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Awesome perfume remix/mashup

nobody@vox.com(miyagawa) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:30:20 +0900

＜修正版＞【perfume night を想像してみた】 perfume - the mix

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MEG - PRECIOUS

nobody@vox.com(miyagawa) — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:46:00 +0900

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Dress up your script OS X suit

nobody@vox.com(miyagawa) — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:30:43 +0900

CocoaDialogScreenSnapz001

SafariScreenSnapz005

I hacked my tiny fkall script (that kills and restarts apps using more memories than specified) to use CocoaDialog and Growl to do OSX native dialog and growl notification. They're wrapped in a sub to gracefully fallback to STDERR based dialog if they're not installed. Tiny modification to the code just turns my few lines of perl script into something that looks like real OSX app. Neat.

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Gameplay videos on Nico Nico Douga

nobody@vox.com(miyagawa) — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:49:35 +0900

I've been addicted to Nico Nico Douga for really a long time to enjoy watching some Anime shows (which are mostly copyright infringement and banned strictly recently), MAD (Japanese way of saying AMV/Mash-up videos) and Vocaloid (初音ミク etc.) indies music.

Recently I (re-)found another category that I really love: gameplay videos. You can watch these kinds of videos on other video sharing sites like YouTube, but Nico Nico is a bit different. The player usually talks and reacts during the play, and the watchers leave comment floating and time-synced ala Nico Nico style. By re-found I meant I really liked Nagai-Sensei's gameplay videos with his brother Hiro-kun, but haven't watched it for a while. So it's a re-discovery.

MOTHER　全くわからないけど実況してみる　番外編

I just finished MOTHER gameplay by a girl named "Shushu". Her voice is definitely cute and the way she edits the video (to cut off boring part) is awesome. Click on the video to see how it looks like, even though the language she speaks might not make sense to you (Japanese) :)

It took me like 2 weeks since the whole gameplay is like 30 episodes, each of which runs 20 minutes or so. It's been an enjoyable moment. She just started MOTHER 2 (also known aka EarthBound in USA) so I'll watch the series as well. Nico Nico has 30,000 of these gameplay videos and there are lots of retro NES/SNES games like this, as well as new games on PS3/XBox360.

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Me First and the Gimme Gimmes at thee Parkside

nobody@vox.com(miyagawa) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:31:40 +0900

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

Went to the show by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes with the supporting act of Black Fag, the cover band of Black Flag. It was 21+ show and they played lots of songs including Over The Rainbow, Summertime, End of the world and Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me. The last time I saw them it was SUMMER SONIC 2005 in Tokyo and it was a gigantic stadium that had 20k attendees (the head-liner was Beastie Boys and Green Day). The Gimme Gimmes is not clearly the type of the band to play in the huge venue like that. Thee Parkside is just a bar and it only had 150 people or so. It was a great venue.

Me First And The Gimme Gimmes - Uptown Girl Live at Thee Parkside San Francisco (Aug 10, 2008)

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Ponyo videoclip

nobody@vox.com(miyagawa) — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:41:46 +0900

◇◆崖の上のポニョ　PV◆◇

Incredibly cute.

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DS-10 demo play

nobody@vox.com(miyagawa) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:54:26 +0900

【DS-10】DS-10 004b【KORG】

Who doesn't want this? Can't wait to get it in a few weeks from Amazon.co.jp.

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I won the White Camel Award at OSCON 2008

nobody@vox.com(miyagawa) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:40:23 +0900

Me, Larry and the White Camel award

As reported on my Twitter and use.perl, I received the Perl White Camel Award at OSCON 2008.

The TPF guys were probably surprised that I'm here, like I myself was surprised to receive the award (I wasn't notified about that at all), because they think I actually live in Japan for organizing such a wonderful conference YAPC::Asia 2008. I didn't have a chance to speak using the microphone so instead I'm gonna blog this:

I really want to say thanks to the YAPC::Asia core organizers team, especially Takesako-san, Daiba-san, Taichi and Oyama-san as well as all the staff at volunteering team (I'm really sorry I don't have a space for all names). And also to Dan-san and Pauley's for providing their house as a guest house for the great speakers like Larry Wall, Damian Conway, Audrey Tang, Jesse Vincent, clkao, Ingy dot net, Michael Schwern, Casey West, to name a few. Huge thanks to Eric Cholet for writing a great conference software Act, and also hosting me in his nice Paris apartment for a weekend for the great productive Hackathon.

I would also like to thank Simon Wistow, Dave Cross, Leon Brocard and other early London.pm-ers for starting up London.pm, doing very interesting tech talks series and also London Perl Workshop because that, not sure if he knows or not, inspired me to start up Shibuya.pm and YAPC::Asia, ripping off a lot of practices to organize technical talks and all that.

Finally I want to say thanks to my employer Six Apart and Six Apart KK for giving me such a wonderful work environment and the opportunity to get back to Tokyo this often so remotely organizing the conference in Tokyo from San Francisco is made actually possible.

We (Six Apart) have a booth in the Exhibitor hall in OSCON so please come by and say hi!

P.S. Jos pointed out in the drinking tonight that the Award trophy has such a sharp edge that it could be treated as a weapon on the airplane and maybe I should check in. I might need to figure it out :)

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Miku's Saihate, covered by kz of livetune

nobody@vox.com(miyagawa) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:23:23 +0900

初音ミクがカヴァー曲を歌ってくれました「サイハテ」

I so <3 this song and the remix.

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パックランドでつかまえて

nobody@vox.com(miyagawa) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:37:17 +0900

パックランドでつかまえて―テレビゲームの青春物語 (ファミ通Books)

ゲーム話でもう1つ。

ポケモンの田尻智氏のエッセイ集「パックランドでつかまえて」ってのを中学か高校のときに読んでえらく感動した覚えがある。自分が若かったころ、ゲームセンターに通いつめてゲームをした話、だったとおもうんだけどなんか青春小説ぽいノリもありつつで結構好きでした。また読んでみたいけど、実家においてあったかな？

Amazon で古本が400円くらいで買えますね。おすすめです。

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