Category: General
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I went on a minor movie-watching binge this weekend and caught up on a few films that I’ve been intending to see, and one that I wasn’t really intending to but watched anyway. Your Highness This was a pretty stupid film, honestly. I wasn’t intending to watch it, but I’ll usually take a chance on…
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I’ve been using StumbleUpon off and on, which is a nifty way to find random things with some advance indication that they might be worth looking at. I’m a fan of internet randomness, and I like artwork, so art is one of the categories I follow. I’ve been somewhat disturbed to stumble over a number…
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I’ve added a new gallery plugin to WordPress and migrated all of my artwork into it, so you can now see thumbnail views of just about everything I’ve done in the last few years. A lot of new stuff – hope you find some of it interesting.:)
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More playing around with my tablet. This one is just intended to portray some sort of night-elementals, both the figure and the caged lantern-creature. Somebody suggested the latter is a bit like the жар-птица (firebird) from Slavic lore, which is amusing, since I was initially going for something like caged glowing birds, maybe phoenix-like, or…
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I’m always searching for new stuff to listen to, both for inspiration and variety, and lately my favorite bands have been female-fronted metal bands along the lines of Lacuna Coil and Tracktor Bowling, and some of the more progressive punk/post-punk groups like The Receiving End of Sirens. I don’t seem to have been able to…
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Just messing with my tablet and thought I’d share. No real source for this, just playing with colors out of my head.
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I’ve been contemplating making my novels available on various electronic markets, and the Amazon Kindle market was particularly easy to convert one for, so I’ve gone ahead and taken the plunge with my scifi biopunk novel Fourwar. I initially intended to post it at the 99-cent price, but Amazon’s odd royalties mean that you have…
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Just a little note that if you need to prevent near-plane clipping while moving the camera into your volume, there seems to be a simple way to achieve this effect (in OpenGL): simply enable GL_DEPTH_CLAMP while rendering the front and back faces of the bounding volume you are casting from. There may be a better…
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Just a minor site update – I’ve tested this layout in Chrome, Firefox, and the latest IE, but it might break on older browsers.:) In any case, welcome to the new front page! I’ve also pulled my Twitter/Plurk feed in, which I update a good bit more frequently than this, so hopefully that helps things…
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This is more a case of posting here to remind myself, but maybe it will help someone out. I just ran into a case where QuickFIX/J seemed to be stacking up endless messages in a LinkedHashMap object (messageQueue) in SessionState.java (discovered using a heap dump and the helpful Memory Analysis Tool from Eclipse) and spent…
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