Looks like sequel to nice independent anime by akitarou daichi is coming out soon!

Check the Yumeta website for details.

I love the first one to death. I can watch it over and over and over and over…

Mike Pinkerton is thinking about what to do with Chimera. He asks “Who aspires to be number two in an already over-commoditized space?” I for one hope he doesn’t stop work on it. I still like it a bit more than Safari (and not just for the tabs). I see this as being like iChat and Proteus. iChat is nice because it gives the person who just bought their new mac a way to do IM. They don’t have to think too much about things, it does all the basics, but it is missing key features that anyone who has used IM for a while misses (lack of groups for instance). Proteus has all that and more. It fills that space beyond the basics. That’s where Chimera fits in my view (and I’d miss that cool bookmarks panel that slides out from the side. I personally like that better than Safari’s bookmark stuff.

Dave asks a question about comments, specificly “Every time I post a comment on a weblog I have to remember to go back and see if anyone followed up. We have to figure a way to automate this. Agree or disagree?”

I agree. I’ve thought about this on and off for a while and am thinking there needs to be some overall rethinking of comments in Radio. First off, radio supplies a way to handle comments. I don’t use it because I already had my own commenting system in place long before it became available. But the thing I like about my commenting system is that the page uses CSS so that I can easily style it to look like my blog. Yes, it is purely a visual thing, but I think a lot of bloggers do care about things like this. One other big gripe I have with radio’s comments is that they display the commenter’s email address. Making it that much easier for them to be harvested for spam.

Now as far as following conversations in comments, I think it’s possible, but there are possible tradeoffs. LiveJournal handles comments well by being a somewhat closed system. If you are a LiveJournal user and you comment on someone’s post you get notified of any answers. I’m pretty sure that there’s no way for this to happen with anonymous comments. I think the easiest way might be to work it in with RSS. You can maybe tag a certain blog post as one to watch, the aggregator will hourly look to see if the comments have changed and let you know if they have. This might be the easiest way to handle a wide range of commenting systems.

Mmm, nothing like coffee in the morning. It was a bit warmer today then the past two days when I went out for my coffee. In the high 20s as opposed to 4. I’m trying to get back onto some kind of regular schedule, in hopes of keeping myself a bit more motivated then I have been. We’ll see how it goes.

Found this posting over on Derek’s Rantings and Musings about him trying to cancel his AOL service. I needed a laugh like that this morning.

Tom Stoppard. “The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.” [Quotes of the Day]

mahou tsukai ni taisetsu na koto kicks ai yori aoshi’s butt.

another ending theme by Indigo! I might end up liking this band or something.

If only magic use was truly an everyday thing…

It looks like the details on Onegai Teacher are slowly coming out. According to animeondvd.com we’re looking at a June release date with a special edition looking something like this:

Limited Edition (SRP: $54.98) Only 15,000 to be made and a Standard Edition (SRP: $29.98).

Limited Edition:
Hot For Teacher! v.1 Collector’s DVD Box
Original CD Soundtrack
mini-manga from Comics One
Please Teacher! Postcard Set
Working on some additional thingies
Pochy anyone? hmmm…….

I’m psyched about this release. This is another show that should be part of my top ten list for 2002. I really should work that up this weekend.

I stopped in at Real Taco in Harvard Square today and picked up two fish tacos. They were okay, but still weren’t up to socal standards. I kind of wish someplace like Rubio’s would expand to New England. I keep craving mexican like I could get in San Diego. I’ve come kinda close here and there, but it just hasn’t been the same.

Court Rules Against Network Associates’ Software Review Policy. A court has ruled that the company may not require people who buy its software to get permission before publishing reviews of its products. By Matt Richtel. [New York Times: Technology]

I remember when I first read about this I was kind of stunned. I don’t know of any other kind of product where the maker tries to insist that you must have their permission to review it. If someone requires permission I’m immediately suspicious. Even though I understand their reasoning I still think it is wrong to restrict what people can write.