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My PC Desktop Wallpaper

I hadn’t change my wallpaper for a while, it is a scanned image of the “Love Letter” DVD inner sleeve. The pose is so good that I don’t want to change it.

Played a game ? Read a story ? Watched a movie ?

Do you need someone to explain the story to you if the script/story was intentionally presented in a vague way ?

Some writers like to leave the story open to interpretations, as it stimulates discussions and the very interesting thing is that different people will see different things from the same story/game/movie and the story/game/movie will live on in their mind/heart for a much long while.

But many people won’t be satisfied with that and they always ask for an explanation from the creators. I guess that’s a good thing for them but an explanation is not necessarily a good thing for others.

I’d say they should leave it as it is, and in term of games I think Team ICO has done a very good job on both ICO and SOTC/WATC for not spilling the beans. And for sure not making a direct sequel to ICO (which usually selects a fixed path to the old game) is also considered a good thing to me.

Not much choice for AGP users

Unless you upgrade your system to one with a PCI Express x16 slot, you don’t have much choice for your video card upgrade. The supposed best AGP card is the 7800 GS from Nvidia, but that one is a bit crippled comparing to the 7800 GT (let alone 7900 GT at the same price as 7800 GS) in terms of raw power (still, I had bought it :D ). I don’t want to let go of my Northwood P4 3G yet, although it is rather slow encoding WMV9, it is still working well with most other things.

AMD’s x2 CPUs are very attractive and I’ve seen a new AM2 socket motherboard on the shelf recently, the ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe. But like many PC fanatics, I am waiting for the arrival of Intel’s next CPU, code name Conroe, it looks like a worthy upgrade to my current PC and I will finally have a taste of the power of the latest Dual-Core CPUs (although I had dual CPU systems quite a while ago – dual Pentium 200MMX, dual Pentium II 450MHz) and the software that take advantage of them (my main tools, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe PhotoShop CS, TMPGEnc 3.0 Xpress).

And I have finally settled with Microsoft Laser Mouse 6000 than another Logitech, new and faster ones are all USB only, no more dual mode (USB, PS2), but I still prefer PS2 mouse.

Do you have a preferred video format ?

Your preferred video format

  • AVI (DivX, Xvid) (35%)
    AVI (DivX, Xvid) -> 35% (18 Votes)
  • Windows Media (WMV9) (27%)
    Windows Media (WMV9) -> 27% (14 Votes)
  • QuickTime (QT7 H.264) (18%)
    QuickTime (QT7 H.264) -> 18% (9 Votes)
  • MPEG-1/MPEG-2 (16%)
    MPEG-1/MPEG-2 -> 16% (8 Votes)
  • Others (4%)
    Others -> 4% (2 Votes)

Total Votes: 51

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My Logitech MX518 mouse died

Bought it less than a year and it died, the first time a mouse died on me.

Checked the new ones but the “Forward”, “Backward” buttons (for web browsers) are gone but I got used to it.

Have to use my old and reliable Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer 4.0.

Not sure why the domain holder of silenthill.us redirects their domain to my Silent Hill pages

I noticed recently from the server log that the domain silenthill.us redirects to the start page of my Silent Hill pages for a while, not sure why there is such an arrangement.

The following is the Whois record of Silenthill.us
Link to the Whois Record of Silenthill.us

The domain expires on May 14, 2006 by the whois record. Not sure why someone would hold that domain but redirect all visitors to my Silent Hill pages. I have no relationship nor connections with the domain holder nor was I notified by the domain holder of such an arrangement.

ZOG reached 300K+ visitors within 2 months (counting started on March 10)

Dear visitors, thank you very much ! It is completely out of my expectation.

Even without counting the Gallery and the first month had included only a small portion of the pages.

It is funny since collecting stats was not something I intended to do until a friend asked my help on finding a stats package for his site and I tested it on mine.

Silent Hill pages updates

Silent Hill 3 Costumes have been updated with better and higher resolution pictures, a new sub-album for full body images was also added. You can check them out here.

And BTW, all new updates on Silent Hill pages will be posted to their dedicated What’s New page.

The gaming sites were indeed the unexpected

Reading the sites again, I hadn’t thought of spending so much time and effort on them when I created them. But then again, I was truely dedicated while I was at them, a sane person will never think about doing that all by himself/herself. But that’s the spirit.

Things have gone out of my control (for quite a while) and I am not as tough as I thought. I hope I can keep up with my current situation.




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