Specs on the Sony PSP were announced today. Here are some of the specs:

• 90nm super fast blah blah processor and memory
• Two graphics cores
• MPEG4 Decoder
• 1.8GB 60MM removable optical media
• 7.1ch Audio and 3D Sound

I watched the latest Ghibli film yesterday night on my computer. Neko no Ongaeshi or as they translated it The Cat Returns. According to nausicaa.net it wasn't directed by Miyazaki and it shows. The movie was a disappoint and not up to the usual Ghibli standards. (Bit of background) Who was the director for Neko no Ongaeshi? MORITA Hiroyuki ( Read more... )

Yesterday I had a discussion with merxyn about lving in Japan. Depending on what you like there are a lot of perks but many of the cons aren't so clear. Just today one of the blogs I read had a short, but good post on this topic. Read "A Love Story"

Bandai annouced in their panel at Anime Expo that the last disc of .hack//SIGN will have 2 additional episodes for a total of 28! I believe my fansubs only had 26. Anyone know what's on the final two episodes or where I can get them? In addition Zeta Gundam will be released as a boxset first with individual volumes following later. Finally a ( Read more... )

I finally threw out my Windows PCs yesterday. The last time I turned them on was about 9 months ago when I bought my Power Mac to transfer some files so it's time I did something with them. I did pull some of the cards out in case anyone is interested. Here is a partial list of stuff I have around let me know if you are interesting in anything ( Read more... )

My gaming plans feel through today so I messed around home and went to see Terminator 3. I enjoyed the movie much more then I expected. Maybe it was the lack of dialog. Most of the movie was action, action and more action. The little dialog they had was between Nick Stahl and Claire Danes. Besides a couple one liners most of Arnold's lines ( Read more... )

I'm listening to Japan-A-Radio at work and on comes Kiss Me by Sixpence None The Richer in Japanese. No, not done by another artist but the actual group. It shouldn't be all the strange since other groups have done albums in English, but it still strikes me as add. Sometimes you don't need to go to Japan to find a little wierdness ( Read more... )

Origins was a great success and much more fun then last year. It's a large gaming convention that's been in Columbus Ohio the last two years. Over four or five days I played a lot of the games I love and a few I've never tried before ( Read more... )

As expected Apple announced their new processors and architecture. The processor is the IBM 970 Power PC. The short version: It's fast, it's quiet, it uses all the newest standards, but it is still a little expensive.

The best way is to read the PowerMac page at Apple's web site. I won't go into everything but you can get all the details there ( Read more... )

I just got finished watching Apple's WWDC keynote and the new product announcements. The short version, there is lots that's new and cool and it will cost you money.

( So, what got announced? )