Tag: technology
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Popularity Of The Welsh Language
<ROFLMAO>
Want a giggle? Go to Google and type "old dead language" into the search box (with or without the quotes... either way), and hit "I'm Feeling Lucky!".
This is the follow-up to my experimental googlebomb the other week. I've had my fun, now, and I actually believe it's possible (I was skeptical when I first read … -
Somebody Writes Of Half-Life 2
Somebody on slashdot writes of Half-Life 2:
Doom 3 tried to generate atmosphere through the lack of light and the monster placement that was obviously designed to scare you. After a while it degenerated into one big black scare job to me, and wasn't very interesting as a result.
On the other hand, I felt that … -
My Very Own Googlebomb
Partially out of curiosity, partially to point out a flaw in the #aber multipass system, I've made my own little googlebomb. For those of you who don't like reading, a googlebomb is where you manipulate the way that popular search engine Google into falsely linking with great priority a page that it probably should not. …
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Error Message Of The Day
Sometimes being a geek is funny.
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SmartRacer
Yesterday lunchtime I finished writing a program that suddenly makes our working day that little bit more exciting - SmartRacer.
SmartRacer runs quietly in the system tray of as many users want to run it - currently Matt, Haagen, Gareth and me... but I'm trying to get Alex involved, too.
When you click on the system tray … -
If Architects Had To Work Like Web Designers
This blog entry amused me today... it's true that people don't seem to treat web engineering as a discipline that requires any kind of planning or organisation. Jon knows what I'm talking about.
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Fantasy Terrorist League
You know what's become quite popular among the masses since the take-off of the Internet? Fantasy leagues. Yes; that's right - those things previously reserved for pub regulars and geeky play-by-mail types. Now, the internet is full of Fantasy Sports Leagues, Fantasy Share Trading, and so on.
For those of you not in the know; when … -
Which OS Are You?
Apparently, I'm Debian Linux (or possibly MacOS X). Sweet.
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Geeky Winnage With Bluetooth
Geeky winnage! This evening I wrote a pair of applications enabling me to use my new Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone as a remote control for WinDVD, the DVD playing software I use on my computer.
Not just a geeky project, this is fuelled by a genuine need: every Troma Night, when the pizza arrives, we end up … -
Our Web Developer’s “Line Of The Day”
Yet again my concern for the value of an Internet Computer Science degree from UWA is raised, as a dippy co-worker with two years of such a degree behind her asks me for help:
"Dan," she begins, "How do I make a table in PHP?"
For those of you that don't know quite as much about web … -
Programmer’s Day
Apparently it's Programmer's Day, so Paul, Bryn, Claire and I put together an old low-end Pentium into a dual-booting Red Hat/Windows 98SE box, and racked up some classic games of the 80s and 90s. Fab.
There's actually some debate about whether Programmer's Day should be included as a Wikipedia entry... as there's not a lot of … -
JavaScript Random Quote Generator
A friend sent me an e-mail yesterday asking if I knew of a simple random quote generator that she could embed on her web page. So I've written one, and I'm making it available here on the off chance that anybody else wants it too. It's implemented in JavaScript, and works simply by including a …
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A.I. Nuts, Again
Do you remember a week or two ago I wrote about a guy who patented the "Ethical Rules Of Artificial Intelligence"? Well - it looks like he's read my article and placed his own comments. I'm quite surprised and impressed that he took the time (away from his heavy schedule of philosophising or book-signing or …
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Sweet Sounds Of Perl
Claire'd like this, as she's been programming a lot of Perl recently:
There's a guy who uses Perl code to generate music in nightclubs. So far, so good. Well, now, he's taken to writing the code that generates the music live, in front of an audience. Of course, this brings up a whole suite of new … -
Sick And Wrong Use Of Emacs
I've been made aware of an easter egg in emacs, a text editor.
Fire up a copy of emacs, hit meta-X (alt-x), then type doctor to talk to an ELIZA-like chatbot. Better yet, type psychoanalyze-pinhead to... well... you'll see...
Have my two-tone, 1958 Nash METRO brought around..I don't understand.So this is what it feels like to …