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Sennheiser CX 300 earphones GET. These days when I listen to music, I’m on the go like 90% of the time, so I figured it was time to drop the horrible buds that came bundled with the iPod. Headphones aren’t nearly as portable, so I bought a pair of CX 300s on eBay for about $40 shipped. Audio quality is good, bass level sounds about right and they block a lot of outside noise.

Got one of these as a summer bonus from work on Wednesday; an almost brand new Nintendo DSi! Thanks, boss. Neat stuff.

The DSi’s larger size makes it better to hold, I won’t have my hand cramp up after a longer play session again. Buttons are now again clicky, unlike the mushy shit Nintendo put in the DS Lite. Console design is based off the Lite, but it’s been polished all over, and that does make a difference for the overall impression. Menus feel less like 2004, and is some kind of Wii meets DS mashup. You can reboot instead of poweroff to get back to the menu, and the console is able to detect when you insert/remove DS carts (in the menu). Then there’s the online shop, where you can download small games and apps called DSiWare, but the European offerings so far are pathetic. After some consideration I went with WarioWare: Snapped!, which can be beaten in a few minutes, but at least puts the cameras to some use. The price? 500 Points, which costs 5 EUR. Maybe I’ve been spoiled by XBLA, but that’s a lot of money for a few minutes of entertainment. On the whole I don’t really care for the cameras as I’d rather use my DSLR than a DSi when playing paparazzi.

If you’re in the market for a DS, the DSi is probably the best you’ll get, if you’re willing to lose GBA support. As for DS Lite owners, I’d say you guys should be very interested in DSiWare to justify upgrading.

I’ve moved from Tumblr to self-hosting with Chyrp. There are several reasons, the main one being the ability to control features and similar myself.

Please come visit free from form! That’s where further updates will appear!!! All old content from here has been migrated over there, but I will be keeping this account around either way.

Recently did my very first digital music purchases, after figuring out how to use the iTunes gift card I got for Christmas. There’s a decent amount of FINRG releases up there, my first snatch was DJ Rx’s remix of the ThermalForce classic Eternalcannon. While I prefer the original, Rx has added lots of breaks and the overall feel is really cool. Alek Száhala (Dryad Machine!!!), Epyx & Cyrez and other Rx tracks were of course also on my list of stuff to get.

Guess lately I’ve been all about FINRG artists, especially Pain on Creation (although their mastering seems to be really off). Carbon Based produced some awesome shit as well. Then there’s the rest of the Hybridize crew to dig through. Good things there’s so much music to play even though the genre is really narrow!

Gonna do a June “top five tracks” type of post at the end of the month, and the number one spot is clear as the sky is blue!! …which it isn’t right now, but the point stands either way.

Waiting for public transport sucks so hard. Would’ve died of boredom ages ago if portable audio players didn’t exist. On the other hand, my attention span isn’t much to brag about. Either way, long live technology.

Oh man. I really went over a month without any updates? Things have been busy lately, and I kept spending idle time in front of the TV instead of the computer. Summer’s here, hopefully I’ll save up some money, and also keep this thing alive!!

Things I’ve done without previous mention:

• made my Finnish “”“contact”“” reship the Hakkapeliitta album from FINRG’s store to me because their international shipping fees were ridiculous
• got an iPod from my parents, which has been in use every day since
• max’d the game purchase cap (new: OutRun Online Arcade, Burnout Paradise, Banjo-Tooie), what happens next I do not know. hopefully I’ll let things stay this way. actually until just now I thought I’d broken it
• bought a DSLR camera from one of the largest electronics chains in Norway, which I have yet to receive more than a month after the date of purchase
• had the goddamned Wii GPU overheat, gotta replace it
• got a replacement for the phone that died last year, but it sucks so much i used it for a few days only before abandoning the piece of shit
• ate yakiniku again (uho-)
• imported the new Proteus album from Australia
• watched almost five whole seasons of Stargate SG-1
• beat the SNES games Aladdin and The Lion King, both for the first time, in one single gaming session
• moved to a new (and larger) apartment
• passed my Japanese class
• ??? (probably more shit I’ve forgotten)

Sorry for the boring wall of text, it’s been so long. Did anyone miss my updates? At least… I did!