5 Azumanga Pictures

I have been going through some old websites via the Internet archive and found these (btw I don't claim any ownership of them):

Applications I have on my pc

I recently switched from Ubuntu to Linux Mint 12. The reason for the change was that after I updated Ubuntu to the newest version I simply didn't like it as much as the previous version but still wanted some of the new things. Here is a list of programs/applications I have on the pc:

Accessories

• 7 zip
• Alarm Clock (timer program)
• Caffeine (tells computer to not go to sleep or activate screensaver)
• Gwhere (CD/DVD database program to keep track of what I have stored on DVDs)
• Gourmet Recipe Manager
• Redshift (Alters colors to help with sleep) if off-line type into terminal the longitude and latitude (okay really all I did was make a command shortcut that automatically launches my location) 
• Slidewall - wallpaper manager that lets me have a slideshow for my wallpaper
• Tomboy Notes (note taking program very convenient)

Education

• Tagaini Jisho (Japanese translator/dictionary)
• Tux Typing (Typing practice program/game)

Games

• Aisleriot Solitaire (multiple Solitaire games)
• Dolphin emulator (Gamecube and Wii emulator)
• Dosbox emulator
• Extreme Tux Racer (racing game)
• FCE Ultra or GFCE Ultra (Nintendo Emulator)
• Free Dink (RPG game)
• Gens/Gs (Genesis, Sega Cd, 32x emulator)
• Gbrainy (logic, math, and memory games)
• hugo 2.12 (Turbographics/PCE Engine emulator)
• Mupen64plus (Nintendo64 emulator)
• PCSX (Playstation Emulator)
• PCSX2 (playstation 2 Emulator)
• QT Nethack
• Steam (play steam games)
• Super Tux (Mario type game with a penguin)
• Super Tux Kart (Similar to Mariokart)
• VBA-M (Gameboy, Gameboy Advance emulator)
• Yabausa (Sega Saturn Emulator)
• Zsnes (Super Nintendo Emulator)

Graphics

• MComix (Comic book viewer)
• Gimp Image editor

Internet

• Firefox
• Google Chrome
• Pidgin Instant Messenger
• Transmission (torrent program)
• WebHTTrack Website Copier

Firefox add-ons

• Adblock Plus
• Adblock Plus Element Hider
• Adblock Plus Pop-up add-on
• Chatzilla (currently disabled only enable it when using it)
• Cookie whitelist with buttons
• DownThemAll!
• DownThemAll! AntiContainer
• DuckDuckGo SSL (Search Engine)
• EPUB Reader
• FireFTP (Currently Disable only enable it when using it)
• FlagFox
• Flashblock
• Ghostery
• HTTPS-Everywhere
• Internet Archive (Search Engine)
• Ixquick HTTPS (Search Engine)
• NoScript
• qrobe.it (Search Engine)
• Video Downloadhelper

Office

• Calibre (E-book organizer and viewer)
• LibreOffice (word processing, spreadsheets, etc.)
• PDF-Shuffler (PDF editing)
• RedNoteBook (Journal/ offline blog)

Sound and Video

• K3B (CD/DVD burning program much better than the one that installs with Ubuntu/Linux Mint)
• Pitivi or Openshot Movie Editor
• SMplayer or GNOME Mplayer(Mplayer frontend that plays VCD's correctly)
• TiMiditty ++ Midi Sequencer (needed to get Wine to play Midi's in old games properly)
• VLC Player (All around movie player)

Science

• Biogenesis
• Periodic Table of Elements
• Stellarium

System Tools

• Bleachbit (similar to Ccleaner for windows - deletes unneeded stuff and keeps privacy)
• FSlint (does multiple things only thing I use it for is to check for duplicate files)
• Jupiter (power management and tells the computers internal temperature and changes screen orientation)
• Ubuntu Tweak (slightly easier way to do some system maintenance or set settings)

WINE (windows programs installed)

• Adobe Digital Edition - ebook viewer for some propriety ebooks
• DVDFAB 9 (DVD copier - used to use k9copy but that stopped working so got this instead)
• Fanfiction Downloader (google has an online version that works as well but prefer one kept on the computer)
• Iso Buster (Iso editing program I use to save Playstation games to the computer since it works better than any of the other similar programs I've tried)
• Several portable apps which are convenient for when I use other people's or public pcs.

Casey and Andy - Ranma reference

I was reading webcomic called Casey and Andy yesterday and noticed a reference to Ranma ½. In strip 242, Andy has acquired water from the spring of the drowned girl and has the idea to sell it to transsexuals. I archive binged through the entire web comic and found it to be fairly enjoyable though it doesn't make it anywhere near the top of my list of webcomics to read (were I to have such a list).

Sorry about the long hiatus between posts. I just didn't feel like writing pretty much at all this year. I was browsing the web last night and found a few people have still been reading my blog. I encountered at the Ranma wikia (a site I was unaware it existed until just recently): Outside References to Ranma ½ which clearly had an editor that had viewed my blog since most of the references mentioned are mentioned by me in this blog and the same pictures, cropped the same way, were used. I also found out that Tvtropes has a few links to my blog as well as wikipedia (though strangely the wikipedia ones are not English language ones). Even though I have not been actively writing this blog for some time interest in it seems to be increasing since I'm getting more hits according to the stats and linked to more often and not just the Ranma posts some of my posts on Japanese culture and book commentary are being linked to quite a bit as well.