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  • WordPress Install Practice

    October 17, 2004

    Just going through the famous WordPress 5-minute install to see what I need to do to do this from scratch on my server, since a few of my friends have expressed interest.

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    DSri Seah
  • A Menagerie of Classes

    October 16, 2004

    So I’ve been working on a Flash game for a client. It’s got a bit of everything: a little physics, a dash of GUI, and a lot of animation. Unfortunately I can’t show anything because I have a “blog clause” in the work contract, which permits general discussion about the techniques used but no revealing of the process until it’s released.

    So this week’s challenge is to refine the class hierarchy and shake out some sequence bugs. The hierarchy is based largely on the concepts we had at Qualia: Sprites, Sequences, Pieces, Players, and Controllers. The hard part is to get them all to talk together, in a specific order, without creating odd interpendencies.

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    DSri Seah
  • Iron Wok Jan

    October 16, 2004

    Cover of Iron Wok Jan #1My sister passes this link along: Iron Wok Jan. I haven’t checked it out yet, but it seems to be another cooking manga, like Yakitate! Japan. Browsing through it a bit on Amazon’s “look inside” feature, it seemed a little on the creepy side, whereas Yakitate! Japan is a bit more on the weird side.

    The excerpt of Publishers Review says:

    Take the concept of television’s popular Iron Chef, add a few remarkably well-endowed men wearing snug cooking gear, toss in some gratuitous violence, and you’ve got Iron Wok Jan.

    Hm, personally I can do without the “well-endowed men” part, but YMMV. Check it out at Comics Worth Reading or Amazon.

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    DSri Seah
  • A Parade of Cats

    October 15, 2004

    I was organizing my digital photo collection, and found the cat pictures I’ve collected over several years of cat sitting. So I’m going to run a photo of a cat every day until they run out. So a warm round of applause, please, for Tommy, James, Knock, Abby, Audrey, and Jenny!

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  • The Internet for Cats

    October 15, 2004

    Catster - The Social Network for CatsOne of my favorite cats, Jenny, invited me to join her network. Jenny is a very bouncy mixed breed cat that stayed with me for a few weeks, back when my condo was a kind of cat-hotel for travelling friends.
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