"In a blog post, Microsoft employee David Gainer said that when computer users tried to get Excel 2007 to multiply some pairs of numbers and the result was 65,535, Excel would incorrectly display 100,000 as the answer.
Gainer said Excel makes mistakes multiplying 77.1 by 850, 10.2 by 6,425 and 20.4 by 3,212.5, but the program appears to be able to handle 16,383.75 times 4."
Comments: lmao, how old exactly is excel? Way to go microsoft! thanks for redefining the term "upgrade". Appearantly the bug only exist in office 2007 but not previous versions.
Plot Summary: (from Anime News Network) Heliopolis, a so-called neutral space colony was holding a top-secret weapons research facility, producing Gundams for the Earth Alliance. ZAFT, which is composed of Coordinators (genetically modified/upgraded humans), attacks Heliopolis, stealing 4 out of the Alliance's 5 Gundams. In the battlefield, civilian Kira Yamato stumbles upon the Strike, the last remaining Gundam of the alliance, and is forced to pilot it. In the midst of battle he encounters his best friend, Athrun Zala, as one of the hijackers of the 5 Gundams, who sides with ZAFT. Being a Coordinator, he is the only one who can pilot the Gundam. But Kira is not with ZAFT, even though they're his own kind, nor the Alliance. Since the Alliance is the only place he could turn to at the time, he sides with them. He pilots the Gundam to protect his friends, and to fight his best friend, which pains both of them. It's a war between individual beliefs.
Comments: Gundam SEED not only captured all the key elements of a good mecha show, it also contain all the dynamic features of a good storyline. Those qualities along with the quality of character design and art work makes the series not only a masterpiece of Bandai's gundam series, but also equally popular amonst the male and female population (something gundam shows are not very well known for)
Drawing: I'm mostly amazed by the unique seamless integration of 3D models and 2D artwork. w/o a guide book to point out the fact that some archangel scene were done in 3D, I probably would never have guessed.
Music: well one thing that can be said about Bandai is that they don't go cheap on OP and EDs (opening and closing songs). Aside from those, couple insert songs, in particular "Shizukana yoru ni" (In a slient night) by Tanaka Rie (more well known as the voice actress for Chobits) and "Akatsuki no Kuruma" (dawn's carriage) by Fiction Junction are my personal favorites. anyways here's a list of OPs and EDs:
Opening Theme: #1: "Invoke" by T.M. Revolution
#2: "Moment" by Vivian or Kazuma
#3: "Believe" by Nami Tamaki
#4: "Realize" by Nami Tamaki
Ending Theme: #1: "Anna ni Isshodattanoni (Even Though We Were Together So Much)" by See-Saw
#2: "River" by Tatsuya Ishii
#3: "Find The Way" by Mika Nakashima
more information (including links to youtube videos) can be found at :http://www.animelyrics.com/anime/gundamseed
Anyways I'll close this entry off with the video of "Akatsuki Kuruma" by Fiction Junction and Invoke by T.M. Revolution
Same question I've been trying to answer since I first started blogging on Xanga about 4 years ago. Below are a few sample criteria that I've brainstormed up or have already been stated in class, feel free to discuss and comment:
layout- can be template but with contrasting legible colors and reasonable font size. frequency of updates - I think for this class is set at minimum 1/week? organization - endless rambling or organized thoughts? variation in content (eg. news, opinions, class review, daily ramble...) or same throughout? relevance - is there an excessive amount of posts unrelated to class or Japaneses cultural in general? (this is a Japaneses class blog project after all)
comments- does the blogger respond with relevant comments to other's blogs?
neways, most of these are pretty basic so feel free to add on top of them.
well technically it was yesterday.. but hey its still 22nd in Vancouver (for another 2 mins...). Anyhow, overall I'm pretty satisfied with today, went to have dinner at peking duck house with some friends and had the whole restaurant singing happy b-day. Still got half of my Hagen Daaz ice-cream cake left though. Watched resident evil after dinner, turned out slight better than expected. Still though, for a movie that really had no plot and converted from a game, resident evil series did a good job in keeping the whole game feel to it while attaching halfly made up of a story line. The game like aspect of the movie seems to be the mainstream criticism around it, but I think there's more of a problem with the incorporation of horror which made the storyline really choppy.
neways, as for class this week, I espcially enjoyed the clips of Nodame drama. I watched the anime version of it earlier this year, and absolutely fell in love with it since the first episode (gota love torrent). I'm thinking about turning this into an Anime review blog.. if I still have time to keep up with new series.
to yukki: I loved deathnote, athough it got a bit slow after L's death. I heard the anime's awsome and stick really closely with the manga. the WB movie was a box office hit.. I heard in Japan when the first movie aired it beat Mission Impossible three in box office sales. I liked the movie's twist to the plot, the effects were cool too.. but there was just too little of Misa...
to j.taylor I'll try my best in my future postings. stay tuned =p
I'll finish this post off with a video clip of Deathnote movie trailer, hopefully I get time to finish off the re-layout of this blog sometime within the next few weeks:
