Archive for the 'geek stuff' Category

3D animation or Live Film?

Friday, November 4th, 2005

How much longer will we be able to tell the difference?
The possibilities of what you can do with 3D animation technology these days astounds me. At the mall here they have a kiosk where they sell you those glass cubes with designs etched inside, as if they’re floating inside the glass. They have […]

Frames

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005

I would just like to take a moment to say: I hate frames. That is the HTML type of frame. I have seen sites designed within the last few months still using the deadly, disgusting, horrible: “Frame”.
Okay, I know there are legitimate uses for frames (though I can’t think of any at the […]

Definition of a Programmer

Sunday, July 10th, 2005

A person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumberable poundings, an infinite series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures from inconclusive documents and carried out on instruments of problematical accuracy by persons of dubious reliability and questionable […]

A RFID Under the Skin?

Friday, June 17th, 2005

I was reading an article in the newspaper about the changing market of the RFIDs. There was a huge rush over the last year from Wal-Mart suppliers to attach RFIDs to their merchandise, but now that rush is slowing as many merchants will be in compliance with Wal-Marts RFID policy by the end of […]

Poker Bots

Monday, June 13th, 2005

I found this article about people writing programs to play poker against other people. According to the article the programs aren’t even near being good enough to beat real human players, in fact, someone states that a baby would play better . Kyla?
However they are holding a tournament for these […]

String Pattern Matching in PHP

Friday, June 10th, 2005

Wow, I never knew there was this much complexity to string matching! I learn something new everyday, well actually not quite everyday, but it’s a goal I strive for.
I am currently working on designing a large web site and I want to have a glossary of terms, which is accessible via each of […]