Archive for April, 2006



SC2 plz

I thought I had an original idea for how to make Starcraft 2 even better, but it turns out that voice control in RTS already exists in Will of Steel.
Sign the Starcraft2 petition.

I saw something amazing today.
I saw someone eat an entire apple. I don’t mean they ate it right down to the core. I mean they ate the whole thing. My reaction was “Wow, I’ve only ever seen a horse do that!”
Eating an apple in this manner actually has one big advantage
- There is nothing to [...]

Subaru RIP :(

Sadly the Subaru Wagon is no longer in our family. While the hole in its gas tank isn’t as big as the hole in my heart – it is still big enough to leak gas all over the driveway.
If you want to read all about our Subaru, you can browse through the Subaru archive [...]

Animated Holiday Snaps

Here is my idea for an interesting web project.
1. Collect hundreds of holday pictures of famous landmarks.
2. Animate
For example, one could amass a large number of images taken of niagra falls; all taken at approximately the same loocation & angle – and turn them into an animated image.
Or, it might be possible to make [...]

WikipediaWords

Here is my idea for a Wordpress plug-in,
WikipediaWords: contextual encyclopedia listings.
It would work a lot like Google’s Adwords, except instead of ads, all the links would go to Wikipedia entries. The plug-in would automatically create Adwords style links to wikipedia entries based on the content of your blog post.

Blog Still Here

This post is to recognise that the previous post title was very misleading
I’ve implemented some wordpress plug-ins. One displays my latest flickr photos, (Thanks Dave) and the other tracks my lastfm data.

Blog Moved

Howdy,This morning I upgraded and changed the software that this blog is running on. There might be some broken links here and there.
I took a somewhat lazy approach to moving over my content. I imported all my old contenct and comments into this blog – but I’ve left up all the old posts in the [...]




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