2011 OS usage statistics

2011	Win7	Vista	Win2003	WinXP	Linux	Mac	Mobile
December	46.1%	5.0%	0.7%	32.6%	4.9%	8.5%	1.2%
November	45.5%	5.2%	0.7%	32.8%	5.1%	8.8%	1.0%
October	44.7%	5.5%	0.7%	33.4%	5.0%	8.9%	1.0%
September	42.2%	5.6%	0.8%	36.2%	5.1%	8.6%	0.9%
August	40.4%	5.9%	0.8%	38.0%	5.2%	8.2%	0.9%
July	39.1%	6.3%	0.9%	39.1%	5.3%	7.8%	1.0%
June	37.8%	6.7%	0.9%	39.7%	5.2%	8.1%	0.9%
May	36.5%	7.1%	0.9%	40.7%	5.1%	8.3%	0.8%
April	35.9%	7.6%	0.9%	40.9%	5.1%	8.3%	0.8%
March	34.1%	7.9%	0.9%	42.9%	5.1%	8.0%	0.7%
February	32.2%	8.3%	1.0%	44.2%	5.1%	8.1%	0.7%
January	31.1%	8.6%	1.0%	45.3%	5.0%	7.8%	0.7%

by w3schools.com here

Figures, only win7 started to drive winXP out. A bit.

do you like this style of painting?

Note that this artist's style fits coarse textures like old ragged skin more than girlish appearances.
Artist's page on cghub had one more interesting painting, but it's not there anymore. A pity.

Feline life

Feline way of life is approach, sniff, destroy, leave.

Quote

In life you have only two choices: to live or to die.
If you choose to live you must endure endless conflict.

These days

Had too much work recently so wasn't able to dedicate much time to personal projects.
So many things to do and so little time.
Also I've got a lot of trouble these day in personal projects/family life; plus was fighting a cold. Or flu. Whatever.

Alma Katsu - The Taker

Finished reading Alma Katsu - The Taker yesterday.
Still have no idea why i even bothered reading it to the end.
Maybe because it is a 'best-seller'. Or because it was heavily marketed.
My impression: putting all the sexual content aside, it could be about four times shorter and not a dime less interesting. Not to mention that it wasn't THAT interesting.
The story can be put like this: not very bright, but courageous and 'open-minded' village girl of 19th century is haunted by her attraction to unworthy, but handsome and rich playboy that takes pleasure in toying with women. As a result of succumbing to the temptation(which makes one third of the book) she gets banished by her family and sent to the big city's monastery to have her illegitimate child. But upon her arrival to the city she is forced into prostitution by rich noble, who later takes her as a private lover - an immortal sex slave.
She begins to lead a life of expensive whole and kind of enjoys it. Her master is cruel, but strongly attracted to her; she even loves him for some time.
Figures, the master is an alchemist that discovered the secret of immortality by switching bodies with young men. And as he sets to have his next victim be the playboy heroine still loves, she takes action to get rid of her master and free all the slaves - and the father of her unborn child
Though, in the end, playboy ditches her again and flees to live his immortal (by this time) life without her. He never loved her and all her sacrifices were for nothing.
So, the whole idea of the book was that no matter how she desired for her lover to care for her, it wasn't possible to make him care. In the end he stayed as self-indulgent and selfish as he was in the beginning, so everything she went through was for nothing.
Mad temptation isn't a good thing. Illusions about men aren't either.
Add to this accent on 'intimate life'. . .
All of that on 448 pages in hardcover, if amazon is to be believed. Published September 2011.

Still, it was mostly my stubbornness that kept me reading it. I don't like throwing out books or stopping reading in the middle. Yet, it was almost the case.
Sex sells, eh?

Brightest Galaxy Ever Seen With Gravity Lens Shines in Hubble Photo [from space.com]

The distant galaxy is 10 billion light-years away from Earth and is seen through a so-called gravitational lens created by a massive cluster of closer galaxies located about 5 billion light-years away. What gravitational lens are is explained using the image above.

Original image:

 Full story here at space.com

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There are still people around me, seemingly adult people, who thought taking responsibility for their work was something out of ordinary.
They still have no idea that everyone should work at work.

this seasons' anime series

I considered watching all these:

but nothing appealed to me. Even Nisemonogatari. A wasted season.
And more free time lol.

Comparison: vocaloids vs humans

I've been shown this video and people were over-enthusiastic about the new vocaloid and its performance.
While it may be slightly better than Miku's, it's still not a match for human voice.

It only shows more when they attempt to show off singing a complex song.
Watch and listen here:

[vocaloid3 IA] 'My soul, your beats!':


[LIA, original singer] 'My soul, your beats!':

Ayumi Hamasaki - A song for XX

To put it simply, I like this old song.

Ayumi Hamasaki - A song for XX

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Don't go looking for something that lurks in the murky water unless you're ready to live with knowing what's living there.

Quote

Ghost doesn't have to be real to haunt you.

Picture

Just found a picture that i painted while being very tired, you can say in automaton mode. The thing is, i didn't remember at first i did it; after giving it some thought i understood it was done by me and only then remembered when i did it. Vaguely .
Am i hitting the bottom with this work?

Watched movie with similar theme recently . When you get too used to work and stop enjoying doing it you should either get a good rest and reflect on your life, or get a new job.

Quote

When a person feels like there's a huge wall in front, it means that he/she is growing up.

Random mumbling

Been very tired lately . Work , odd hours are getting the better of me.

Also i seem to be having a cold. Can one have cold and be oblivious about it?

Spreading Asian culture into masses is sure easy, you just have to find a good movie series . Lol.
You know what i mean .

Oh and XT9 is acting up again . Of course that's because i am writing this from my phone now. My android phone. Yup, transferred my data at last.
Too bad tab and phone keyboards are not identical. Who could have guessed .

Well, rounding it all up, it's just another winter where i am getting older and years are just lost.