27/07/2014
The coolest original content on YouTube, ever: Alpha – Street Fighter Assassin’s Fist (link updated 20200731) As a fan of the game series, and one who appreciates martial arts, this rocks! 12 episodes of live action Street Fighter 🙂 Written and directed by Joey Ansah (who also plays the role of Akuma), Assassin’s Fist focuses on the early days of Street Fighter mainstays Ryu and Ken. Though perhaps not intentional,…
Eek! received an email that Google couldn’t get to my robot.txt file, checked the WordPress part of the site, to find the error: Error Establishing a Database Connection. I was preparing to hunker down for the afternoon to find a solution, but the first result from DuckDuckGo pretty much solved it for me 🙂 From Beginner’s guide to WordPress: How to Fix the Error Establishing a Database Connection in WordPress…
19/05/2014
I was so stoked today when I opened up Google, to search out a SQL solution, to find a small Rubik’s cube in the top corner of the screen. After clicking on the cube I was even more blown away to find a fully scrambed digital cube to solve 🙂 I’ve now have my solve time for a real cube to just under a minute, although I didn’t have time…
This is to be my next techy mission, time to put some thought into game content: top five tools to make games This article could be a good barometer to forecast my success 🙂 hackathon – make a game without code experience And here’s the 2d project guide… looks like I may have to use Win7 for this, although I’ll give Wine and Virtual Box a try first
13/05/2014
Came across this cool site: Pingdom It tests the load speed of a site and components, like Ii give a shit about the load time of this site, but a cool tool for other projects 🙂
01/04/2014
google april fool 2014, Google Maps: Pokemon Challenge The Google Maps App for iOS and Android now has a Poke Ball logo beneath its search bar. Clicking on it shows the locations of Pokemon on Google Maps. This is fully functional April Fools’ Day prank in the Google Maps App, not just a video, but check out the video below, because it’s pretty neat: To access the Pokemon mode on…
Kotaku Australia: Digital Distribution Could Learn From Nintendo’s Disk Writer Kiosk. Kotaku http://youtu.be/QNKXQRNL3II A really cool concept, it keeps new games in circulation and profitable, while creating a loyal customer base.
05/03/2014
I love this time of year leading up to a new Ubuntu release (sad eh?), and the next one is a LTS, so even more exciting 🙂 From my RSS Ubuntu feed this OMG Ubuntu article: 7 Improvements In Ubuntu 14.04 LTS That You’re Going To Love tells of how the Unity Laucher icon size can be reduced even smaller! I didn’t know it could be reduced, and I’ve been…
28/02/2014
This is the greatest thing ever, it solves the headache I have to encounter on a weekly basis organising calls across Asia, USA, and the Pacific. How do I go about nominating xkcd for a Nobel Peace prize for this work of genius?
2029: the year when robots will have the power to outsmart their makers Ray Kurzweil, Google expert in artificial intelligence, predicts that by 2029 robots will make jokes and flirt The Guardian I personally welcome our new robot overlords
15/02/2014
I’ve just discovered diaspora, am I late to the party? From the site: diaspora is based on three key philosophies: Decentralization Instead of everyone’s data being contained on huge central servers owned by a large organization, local servers (“pods”) can be set up anywhere in the world. You choose which pod to register with – perhaps your local pod – and seamlessly connect with the diaspora community worldwide. Freedom You…
11/02/2014
Installing irc is my next project if my host allows? http://cgiirc.org/docs/install.php
20/01/2014
Ever need a random login, that no-one would think was associated with you? Check out the Fantasy Name Generator
19/01/2014
Font Awesome Cheatsheet I’m working on a new index page with Bootstrap, and this link is valuable
11/01/2014
Today confirmed I’m not part of IGN’s core market. Why’s that you may ask, you’re a gamer? 😉 Funny you should ask, it’s their Game of the Year nominations. Year after year I have a WTF moment when the winner is released, this years shock caused by The Last of Us (PS3 only), coming out the winner over GTA V! I found TLoU too much like a Resident evil clone;…
05/01/2014
I’ve just discovered Bootstrap as a new distraction from my current projects 🙂 A couple of ideas spring to min of how to play with it, off to dabble with WordPress templates
23/12/2013
I’m not sure where this space was embedded, and neither are the posters at xkcd forums, although there are some cute ideas. Although quite ironic that I found there non linked space while they were discussing it being less popular 🙂 One of the posts there toolk me back to my first infatuation with the web, alt.fan.pratchett and the now resurrected Spooky’s Unexplained Mysteries and X-Files Chat Room
23/12/2013
freenect demos located in /user/bin freenect-cppview freenect-glpclview freenect-glview W/S to zoom in/out and C to toggle colour. Click and drag model to rotate