I’ve been pretty lackadaisical about the blog lately. Part of it has been being really busy and run down from work, and part of it has been from cutting time spent online to do some reorganization in my life. In any case, I’m hoping to get back in some regular schedules.
I’ve started working out after a long respite. In the year since I stopped, I’m surprisingly only 5lb’s heavier, but I know that it’s definitely badly offset from losing muscle mass. In any case, I’m breaking out the EatWatch again (if you’ve never seen this program before, it’s awesome, calculates moving averages on your weight).
I’ve also dusted out my old calorie counter and am retrofitting it. The first thing I figured I’d do was program a better DOM-based ComboBox. I’ve made some progress on it, but it’s a bit more challenging than I had expected. Not to mention, that my JS is rusty. Well, that’s half the fun, I suppose.
Speaking of web stuff, apparently there’s a Los Angeles Mozilla 1.0 party going on in LA (or road-tripping to norcal) on June 12th. Hmm, although DJ Shadow is going to be at the Mayan on the 12th I think…
On the ‘I want it now’ hardware front, details on the new Matrox card, Parhelia, have been leaking out over the weekend. NDA lifts today though, so now there are articles that won’t get pulled down the next day. Among the highlights:
- 10-bit RAMDACs w/ full gamma correction with 10-bit rendering for 2D, 3D, DVD, and video, as well as 10-bit ARGB rendering
- Dual integrated 400MHz RAMDACs
- Dual independent DVI outs
- TripleHead Desktop (3 displays, up to 3840x1024x32bpp)
- Dual overlays (yea!)
- Glyph Antialiasing
- All kinds of 3D goodies