour scheme doesn't really matter. Plus I'm fairly sensitive to colours, being unable to see the colour I want on the title bar only made my eyes hurt.
At first I wanted to accept it. It's the new OS' decision. But I thought I should at least have some attempts before giving in (of course a 3rd party program isn't of my taste either). And quickly I found it's not unchangeable, thanks to this article.

Now I'm eventually satisfied. Windows 10 with colours on the window title bar!! <33

Microsoft accepted people's feedback and put a simple start menu for Win 8.1, now I wish they can listen to what people say again and let us changing the title bar colours without this hack on their Win 10.1 release.

Exciting Brief News:
1. Mitose Noriko is going to have a mini-album, yet everything about it remains a riddle.
2. Mitose Noriko + Hirota Yoshitaka are planning to make "Yorlga 2". Just wish it doesn't take years!

I like (big) dogs, but I definitely will go with cats.
↓ "What is that living thing upstairs?" xDD

While wait for my free upgrade of Windows 10, I did an upgrade for my other laptop. It used to be running Linux Mint, but perhaps due to some firmware issue, it had random problem during sleep/re-start/etc. in which I always ended up with a force power-off.

I initially was planning to upgrade from Qiana to Rebecca, but I changed my mind for no reason, and I got the hybrid between Ubuntu and Chromium =;gt Chromixium. As I was worrying whether a pure Chromium would have too many limitations (Previously I chose Mint as I have issue with spelling/pronouncing "Ubuntu" orz).

Up to this moment, everything was running well -- although I'm not sure whether it's proper to install a netbook orientated OS onto my not-that-bad-laptop-level spec -- but at least I got the 64-bit candidate version.
Another good thing, before I never got Google's Mozc working on either Mint or Ubuntu, seemed there were some gaps between the OS and the program itself. The installation was okay, but I just couldn't activate it. However, it's painful without it (apparently the embedded Gmail alternative can't be an acceptable long-term solution), so I re-challenged it. Luckily, from someone's post, he suggested using Fcitx instead of the default (?) iBus, and thus I got the IME working without spending too much time!

Some points that I really love Chromiux (although might be true on Chromium but I didn't bother to test any more): looks and works much lighter than linux, satisfies a non-linux heaver user's needs, the OS itself supports the global Google account with sorta individual software-ish apps, the interface is more similar to Mint (= Windows-ish) rather than Ubuntu, and, the one I love the most, pressing the "Windows Button" brings me to a complete "system menu" right in place so you don't have to show desktop first.
However, on the other hand, it lacks the right-bottom show-desktop button that I'm so addicted to on Windows, and there's no windows preview while hitting Alt+Tab, and the desktop is completely empty!! I'm so used to my 4-icon-forever setup on Windows and now I'm struggling with the somehow "rich" taskbar. ~_~

I'm happy with this OS, and quickly did the first customisation for the terminal profile. But perhaps a better idea was to choose a similar theme before doing my own colouring.. I can't read! lol