January 2006 Archives

So, I got my copy of the Kingdom Hearts II soundtrack today.  I like.  While a lot of the tracks are remixes from the first game, most of them sound much better -- though there are exceptions.  Now, all I need is the game...which I finally broke down and ordered from YesAsia today.  I'd better start brushing up on my Japanese...

In other news, I finally picked up and installed a copy of World of Warcraft.  Daaaaaang...I knew I should have resisted the urge.  So much for my free time for the next few months.  (But hey...at least I remembered to post something here, for once!)  So, if any of you playing on Agamaggan spot a hapless, bumbling undead mage wandering around aimlessly...hook a brother up!  :D

On yet another subject (I will find a way to put something from every category in this one post, just you wait!), I've rediscovered the usefulness of my second-generation iPAQ hx4700, after dabbling with another pair of Windows Mobile devices -- the i-mate PDA2K (HTC Blue Angel) and Qtek 9100 (HTC Wizard).  Of those two, the Wizard is my favorite:  a tiny, full-featured Pocket PC Phone Edition running Windows Mobile 5, with built-in Bluetooth, 801.11g, GSM/GPRS/EDGE capability, and a 1.3MP camera to boot.  On the flipside, I just upgraded the PDA2K to WM5 (using an unofficial ROM, since I'm not using the device for anything particularly important), and it seems to be behaving just fine for now, where it had serious stability issues under its native WM2003SE.  I'll see how it performs over the next few weeks or so, and post a follow-up then with my verdict.

Meantime, I'm debating what to do with this year's tax refund...  A large part of me is wanting to splurge on a new 17" iMac Core Duo, whilst the remaining part (commonly known to most as "common sense") strongly advises saving instead of spending, seeing as I've got (yet another) move followed immediately by a cross-country drive to Florida coming in a couple months.  Decisions, decisions...

And...well, that's about it.  I guess I had to run out of stuff to babble about eventually.

Just one more quick reminder for anyone who ended up here (instead of at the article you expected) from an outdated search engine link:  the old Spectator Mode archives can still be found at http://www.specmode.net/blogger.

It's a good thing I didn't make updating SpecMode one of my New Year's resolutions...  hrm, come to think of it, I didn't make any New Year's resolutions this year!  I knew I forgot about something...

One of the biggest events in the Apple community, Macworld Expo, has come and gone (without me, I might add), and it brought the first of what will be a series of sweeping changes across Apple's entire computer line in the form of the new iMac and the MacBook Pro, the first Macs using a new generation of Intel processors.  While I am slightly miffed that they would release a new PowerBook MacBook so soon after the last revision (see: my still relatively new 15" 'Book), I became slightly less annoyed when I realized that it will be quite a while until all of the apps I use on a regular basis are transmogrified into Universal binaries, and as such my new machine isn't quite as obsolete as I first thought.

On a related note, much is being said about the upcoming 30th anniversary of the creation of Apple on -- when else? -- April Fools' Day.  Like every other Mac aficionado, I'm very much looking forward to seeing what April 1st brings (though I'm also planning on taking anything announced that day with a grain of salt...).