Monday, November 03, 2014

It's been awhile...

I was just looking through my list of posts and realised on top of that list was a draft titled "8 years, ありがとう、YUIさん" dated way back in January 2013.

I never wrote anything, just the title. I guess all the feels of YUI's "retirement" from music took over and I never got around to actually writing out that post. 

Who knew she'd surprise us all by forming FLOWER FLOWER? :D
But that's another story for another time.

As it turns out, I haven't written anything since then. If you noticed, my very last post (before this) was regarding the merits of custom ROMs on a HTC Desire S, which by today's standards, would be considered ancient technology.

Anyhow, while I'd love to do a tech-related post, such as rave about my current LG Nexus 5, or extol the virtues of my (sadly) stolen Sony Xperia Z, this blog has really become kind of a diary for my travels and a place to rave about my recent fanboy obsessions. Which, having attended my last concert of the year (probably!), is ultimately going to center on the amazing Japanese techno-pop trio that is Perfume.

But in the meantime, a little entry into the tech-diary for 2013-2014 (have I really been away that long?!) would be in order.

Mobile

  1. Upgrading from the aforementioned HTC Desire S to a Sony Xperia Z...
  2. ...and promptly had it stolen from me T.T
  3. Having just re-contracted, I ordered the LG Nexus 5 from Google 
  4. Running stock Android Kitkat 4.4.4, rooted with Xposed Framework and am happy with it for the moment (waiting for Lollipop!)

Networking

  1. Upgraded to Singtel Mio fibre from Starhub cable broadband (yay for 200mbps!)
  2. The ol' ASUS RT-N15U became a print server of sorts, replaced by the more-than-capable RT-N56U
  3. To boost speeds to my desktop PC in another room, I got a pair of Sineoji powerline adapters - cheap and work as advertised!
  4. Received a spare 2TB WD MyBook Live from an uncle and is currently running as a home server for music, videos and stuff. 

Computing

  1. My graphics card (an XFX GTS 250) finally died 
  2. Replaced it with an ASUS GTX 750 together with a Corsair CX500M power supply because I was afraid my old PSU couldn't handle the new card. Turns out it could -.-
  3. Sometime in late 2013, the first games that would only run on 64-bit OSes were released. Then in 2014 came the horrible, horrible news that I was dreading... FIFA 15 also required a 64-bit OS (I was running 32-bit Vista - I know, laugh all you want)
  4. And with a heavy heart, I upgraded to 64-bit Windows 7, together with a new hard disk because why not?
  5. To date I'm counting down the days I have left before I need to change my motherboard, processor and RAM in order to play the latest games. Already, Assassin's Creed Unity is out of my reach T.T

... Well, that felt good, reminiscing about all that techie stuff.

Next post will be about my recent 5 day solo trip to Japan to catch Perfume's 5th Tour "Gurun Gurun" in Tokyo, followed by their World Tour 3rd Live in Singapore :D

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