A new link section on the sidebar for my stuff – I finally got around to putting up my books & games, as well as RotateAVI, which rotates motion JPEGs (from Canon cameras and probably others).
Xmas Ornaments from the Elbeno household
Happy solstitial celebration!
Xmas Playlist Highlights?
Anyone got any yule tune recommendations? My current playlist (which is cool as far as it goes, but not v. seasonal): Who Am I from Les Mis Lay All Your Love On Me – ABBA These Words – Natasha Bedingfield White And Nerdy – Weird Al Yankovic La Femme d’Argent…
Six languages worth knowing
“A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing” – Alan Perlis. I’ve thought about this, and developed a short list of languages worth knowing. Not-so-coincidentally, each language in my list embodies a distinct computational model. In no particular order: The ALGOL family. C…
Book sale again
Seems like we just had the last book sale… Saturday was this quarter’s already. Here’s the haul: Infinity One Tunnel in the Sky Goodbye, Mr. Chips Stuart Little Me Digital Fortress Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace Stupid White Men Minerals Dinosaurs Pop-up Book Comprehensive Fortran Programming Say the Magic…
Backup solution
In these days of digital memories, it’s important to have a proper backup solution for your family. So I’ve invested in a Dlink DNS-323 (a network storage device) and a couple of 500GB hard drives. Plugged it into my network, turned it on, and formatted the drives as RAID 1,…
A night at the Magic Castle
Tuesday night, my colleagues and I spent the evening at the Magic Castle as a treat for hitting a recent milestone. It was a great night out. I arrived at about 6.30 after braving the rush hour traffic (there’s really no good way to get there quickly from my workplace…
Building a MAME cabinet 18
Bit of a slow week – the family was here for Thanksgiving, and I didn’t work much on the cab. Here are some pictures from last weekend. The woodwork is all but done now, and my next task is to wire the control panel. This is actually non-trivial, and I…
Snippets
Eating out on expenses three days this week. Put a coat of varnish on my cabinet boards tonight. Kind of annoyed that libgtkglextmm is missing from gutsy packages.
OLPC
I went ahead and bought an XO laptop, aka “One Laptop Per Child”. It’s just the job for kids, and hopefully will bring about some real change in the developing world. It is also just the thing for mini-Elbeno as he grows up – built sturdy but lightweight, with rubberised…