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Why is a raven like a writing desk?

Thoughts both confusing and enlightening.

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

Thoughts both confusing and enlightening.

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elbeno, 30 March, 200629 July, 2007

I am currently doing work on PS3, and our renderer by default colours the screen blue. So when the game starts up without crashing, before any data is loaded and displayed, we at least get what I like to refer to as the “Blue Screen of Life”.

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Comments (2)

  1. _skye_ says:
    30 March, 2006 at 9:06 pm

    😀 That is awesome.

    (http://livejournal.com/users/_skye_)

  2. greatbiggary says:
    30 March, 2006 at 10:36 pm

    Nice! We have both posted color-based work stories this morning.

    (http://livejournal.com/users/greatbiggary)

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