Archive for August, 2004
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31 Aug 2004
Boggle is arguably one of the best candidates for a simple online multiplayer game. All of the interaction between players is at a single moment, and the scoring can be easily automated. JavaScript with DOM allows you to do a lot of really neat things, so as a test of my skills, I decided to try to make a massively multiplayer online Boggle game. It worked, but my backend code was pretty inefficient. When I brought it down, Evan offered to mirror it. He's not only done that, but he's improved the game beyond even my plans. Check out the game.
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31 Aug 2004
I was thinking of protesting at the RNC this week, since how often do you get a chance to protest something so big and so close? I was trying to come up with something vaguely nerdy but also political. This protester outdid any hypothetical alternate-universe me.
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31 Aug 2004
Liberated Games aren't abandonware, but they're just as Free (as in Beer in some cases, as in Speech in others). I was just thinking the other day how my new rig would handle Homeworld.
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31 Aug 2004
Woman's skin grows over wedding ring. Massive kidneys.
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31 Aug 2004
Despite the fact that God closed the book on the View Askewniverse at the end of "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" (ignoring the inconvenient and short-lived existence of the Clerks cartoon series for the moment), it is being reported that Kevin Smith is working on a Clerks sequel (ignoring the inconvenient existence of Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, and JaSBSB). Filming is set to start in January, and it looks like the important core cast is all set to return. Based on this quote from Smith, I have hopes that it'll be Clerks or Mallrats quality, not JaSBSB quality: "The whole process [of making the Clerks DVD] reminded me why I got into the film biz in the first place: to make talky, low-budget comedies."
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30 Aug 2004
This is a test of the new method for photo entries. Please ignore it for a while if it goes wonky.Looks like it's working. Hooray for MT. (A sample post with the new photos-in-blog method.) -
30 Aug 2004
Not to insult M or anything, but the "Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About" seemed a lot less hilarious and insightful three or four years ago, before we got married.
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30 Aug 2004
Another massive construction project: Chubu International Airport (more on Wikipedia)
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27 Aug 2004
I now have one new gmail invitation available. If you want it, or know someone who knows someone who wants one still, first come, first served.
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27 Aug 2004
OMFG. The Half-Life 2 preload begins. "Purchase options will be released soon."
Be sure to keep an eye on the Steam Network Status page (specifically the yellow line on the bottom graph). Will Steam be slashdotted?
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27 Aug 2004
Just some quick comparisons of benchmarks of my old machine (Athlon 800) and my new one:
Benchmark Increase CPU int (dhrystone) 2.83x CPU float (whetstone) 3.38x CPU MMX/SSE 2.59x CPU 3DNow! 2.49x RAM int bandwidth 3.95x RAM float bandwidth 4.05x Cache and RAM "combined index" 3.77x 3DMark 2001 ~4.75x I certainly don't think I have the most beastly machine in the world (Nomad has more memory and a pair of RAIDed SATA drives, for instance, and at least one person I know at work has a Radeon X800), but I'm amazed with how much faster this machine is than my old one. I guess that's what happens when you wait 5 years between upgrades.
Update 08-28: 3DMark 2003 benchmark for the new machine: 3811 3DMarks.
Update 08-30: Doom3 High Quality timedemo: 30.4 fps (I couldn't run Ultra Quality because I only have a half-gig of memory) -
26 Aug 2004
Long, but fantastic trailer for a movie that won't exist: Grayson. Years after Batman's death, Dick Grayson returns to his role as Robin to find the killer. Fanfilm at its finest, and it only cost Untamed Cinema $18,000 to make.
Movies that take place in an alternate timeline are dangerous, especially when DC Comics is trying to jumpstart a new series in their Universe.
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25 Aug 2004
I wish I had had the balls (and the legal argument) to respond this way when I was served a Cease and Desist.
Heh, I just noticed that it's the same law firm as my C&D. I should find it and scan that thing in.
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24 Aug 2004
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24 Aug 2004
"I found a digital camera in the woods", Blair Witch for the Internet. Keep reading a few pages.
