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Style Change

Got tired of the inconsistencies in my style sheet. Picked a pretty new one using StyleCatcher. Much, much better.

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How To Install Songs on Taiko No Tatsujin Portable (2005)

NOTE FROM THE YEAR 2023: I see a lot of traffic to this page, so important to note this is about a weird 2005-era way of installing DLC on a PSP game. Sorry to those looking for something else!

As a music game geek, I would have been remiss to not pick up Taiko No Tatsujin Portable, a somewhat faithful recreation of the very popular Japanese arcade game. Granted, there’s no drum to bang on, but the game plays surprisingly well on the PSP.

Namco recently announced that they were going to allow song downloads, and lo and behold, the first three songs were posted today on the downloads site. The instructions, of course, are in Japanese – and while you can sort of make out what’s going on in English, I figured it might be worth having an easy-to-follow guide for those that don’t want to slog through page upon page of Japanese. Follow along, if you will…

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Friends Happenings

A quick round to see what everyone’s been doing lately:

Benjamin Birdie is going [gangbusters with the webcomics](http://webcomicsnation.com/bb/).

[Suw Charman](http://chocnvodka.blogware.com/blog) is ramping up for [BlogOn](http://www.blogonevent.com/blogon2005/) in October, and is asking that anyone involved with business blogging [fill out a survey](http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=665601347079.).

Jen Chung just turned 29 and is [doing the NYFF](http://www.gothamist.com/archives/jen/2005/09/going_to_tthe_n.php) as a result. I’d wish her happy birthday again, but I think she’s heard it enough from me.

Kim Cochran has [revived her blog](http://duck.hekhet.net) for the fifth time.

[Jake Dobkin](http://www.bluejake.com/) is [hosting another NYC Photobloggers event](http://nyc.photobloggers.org/nyc5/) this Friday at the Apple Store.

Thom Heidt is over in China, and besides [his excellent blog postings](https://vjarmy.com/thom/archives/2005/09/ten_observations_from_beijing.html), just uploaded [a hefty batch of photos](http://www.flickr.com/photos/21368024@N00/archives/date-posted/2005/09/27/).

Wendy Koslow and Joey “Accordion Guy” deVilla [got married over the weekend](http://www.wendyandjoey.com/blog).

Dave Moldawer is launching a new writing project called [feedplay](http://feedplay.com/feedplay/), a story told from multiple points of view via different blogs.

John Scanlan skipped out on [Channel 102](http://www.channel102.net/) last night because he was too busy [tasting at Ninja](http://raspberryheaven.net/~shut/wordpress/?p=19) – his review is excellent and worth reading, so I won’t hold it against him.