I’ve been programming next-gen consoles for a while now, and I have to say: it’s not getting any easier to write games to take advantage of multi-core systems. The conventional wisdom at my company is: writing multithreaded code is hard, so “ordinary programmers” should not be doing it – let’s…
Building a MAME cabinet 9
I spent another couple of hours at it yesterday, and finished the cutting of the first side, and most of the second side (which was faster). Once the big cuts were out of the way, I moved from the floor onto sawhorses which made the work a lot easier to…
OpenID support
I’ve added support for OpenID. For those of you from LiveJournal, this means you have an easy way to post comments here. You’ll see an OpenID URL box when you comment. You already have an OpenID – LiveJournal invented it – and it’s simply the URL of your LJ: for…
Stupid people, stupid laws
Girl gets arrested & charged for taping 20 seconds of “Transformers”. Clearly what we need are flash mobs of camera-carrying moviegoers who take it in turns through the movie to hold up their cameras for 30 seconds to look like they are recording, but actually tape nothing. DoS the system!
Media consumption
Ben Board, my ex-colleague, good friend and co-conspirator in the realm of cryptic crosswords, has a gamasutra column/interview piece talking about his current media consumption. By comparison, my media consumption (what a prejudiced phrase, but let’s go with it) is a bit more skewed towards books. Sounds: Daft Punk‘s Discovery,…
Building a MAME cabinet 8
I spent some more time on it this morning, after being too busy the last three weekends since I bought the plywood. Since I’m a power tool newbie, it’s going to take a while to complete. I learned a few things: My sawboard was too thick, since I made it…
Elbeno, now with 50% more everything
I just moved here from LiveJournal. All my LJ posts and comments have been migrated, thanks to some Perl & PHP wizardry. For now, this is the default WordPress theme.
Sgt Pepper Mashup
This is great. “Lucy at the River” is particularly inspired, I thought (also mirrored).
Thinking about ditching LJ
And moving to WordPress. I already have hosting. LJ isn’t too reliable, actually, and it’s not nearly as flexible as WordPress would be. So… if I switch, I could still access friends pages here, but LJ denizens wouldn’t get me in their auto-aggregated friends pages.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
I’ve just finished it, so I can now return to the Internet. Sorry for the delay – I’m in a late timezone to start with, and had to look after mini-Elbeno this morning.