OK, so I've got a slight addiction to anime. I've scanned all my anime DVDs in with Delicious Library using my iSight. With as many DVDs as I own, Delicious Library has some issues. Scanning too many at once will cause it to somehow skip some cover images from Amazon and it doesn't seem "smart" enough to scan Japanese DVDs from Amazon Japan when they aren't available in the normal Amazon (meaning there is no way to tell it to scan multiple sites if it isn't in the main one set in the preferences). It also will incorrectly scan some UPC codes for some odd reason. There is also no way to get a total of the amount of money I've spent on DVDs or any method to get the total number of DVDs in my collection (since many of the scans are box sets). It's also very, very slow.

Because it has no decent export options whatsoever, I had to use DeliciWeb--which is free--to export my collection. Some of the strings are in French for some bizarre reason or another. It is also extremely slow to create the HTML files to disk. For some bizarre reason as well, it takes forever to alphabetized titles. And it cannot export only specific libraries (so some of my non-anime DVDs are in the output). It was easy enough to use even if I couldn't click on any of the buttons on the only window that shows up on launch.

I uploaded the entire thing using Transmit. I just dragged the files/folders inside the "Site Delicious Library" folder that DeliciWeb created on my Desktop and dragged them into the destination folder on the FTP server. Problem is, it's also extremely slow and actually died for twice. I couldn't resume the upload until I quit and relaunched Transmit. To resume the upload I had to navigate into the specific folder with files that it didn't upload on my computer and the FTP server, select all on my computer and then drag them into the destination folder. Of course, I clicked the Skip button for all as to not re-upload files I had already uploaded. I couldn't just drag in the original top level items as it wanted to recreate the folders and clicking skip on those would cause it to skip all items inside the folders as well and I really didn't much want to babysit Transmit.

So with all that said, here is my anime DVD collection. I own many more non-anime DVDs than shown but I didn't care to scan them all. My non-anime DVD collection is about 1/5th to 1/8th the size of my anime DVD collection, depending on how you count (via UPC code or via DVDs in each box set).

Update: I've taken photos of my collection in case there are any disbelievers out there. View it here.

And don't forget, beware the cyberbullies.

This will just be a quickie. New iPod photos and iPod minis were released today. Cheaper, bigger, whatever. The thing that interests me is the fact that there are a lot of accessories missing from the new iPod photo compared to the one I bought. It no longer has a FireWire cable (no AC adapter because of that), no A/V cable, no carrying case, and no Dock. Adding these all back to the photo adds $135 to the price, so it is still cheaper than the original iPod photo. Update Griffin has announced the Dock400 which is $18 (a dollar cheaper than the Apple version and much longer), it "ships in March".

The thing that really gets me is the lack of the FireWire cable. An Apple created/designed/influenced technology that Apple pushes significantly and includes on all their computers is no longer included with the iPod mini or iPod photo. In a sense, FireWire has become a second class citizen to USB. Remember the days when you had to purchase a separate USB cable for the iPod? Now the opposite is true. Seems Apple is catering specifically to the PC market which kind of completely negates the entire "iPod halo effect" Apple says it is wishing for.

Does this signify a larger trend in which Apple cares less and less about Mac hardware and Mac users and more about getting the PC segment and/or charging for software? Just a thought.

A while ago (a year ago, to be exact), I got one of these Canon EOS-10D cameras for myself, and been extremely pleased with it. The only thing that was minorily irritating me is the transfer speed of photos from the camera to my Mac (being a USB 1.0 camera, transferring 50-100 images, 6 megs each) was pretty painful. Ok, whom am I kidding, it was very painful. =)

So yesterday I finally shelled out some money for this wonderful device: SanDisk Ultra FireWire ImageMate Reader. Now all of my photos are getting downloaded about 4x (subjectively) faster.

Now I need one of these Extreme III CF cards... =D

As most of you know, I live and work in Russia.

Some time ago I had folks from the Utah office to ship me some of these Unsanity t-shirts. They were mailed July 30, 2004. And guess what, they just have arrived today! That's a new record for the postal system that I have experienced.

At least the package is not lost, it just took some time to arrive here. ;)

Am I the only person in the world that wants a small light cellphone with bluetooth??

It seems that the phone manufacturers are all creating new phones with insane amounts of feature bloat. I don't want a camera. I don't want video. I don't want anything other than a phone that is small light and includes bluetooth. I like to be able to throw it in my pocket and go. I want to be able to connect to the internet over my phone too. (without a cord)

That's it. Am I all alone in wanting a phone like this?

What phones do you have? Verizon is my carrier, and I like them for their coverage, but their phones pretty much suck. Considering the small, simple, stylish requirements, what can someone recommend?