What’s yours is yours… but mostly ours

When I got to work yesterday, having dodged a homicidal FedEx van with my name apparently on it – at least I know what my ABS brakes sound like now, which would be like the sound of my wheels falling off – I was greeted by an email from payroll informing me they hadn’t calculated… Read more

Normal never looked so good

On the 30th of September, 2007, I started a silly little test project to play with terrain generation and OpenGL. In typical fashion I got bored after a few days and let it slide, but I came back today and kept fiddling. When I’d left it I’d just enabled lighting, but hadn’t provided any normals… Read more

Kirkwood Day Trip

I took the Nac Ski bus up to Kirkwood today. I committed myself to it last Monday so as to prevent myself procrastinating it out of the whole season. It turned out really good, despite my best efforts to injure myself. :) My boots were actually really comfortable by the end of the day, despite… Read more

Best bug ever

A Web site cannot set a cookie if the Domain attribute is in uppercase characters and has an odd number of characters in Internet Explorer 7. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/ms07-045-cumulative-security-update-for-internet-explorer-5faca757-4bae-de6f-eff3-f5cbd908236f I can’t even begin to imagine how you can create a bug like that.

Panoramarama!

I believe F2 did some research into it and discovered than somewhere around 107% of people create panoramas. I might lay off them a bit in future… they take bloody ages to stitch together. And I really should be doing it in Photoshop or somesuch, so I can get better edges, but experience tells me… Read more

Tax return

My tax return cheque arrived the other day… that’s only, what, 8, 9 months since I filed? Go IRS.