He was a good lunch who played by the rules, until the rules robbed him of everything he ever loved. Now he’s lettuce, tomato, cheese, bread, and a mysterious slice of meat, marching down your throat and straight to hell. He’ll satisfy your hunger. FOR REVENGE!
A project I saw scrolling by on #thepiratebay.org on Efnet caught my attention a couple of weeks ago. Flox is an enhancement on several existing traditional P2P techniques. “Flox is a technique in development which will identify the same parts from similar files and download those when needed. This will …
Hoping to see them this wednesday at the Lokerse Feesten (update: I missed them, bummer !), I thought this was the right time to release a remix I’ve been wrestling with during the last months. Danny The Dog (international title: Unleashed) was a mediocre thriller by Luc Besson (Taxi, The …
and Women Write More Helpful Code from Venus, quoting the Wall Street Journal. Women are more touchy-feely and considerate of those who will use the code later, she says. They’ll intersperse their code–those strings of instructions that result in nifty applications and programs–with helpful comments and directions, explaining why they …
One of my activities these months is setting up a community-oriented wiki for the improvisational theater group Preparee (which I’ll be captaining next academic year. Oh, the suspense !). I went for the PmWiki distribution, developed by Patrick Michaud. Since quite a lot of customization went into converting the base …
Some interesting bits up at Google Code : it’s my second Radiohead-related post this week, I know. For the recording of the House of Cards video clip they did not use any camera’s. Yes, that’s right. Instead, they used specialised hardware that can register 3D geometry at a very fast …
The song nude by Radiohead performed on old hardware. Several doses of awesome. Big Ideas (don’t get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.
Things have gotten a bit busy for the summer. I’m writing code for several projects, personal and public. Since I made a strike of three 9/20’s on my exams, I have to squeeze in some study time too (retries are scheduled for August).
Today marks the release of Mozilla Firefox 3.0. To celebrate this, the Mozilla Foundation is trying to set the Guinness World Record for most downloaded software. So if you’ve never tried out Firefox before or were bound to update anyway, go ahead. World-wide release times can be viewed here. Version …