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Lately my addiction has been shopping online. Spreeing, to be exact. My countrywomen, due to high Internet penetration and a love for all things foreign, have devised a whole new way to shop. Sprees. The concept is that if you buy in bulk you get discounts, plus you save on shipping. And thus sprees were born ( Read more... ) -
Amazon.com spree Feb 2008 status updates
I think, as the Amazon.com order is so complicated and comes from so many different merchants, I'll upload all the information here, so that everyone can download the file(s) applicable to them and not be bombarded with info.
All files attached are in Excel, jpg or pdf format. To read pdf files, please download the free software Adobe Acrobat ( Read more... ) -
An update of the Odex saga
So, it's been a couple of intense weeks since the saga hit the mainstream, and I must say I'm most dismayed that the response of the netizens is disorganised and hysterical as any other online-driven issue ( Read more... ) -
more random thoughts
As usual, I caught wind of something after the furor had all but died down - the flurry of threatening letters sent by a local Japanese animation distributor to anime fansub downloaders. It's been ages since I downloaded anything (ah, I remember the halcyon days when criminal legislation against this was not yet in place ( Read more... ) -
Random musings
Seeing as I haven't had an intellectual discussion in recent memory (or even distant memory in fact), my brain is rusty, but following links around a few blogs I keep track of, I'm reminded of the irony I find in many of the debates that we read online. Note though, that I'm mainly talking about blogs relating to local concerns; I have no interest ( Read more... ) -
Taiwan trip groundwork
Period of leave: 23 June - 01 July ( Read more... )
