Archive For December, 2002

Sylvain Seccia has created ano …

Sylvain Seccia has created another clone of Stunt Car Racer in his “Deadly Weaponz” game!

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GnuCash 1.7.6 is out. I'm down …

GnuCash 1.7.6 is out. I’m downloading the RedHat 8.0 RPMs now.

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Very interesting feature of Ne …

Very interesting feature of Netflix – if you fail to complete a multi-step form, the site will save the information you entered and print a “Finish Sign-up” link. Nice!

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How to loop over filenames wit …

How to loop over filenames with spaces – I knew this, but it had disappeared in the recesses of my brain. Weather’s been bad for the past few days. No real opportunities for photography. Bah! At least I have 99% of my Christmas shopping done. Meanwhile, Mark has an entertaining piece on “The One Toy”. [...]

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Deadline Passes for European D …

Deadline Passes for European Digital Copyright Law – Yes! Good news!

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varpWorld Photography and Comp …

varpWorld Photography and Composition Tips, Techniques, Galleries and Travelogues – excellent advice, tips and scripts here!

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I just found a receipt from 19 …

I just found a receipt from 1997. I bought 8MB of EDO RAM. How much did it cost? IRĀ£100! The price of RAM was jumping all over the place that year AFAIR.

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John's in my world now – dial- …

John’s in my world now – dial-up world, welcome. It sucks doesn’t it?

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The GIMP is annoying me right …

The GIMP is annoying me right now. I’m editing a 1600×1200 image, 3 layers, modifications on each layer, and it’s taking ages to perform simple operations such as “blur” or “magic wand”. I do have the undo-level set at 10, but my machine has plenty of RAM. Grrr. Evening Sky Over Cork City – Photo [...]

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tantek writes an excellent com …

tantek writes an excellent commentry on the use of the CSS class attribute. I know I’m breaking some of those guidelines here..

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