Okay, so this seems a little out of date already… but it is about as recent as things are at the moment. I still don’t know how to properly write a .fx shader program (can someone direct me to a resource on this?), but I can figure out enough from some sample effects that came [...]
FreeRice is a sister site of the world poverty site, Poverty.com. FreeRice has two goals: Provide English vocabulary to everyone for free. Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free. How does FreeRice do this? The interactive part of the site is a vocabulary tester / game. Every time you get [...]
jhead is a rather nifty looking program… When I was in Europe (er, perhaps I should write some more about that later!) I took some photos – rather a lot, actually – and despite my best intentions, I sometimes forgot to properly set the date and/or time (more likely just the timezone) on my camera. [...]
There seems to be a lot of fuss at the moment over US elections. The other night, watching late-night TV, I happened upon an old black and white film about Abe Lincoln’s rise to presidency. One scene, a political debate with an opponent, Judge Douglas, drew my attention. (The speech in the film may differ [...]
The pixel blog is maketh-ed. I don’t really feel like learning a whole bag of stuff about WordPress right now, so ’tis going to look hell boring for a while. I’ve just spent a bunch of time reporting a user to WordPress.com and updating long-ish HTML documentation about them – I decided to add an [...]