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Remember: Always Back up your Website!

October 10, 2014 by chikorita157 Leave a Comment

Just today, a fellow Anime blogger named Calaggie who runs Nigorimasen recently discovered that somebody hacked it and deleted all the content. It’s a shame that all the content the person worked hard on got wiped in an instant.

People who are running self-hosted WordPress blogs don’t realize that blogs that run WordPress are subjected to brute force attacks (basically an automated attack that guesses every password combination) in effort to gain control and use it to plant malware or even deface a website. If you host your own WordPress blog, you should do the following to prevent this from happening:

  • Have off-site backups – For most web hosting providers, you can perform a backup through CPanel, but you should keep the backup offsite in an event that you are unable to get a backup before the attack. For a Virtual Private Server, this is easier since you can just use rsync to another service or host after making a backup of the database and an archive. Also, some Virtual Private Server providers like BuyVM and Digital Ocean also have automatic backups (although the latter, it’s an additional cost). For me, BuyVM provides 5 GB of backup space and I created a scheduled task to back up and upload the files to the backup space. Also, Amazon S3 can be an affordable solution for backups as well. If you can’t afford offsite backups, just create a reminder to download a backup each week.
  • Check your plugins and themes – Plugins and themes can potentially have vulnerabilities that can be used by attackers to gain control or plant malware on the site. Therefore, you should keep the plugins updated regularly and only use themes from trusted sources.
  • Install Security Plugins: Plugins like BruteProtect (which will be included in Jetpack), Limit Login Attempts, and Rename wp-login.php can be good tools to protect you from brute-force attacks.
  • Use a strong password for your WordPress and web hosting accounts– This is obvious, but people have the tendency to use weak passwords since they are hard to remember. If you have a hard time remembering passwords, use a password manager like Lastpass or 1Password so that you can generate strong passwords without having to remember them. Also, avoid using FTP since  passwords are sent in clear text, use SSH/SFTP instead (most FTP clients should support SSH).
  • Keep WordPress Up to Date – Usually, WordPress updates fixes security issues. However, you can set it to update automatically.
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Tagged With: Community Share, security, Wordpress

SDB on Idols… again

June 10, 2012 by chikorita157 Leave a Comment

It seems that Chizumatic have some highly critical views on Idolmaster… but to me, the franchise have a big difference compared to something to the blatant commercialism of Idols in real life… Just look no further to the AKB48 or Girls Generation. They have the girls sing to bubblegum pop music and use them until the producers decide to get rid of them through “graduation” and we never hear from them ever again. He should have used the energy on that rather than well, girls willing to join a production group and singing some songs for fun. The flip side is that they at least they songs that go along with their personalities and not poisoned by commercialism of the Idol industry in reality. But hey, I enjoy it more because it’s fictional and not exactly hurting anyone.

Update (May 11, 2012): I clearified my thoughts on this issue and more in my updated editorial on Eastern Asian Idols as the problem lies in the companies’ control of the girls’ lives rather than exploitation.

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Tagged With: Chizumatic, Community Share, idolmaster, idols, opinion

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Akira on Older Girls

June 1, 2012 by chikorita157 Leave a Comment

In a post written by Akira about his interesting take on older girls, I kind of feel the same way. Although I prefer girls around my age, older ones tend to be more mature or sweet personalities. Also in some cases, people may look up to them as their role model. Azusa from The Idolmaster (pictured above) is probably a good example as she has a sweet personality and really good looks. Also, she’s voiced by Chiaki Takanashi, whom had other older sister type characters. For this reason, many of her fellow idols, especially Chihaya looks up to her. Takane also gets the same treatment, although she is a few years younger than Azusa.

Another good example is Sanae Furukawa in Clannad. Although she is a mom in her 30s or 40s, most view her as Nagisa’s older sister. She has a mature personality and knows how to cook anything except bread.

I think the main reason most anime focus on younger girls because the moe factor. Still, we shouldn’t overlook their uniqueness.

Update (June 2, 2012, 9:22 PM EDT): Apparently received a not so received response regarding my tastes for older anime girls is meh… Well don’t look at me, I only watched about 80 titles to date… but there are probably others I possibly overlooked. But then again, there isn’t a wrong or right answer.

Update #2 (9:29 PM EDT): Damn, how did I forget about Kotori… maybe because she doesn’t get a full on screen appearance in the game like the other characters. Even so, it’s sad we don’t know much about her, except being the secretary. I would like to see a bit more of her.

Update #3 (9:33 PM, 10:34PM): Come to think of it, Ohana’s grandmother, Sui from Hanasaku Iroha would probably fit the description better. Yeah she is 68 years old, but definitely mature and authoritative (you can probably see this with the slapping and strictness). Ritsuko also works as well since she is 19, pretty strict and likes being a producer more than an idol.

But excuse my accused trollage… it’s unintentional.


Thoughts on Comments: Of course what Akira did is somewhat similar to what Author from “Ani-nouto” as he does not allow comments on blogs. Since most people use social networks or Tumblr, these mediums can give a more interactive experience as the comments come directly from the person. However, keeping interactions to these mediums could alienate a few who don’t want to use these, but still want to comment (most namely people who want to remain anonymous or don’t want to make an account). It’s a double-edged sword, which is why I keep comments on… But hey, do what works best.

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Tagged With: Community Share, Moe Fundamentalism, opinion

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Just as Planned on WordPress Themes

May 7, 2012 by chikorita157 Leave a Comment

This morning, I came across a rather interesting post focusing on WordPress themes. It’s a known fact that many of the blogs that are in the tournament are hosted by WordPress.com. But one of the things that author failed to mention that these limitations doesn’t necessarily apply to WordPress in general, but only on WordPress.com blogs.

One of the things that bother me about WordPress.com besides the fact that you must login just to comment is the severe limitations on how much you can customize a theme. Sure, there are some themes that have an array of customization options like Twenty Ten/Eleven, but others don’t. As a result, blogs look about the same, which bothers some people. To make it more troubling, the Custom Design upgrade costs $30 a year. It’s expensive, especially if you add the domain mapping costing about $18. For 2 years, you will pay about 96 dollars ($48 dollars a year), which is enough to get shared hosting if you pay a little more.

Although WordPress.com is a decent platform if you want to blog without spending anything or maintaining a self installation. However, if you grow and become popular, you might realize the limitations. This is when it’s a good time to get self hosted. There are some places where you can host your blog for free such as Kokidokom and others as long it’s related to Anime in some way. Although self-hosted installations take some effort to maintain (and you have to make backups), they are worth it in the long-term as there are more options to customize.

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Tagged With: Community Share, Just as Planned, opinion, Wordpress

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I Thought This Argument was Over? Apparently Not

September 29, 2011 by chikorita157 2 Comments

Not this shit again… The last time it happened, a blog called the Golden Waste back in February 2010 ranted about people not buying R1 Anime releases and subscribing to Crunchyroll. Well, it got criticized and the author eventually deleted the blog forever.

Fast forward to the end of September and another person decides to complain about it. While I agree with supporting the industry, I didn’t like his arguments as it was playing the blame game. The problem is, not everyone has a lot of money, especially college students, thus they only buy series that they like. If you take it even further, you can get into the debate over the intangibility of Crunchyroll, lack of karaoke and the poor quality subs. Believe me, just look at the recent subs of Ika Musume S2 and it’s horrible. I don’t want to waste $10 for poor quality when I could use that money on the actual DVDs.

Rest assured, I buy Anime on occasion when I want to watch a series I’m really interested in or enjoyed a lot. I’m not loaded either and will not buy every DVD on the moon because you said so. Also, I need to use the money for web hosting and stuff not just DVDs.

Besides from that, let the issue rest already. I’m sick of hearing it!

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Tagged With: anime industry, Community Share, fandom, opinion, pointless argument, The last stop on the bus.

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Why I Anime Blog in General

July 14, 2011 by chikorita157 2 Comments

Aorii asked a relatively interesting question:

Question for the anibloggers, especially the episodic ones: what drives you to blog? if there’s one style one can identify your blog by (especially from the others), what would it be? what made you choose that style of blogging?

I answered:

While I mostly write about what I usually watch, I only write my thoughts on what I seen in the episode and analyze parts of the episodes I find particularly interesting. I don’t write a full synopsis or dump a lot of screenshots because I feel it’s pointless and I assume most people will already watched it, so I don’t see a point. For editorials, I get my ideas from reading other anime blogs or if something comes up that drives me to write a post… So basically, I take a mixed approach.

For me, I choose to blog about anime for various reasons. First reason is to practice my writing since it’s not the greatest and by writing posts, I can improve on it as times go on. The second reason is to share my passion and thoughts about Anime as a whole. Third and last reason, is the social factor. Sharing your thoughts allows for discussion. In a way, anime blogging has allowed me to network with other bloggers and I have become more open.

From this, I am already thinking about writing an editorial on the social aspects of watching anime and anime blogging with my personal experiences in the coming weeks… It’s something to think about as it’s something important to the Anime Fandom in general.

Of course, there are many answers to this question that are rather interesting, so take a look!

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Tagged With: aniblogosphere, Aorii, Community Share, fandom, formspring, reflection

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Ask me Anything – Digest III

October 24, 2010 by chikorita157 Leave a Comment

Question 1

Have you met any friends from the anime blogosphere offline before? (ie: met them up for meal, to attend Convection, etc)

Answer: Not yet… There aren’t that many anibloggers I can meet considering the vast majority are in California and nobody likes New Jersey.

Question 2

Who’s the one character you’d want to go to the zoo with?

Answer: Funny question… Obviously Yunno from MM since she loves animals…

(I’m totally serious…) probably Nayuki too, but keep her away from the cats.

Question 3

What is your favorite font(s) that you use?

Answer: For formal use (Blogs, Homework, etc): Helvetica Neue (or Helvetica, although Neue is prefered), Droid Sans and Myriad Pro.
Casual: Tekton Pro, Cafisch Script. No Comic Sans since I HATE THAT FONT and it should die.

Question 4

If you could have your hair washed with pleasure by an anime or manga or whatever character, who would you choose?

Answer: Tsukimiya Ayu… clumsy girls are good at washing hair, right? :p

Question 5

You can place 6 items in an emergency kit, what do you put inside? (not necessarily an injury or accident emergency kit, just something to have in most dire/stressful situations)

Answer: Money, Macbook Pro, iPhone, some food, a swiss knife, rope

Question 6

Would you prefer to watch the sun set from the beach or atop a mountain?

Answer: Beach. I’m afraid of heights… (not really, but yeah, less effort)

Question 7

What do you feel the difference is between shipping and OTP, if any?

Answer: Not much of a shipper since its nasty stuff… but OTP is the only true couple that can happen and nothing else. Shipping can be pretty much anything.

Question 8

Which J-POP singer/Japanese band you have heard is the absolute worst?

Answer: From experience, I have to say Konno Hirom is the worst singer from the songs I ever heard. Girls Dead Monster is also up there too.

Question 9

Would you ever name your desktop/laptop after a tsundere? If so, which one?

Answer: I name my Late 2008 Macbook Pro Fujibayashi Kyou… now I am regretting that decision as it giving me troubles.

FYI, I name my computers after my favorite anime characters, mostly female.

As I stated, anyone is free to ask me questions… I won’t bite. Either ask them through “Ask me Anything” page on Shiori’s Diary or on Tumblr

Tagged With: answers, Community Share, questions

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Zakuro – Informal Thoughts about Episode 1… or Imperialism sucks!

October 24, 2010 by chikorita157 Leave a Comment

Imperialism bites… and most people will agree, it sucks to have someone else come out of nowhere and take over your country.

Like milk, foreigners are usually hostile to the people who are colonizing on their land… Back when countries like England and the United States taking over other people’s countries in the 19th centry, they usually steal the country’s treasures and bring it back to their own country. China is one of the well-known examples where the colonists took their artifacts and treasures away.

Imperialism also forces the colonist’s culture down everyone’s throat. Most people are usually against it and will revolt. The milk example brought up and analyzed by Aorii pretty deeply proves the shoving down a culture down someone’s throat. I’m pretty interested how the girls would react to the army’s shoving down of their culture in future episodes… or rather the opposite.

Otherwise, I am enjoying this show… sure there is a tsundere since it’s a JC Staff production, but at least it’s not the stereotypical tsunderes I have seen in Hayate no Gotoku or other shows.

And yes, I like the opening… it’s so catchy and fun to listen to.

Tagged With: Community Share, First Impressions, Got Milk?, Imperialism, Major Arcana, opinion, Otome Youkai Zakuro, Tsunderes

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Kokidokom is down… again!

October 11, 2010 by chikorita157 Leave a Comment

The last time I saw Kokidokom going down was like a whole month and a week ago as told by Author of Ani-Nouto. Unfortunately, the site went down again today as a result of BlueHost suspension. The suspension of Kokidokom’s host brought down anime blogs like Simplicity, Anime Princess, Hey Say Anime, Anime^2, and Metanorn.

When the sites grow bigger, shared hosting may not be feasible anymore. In some cases, site suspension can be the shared host’s fault depending on their strict policy on resource usage even if they provide “Unlimited” bandwidth and storage. Zzeroparticle of Anime Instrumentality Blog experienced this for several months when his host complained about the excessive RAM usage. The strange thing is that his site was only generating 400 visitors per day. The number of visitors that size can’t possibly generate a very high CPU and RAM usage even with a caching plugin enabled. Eventually, he moved the site to WPWebHost and haven’t had any problems ever since.

Perhaps Kokidokom needs to switch to a more reliable host to get rid of this suspension problem once and for all. After all, BlueHost were the ones caused havoc to anime blogs when they took down Hinano’s blog for instance.

Update: Kokidokom is now back up.

Tagged With: Ani-Nouto, aniblogosphere, bluehost, Community Share, Kokidokom, shared hosting drama

There is always a downside when it comes…

October 9, 2010 by chikorita157 Leave a Comment

There is always a downside when it comes to simulcasted anime… It always has a potential that the show would leak to the masses before the airing of the show in Japan. This exact situation happened to Funimation when they were streaming One Piece Episode 403 back in June of last year.

Ironically, ANN cannot escape the same treatment since the leak of Ore No Imouto Ga Konna Ni Kawaii Wake Ga Nai. The second episode of the mention series leaked a day early, which could explain why some of the people are reviewing that said episode a day early. Well, ANN is now investigating the issue so it won’t happen again. It makes you wonder about the security used to protect these streams so that it won’t leak like that.

Update: It seems that the simulcasting of OreImouto is permanently suspended… Yeah, ANN pretty much betrayed the Anime Fandom and hopes for streaming being a better alternative.

Tagged With: ANN, Community Share, epic fail, opinion, opps, Ore No Imouto Ga Konna Ni Kawaii Wake Ga Nai, streaming

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