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.

Photos of the last two weeks

The basic photos are up from my last two weeks or so of travels, including Alcatraz, Monterey Bay Aquarium, the view from Twin Peaks, Heavenly, Half Moon Bay, San Francisco Zoo, Carmel and yes, even Stanford University. The panoramas are yet to be stitched, but they’ll magically appear over time as I get around to… Read more