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Monthly Archives: April 2007
Baloons!
This game is super addictive! Click on the image to play: It is a total time sink so be warned. :mrgreen: [tags]games, flash, baloons, monkey, flash game[/tags]
Posted in video games
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Zombie Survival Plan
Do you have one? If not, you should start planning. I posted about this before, but I think it’s time to bring it back up again. Previously I advocated fortifying in some well protected building with food supply. Since then … Continue reading
Jade Empire: Special Edition
I’ve been playing this game for some time now, so I figured that it’s time to write a short review. I picked this game up because Shamus Young was raving about it on the Twenty Sided blog. He usually has … Continue reading
Posting Twitter Updates using Java
As you may or may not know, I’m working on a Java based Twitter client recently. Sending and getting data from Twitter is really, really simple. Here is how to do it in Java. Let’s assume that we are trying … Continue reading
Ruby on Rails doesn’t Scale Well
Ruby is a really great language with some awesome features, and Rails make it even better. But it appears that it does not scale well yet. Twitter is a great example of using RoR to run a website with millions … Continue reading
Need a Project
Now that my thesis is done, I feel that my procrastination skills might get bit rusty. Or even worse, I might start using them at work. Oh wait, never mind – I already do that. Either way, I need more … Continue reading
WTF Video Clip of the Week
Alright… Anyone knows what the fuck is going on here? What is this movie? WTF is with the little blue smurf dudes with machine guns? Anyone can recognize the language they are speaking in, or were they just mumbling intelligibly … Continue reading
Thesis Defense: Final Update
By this time of the day I’m getting tired of talking about it. But let me do this again for the sake of completion. Next time someone asks me, I can just refer them to this post and not have … Continue reading
Posted in school and teaching
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Tomorrow is the Day
Yep, the defense is tomorrow: Wish me luck! [tags]thesis, masters thesis, ms thesis, thesis defense, defense[/tags]
Posted in school and teaching
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Convert PS and EPS images to JPEG
The reason why I post stuff like this here is twofold. Firstly (is that even a word?), I forget. Chances are that in 3 months I will need this shit again, and won’t remember the exact syntax, or the name … Continue reading
Thesis Status Update
Just a quick update before I call it a night. I finalized my thesis paper on Thursday and sent it to the committee. In it’s final version the paper was 105 pages long. That and a little over 6000 lines … Continue reading
Posted in school and teaching
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The Harderst Super Mario Level
This guy just cracked me up. The commentary in the background is priceless: Btw, I think whoever designed world was on crack! WTF. I give this guy mad props for persistence. I would have given up 5 minutes into the … Continue reading
Posted in geek humor
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Convert JPG and PNG to EPS on Windows
There are two kinds of people in this world – those who are always on the lookout for the nifty tools that will convert the xyz image format to Encapsulated Postscript (eps) and those who have no clue what Encapsulated … Continue reading
Don’t go all Jack Thompson on Virginia Tech
The first person who tries to tie Virginia Tech shooting to violent video games, movies or music is a despicable publicity whore. Anyone willing to exploit this tragedy for media face time, or use it to support their agenda to … Continue reading
Disable the Send To Context Menu in Windows
One of the most annoying context menus in Windows is the stupid Send To menu which lets you send the clicked file to various programs, or special folders. Personally I never use it. Some of you may find it extremely … Continue reading
LaTex: Fixing Wrong Figure Numbers
What I tell you right now may save you hours of extensive debugging, cursing under your breath, commenting out custom code dealing with figure layout and much frustration. Whenever you use figures, always (and I mean ALWAYS EVER FOREVER ALWAYS) … Continue reading
Name that Movie or TV Show
There are screenshots from 21 different movies and/or TV shows in the image below. If you can name them all you win the internet. Note that the #20 and #21 are out of sequence – I just squeezed them towards … Continue reading
Plazes
I joined Plazes. It is a nifty social Web 2.0 site that tracks your movements and puts them on a map. Essentially you either use their official client or a small python script, that sends them the MAC of your … Continue reading
Jaiku
If you are not on Twitter, or if you are not following any of the top 10 people on the twitterholic list you probably haven’t heard about Jaiku. A good part of twitts in the past week dealt with bashing … Continue reading
Confession
This confession tweet cracked me up: via confession God damn it dude! Me too! There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief. :mrgreen: (BSG fans will get the reference, the rest of you can just move along) Btw, Confession … Continue reading
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