Welcome to the Plops! work-in-progress by Mr. Speaker. This is an actual Atari 2600 game I started making many moons ago. Space to start (click on the atari to focus!), arrows for movin and jumping (to collect “stones”), and space for throwing collected stones. It’s bloody hard to get used to jumping that purple thing. […]
Quick note for those running WordPress 2.7, and are starting to freak out about the 500 gazillion revision rows that are now getting inserted into your database… There are a few ways to cull them – such as deleting all posts with type “revision”, but that’s pretty annoying. Thankfully, the WordPress docs now have a […]
Wolfram Alpha is out and about, and promising to link all information in the world together in a way that will render further human thought obsolete. Most people who know that thinking is boring, and want to learn important things about b-grade celebrities, quickly realised this weird search engine wasn’t going to tell them anything […]
Well, it’s been a couple-a weeks since we got TurnTubelist out the door! Now that we’re starting to see a bunch of people making TurnTubelist a part of their getting-ready-to-go-out-on-a-Saturday-night routine, I thought it would be good to expose some of the advanced features that lurk under the covers. Do note: these are current as […]
Well well well! You all thought that we was messing with you, didn’t you? You thought that the WebJam 8 win was nothing more than an elaborate hoax designed to bag some awesome prizes, didn’t you? No, friends, it wasn’t (though I’m totally going to do that for the next WebJam) for now the time […]
The first 15 times I watched Revenge Of The Nerds I was transfixed with the symbolism of the persecuted nerd: Like present-day rednecks, the nerd of 1984 represented one of the few remaining demographics where intolerance and ridicule were not only acceptable, but encouraged. Of course, today’s nerds are revered and adored (though our pompous […]
Recently there has been a lot of attention given to the list of the 500 worst passwords. “Worst” meaning “most frequently used” and therefore easy to guess. A better practice, according to microsoft (who we all trust when it comes to security matters), is to create a password that is “a simple and long phrase”. […]
What a malfunctioning hot-air-balloon ride 2008 has been, hey? From those crazy early days – when it was well known that everyone who knew what “start-up” meant would be rich by October, to the entertaining later months: “Will pitch stupid internet ideas for food”. Who knows – perhaps this downturn will finally weed out those […]
This will be a post of three parts. You should probably go straight to Part Three – as this has the juicy details, and a fairly brilliant song I composed. Part one and two are mostly content-free, self-oriented pieces that are sure to be of interest to few (though, with the high demand for fairly […]