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- February 12, 2005
Blocked Banners!
February 12, 2005Read moreSo I’m up here in Maine, looking at my website, and noticing the blue top “David Seah” banner was missing. Not only on Firefox, but also on Internet Explorer! After some poking around, it turns out that Norton Internet Security has an advertising blocker in it that does not display any image named “banner.gif”. So for months, anyone who has been running Norton Internet Security has not see the top banner. I renamed banner.gif to topbanner.gif, and the problem has gone away. I suspect other ad blocking software does something similar.
- February 12, 2005
Timehunt
February 12, 2005Read more
This is from 2002, but still cool. Timehunt is a kind of online game that combines elements of the Renaissance, machines made by obscure genius, and good old fashioned treasure hunting. A fine use use of illustration and shockwave. Made in Slovakia!
- February 11, 2005
Protein OS
February 11, 2005Read more
Diane passed along an article about researchers using Google to extract meaning from related word pairs, which has ramifications for Artificial Intelligence. The cool thing was the hosting website, Protein OS, which appears to be a UK collective of some sort. With topics spanning art, music, science, and culture, I find it hard to pin down… kind of like a Wired by practice, not observation. It’s a neat portal to a place not dominated by Walmart sensibilities.
- February 10, 2005
Crixa on the Mac
February 10, 2005Read more
Here’s something I never expected to see anytime soon…Crixa running on my Macintosh!
Jeremy had actually ported the low level graphics and sound classes to SDL, which means we have cross-platformness. This is the first time I’ve actually seen it run on my Powerbook.
- February 10, 2005
Dev Environments & Debugging
February 10, 2005Read moreA quick side-journey into debugging Microsoft Visual C++ projects. Of particular interest to me are runtime checking of invalid objects, as Crixa seems to have a few bugs related to them.
Also, I learned what a Framework is in Xcode, and how to set the damn paths to them. A Framework is a more convenient way to distribute a software development kit, with the various subdirectories for includes, source files, resources, etc. Ordinarily you woul have to set up multiple paths; with a Framework, you just have to set up one.
Of course, you still need to know where to set the path to the framework. It’s one of those mysterious “what #$%@! buttons do I press to set the compiler and linker settings in this !@&#! IDE?”
