I got around to putting up some pictures from my trip to Taiwan last August. Here’s one for your geek moment of zen.
It looks like the Towers of Light have gone up. I hadn’t been keeping up, but out of all the various proposals, I did like this one the best.
Usability Nightmare
Wow, looks like some people have taken chromeless windows to the next level at the Groninger Museum.
This one russian host has been hitting the Star Guitar Video that I have on my server over and over again. Now, it’s not that bad bandwidth-wise, as it’s transferred about 350MB, but it’s just the way that it’s been going on that’s annoying. Over 25,000 hits and counting. Removing the file didn’t stop the host. I got so annoyed tonight that I put a block in my htacces and xinetd.conf files. I probably should have done that earlier. At least I don’t have this crap polluting my logs anymore (76% of the hits so far in April were from Russia. Coinciding with the same percentage of hits from a FlashGet user agent, of course). Grrr. Well, hopefully it’s solved now.
Antares makes a rackmount and a software plugin that will do real-time vocal pitch correction. So that’s what all those pop-punk bands who sell out do to magically harmonize these days. Thank you NASA. (Pro Tools can do pitch correction, but not realtime)
Bug 134765 – Geeks getting catty.
The other week, I reinstalled Counter-Strike for some odd reason. A friend also sent me a link to the updated CS-Report (USSID 21: Dissemination of Counter-Strike abnormalities (U) –
INFORMATION MEMORANDUM v1.3) which documents the crappiness of the CS ballistics, game physics, and box model. I keep forgetting where it is, so up it goes on the blog.
Sometimes there’s a really great comment that gets made by an AC on /. several hundred messages in. In an ideal system, you’d like to be able to make it more visible without forcing people to actually go through every single message.
Yahoo! New’s 373 photo slideshow of the Mideast Conflict is well worth going through.
I haven’t been keeping up with the recent escalation much, just reading the random articles. It’s a real downer.
Speaking of which, I saw No Man’s Land today at the rechristened Dome (LA Weekly article). It’s a great movie and definitely worth catching, but while the trailer and advertising try to imply that it’s some sort of light absurdist comedy… it’s not. Well there is certainly absurdity and irony and satire, neither my friend or I thought it was a particularly “funny” movie.