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Hey look, LJ's got a new feature!

Err, anyway. It's my birthday in a few weeks. BBQ at mine, Saturday 12th, from 5. I'll supply food, you bring beer.

You wait ten years for Prey, and then another game comes along and steals its main feature.

EDIT: Here's a much higher quality HD version of that vid.

Whoops

Apparently, I'm legally allowed to drive now, which came as something of a surprise. It would surprise you too, if you'd seen my left reverse. But then I suppose no-one's ever been killed doing that, so it's not too critical. I'm not sure if anyone other than a learner driver has actuall ever done a left reverse at all. Teaching people how to do ( Read more... )

Well I've tinkered with the userpics script, and it now outputs the results in a nice lj friendly text box at the bottom of the results page. I had to add an escape to the final loop to stop it generating a post bigger than lj's 64kB limit. I'd like to thank james again for providing such easy to work on code.

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So, a while back I mentioned to surrealist_comb that I thought a program which extracted all of ones friends list, and then grabbed all their userpics, would be a good idea. A while later he came back with few hundred lines of perl, but we didn't have anywhere to host it. Now however, I have a proper host, so we uploaded it & its libraries last night, and I ( Read more... )

It's stunning just how much damage a few bytes of bad RAM can cause.

Also, going back to 1280 x 1024, after using 1024 x 768 for a few days is bizzare.

Okay, so I've been beaten by a few months, but last night I decided to install osx for x86. Eventually resorted to putting it on a spare HDD after running it through VMWare totally failed to work. It's a bit crap TBH (no keyboard or network, slow) but rather cool nevertheless.

Note to self - Lots of tea late at night = insomnia.

All you pirates should read my enlightning post about Protocol encryption for bittorrent