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  • 0x40 Hues of HTML5

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    Just a little heads-up: I’ve been working on an HTML5-based port of the “0x40 Hues of Megumi” flash. Please go ahead and check out 0x40 Hues of HTML5 (working title). Some features are still missing, but I hope to add them in future updates. I’m hosting the code (MIT licensed) on Github.

  • Now on IPv6

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    After a few glitches where I hit multiple bugs in their image transfer system, I moved this site to DigitalOcean’s new NYC3 site with IPv6 support. So, uh, have at it!

  • Incomplete Sci-Fi Story

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    So, when poking around my Documents directory, I found this incomplete short piece of Science Fiction. Might as well share it… I wake up to find him still sitting at the workbench he’d been hunched over hours ago when I’d given up for the night. He hears the rustle as I search the nearby floor…

  • Digital Dark Age

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    I vow: To not delete content. To preserve URLs (or redirect them if all else fails). To keep this site up for as long as I am able. To make sure that the Internet Archive can see my content, in case I fail at any of the above.

  • Ender’s Game Movie

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    All in all, I’m actually quite surprised with how well the adaption of the Ender’s Game novel to the big screen went. There were changes made – but for the most part, they really did make sense. A fairly significant amount of material was dropped, but for the most part it wasn’t really story-critical and…

  • The pull of MusicBrainz contributing

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    MusicBrainz contributors tend to be quite… thorough sorts of folks. Lets take a look at what I’ve been up to over the course of the past few days. Day 1 I’ve worked on a few Picard patches recently, including one that allows tagger script to access metadata from loaded files, and another that saves MusicBrainz…

  • Windows 8 Benchmarking Timing?

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    It’s kind of curious that there’s a bit of a ruckus going on with regards to benchmarking accuracy on Windows 8. From what I’ve heard, the actual cause of the inaccuracy is quite simple: Windows 8 appears to use the processor’s TSC as a timing source on modern processors. There is absolutely nothing wrong with…

  • Migrated to WordPress

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    So, my site is now looking a little different from how it used to. I’ve actually changed how I’m hosting the service, completely. My original site was on Google Sites via my Google Apps account, but I’ve never really been satisfied with Google Sites and the limited control that was offered. So I took the…

  • Network UPS Tools (nut) and systemd

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    Thanks to the Fedora developers, nut does actually ship some unit files for systemd. Unfortunately, those unit files provide a somewhat minimal functionality, with fairly fixed startup order and without taking advantage of systemd’s unit activation features. This caused some problems when I was building my new server a while back. This new machine is…

  • No More Google Reader: Part 2, The Old Reader

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    This project has actually been around for quite a while now; the name comes from it being a clone of “the old Google Reader”, prior to the removal of the social features. As I mentioned in the introduction, I never actually used those features—so we’ll just see how it goes as a RSS reader application.…