Archive for January, 2006
Monday, January 30th, 2006
Been playing about a bit more with Blender, and I worked out how to do animations! Ok, so my first attempt isn't particularly exciting, but I'll get there.
I originally started making a Caps Lock key (why not?), then decided that since it was a simple shape I might as well ...
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Monday, January 30th, 2006
I got bored recently and started playing around with Blender 3D. Previous attempts to master Blender have always resulted in me uninstalling it due to the steep learning curve. But this time, with the help of some decent tutorials, I stuck with it and have begun to get to grips ...
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Saturday, January 28th, 2006
I've just happenned across this jazzy new Firefox extension called Reveal. It was coded as part of the Extend Firefox contest, and lets you navigate by thumbnails instead of the tabs (you can still navigate by tabs at the same time if you want to).
By simply hitting F2, thumbnails of ...
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Saturday, January 28th, 2006
I found this short film whilst surfing the interweb. Obviously the work of a Ninty fanboy, but I couldn't help feeling that some of the points rung true whilst watching it.
Nintendo: Oldschool Revolution
"Mario is dead. Under the leadership of Halo's Master Chief, Nintendo's two greatest enemies unite in an effort ...
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Friday, January 27th, 2006
When developing Open Source applications, you don't always have to take everything as seriously as commercial developers. There are several good examples of this out there, such as the OpenOffice.org Star Wars Game or the PHP Dog.
And now it seems another example has come to light. Those cheeky Ninja's over ...
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Thursday, January 26th, 2006
Yes, The Smile Project now has over 1,500 smilies! Now that's a lot!
Want to see the 1, 500th smiley? Ok, since you've asked nicely...
Yes, a little obscure I know - but that's what you get for letting anyone submit smilies!
Want to know how you can use this smiley, along with ...
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Monday, January 23rd, 2006
Having never used a Mac for any substantial length of time, I can't comment on the accuracy of this video. But since when has a little something like the truth ever made a difference?
Why Macs Suck Video
That guy really seems to hate Macs.
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Saturday, January 21st, 2006
I've been playing around with a Beta 2 Preview of Internet Explorer for all of 25 minutes now, and thought I'd write down some initial impressions. I'm planning to carry on using it for at least the rest of the evening - maybe longer - to get a real feel ...
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Friday, January 20th, 2006
Using the amazing tool that is Google Earth, I thought I'd find out how far I end up walking to and from school each day.
From Home to St Birinus, it's about 0.66 Miles (1.1km). From Home to the Girls School is roughly 1.64 Miles (2.6km). And walking from St Birinus ...
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2006
I found this on the BBC website. It's a website where you enter your surname and it shows you how common your surname is in the different areas of the country (UK Only).
You can search for your surname here.
Here is the map for my surname, Baker:
Purple is the most common ...
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