Incoherent Thoughts

I love how some tech-y blogs describe the possible Microsoft/Yahoo! merger as a 'good thing', and decry Google's concerns over it as 'scaremongering'. I wonder if they've been bought. How is Microsoft buying Yahoo good for anyone but Yahoo shareholders? What that Google representative said in their blog was the first thing I thought of after hearing of Microsoft's proposal. Microsoft would get worryingly close to completely dominating the IM and email markets. In short, it's an almost complete monopoly on how people communicate (aside from browser-side communication like blogs). Not a very pleasant thought to dwell on. People have seen how a Microsoft monopoly goes on the OS side. How could they presume that a Microsoft monopoly on email and IM would be even remotely a good thing?
I really hope it won't happen.

(okay, I'm biased. Microsoft, the root of all evil? But do try to make me see the good side of such a deal. If there is one)

Got my はてなき空の向こうに manga today! =D The new plot twists ('new', as in different from Crystal Chronicles. This is a game adaptation, if you didn't know) seem rather interesting, although the realization is sometimes clumsy. (seriously. To get the main chara Fox where he needed to be, he fell into a river. On two separate occasions. To get him to two separate places where he needed to be. That's a bit..ehhh.) I've only read the first volume for now, I've still got the second waiting.
...the second volume has Lu Zhe on the cover. She's based on one of the cutest female Selkie models from the game. xD

Listened to some early Gackt songs and they were as amazing as I remembered them being. Got addicted to 'Asrun Dream' and 'Fragrance' and 'rain' again. And 'mind forest'! Although it came out later, Crescent did have some very good songs, too.
Heh, I can still remember the lyrics to some of these songs. The days when I listened to them over and over again, when I only knew a couple words of Japanese so naturally, couldn't understand the lyrics...
In honor of the occasion, I dug out some old icons and uploaded them to my IJ account. I found them while looking through those back-up CDs. (this icon is from his Malice Mizer days. From the Illuminati PV. =D I remember using this one before, maybe in 2004 or so..)