The new Mac mini has been released, and I have the horrible urge to get one. I've wanted to try development on OS X for a while now, and the Mac mini should be powerful enough (and then some) for the kinds of things I want to do on it. And it has DVI out, so I could use it to test the DVI input on …

Random gripe: I recently got a Toshiba SD-V592 DVD/VCR player. It works great, except there's massive white crush on the HDMI output. Right now I'm using a HDMI to DVI cable to my HDTV to run the signal and I'm wondering if it's a problem with the deinterlacer, the converter cable, the DVI input in…

Amongst other things, I'm an RPG nerd, both computer RPGs and pencil and paper RPGs. The former is immediately obvious if you consider the fact that I decided to draft a 10 year plan to make my own RPG (and I'm only a year behind schedule now too).

But a lot of my inspiration comes from pencil and p…

As you can tell from the data/time on this post, I need a life.

Happy New Years.

edit: or rather if the Gamedev server clock was synchronized properly you'd be able to tell. :)

I was working on a C++ project that I just started adding embedded Python support to, and I while testing the Python exception handling I kept getting these strange errors Fatal Python error: unexpected exception during garbage collection when generating Python exceptions, and I just couldn't figur…

One of the things I got for christmas was a shiny new 27" Widescreen LCD HD TV. So what's one of the first things I do? Hook it up to my laptop and run nethack. I'm such a geek.

So I gave my mother a MP3 player for Christmas. I neglected to realize that I also implicitly gave her lifetime free tech support (me).

Interesting observation for the day:

In C++ beginner programmers often utilize the default behaviour of the compiler created copy constructor and assignment operator, often without realizing it. Eventually this practice causes problems (See the Rule of Three). Later the programmer develops an avers…

If you have a milestone birthday (turning 40, for example) do not hide this fact from your co-workers. For if you do, you shall pay for it later. Better to suffer mild harrassment on the day it happens than to get your cubicle covered in black plastic and filled to overflowing with black 40th birth…

Well, I found out today that a Rubik's dodecahedron was created and marketed under the name "Megaminx." With a name like that it's no wonder I never found it before. And with the right name, I was able to find a algorithm to solve it, though I'll still probably work on my own version just out of sh…