A Blogging Experiment Apr 18, 2008

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Tags: Blogging

I’m going to try something that is not entirely original but still should be useful. I have found people often come across my page when looking for something with a search engine, yet the page they land on isn’t exactly what they were looking for. Or to say it in other words, I’ll try to help random visitors to find what they are looking for (or, you could argue this is some kind of search engine optimization).

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Homeopathy and the Computer Apr 12, 2008

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Tags: Homeopathy, Unfunny

The concept of homeopathic software. Why didn’t I think of this before? It’s all so easy now. Just add water.

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Get your act together, Mozilla Apr 01, 2008

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Tags: Firefox, Mozilla, Rants

“What do you think about the new Mozilla Addons site?”

Frankly, I think it sucks.

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Stupid Computer Ramblings (and Ikaruga) Mar 30, 2008

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Tags: Dreamcast, Ikaruga, LCD, Shmup

It only occured to me yesterday that there’s a clear benefit in that I bought a new LCD screen a while ago. I leaned on the screen and realized the screen of course rotates 90 degrees flipping the vertical and horizontal axes. For me, realizing that old feature was a revelation: it allows playing vertically scrolling shmups properly.

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Playstation 3 vs. Atari VCS Mar 28, 2008

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Tags: Atari, Demoscene, Playstation 3, PS3, Video

More demoscene stuff: a very recent PS3 demo (a real-time animation for you not in the know) and a very recent Atari VCS demo. The Atari VCS (redubbed Atari 2600) was pretty much the first game console for the masses and it was released in 1977. The Playstation 3 was released in 2006.

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