September 2011
1 post
Horizontal
Something I’m anal about is horizontal scrollbars on a web browser, I can’t help resizing it so that it fits all the content nicely whenever I see one. Therefore, nothing gets my goat more than web pages which, due to some html/css “technique” or browser bug, always has this scrollbar.
The latest candidate is the Twitter image uploading help page. Although all the...
July 2011
3 posts
After watching Transformers 3, I wondered to a friend why all the Autobots were road vehicles, after all the Decepticons have giant cannons, fighter jets and the ridiculously OTT Shockwave. Then my friend said that’s why they’re called AUTObots and my mind was blown because I never really made that connection since watching Transformers from kindergarten. I think they diverged from...
Things I like about Google+
I’m not a very active “social network” user, but I find them useful as a messaging platform. Currently, I’m using twitter as a SMS replacement, as the notifications work reasonably well on an iphone (either via email, boxcar or the official client). I used “tweetie” before it became the official twitter client, and one feature was that you could embed images in a direct message. Tweetie would...
Back from reservist, it was a pretty relaxed affair this time round, even managed to finish Feast for Crows. It was pretty alright, except that it’s actually a two part book (with the next being Dance of Dragons coming out soon), meaning a really long wait to find out what happens to the current characters. Couldn’t resist grabbing a few games from the ongoing steam sale as well, like...
June 2011
2 posts
Just finished watching the Game of Thrones series from HBO this week. Searching around my copy of ‘A Feast for Crows’ now which I never got around to finishing.
Readable articles
I’ve become pretty obsessed with reading online articles with the “optimum format”, that is, via reading lists like Instapaper, or readability, or readable. Or the Easy Reader chrome extension. (Or Safari’s reading list. Or the upcoming iOS5 web reader) I can’t use a web browser these days that doesn’t have a way to reformat an article, either via bookmarklets...
May 2010
4 posts
unit testing with rhino
Couldn’t quite find a unit testing framework that didn’t depend on the DOM, so here’s an adaptation of minunit:
http://gist.github.com/400107
sample output:
load(“test.js”); All tests passed! Tests run: 2
load(“test-fail.js”); js> js> js: “jstest.js”, line 17: exception from uncaught JavaScript throw: Failed at JSTestSuite with:...
Seth's Blog: Really Bad Powerpoint →
Bullets are for the NRA
(via Instapaper)
The Productivity Myth - The Conversation - Harvard... →
I’ll have to remember to clear my leave, not too difficult since I’m just starting out though.
(via Instapaper)
Simple games
I’ve started writing bits of game code again, now that my job has stabilised a bit. I’ve found that the Slick library is pretty neat, but didn’t want the overhead of writing in Java. Rhino offers great interoperability, and I’ve made a mini game here. Yes, it’s Pong yet again!
I’m also using the Phys2D library from the same author as Slick, it looks a little...
April 2010
2 posts
New blog
Sorry Internet, started yet another blog at http://eugenetan.posterous.com
post@posterous.com is really convenient for snippets!
YouTube - Alien Dominion: The Acronian Encounter... →
“While scanning for mineral rich asteroids the player encounters an alien race. After scanning your ship they attack. For some reason they want to see you dead.” Cool graphics, all the story you need.
March 2010
1 post
January 2010
9 posts
“If there is one key thing I could convey to anyone reading this is to hustle....”
– Don’t Wait—Hustle When You Want to Learn New Things - Education - Lifehacker
To-don't lists →
Something to do
“When God delays discipline, it’s not due to indifference; it’s due to His very...”
– Delayed Consequences - Our Daily Bread
“Myth #4: It’s About Hard Work; Don’t Expect to Have a Life
Truth: It’s About...”
– http://gigaom.com/2010/01/17/5-myths-that-can-kill-a-startup/
S3 and S3sync
I’ve been enjoying the backup facilities offered by amazon s3 for a while, back when I first started backing up my photos, projects and stuff I used jungledisk but found it didn’t fit my needs. Since jungledisk stores its data on S3 in a weird format I had to wipe out my existing data before exploring other tools. The cockpit and synchronize tools from jets3t came in useful, but I...
Lifestream
There exists software which aggregate your blogs, Twitter feeds and flickr stream into a single rss newsfeed. What I would like is to take this idea and apply it to personal communication: aggregate the information flow between you and someone else into a single source. Useful for backup, too.
List of sources:
- email
- twitter (@, dm)
- msn, gtalk, IM services
- wave (difficult atm)
Tux Training →
Found through delicious.com, a huge set of useful linux tutorials (not just for beginners either)
The Master, The Expert, The Programmer →
(via Instapaper)
Alchemy →
An unusual drawing tool, it’s now open for download without registration. Very easy to make “face-like” symmetrical shapes, and more drawing modifiers up the fun factor.
July 2009
5 posts
“Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use...”
– PJE on XML
Co-op adventure game?
I wonder if there are any traditional adventure games out there with a multiplayer component (whether hotseat or networked) to them? Lots of games, such as Fate of Atlantis and Sam n’ Max, or the more recent Blackwell Chronicles, feature puzzles requiring the help of an ingame partner, so perhaps this could be extended to an actual human instead.
One possible situation for this could be a...
Just discovered the iPhone tumblr app, and am anticipating more updates soon!
March 2009
1 post
“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a...”
– 1 Corinthians, Chapter 13
February 2009
6 posts
“If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity...”
– 1 John 3:17
Things I've been doing lately
Left 4 Dead Twelve Kingdoms Dating Things I really should be doing instead: Catching up on my studies Working on school projects Developing new games Updates to the thousand parsec client
January 2009
1 post
Return of Nectarine demoscene radio →
September 2008
2 posts
Things that happened
My life: Working at IBM
GSOC 2008
Got an iMac (crashed on day 3)
Outside:
Financial crisis? or something
Large Hadron Collider
Whew. That’s it.
“If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity...”
– 1 John 3:17
May 2008
1 post
Curses!
Just when I thought I was free, they pull me back in! New Mount & Blade version released.
April 2008
3 posts
What's Up
Marketing Exam Engineers and Society Exam Networking Exam AI Exam Programming Languages Exam Software Engineering II Exam End date: 2 May
“All sunshine and no rain make a desert.”
– http://www.rbc.org/devotionals/our-daily-bread/2008/04/07/devotion.aspx
Rice shortage
The rice shortage is REAL. I went to the supermarket today and all the rice was gone. Can an Asian live without rice? Find out soon…
March 2008
3 posts
“He went on: “What comes out of a man is what makes him...”
– http://www.rbc.org/devotionals/our-daily-bread/2008/03/17/devotion.aspx
February 2008
7 posts
“7 For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love...”
– http://www.rbc.org/devotionals/our-daily-bread/2008/02/19/devotion.aspx
Swamped
Just too many assignments to work on anything interesting. My newfound fetish for playing old DOS games might have something to do it with as well. Master of Magic just doesn’t seem to have aged well. Sword of the Samurai is still a timeless classic. Albion seems like a very nice RPG, although I haven’t the time to look into it… yeah right. :)
Indo-European Languages →
Clean and well-done, I’ll be looking out for the Sino-Tibetan version.
Rubik's Solver →
Algorithm for solving a Rubik’s Cube - Someone at school was playing with this the other day, wonder if he might be interested.
8-bit portrait →
I’m not too knowledgable about U.S. politics, but this picture is awesome.
“If I care to listen, I hear a loud whisper from the gospel that I did not get...”
– http://www.rbc.org/odb/odb-02-05-08.shtml