Personal Monthly Update #003

This is the month which I'm ashamed of. Basically, I just wasted time doing nothing. I was extremely depressed, so I would just sleep long hours, watch a lot of anime (cause they don't need "thinking", thinking makes my head ache), or just sit on the coach staring at T.V.

Legend: (GOOD, NORMAL, BAD)

6-STORY (3 hrs):
Thinking about my story.

SECRET?

5-Programming (1.5 days):
I updated my "Anime Watching Program", click here for it's source code if you are interested in it for some reason.

ANIME PROGRAM Written by gezegond.

4-Personal Miscellaneous (3 days):
Made an xls list out of all the anime I own, also downloaded wiki files for them.

MY ANIME LIST

3-Life Chores (5 days):
EATING, SLEEPING, ZZZzzz

Chores = Tea

2-HAVE FUN! (6 days):
1-Watched 65 anime episodes (Mostly Bleach, One Piece, and Dragon Ball).
2-Watched Heroes (Seasons 1-4) and Prison Break. (end of season 2).
3-Read 9 manga chapters (Best of them being Blame!).
4-Watched The Simpsons episodes 1-4.
5-Read 3 Comic issues (Best of them being The Sandman).

HEROES

1-Wasted Time (1.5 weeks):
Wasted time..., specially in the latter two weeks. As I said earlier, I was depressed, so I would just stare at the T.V., trying to forget all of my problems.

zzzzz

Conclusion:
This is where everything goes wrong. I didn't do anything at all. nice.

HAVE FUN!

Picture of the Day:
Naruto Databooks

Updated some older posts

Okay, here's a quick notification: I updated some of my older posts.

Firefox search engine: FILECROP
Karakuri One-shot manga by Masashi Kishimoto Scanlation
Start Reading Manga
3 in 1 One Piece, Naruto, Bleach Wallpaper

That's it! HAVE FUN!

Personal Monthly Update #002

Okay. This is not what happened last month. It's the data from 5 or 6 months ago. I haven't had much time to analyze my data either because I was really busy, or extremely depressed. Needless to say, I didn't do much in the last months. So don't expect anything big here. The truth is my life sucks..., big time. This month is way better than the following months.

Legend: (GOOD, NORMAL, BAD)

11-News & Reviews (2.5 hrs):
Got some gaming news...,what did you expect???

Gamespot lets you pick the games you wanna hear about...

10-Writing (3 hrs):
I posted some stuff on some forum. you can't consider that "writing", can you?

I POSTED! Yee-Haw!

9-Programming (3 hrs):
1-Learned to work with Yahoo! Pipes. Here's my sample pipe.
2-Made the Filecrop Firefox Search.

Yahoo! Pipes.

8-Game Design (3 hrs):
Found some Game Designing sites that would help me learn game design. Click here to see a list.

Start Here

7-STORY (4.5 hrs):
Making up stories for later use, 'nuff said.

SECRET?

6-Art (11.5 hrs):
Art??? not likely!
1-Made a karakuri scanlation.
2-Started sketching, it's my first time drawing since elementary school!
3-Found some texture sites, the best of them being environment textures.

Karakuri Scanlation

5-Game Develpment (1.5 days):
Remember the OFP map I was making? It's near completion!

Another shot

4-HAVE FUN! (5 days):
1-Played The Last Remnant, and a little bit of Quake 3 (4 player split-screen on PS2).
2-Watched 73 anime episodes (mostly Ranma ½, Gungrave, and One Piece).
3-Watched Prison Break (season 1 and most of season 2).
4-Read 10 Manga chapters (mostly Yu-Gi-Oh!).
5-Watched Kill Bill Vol.1.

Ahem, Prison Break.

3-Wasted Time (5.5 days):
I spent a week wasting time. Delightful...

Scaling Tiles...

2-Life Chores (6 days):
My PC fans were really noisy, so I had to change them. Besides that, everything has been the same, going to university, eating, sleeping... (yes, sleeping is a chore, why do humans need to sleep???)

Say hello to my fried fan.

1-Personal Miscellaneous (1 week):
1-Updated my manga list and selected some manga from it to read.
2-Archived my anime collection.
3-Created some google bookmarks lists.
4-Started using shared items on google reader.
5-Made some changes to my blog.
6-Got some information about games. (Fair Use, Final Fantasy, and Fullmetal Alchemist)

Check out my shared items.

Conclusion:
Well, I got sidetracked a bit this month, but besides that, everything was pretty O.K. The OFP Mission is not ready yet (But I worked hard on it). Instead I updated the manga list (I'll update it on the blog soon). So stay safe, and

HAVE FUN!

Picture of the Day:
Chrono Resurrection

Firefox search engine: FILECROP

FILECROP is a Rapidshare and MegaUpload search engine. It sounds really ordinary, since there are a lot of rapidshare search engines out there. But this one is different, in that, like google, it's an extremely easy to use search engine which returns accurate results in a short time.

This engine has proven to be an awesome alternative to google when I'm searching for files, since google searches for text, and sometimes ignores the "download" keyword.

I used this engine to an extent that I started to wish that I had this search engine next to google and wikipedia in my firefox search bar. I searched for a firefox addon, and even though I stumbled upon some rapidshare search addons, none of them were nearly as good as filecrop.

So, I decided to make my own filecrop search addon..., and I did! Now you can download it for use on your firefox!

DOWNLOAD

UPDATE: Instead of using this, you can simply use "Add to Search Bar" add-on for firefox. It's easier to use, and it supports all search engines.

Karakuri One-shot manga by Masashi Kishimoto Scanlation

Karakuri is Masashi Kishimoto's (Creator of NARUTO) first published manga. He sent it to Shueisha, and won the "Hop Step Award".

I always wanted to know how kishimoto's first work is like so I searched for this manga for a long time but I couldn't find any English translation. After I relized there's really no English translation I desperately contacted a MangaHelpers user, tethysdust, asking for a translation.

Surprisingly, she turned out to be a really nice person, and she translated it for me right away. I read it, and I liked it.

When I was searching for the translation, I noticed many people in forums and answer sites, requesting this manga. So when I got the translation, I thought I could scanlate it, and let all those people intrested in the manga, and generally in Masashi Kishimoto's work to read it.

This is my first scanltaion, so it's quality is not that good, and I may think I rushed some parts of it. If you like reading translation with the RAW manga, download the translation, if not read the scanlation.

HAVE FUN!

Note: The RAW is from RAW Paradise, which I believe is currently shut down.

Download:

Translation
Scanlation: (Mirror 1, Mirror 2)

UPDATE: The professional scanlation group "Red Hawk Scanlations" has scanlated Karakuri, and it's quality exceeds mine. (Original Post, Mirror 1, Mirror 2)