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Latent Appliance Fetishism
27 Dec, 2004
Dimebag Darrell
11 Dec, 2004
Pantera's Vulgar Display of Power was a cornerstone of my soundtrack for the summer of 1992; it would not be exaggeration to estimate that I listened to it pretty much every day, sometimes multiple times a day.
An interesting Analogy for Hacking
9 Dec, 2004
The doing has always been the attractive aspect of programming for me; getting a task or an idea, and going right for the text editor and banging out a code sketch that more or less works, and then going back to fix/polish it has always seemed like the natural way to do things.
Enabling the 'Preferences' dialog for OS X Java Swing applications
8 Dec, 2004
I managed to figure out some of the vague details of Apple's com.apple.eawt.ApplicationAdapter class for handling the OS X Application Menu in Java applications, thanks in part to this forum post, but the 'Preferences' menu wasn't showing up.
Conquer Massachusetts, RISK Style
5 Dec, 2004
Battle for the Bay State! 14 countries corresponding to the counties and islands of Massachusetts, divided into three continents. A small map, but surpisingly fun. (Cape Cod can be harder to hold on to than it looks!) Design-wise, I was inspired by the classic 1970's/early 1980's game board I grew up with.
Short Term Obsessions
5 Dec, 2004
This weekend it's been Lux, the best $20 I've spent in a while.
Regular Expression for Lux Map Making
2 Dec, 2004
Dreamweaver's imagemap functionality is pretty handy for constructing the pairs of coordinates necessary to define countries on a Lux map. The only problem is, the HTML coordinates are all strung together with commas, while the official spec for Lux maps requires that each coordinate pair be separated by a space.
24 Hours of Inform
28 Nov, 2004
My name now shows up on the third 24 Hours of Inform contestant list, so I had better get cracking.
Actually, the development time restriction and mandatory plot elements are quite helpful to me as a first time Inform author; I've zeroed in on an idea and all that remains now is to do some research and code the thing. (Oh, is that all there is to it! I make it sound so easy to myself.)
"The adventure must be set in a theatre. It must involve a petticoat, an advertisement, something which is repainted, and a trapdoor."
At least I was fully-clothed
23 Nov, 2004
The only recurring dreams I seem have anymore are varations on the "I'm back in high school and suddenly I realize that not only am I in the wrong class, I've been going to the wrong class all semester and now there's a big test in the class I was supposed to be going to" theme.
Selling Out
22 Nov, 2004
While perusing this Plastic.com thread it occurred to me that there is a dreadful need out there for the rock band discussion equivalent of Godwin's Law, only instead of bringing up Hitler or Nazis, the discussion is automatically over the moment somebody uses the phrase "sell-out".
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