What better way to start the new year than with a server upgrade? My desktop system was replaced with a New! Shiny! Intel Core 2 Duo system before Christmas, and that freed up some hardware to be used for the server that hosts this website. I simultaneously wanted to replace… Read More
Observe the fun you can have with Nerf, a Dremel, and Too Much Free Time: a Nerf chaingun that fires 500 rounds per minute. This is eleven different flavours of awesome. No, I don’t plan to grow up any time soon. Why? Read More
I had to completely reinstall GameOS (a Windows XP disk that I keep around for the occasional gaming session), losing all my saved games, because Windows somehow magically corrupted its partition setup. I didn’t have any backups of GameOS, because I didn’t feel that it was worth the extra cost… Read More
I transplanted fnord (my desktop system) into a new body yesterday. He now has an Intel Core Duo instead of an AMD64 Athlon, 4 Gig of RAM instead of 2, and 2 shiny new Samsung 22″ LCDs screens driven by an NVidia card with dual DVI out. It’s very nice.… Read More
Unfavorable Geometry is my new favorite phrase. Apart from being a kickass band name, it is possibly the most understated term to describe extremely dangerous stuff I have ever heard. This phrase is from a report by the Los Alamos National Labs titled A Review of Criticality Accidents. If you’ve… Read More
Check out the guy behind leapsecond.com: he’s so obsessed with time, and precisely measuring it, that he has a hydrogen maser in his house. Wow. Apart from being an awesome geek, he’s super-fun. He build a Nixie tube clock app that you can watch over the web, and updated it… Read More
I gave up on Yahoo! being able to reset my password on my original Flickr account, so I’ve created a new one and uploaded my photos from OSDC 2008. Unfortunately, many of them are slightly blurry. I was using a 300mm telephoto, without flash, inside, which is always tricky. That,… Read More
Adobe have finally deigned to release a 64bit build of Flash player for Linux. Huzzah! No more stupid mucking about with nspluginwrapper. It’s only alpha, but so far it’s working nicely for me. It’s much more stable than the nspluginwrapped version; so far it hasn’t crashed even once. YouTube and… Read More
OSDC this year was the most organised of all the events I’ve been to. It still has a very geeky feel to it, but there’s more polish starting to take over. This is probably largely due to a core of the organisers having done quite a few of them now,… Read More
Whew! What a blast. OSDC was really good this year. I’m a bit flat out with family stuff at the moment (Dutch Christmas today. Stollen, yay!) so I’ll have to leave the main writeup until later. Lots of really smart people doing cool and amazing things. I learned heaps, mostly… Read More
