Archive for the ‘Breaktime’ Category
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
The complaints from the kids were finally overwhelming. Their VCDs and DVDs kept 'sticking' and restarting, but seemed to play OK in our PCs. I couldn't bear the thought of replacing the DVD player, I can't help thinking it's next week's antique. We have an old LG TV for the ...
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Sunday, December 13th, 2009
Tremulous is my favourite waste of time. I must have lost months of productivity (if you can call the hours after midnight productive) to this game. It's an online, 3D team First Person Shooter (FPS). That means when you start up the game program, it shows you a list of ...
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
I saw a request for help with English grammar from a member of a forum I often visit, so had a quick peep at his website. It looked great, nice copyright message and all. He seemed to be suggesting that it was all his own work, so I had a ...
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Saturday, December 5th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_641" align="alignright" width="240"] Old DAP rocket with Inkscape guidelines - everything is wonky![/caption]
I was thinking of writing an article about the Jalur Gemilang - the Malaysian national flag - and the importance of very carefully specifying your 'brand', and remembered I'd written about Malayisia's Democratic Action Party (DAP) logo ...
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
I've been moving some of the stuff I wrote on poditronic.com over to spider.my recently. I can tell the Spinneret API is starting to settle down, because there's less pain every time I update my existing applications to match the new API. It also shows up some lingering bugs too!
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