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  • 2008
    • August
      • NEW BLOG!!!!
        08/02/08

        New blog is located here.

        The main feed will be updated shortly.

        *Edit: Main feed has been updated. It now points to the new blog.
        *Edit2: I've removed the ability to comment on the old blog. I was getting too much spam.

    • July
      • Return of Spam
        07/31/08
        Yes I've noticed a few of my old posts have a lot of spam. Oddly enough most is for buying World of Warcraft gold. It's funny if I google 'daksystems' I come across a bunch of a websites whose sole purpose seems to be listing broken captchas. Awesome. I've not the time t

      • Goldbond makes my nards burn
        07/31/08


        "Kick him in the nards"... "Wolfman's got nards." From those 2 fateful lines of the 80's cult classic "Monster Squad" I've become enamored with the word "nard." I don't know that anything else quite sums up a man's nether

      • AirTran can suck it
        07/09/08


        In this day and age it's always surprising to me that I can still BE surprised by the douchebaggery of corporations (or whatever AirTran is considered.) In making flight plans for the end of August I purchased a ticket home on Monday. Later that night I decided I'd rather lea

      • Image Width
        07/02/08
        Yes I know the images don't seem to be obeying the margins of my blog anymore. I think it's time to switch to a more professionally written blog.

      • Havok and Ogre pt1
        07/02/08

        *** Blog has been moved to here. There is also a part 2 to the havok/ogre post.

        For anyone finding this page through google: You can ignore the first paragraphs of blather. The code examples are linked at the end.

        [Intro:]
        I've talked ad nauseum about usin

    • June
      • The cheese in my pants in the dark
        06/23/08
        As you can see, my new theme is finished. For awhile now I've been trying to figure out how to tie together the disparate parts of my website. Most of my website is cobbled together from free code I've found on the net. (I've posted my website architecture in numerous posts, just d

      • Condensed Theme
        06/22/08
        Please bear with me while I match the themes of my picture gallery and blog to my main homepage. You might notice that some of the images in my blog are busting out of the boundaries, I'm not sure why this started happening but I'm working on a fix. Fucking website.

        *[06/22/20

      • Spore-ious
        06/17/08


        "Spore is a multi-genre "massively single-player online game" under development by Maxis and designed by Will Wright. It allows a player to control the evolution of a species from its beginnings as a unicellular organism, through development as an intelligent and social la

      • Train of thought
        06/14/08
        I'd started this post with the intent of writing a small blurb about Jack Thompson and his recent battles with the Florida judicial system. Most notably his possible impending disbarment. That got me thinking: "I wonder if there is a Zero Punctuation review of GTA IV." This lead me

      • New Home
        06/08/08
        You may notice the web address is different in the web browser bar. I made the transition to my new web host. There will still be some down time and changes as I migrate the rest of my code but for the most part things went seamlessly.

      • Kaiser Rom Updates 2
        06/08/08
        A couple of weeks ago I posted a small bit about updating your ATT Tilt (aka: Kaiser & HTC TyTn II) After a few weeks of use I decided it was time for an update. You see, in those few weeks I've made a number of patches and updates to get the phone working in proper order.

        Afte

      • Web Hosting Woes Part 1
        06/08/08
        *** If you don't want to read alot of jargon about web hosts, skip to bottom of this post for a message about my server being down. ***



        Please don't assume the video above is an endorsement of Mya. It's not that I dislike her music, I nothing it.

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      • Coffee Tables
        06/04/08
        Not long ago the coffee table was the center of entertainment for any living room gathering. No other piece of furniture so perfectly fits in the center of a room and offers a perfect place to display books that prove just how fucking smart you are. (I'm not endorsing that book, I just linked

    • May
      • Hotlinking part 2.
        05/23/08
        God I can be so stupid. When I disabled hot-linking I wasn't thinking about my RSS feed. Since I don't read my own feed (that would be narcissistic) I didn't catch the glitch until just now. I've re-enabled hot-linking for the time being.

        -Admin

      • Uncrapping your AT&T Tilt (HTC Tytn II) (P4550/Kaiser)
        05/23/08
        **** I've updated this post with a bit more information here ****



        Recently I decided to purchase a new cell phone. My M.O. is to get whatever phone comes free with a renewal of my cellular contract. My philosophy was that I only needed to make calls. I didn't need

      • Muto
        05/16/08


        I found this amazing video in a link from Penny Arcade. It's hard to imagine the amount of time something like this would take. It "almost" makes me think this is done in CGI but little things like the moving shadows, the erase marks add to the fidelity.

        One

      • Disabled hotlinking
        05/11/08
        For the time being I've disable hot-linking. Server logs show an enormous amount of external website calls directly to images on my site. If you hot-linked something you should now see the following:



        To those friends of mine I know used a few images for their websites:

      • KDTree for 3D data
        05/08/08
        *For those that found this post through the subject heading, scroll down a few paragraphs for my posting on the KDTree.*

        I imagine the rest of you who aren't techies must read my posts and think "what a fucking douche bag with his pretentious programming updates." It'

      • Discrete Geodesics
        05/07/08
        Small post today covering something I just finished working on, discrete geodesics. "A geodesic [ jee-oh-des-ik, -dee-sik ] is a generalization of the notion of a "straight line" to "curved spaces".(Wikipedia) "Discrete" simply means I'm looking at non-con

      • Engaged
        05/04/08


        As of Friday night I am officially engaged to Monica. After a wonderful meal at Ruth's Chris Steak House we walked over to the trellis near the Marriott on the Wharf.

        Without getting in to too much detail: Our first date was more of a first time meeting than a date, at

    • April
      • Moving On
        04/20/08


        A week or so ago I posted an entry on the loss of a dear friend and mentor. Since then I've found some measure of calm. It's not easy losing someone close and, for my part at least, it's hard to let go completely. The other day I saw a tall gentleman in the bath room bu

      • Note for a friend
        04/07/08
        I've been sitting here for 30 minutes trying to find the words.... the words.... How do I, does anyone, sum up the life a single person in a few short paragraphs. I suppose you don't, you write what you can and the people who knew them will fill in the rest.

        I lost a friend tod

      • Small Update
        04/03/08
        I finally received the remaining photos from my trip to Chicago. These pictures come courtesy of Chris' friend Simon. Thanks heaps.

        Due to flickr's restriction on named folders (non-pro users only get 3) I've had to leave the photos unorganized. I have no plans to updat

      • April Fools
        04/01/08
        Usually I'm not the sort of person that appreciates an April fools joke. Especially the tired mainstay of office humor like sticky noting someone's cubicle or moving their stuff to the basement. Thankfully the tech. and gaming community has changed my mind. As technology has progressed

    • March
      • Fucking Cool
        03/26/08


        Simply amazing. An artist known as 'PosterChild' created a real life version of the portals from Valves recent hit "Portal." Just amazing.

      • Roll Your Own
        03/26/08
        Within the last few years open source applications have really come to fruition. What was once considered a "novel concept" has moved in to the spotlight in a major way. Apps such as FireFox, OpenOffice, GAIM, VLC Media Player, CygWin, etc... All fully mature products used by hundreds o

      • Home
        03/18/08
        It's been a busy couple of days. Last Friday I flew in to Chicago to meet with some old friends and meet some new ones. A buddy of mine, from my formative years in highschool, had planned a small trip to celebrate St. Patrick's day in Chicago with a group of his friends. Having missed m

      • Shareware Foibles
        03/09/08
        To the average user I think there is an assumption made that files housed on "legitimate" websites are safe to use. A recent finding by a CodingHorror reader named 'Dustin Brown' shows that trust can have some serious consequences.

        There is a piece of software out t

      • Server backup and migration
        03/06/08
        In the next few weeks please expect a few outages with my site. The one downside to running a virtual server is that I have to detach the virtual HDD before I can make a backup. The virtual HDD is actually a 10 gig file on my real HDD. When VirtualBox launches my virtual server it "locks&quo

      • Spam
        03/06/08
        Damnit I knew I should have implemented, at least, a basic CAPTCHA for posting comments. I didn't realize, until just now, that I had a few spam postings. My apologies. I'd not thought I'd see spam traffic for awhile.

        I was going to disable comments since, well, lets face

      • Resubscribe to my RSS Feed
        03/06/08
        Skynet took over the world by controlling the information infrastructure.

        I would like to do the same by asking anyone who subscribed to this feed to redo their subscription link. The new rss feed button links through feedburner.


        Thanks,
        Jeremy

      • Perchance to Dream.
        03/05/08
        Programming, at least for me, is 75% perspiration and 25% inspiration. While the phrase is somewhat cliche, albeit with difference percentages, the concept is effective. Several years ago I began keeping a dream journal.

        Nothing quite as colorful or lame, no offense to the World Federat

    • February
      • Elitism
        02/26/08
        I often wonder if other professions are as mired in elitist pricks as software engineering. Is it because we all got picked on in high school that we feel the need to lord our skill set over others? Or maybe its that the time required to be a good engineer leaves most of us with little time to dev

      • Low cost virtual reality and motion tracker
        02/10/08
        There are many flavors of virtual environments out there. The type of interest to this post are known as a CAVEs. As is the case with all types of VR, CAVEs have their benefits and limitations. These are beyond the scope of this article but what is important to note is that the intrinsic planar d

      • Broken as fuck
        02/07/08
        Please excuse the broken links and random php gibberish that seems to be popping up. I recently ported my web code from an unstable version of Ubuntu 7.10. I think I've got things kinda fixed. If anyone notices a problem please let me know. Grumble grumble grumble.

      • The dumbing down of video games
        02/05/08
        This entry could also be entitled "How I became the Gwas of VideoGames." I generally try to avoid "in" references but in this instance using Gwas' name seemed appropriate.urbating the retarded egos of the next generation.

        Let me first say that Gwas (Greg) is a

    • January
      • E.I. E.I What's poppin' now?
        01/28/08
        Huzzah: I am finally in California for the wonderful Electronic Imaging conference in San Jose. If you search around on that page you should be able to find a listing of presenters with my name on there was well. I'll be giving my talk on the comparison between PS and PX scanners this Tues.

      • Zubaz
        01/03/08
        The day of redemption has arrived folks, Zubaz are making a comeback. That's right, you too can relive a piece of 80's glory with these fuck ugly zebra print eye sores. Popular back in my elementary days for about a week, ironically also the length of time before they fell apart, these th

  • 2007
    • December
      • RSS Feed
        12/18/07
        I just noticed the RSS 2.0 and ATOM feeds aren't updating in google reader. They seem to work from my live bookmarks assuming I reload the bookmark folder. If anyone is having problems let me know.

        -Jeremy

      • Home for the holidays
        12/18/07
        Given that my general demeanor is fairly negative I wanted to start my bloggin' off on the right foot. What foot is that? It's the giant red and white foot of xmas joy that will be on your ass if you don't get happy, and quick.

        During the holiday's (including new yea

      • No Pity for the Masses Opens
        12/14/07
        Welcome to No Pity for the Masses, a precious little area where I bitch about shit you couldn't care less about. :)

        Recently I was asked by a friend to design a simple website for his personal training business. As you can see I've got the basic framework down but obviously th

"Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write it should be hard to read."