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Happy New Year to everyone from the skies somewhere over the western USA, en route to LAX. This is my ninth and probably final trip to the Geographic South Pole, and if you’re reading this you probably know me and know I’ve been preparing for this trip off and on for a number of months (and, in some ways, for decades — more on that later). Now I am finally under way, and I’m relieved to be launched and finally headed towards whatever this j....
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Happy New Year to everyone from the skies somewhere over the western USA, en route to LAX. This is my ninth and probably final trip to the Geographic South Pole, and if you’re reading this you probably know me and know I’ve been preparing for this trip off and on for a number of months (and, in some ways, for decades — more on that later). Now I am finally under way, and I’m relieved to be launched and finally headed towards whatever this j....
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So you are familiar with the SoundCloud API Wrapper and want to use it to share the sounds you upload? And you want to use the existing connections on SoundCloud or make new ones? Awesome. Here’s how to do it.
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After doing this two years I figured I needed to continue my tradition. If you want to see how right or wrong I
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So you are familiar with the SoundCloud API Wrapper and want to use it to share the sounds you upload? And you want to use the existing connections on SoundCloud or make new ones? Awesome. Here’s how to do it.
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This year instead of bothering with making a big deal of Christmas, getting presents, etc, C and I decided to just go out and have a nice meal. A couple of weeks ago my recruiter held a lunch at the Atrium in Burswood and it was excellent, so I thought we could go to the same place for dinner.
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I finally got animations working! I'm using a Blender to FBX script, along with this fantastic multi-take FBX importer. Apparently XNA depends on the actual FBX API for importing, and the API changed drastically just before XNA 4 released, so they didn't have time to get multiple takes (animation clips) working in one file. This importer automagically splits out the takes from the FBX file, processes them independently, then combines them i..
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I have a tendency of really latching onto very simple ideas. Typically these ideas don’t require complex engineering to make them happen. This is not to say the engineering is not important, but more so that it is some variation of engineering feats that have been done before. The reason I tend to like these over more complex engineering that really makes something better is that making something better is typically a marginal improvement. ..
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I have a tendency of really latching onto very simple ideas. Typically these ideas don’t require complex engineering to make them happen. This is not to say the engineering is not important, but more so that it is some variation of engineering feats that have been done before. The reason I tend to like these over more complex engineering that really makes something better is that making something better is typically a marginal improvement. ..
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Okay, it's time to shed some light on this project. First off, my goal is to release on Xbox and, if possible, Steam (if not, I'll be looking at other online stores). I figure these are the two largest, most practical target markets. The release price will be between $1 and $5, with 100% of the proceeds going to charity (more on this later...). There are two main themes I want to nail in this game. The first is giving the player ..
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Every generation has a mythology. Every millennium has a doomsday cult. Every legend gets the distortion knob wound up until the speaker melts. Archeologists at the University of Helsinki today uncovered what could be the earliest known writings from the Cult of Tux, a fanatical religious sect that flourished during the early Silicon Age, just before the dawn of the third millennium AD. In the beginning Turing created the Machine. And t....
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Every generation has a mythology. Every millennium has a doomsday cult. Every legend gets the distortion knob wound up until the speaker melts. Archeologists at the University of Helsinki today uncovered what could be the earliest known writings from the Cult of Tux, a fanatical religious sect that flourished during the early Silicon Age, just before the dawn of the third millennium AD. In the beginning Turing created the Machine. And t....
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I’ve spent a lot of time this last week staring at decompiled Dalvik assembly. In the process, I created a couple of useful tools that I figure are worth sharing. I’ve been using dedexer instead of baksmali, honestly mainly because the former’s output has fewer blank lines and so is more readable on my netbook’s screen. Thus, these tools are designed to work with the output of dedexer, but the formats are simple enough that they should be e..
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I’ve spent a lot of time this last week staring at decompiled Dalvik assembly. In the process, I created a couple of useful tools that I figure are worth sharing. I’ve been using dedexer instead of baksmali, honestly mainly because the former’s output has fewer blank lines and so is more readable on my netbook’s screen. Thus, these tools are designed to work with the output of dedexer, but the formats are simple enough that they should be e..
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Merry Christmas - How to save time by never registering for websites
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BugMeNot is a site dedicated to providing usernames and passwords for (m)any websites. It's a great way to avoid logging in. However, it's sometimes tedious to check every time whether there is a login available or not. I am not sure I really save that much time going to the website each time and trying to locate a working password. Luckily there is a solution! BugMeNot Extensions for Firefox and Chrome ! Checkout Chrome Versi..
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Calculating the popularity of a page or article is something that usually comes up as a list of requirements for any social website. Essentially you want to display the post popular items/articles in some form of list but have them weighted by how old they are. Thankfully its pretty easy to do MySQL. ((popularity-1)/power(((unix_timestamp(NOW())-unix_timestamp(datetime))/60)/60,1.8)) The above produces a number which you can then sort on...
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How scary would it be if you had to purchase access to certain websites like you purchase access to certain channels on cable?
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I spoke at LINX71 about the testing that we (C&W) have been doing in the lab with 100GigE - we got a pre-production card and hence had a look at the technology for real. Thanks to LINX, the presentation video can be seen by clicking on the image below.
Once again, however, whatever LINX use as a presentation laptop didn't render my slides properly - even though I'd submitted PDF too! Hence the slides can be found on this site .
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I spoke at LINX71 about the testing that we (C&W) have been doing in the lab with 100GigE - we got a pre-production card and hence had a look at the technology for real. Thanks to LINX, the presentation video can be seen by clicking on the image below.
Once again, however, whatever LINX use as a presentation laptop didn't render my slides properly - even though I'd submitted PDF too! Hence the slides can be found on this site .
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See updates at the bottom of the post I tried to buy a Kindle ebook yesterday from the Amazon site only to be told that the book was not available for Australian customers. Unfortunately I couldn’t find an electronic version of the book anywhere else, so tried a few ways to purchase this thing from Australia. I was finally successful in purchasing the Kindle eBook.
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Googles Page Speed “Optimizations” Make Learning Difficult If you, as I, grew up during the web bubble we call the 90’s and were interested at all in web development my guess is that you probably didn’t learn most of your skills from a book or a class. You probably would run across a site that had something cool on it and ponder “Oh my, how does that work?” right click, view source, and after some digging were enlightened. I’m certain t....
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Googles Page Speed “Optimizations” Make Learning Difficult If you, as I, grew up during the web bubble we call the 90’s and were interested at all in web development my guess is that you probably didn’t learn most of your skills from a book or a class. You probably would run across a site that had something cool on it and ponder “Oh my, how does that work?” right click, view source, and after some digging were enlightened. I’m certain t....
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I don't exactly know which technology was used to create this, but here is a 111 gigapixel zoomable image of the town of Sevilla in Italy. It really is remarkable and as it stands this image holds the world record for the highest resolution picture ever created.
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I don't exactly know which technology was used to create this, but here is a 111 gigapixel zoomable image of the town of Sevilla in Italy. It really is remarkable and as it stands this image holds the world record for the highest resolution picture ever created.
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I've moved the ShortPHP blog to my personal blog. Due to the possibility of it becoming more active here. I've recently set up ShortPHP at github.com so you can fork the project or create contributions of your own and submit them.
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I've moved the ShortPHP blog to my personal blog. Due to the possibility of it becoming more active here. I've recently set up ShortPHP at github.com so you can fork the project or create contributions of your own and submit them.
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Ben Franklin drunk dialing simulator. Will text message a random term from Ben Franklin’s 1737 list of synonyms for ‘drunk’ at the time of your choosing to a list of phone numbers. View the code on GitHub.
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C and I went to see Tron: Legacy in 3D last night. I have to be honest - I haven’t seen the original Tron. I only remember being obsessed with this old PC game where you had to control a car that was spitting out a blue wall as you drove as you tried to trap your opponent. At the time I had no idea the game was actually based on a movie.
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Here's a bunch of random interesting links I've found lately. I grabbed this from my twitter stream, so some of those links are shortened. I'm \*way\* too lazy to unshorten them. Edit: No wait, I'm not too lazy, I de-shortened them all.
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Here's a bunch of random interesting links I've found lately. I grabbed this from my twitter stream, so some of those links are shortened. I'm \*way\* too lazy to unshorten them. Edit: No wait, I'm not too lazy, I de-shortened them all.
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D&D; Our D&D; 4e group had an awesome session last weekend. It went something like this (and I’m just prattling off from memory here, pardon any mistakes, fellow party members):
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This is a really interesting non-profit project from Google Labs. It uses a technology called WebGL, which is open non-proprietary standard for displaying 3d graphics. It displays the graphics through HTML5's canvas element and it's only supported in beta versions of most of the browsers. That means you'll need the beta version of Firefox or Google Chrome beta.
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This is a really interesting non-profit project from Google Labs. It uses a technology called WebGL, which is open non-proprietary standard for displaying 3d graphics. It displays the graphics through HTML5's canvas element and it's only supported in beta versions of most of the browsers. That means you'll need the beta version of Firefox or Google Chrome beta.
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I just received this from the EFF and it's wonderful news. Warrants required to search 3rd party email providers (gmail, hotmail). Today is a good day :) Dear Kevin, It's been a great week for electronic privacy and the 4th Amendment! In a decision issued yesterday, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the government must have a search warrant before it can seize and search emails stored by third party email service provi..
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My friends of the non-geek type often ask me how companies like Facebook can make so much money and provide their service for free at the same time. Here is a quick example of how you can make money online. Warning: this is a not a get rich quick scheme. I’m not going teach you how to make millions working for Google from home. I recently started following John Gruber’s blog Darring Fireball . This gentleman seems to be rather influent....
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My friends of the non-geek type often ask me how companies like Facebook can make so much money and provide their service for free at the same time. Here is a quick example of how you can make money online. Warning: this is a not a get rich quick scheme. I’m not going teach you how to make millions working for Google from home. I recently started following John Gruber’s blog Darring Fireball . This gentleman seems to be rather influent....
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I feel like I need to challenge myself. Since I moved last month, I have been doing a lot of little things here and there (see: consulting, freelancing). My own projects have stagnated and I haven't been nearly as productive as I would like. I have a lot of ideas for different websites I own but have had a very hard time committing to one. I enjoy projects, building a first implementation and testing a concept. In an effort to try an..
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As thoughts turn in earnest to shopping and packing to depart January 1, here is a South Pole video from old times to get one in the mood for the coming trip. This was from my second trip, 13 years ago, taken by a camera deployed in one of the AMANDA strings, designed by our Stockholm collaborators.
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As thoughts turn in earnest to shopping and packing to depart January 1, here is a South Pole video from old times to get one in the mood for the coming trip. This was from my second trip, 13 years ago, taken by a camera deployed in one of the AMANDA strings, designed by our Stockholm collaborators.
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