I'm not dead yet!

More seriously, life has settled into a semi-comfortable rut. Work, family, time to myself (interspersed with the youngest coming in and asking for more books to be read to her), and then a modicum of sleep. Fills out a day.

Did the bike thing this summer, though I cheated a bit. Drove in to work more than I would've liked, and now ( Read more... )

So in hindsight, I should've plugged the Macbook back in while I was playing Starcraft II tonight. Didn't remember, though, or figure it out until after I'd hard-shut it down. Guess it had already gone into battery-conservation mode.. Oops ( Read more... )

So I've played a lot of games lately, but I kinda hate talking about that all the time, so I'll make that part quick. Evil Genius is my current "it's 3:00am already?" game, Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box is the one I play on the go and then for a while after I get where I'm going to, and Team Fortress 2 is the old standby. Oh, and the ( Read more... )

I've spent the day messing around in Python, with the goal of trying to put a 'smart' text file viewer together. It's been.. stop and go?

I've been trying to use wxPython. These are the Python bindings for wxWindows, this really nifty cross-platform UI toolkit that I've been meaning to check out for forever. All macs appear to come with version 2.8. ( Read more... )

Every time I decide I'm going to do a programming project, I start off by reinventing the wheel. I grab that 3D Math library I never got around to finishing, start hacking some basic renderer functionality, and then embark on a pointless endeavour worthy of Captain Ahab ( Read more... )

I find it amusing that Nintendo DS homebrew is worse on your battery life, while PSP homebrew is better on your battery life, than actual games for those respective platforms.

Just been playing around with Cocoa a bit the last couple of days. My initial reaction was complete confusion, but now that I've figured out the Interface Builder tool and realized how Xcode and it have changed since the book I'm using was written (cough) it's looking a lot nicer ( Read more... )

So last week.. or maybe it was the week before, I forget.. I bit the bullet and hacked my PSP's firmware to the latest m33 variant. It had been sitting at 2.71 forever. Ironically, the reason I hacked it was because I wanted to run some of the latest games on it, pretty much the opposite of the typical piracy line. So now I've got a completely ( Read more... )

You know, I just checked my tags, and I've never tagged a post as being related to programming before. Kind of odd, considering it's what I do for a living and all. Anyways, I figured I'd touch on the concept of programming as art ( Read more... )

Got woken up almost an hour ago by a couple having some rather heated domestics down at the transitway station, and now I'm having trouble getting back to sleep.. (I tried to snap a quick picture through the window using our new digicam, but my manual mode digicam-fu leaves much to be desired ( Read more... )