Archive for the ‘Programming’ Category

Seven Things

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Thanks to Paul Reinheimer for sneakily tagging me. I made it to the state tennis tournament 3 out of 4 years in high school. I read the entire DOS manual when I was 5. I've owned a house since I was 23. In 1993 and 1994 I saw every state in the U.S. and ...

Dominate Need for Speed (Underground) and Still Lose

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Dictionary.com defines dominate in the following ways: 1) to rule over; govern; control. 2) to tower above; overlook; overshadow As I was racing today, I owned one of the longer races by completing it in 5:17. The "time to beat" in order to gain domination status was 5:38. It seems to ...

Presenting Stock Rider :: Ski the Market

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Play Now Today is very special. After 150 hours of hard work and sleepless nights, I have released Stock Rider, a flash-based game where you ski real market data. This is my first big Flash piece and I am so happy with the results. It uses Box2D for Flash as ...

Ever had a problem with JavaScript’s setFullYear method in the Date object?

Monday, October 20th, 2008

Me too. While writing a JavaScript countdown timer the other day I ran into a very peculiar issue. Every time I refreshed the page, the countdown had 0 hours, 59 minutes, and 59 seconds remaining, regardless of the current time, but it had the correct number of days. To set the ...

Google Chrome: The installer encountered error 4.

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

I decided to give Google Chrome another chance today, hoping there would be an update to fix the scrolling issue I previously discovered. The following steps produce the following error message—if you can call it that. Using Google Chrome, navigate to http://www.google.com/chrome/ Click "Download Google ...

Finally: built-in idiot checking for YouTube comments!

Friday, September 26th, 2008

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Launchy is Cheeky

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

I was reading Life Hacker's Best of the Best today and came across Launchy, a Windows application launcher, so I decided to check it out. I run NoScript at work for security purposes so I was greeted with the following image. And I quote: "This is where Ads would go, ...

Create a New New in Windows Vista

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

What? Creating a new new isn't useful to you, either? Microsoft...after over 15 years of GUI OSs I would expect better from you. Guess I'm just insane to keep buying your software time after time and expecting different results. Related posts:Windows Vista Folder Size DiscrepancyWindows Vista Source Code ReleasedMake Ventrilo ...

Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 FTW!

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

I upgraded my laptop hard drive from 160GB to 200GB. In the process I was left with a chunk of 40GB of unallocated space. For the past 4 months I've ignored this space because Windows Vista's built-in partition manager couldn't do anything with it due to Dell's crazy ...

My Heros

Monday, July 14th, 2008

These guys designed a Guitar Hero bot that uses photo diodes to sense when a note should be played. Genius. Related posts:Guitar Hero III: Beat on MediumGuitar Hero III (3): Owned on EasyQuote of the Day