Starlight Breaker

Wooo, finally came out on the listings! Hole in the Wall is going to be on BBC1 at 5.40PM on the 20th September, thats next Saturday!

I’ll be keeping a close watch on the 3rd episode, just to see if I got onto national television :D

I now officially own the coolest laptop in the world

I’m still in London (at the apple store), so I don’t have my camera on me, nor is it the ideal place to take a picture (drawing a few stares though) but heres an advance photo taken with my phone just now.

I’ll upload more plus a video later this evening. For now - bath in my mac’s amazingness

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First off let me just say that the reason I’ve not posted on here for so long is that I’ve been busy in getting ready for university. For all those who actually care I got ABC for my A levels, which Birmingham kindly accepted to let me do Economics with Japanese. This means that in 3 years time I get to do a special blog coming right from the heart of Japan, Tokyo!

Anyway, congratulations to everyone on Starlight Breaker, we’re all off to different universities this September.

Moving on, I received my Macbook Pro two days ago and it is beautiful. 17″ screen with a resolution of 1920 x 1200 is just fantastic to watch anime on - providing you can find versions at the same quality. Having some trouble adapting to all the new shortcuts and the lack of a right click, but thats all okay.

As for my laser etching, I am going into London next tuesday, thats the 2nd September 2008, in order to get my macbook etched. I still haven’t worked out a design so the people at the lab are going to help me out, so hopefully you’ll see my post with pictures next tuesday. I believe I will be one of the first to etch anime onto a laptop

Anyway, till next tuesday then

EDIT: It has been done! http://www.starlightbreaker.co.uk/?p=139

A level results come out in 4 days, namely the 14th of August, in case any of you have actually forgotten…

Just thought I’d share that little bit of information with you…

In other news, the Olympics are on. Yay! I spent the whole of yesterday morning (and I mean morning!) watching badminton.

Anyway, don’t expect posts from me soon. Over the next few days, and possibly the next few weeks, I will be moping about my results.

Right, first off, I don’t have any pictures as BBC wouldn’t let us take any

It was a great day out, sitting until your butt was sore, clapping till your hands were raw, etc…

Overall I thought the show was good, not as good as the Japanese version but certainly getting close. The biggest surprise for me was the fact that they have…the full body silver Lycra! I thought they’d have something more fashionable, but no, they’ve got the same outfit!

Anyway, just some basic information, the show is hosted by Dale Winton, with two captains…who I can’t remember. One was a cricket captain and one was a host on strictly come dancing, neither of which I’m particularly keen on.

So keep your eyes out for the show, its airing in September on BBC1 Saturday’s I believe. You might even see me! Though you wouldn’t know what I look like…

I feel it is time to reveal myself as mysterious tech person and grammar nazi here at starlight breaker! I am taking time out of my busy schedule of breaking things (4 computers in 3 days) to write about some of the anime I am watching currently.

The first of these (although not chronologically) is Ghost in the Shell. Now, for those of you more in the know, you will realise that this is an old film (circa 2001 I believe) but, I am fairly new to the anime scene, so I am primarily occupied in watching the classics that I missed…

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Anyone remember it? Human Tetris was a great show on Japanese TV and now, lucky UK viewers, its coming to the UK!

Its going by the name of Hole in the Wall, heres a short description:

From the makers of ‘The X Factor’ comes a brand new hilarious game show, Hole In The Wall.  The show, which originated in Japan, has fast become a worldwide hit, as celebrities try to make the shape of various “holes in a wall” and if they fail, they’ll get knocked into a swimming pool!

The show will be hosted by Dale Winton, with the two teams captained by Strictly Come Dancing stars Anton Du Beke and Darren Gough.

Over 10 million hits on You Tube have ensured that Hole in The Wall, or ‘Human Tetris’ as it is known on-line, has already made this the show that everyone is talking about and now you can be amongst the first in the UK to see it!  You can see the japanese show by watching youtube clips at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPFZl59_OZ4&feature=related

And guess who’s just got tickets to see two of the episodes whilst their being filmed? Oh yea…

Just did another update, incase anyone noticed (Adam did) the site went down for a few hours whilst I tried to figure out what went wrong. Eventually (after a few hours of Star Trek…) I noticed I had a few failed uploads (in Filezilla). Uploaded them again and Bham!

Wordpress also seems to have chucked in a new security code in the wp-config.php file, but I doubt that was what caused the fail upgrade. Oh well, this is the third upgrade I’ve done, maybe I’ll be a bit more lucky next time…:)

EDIT: I’ve lost my little Icons on my write page, below is a screenshot so that you can see what I mean. Whilst its merely a nuisance I still want it fixed…

Ignore the right side, didn’t realise screenshots would capture my 2nd monitor….

Right, got a response from the company in London. It comes at a fairly pricey £100 for a laptop, but it doesn’t matter what size, so I guess I’ll just have to find the biggest laptop ever!

Just joking.

Anyway, they want it in a AI (adobe illustrator, in case anyone was an idiot like me and searched for an AL file…) which has all been converted into vectors. Apparently a high resolution JPEG will do as well. Basically, once I’ve confirmed the purchase of my Macbook I’ll let you guys know, as well as ask for the canvas size, i.e. the area of the mac that can be safely etched. Then I’ll hold a competition (most likely on AS forums, although I might dig around on some Japanese forums as well)…then if all goes to plan I can get it etched by the end of August and have the coolest laptop around.

EDIT: Done! http://www.starlightbreaker.co.uk/?p=139

Right, heres the deal. I go to university in October, I therefore, going with the crowd, have chosen to get a macbook. A macbook pro to be accurate, 17″.

Anyway, everyone seems to be getting their Macbook’s laser etched with some image, as an anti theft deterrent and, more to the point, to look…cool. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, take a look here.

Anyway, most of the firms are based in the USA, but after much trawling through data I’ve managed to locate a firm in London who might possibly do it. I’ve emailed them asking if they were willing and to quote me a price. I’d expect it to be £75 or something close to that region. So heres the plan, obviously I’m going to etch Nanoha onto my macbook :P.
However, seeing that I’m shit at drawing, designing, etc etc, I’ve decided if this goes ahead I’m going to host a competition, the winner will get his/her image etched onto my laptop, eternally blah de blah blah. I’m taking advantage of you fanatics
Let you know what’s happening as it progresses, look forward to it, hopefully by mid august I’ll have my laptop etched with the goddess on it.

EDIT: It has been done: http://www.starlightbreaker.co.uk/?p=139