Japan Cultural Affairs Agency Media Entertainment Skills Festival

Today I went to the “Japan Cultural Affairs Agency Media Entertainment Skills Festival” which is at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Ebisu. I wasn’t really sure what would be there but it was much more interesting than I expected.
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Sleipnir

Everyone has heard of Firefox and many have heard of Opera but how many of you have heard of Sleipnir? I have no idea what their actual marketshare is but if I was to go by looking at my co-workers for the last 2 years it would be something like 90%.

Splitting my site

I just split my site into blog.greggman.com and games.greggman.com. I kind of see it as, games, is my game development oriented site. A place for me to discuss and bring up game and career related things. The blog site is more personal. Of course feel free to read either, both or neither but it seemed to me that I needed to separate the two. I’d prefer if I’m discussing game development that and someone wants to look me up they can concentrate on game dev related stuff and skip the “looking for a girlfriend” stuff. I hope it works out.

Nostalgic Install

Configuring the
Nostalgic Screensaver

One you’ve installed the Nostalgic Screensaver you need to tell Windows to use it. Follow the directions below. If you are running Windows XP click the start button in the lower left corner of your screen and pick "Control Panel"


Then select "Appearance and Themes"

If you are running Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2K your start menu will probably look *something* like this

And in this case you would DOUBLE-CLICK on the Display control panel.

One way or the other you should now see the Display Properties window.

Near the top of the window there are tabs. The 3rd one should say "Screen Saver". Click that tab and the display should change to something similar to the image above. From the list near the center of the screen, click the little arrow-mark on the right side of the list then find "Nostalgic" and select it.

That’s basically all you need to do. Nostalgic will show the images in your "My Pictures" folder by default. If you want to select a different folder click the "Settings" button and you should see these settings.

You can click the browse button and then select a folder from the folder browser window.

Any folder will do as long as there are some JPEG images inside.

Hopefully that’s it. The rest should be self explanatory I hope. If you have any questions feel free to post a message.

Sony DSC-N1

So after that disaster of my last digital camera I set out to get something I could actually use. I still would perfer a swivel lens and a 5x or greater zoom but basically that combination does not exist. There are only 2 or 3 cameras period that have swivel lenses and there are only 2 or 3 consumer level cameras that have greater than 3x zoom so I was pretty much stuck settling for less.

I checked the reviews sites at it seemed like the Fuji Z2 was the current king of the consumer cameras. It’s got the highest rating and is selling like crazy. It’s very compact and its specialty is it has an ISO 1600 rating so it takes good pictures in low-light situations without a flash. That in particular is probably the best reason to own one.

So, I set off to go look at it and whatever else was available and while I was out I stumbled on the Sony DSC-N1.
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6955 plus

My friend 6955 has finally started a real blog. He also recently switched from making live music with 3 Gameboys to making live music with 8 Famicoms and a video multiplexer that shows all the screens as he plays them. Check him out!

Vivienne Westwood

I went to a Vivienne Westwood exhibit at the Mori Arts Center Gallery in Roppongi today. It was recommended by my friend Chrissy. I had a date planned and needed something to do so I decided on that

I really wasn’t expecting all that much. I’d been to the Mori Arts Center Gallery once before for a Hello Kitty exhibit and it was actually pretty lame but we needed something to do and so I thought I’d check it out. I knew it was a clothing exhibit and that was about it so my expectations were pretty low. Boy was I surprised.
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How to detect E-Mail Scams (Phishing)

What do the following 5 e-mails have in common. (click any of them for bigger versions)

SkyScout

This seems like something out of a Scifi movie. It’s a gadget you hold up to your eye, look for a star in the sky and it will tell you about that star supposedly including all kinds of info, even audio. You can also request a star and it will guide you to it. Its memory is upgradable and its got an SD slot for even more data.

More Japanese Chips

Since the last time I wrote about Japanese chips I've tried to take pictures of some of the ones I found more interesting. It seems like every month there are new flavors. The only bad part is if you find a flavor you crave they'll be unavailable in just a few weeks. I'll miss all this variety when I go back to the states.

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