Archive for July, 2009

Speedcubing Champs update

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/p.php?i=2009CHOW04

I actually came 7th overall, average 23.68 seconds. Pics and vids… soon, I hope :P

New Zealand Speedcubing Champs

Monday, July 20th, 2009

On Saturday I went down to Wellington with my cousin and a friend to compete in the first ever speedcubing competition in Australasia.

I got a new personal best time of 19.11 seconds and a new best average of ~23.6s.

I came 8th overall and 4th in NZ.

Pics and videos coming soon (probably Wed).

New Zealand: censored internet?

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Slashdot article with links

Worst of all, it seems like the ban list won’t be released to the public. This is the most dangerous part: they *say* they’re filtering “illegal material”… but without knowing the ban list, who knows what else they might be filtering.

At least ISPs get to choose whether the filtering is applied.

New Cubing Record: 19.20s

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

That is all.

逆転検事update

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Case 1: 逆転の来訪者 (Turnabout Visitor) – completed, ~1 hour
Case 2: 逆転エアライン (Turnabout Airline) – completed, ~3 hours
Case 3: さらわれる逆転 (Swept Away Turnabout) – completed, ~12 hours
> Case 4: 過ぎ去りし逆転 (Departed Turnabout)
Case 5: ???

In my opinion, Case 3 was a little unbelievable. Not much to say about it. Phoenix Wright makes an appearance in Case 3, but I unfortunately missed it. You don’t get to interact with him though. Here’s a picture (thanks to peppy).

Phoenix Wright in Gyakuten Kenji

I’ve been told Case 4 is amazing, and I have to see how true that is :P

Echo out

hdd died

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

My 500GB hdd died after just 7 months of use on Friday. Unfortunately for me, I had exams on Friday, Saturday and Monday which meant I couldn’t take it back for a replacement until Tuesday.

Even more fun was trying to install everything back. Vista SP1 didn’t want to install unless I had a clean copy of Vista, which meant I had to install Vista twice. Then, I realised I forgot to make a backup of my Songs folder. So I’ll have to start collecting again D:

This time I made a Ghost image of Vista + essential programs, so in the future setting up a new hdd should take around an hour instead (30min ghost, 30min settings and other programs).

Anyway, everything seems to be running smoothly now.

Echo out