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• Gaming in 2009

  31 Dec 2008 9:22am

  I wanted to make a calendar of game release dates in 2009 (so I won’t forget), but apparently details are sparse. The only games that I’m remotely interested in that already have release dates are: 20 Jan 2009: Mana Khemia: Student Alliance (PSP) Star Ocean: Second Evolution (PSP) 17 Feb 2009: Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride (NDS) Street Fighter IV (PS3) 17 Mar 2009:

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• Speed Reading

  29 Dec 2008 8:51am

  I came across a website that provided an online Speed Reading Test. Most people I know generally know me to be a fast reader so I decided to take the test. My results: 472 words per minute screen reading, at 82% comprehension, which the website says classifies me as a “good reader”. Apparently the best readers can read at 700wpm at 85% comprehension, sounds tough =/ Try the quiz and post your results here.

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  Posted by Roy Tang under post at 29 Dec 2008 8:51am #Links #Meta
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• Syntax Highlighting using Pygments

  28 Dec 2008 6:37pm

  My current blog app supports syntax highlighting in the blog posts, something I cribbed off Djangosnippet #119 One problem I encountered was that there was no quick visual reference for the styles available with pygments, so I wrote a short demo page here so that I could easily see the appearance of each syntax highlighting class. Of course, I haven’t had a chance to use it in a post yet…

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• Can Anyone Recommend a Phone

  28 Dec 2008 12:07am

  3.2MP or better camera good/easy to use music player at least 2 GB storage more is better prefer easy to use keypad / d-pad (ayaw ko ng may joystick) the larger the display the better (at least 2.4” is preferred - same size display as my last phone) Internet/HTML browsing is a plus - able to view PDFs or office docs easily mura lang. j/k, bahala na ung budget but please don’t tell me to get an IPhone, N96 or Xperia X1 unless you’re willing to sponsor it :D

  Posted by Roy Tang under post at 28 Dec 2008 12:07am #tech life
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• PTQ Kyoto 2

  27 Dec 2008 8:56am

  The last limited tournament of the season, it was last week, December 20 at Robinson’s Galleria. The format was Shards of Alara sealed deck. For once, I opened a pretty good pool. Unfortunately, I failed to make the follow through. Decklist and (short) tournament report follows. Creatures 1 Sigiled Paladin 1 Welkin Guide 1 Viscera Dragger 1 Exuberant Firestoker 1 Predator Dragon 1 Ridge Rannet 1 Rockslide Elemental 1 Cylian Elf 1 Mosstodon 1 Mycoloth 1 Wild Nacatl 1 Bull Cerodon 1 Rip-Clan Crasher 1 Steward of Valeron Spells 2 Oblivion Ring 1 Resounding Silence 1 Dragon Fodder 1 Magma Spray 1 Resounding Thunder 1 Skeletonize 1 Soul's Fire Lands 1 Obelisk of Naya 1 Arcane Sanctum 2 Bant Panorama 3 Plains 6 Mountain 5 Forest Sideboard 2 Angelic Benediction 1 Angelsong 1 Dispeller's Capsule 1 Gustrider Exuberant 1 Sanctum Gargoyle 1 Cloudheath Drake 1 Coma Veil 1 Courier's Capsule 1 Covenant of Minds 1 Dawnray Archer 1 Etherium Sculptor 1 Jhessian Lookout 1 Outrider of Jhess 1 Spell Snip 1 Vectis Silencers 1 Bone Splinters 1 Corpse Connoisseur 1 Dreg Reaver 1 Immortal Coil 1 Infest 2 Shore Snapper 2 Undead Leotau 1 Dragon's Herald 1 Goblin Mountaineer 1 Lightning Talons 1 Viashino Skeleton 1 Ooze Garden 1 Resounding Roar 2 Savage Hunger 1 Soul's Might 1 Carrion Thrash 1 Deft Duelist 1 Fire-Field Ogre 2 Goblin Deathraiders 1 Hindering Light 1 Jhessian Infiltrator 1 Kederekt Creeper 1 Sprouting Thrinax 1 Obelisk of Esper 1 Obelisk of Grixis 1 Esper Panorama (The decklist above only lists 39 cards… not sure what the missing 40th card was )

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  Posted by Roy Tang under post at 27 Dec 2008 8:56am #mtg
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• Colophon 2008

  27 Dec 2008 2:08am

  Frontend: All page templates are valid (X)HTML. However, I choose not to claim valid XHTML (and no doc type declaration) since I can’t guarantee that blog posts I write are compliant! The site uses standard CSS and uses the Blueprint CSS Framework for the grid layout of the page. The site design is entirely original (if not simple and bland – I’m not very good with website design yet!). The site has minor usage of JQuery Javascript library in some parts.

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  Posted by Roy Tang under post at 27 Dec 2008 2:08am #royondjango #django #python #software development
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• roytang.net site update

  26 Dec 2008 4:26pm

  Previously I hosted two separate WordPress blogs on roytang.net, the old one I’ve had since forever, and a separate one that discussed only magic related articles. It was a bit bothersome to have two WordPress installs though. Now that I’ve migrated to a Django backend, I decided to merge the blogs back into one. The blog now has the following sections/categories: Magic the Gathering – for posts related to MTG Software Development – for posts related to Software Development (hopefully I can write more about this topic) Gaming – originally I didn’t have this category, but looking at previous contents of the blog and my delicious links, this is one of the things I write about the most, so I made it a separate category Weblog – everything else I can think of Each category has a separate RSS feed you can subscribe to – so that if you’re only interested in MTG posts you can subscribe to the MTG category feed, etc.

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  Posted by Roy Tang under post at 26 Dec 2008 4:26pm #Meta #changelog
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• Transition to 2009

  25 Dec 2008 3:29pm

  Well, it’s a bit early. But if you’re reading this then I’ve successfully migrated the roytang.net website to a new host. See you after the jump! Merry Christmas!

  Posted by Roy Tang under post at 25 Dec 2008 3:29pm #Meta #changelog
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• PS3!

  20 Dec 2008 5:00pm

  I purchased a PS3 last week! As is typically with me making large purchases, a was wishy-washy about it for a whole two weeks (although Alvin had been egging me to buy one for months). To show how indecisive we are, here’s the conversation we had at the store: Saleslady: Sir, anong kulay ang gusto nyo? Black, silver or white? Me: Alvin, ano gusto mo? Alvin: Kahit ano, silver na lang siguro.

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  Posted by Roy Tang under post at 20 Dec 2008 5:00pm #Gaming
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• FNM 19-Dec 2008

  20 Dec 2008 8:44am

  I’m on vacation, so it means I actually have time to hit FNM. I sleeved up the Kithkin deck (no more Blightning for me!) and headed over to Robinson’s Galleria (Getting robbed along the way fyi). Nothing surprising, I managed to make 3-1, good enough for fourth place and four packs with crap rares inside. My loss was to the mirror match, most probably due to my lower card quality, as I had only 1 planeswalker in my deck.

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  Posted by Roy Tang under post at 20 Dec 2008 8:44am #mtg
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• My Phone Was Stolen

  20 Dec 2008 4:38am

  I wish there was more to the story, but the true story is rather short: I had a moment of carelessness as I hurriedly tried to disemabark from the crowded MRT, and by the time I was getting on an FX at Megamall I noticed that the front pocket of my bag was open and my phone was missing. The PSP which was in the same pocket was still there so I guess the thief was in a hurry.

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  Posted by Roy Tang under post at 20 Dec 2008 4:38am
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• Standard 06 Dec 2008 -- Blightning Beatdown

  6 Dec 2008 10:16pm

  I actually initially thought that there would be a PTQ this weekend. When I found out there would just be a normal Standard tournament the night before, I assembled a deck quickly. I went with Blightning Beatdown:

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  Creatures

  • 4 Figure of Destiny
  • 4 Goblin Deathraiders
  • 3 Ashenmoor Gouger
  • 2 Hell's Thunder
  • 4 Demigod of Revenge

  Spells

  • 4 Bitterblossom
  • 4 Tarfire
  • 3 Resounding Thunder
  • 4 Flame Javelin
  • 4 Blightning

  Lands

  • 4 Auntie's Hovel
  • 4 Graven Cairns
  • 2 Mutavault
  • 1 Ghitu Encampment
  • 3 Savage Lands
  • 5 Mountains
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 2 reflecting pool

  Sideboard

  • 4 Infest
  • 4 Guttural Response
  • 2 Mind Shatter
  • 2 Naturalize
  • 1 Ashenmoor Gouger
  • 2 wild ricochet

  Unfortunately, things did not go well for our hero. Tournament report follows.

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  Posted by Roy Tang under post at 6 Dec 2008 10:16pm #mtg
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• links for 2008-12-01

  1 Dec 2008 5:04pm

  HOWTO: Be more productive (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) (tags: lifehacks productivity)

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• Fixing up the comments

  1 Dec 2008 4:58am

  I played around with the built-in comments app today, trying to clean it up. Some findings: Some of the moderation views, such as flagging a post or deleting a post, accept a next parameter that determines where the view will redirect to after the operation. However, the way the url’s are set up, there’s no easy way to pass this parameter normally, even through query strings. This lovely bug is documented in http://code.

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  Posted by Roy Tang under post at 1 Dec 2008 4:58am #royondjango #django #python #software development
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