My lecturer today, whilst discussing the use and implementation of binary space partitioning decided that he should not use the word game, so he came up with the above, and of course gave halflife and the quake series as examples of this non-game category.

Also, I've jumped on the bandwagon and mocked up a southparkesque avatar.

The b*****ds here have decided to land me with far too much coursework, all at one time. This means there will be very little time when I'm not working over the next few days. Anyway, I got bored of doing research and took a short break. For those of you who aren't regular readers of El Reg, here's something cool: the WiFi sniper rifle. ( Read more... )

So, what did I learn today? That green is usually the colour that goes in VR stereo headsets. Apparently.

I also found The World's Fastest Knife

And found a picture of someone I once knew in London Student, who now seems to be going to the IoE.

It seems that DoC have finally got around to killing my account, or at least setting my shell to /bin/true, which means I currently can't send emails from work. I'll have to think of a way around this. Console IMAP client, perhaps. Until they cancel that too.

It looks like Bulldog now employ 3 telephonists:

"Bulldog has trebled its customer service and technical support staff over the last two months"

Also: "... dropped calls ... issues have now been resolved"

Have the Bullbog customers noticed this development?

(quotes from El Reg)

Looks like I'll have to learn Mathematica/Matlab and increase my maths knowledge from forgotten A level up to CS graduate. Also I am advised to buy several hefty tomes on the subject and take a look at the stuff that I won't have covered which is more specific to my course. least according to an email I just got ( Read more... )

Damnit! centericq won't log on to LJ. "Client error: no username sent", so it's back to using links for now ( Read more... )

Typographical ligatures are combinations of characters that are printed as one, lest they interfere with each other. Common examples are 'fl', 'fi' and 'ae' (which is actually a distinct letter in Danish) Some of these are rather obscure. One uncommon one is 'fffl'. I have, in the last 2 mins. been trying to find uses for it. The only one I've come ( Read more... )

I fly like an abyssal angel (that would be Demon, then...) into your puny lives, hellfire glinting in my eyes. Now you must all suffer the pain that is PUTTING ME ON YOUR DAMN FRIENDS LIST, and I'll get around to doing the same for people not already on mine.