I picked this up and I’m playing through it – I finished the first one (there aren’t many games that I actually finish) and it’s cool going back through another world built with this awesome game engine. One of the most impressive things about Dungeon Siege is it’s pathing. You can click pretty much […]
Something I’ve always wondered about.. if I open a parentheses, and then want to end the parenthesized portion of text with a smiley, do I have to also close the parentheses? Having two close-parentheses would be correct, since the first one is the mouth of the smiley and the second is the actual close […]
Mostly just a log of what movies I’ve seen recently. Jan 4, 2004: Paycheck. Jan 11, 2004: No movie this week. My van is broken. Doh.\ Jan 18, 2004: Butterfly Effect. (These are entries from an older version of this page that I forgot about, sometime in 2000) Older movies with no specific […]
Like Joel I’ve been using Spambayes to keep spam in control for a while now, and it really does work great. But spammers are a crafty lot, and currently most spam comes with a large list of valid words, to try to get around the way Bayesian filtering works. Take a look at this […]
Joshua Allen mentioned you can export your feed list from RSS Bandit.. newer versions of RSS Bandit also support automatically posting your feed list to a remote server, and retrieving a feed list from a remote server. It currently has three protocols that it can use to do this – file share (where you enter […]
Scott’s posted 0.95 of .Text and I upgraded this site this evening.. the upgrade was pretty easy, although since my DNS is actually hosted with Yahoo, http://stevex.org/dottext is not the same as http://www.stevex.org/dottext and .Text (by default) assumes it is. The answer’s easy enough: Add <UseWWW>true</UseWWW> to the <BlogConfigurationSettings> section of the web.config file. […]
A fellow from JPL announced that they’re releasing data from the Mars Spirit rover for users to download and play with, using a tool that they’ve also released – the same tool that folks at NASA are using to analyze the data they’ve gotten back. This is a pretty cool thing. He announced it […]
Parsing XML on the fly has traditionally been done with SAX, where you register handlers with the parser for tags that you’re interested in, and then let the parser run – the parser parses the document and as it sees those tags, it calls your handler. This is mainly designed for very large documents, […]
Ever notice that Hollywood seems to release two movies on the same theme at the same time, all the time? I’m going to start a list of movies that I think fit this trend. If you can think of any others, please email me: stevex-weblog@oakburl.net. The number in brackets is the IMDB rating. Volcano […]
There was an AmigaWorld column called Zeitgeist wasn’t there? Anyway Google’s annual summary of the year’s searches is always interesting. Also interesting is that as of November 2003, only 42% of the web-surfing public was using Windows XP. I guess it’s interesting that the number is so high since I don’t think many […]