Monthly Archives: May 2007
An all-nighter, and not the fun coding type
This is night #1 of “oh shit, my Uni work has to be in NEXT TUESDAY? Not a week on Tuesday?”
You see, for the past eight months I’ve been teaching IT to kids. This involves quite a lot of paper as I have to meticulously plan everything – I have yet to acquire the ninja skills required to simply turn up and go “right then, today we are
Processing Weirdness
Today I came across a rather frustrating problem with Processing. I had the idea to start writing a little platform game to test some ideas out that I have. After Googling around for a bit I couldn’t find any sprite libraries, so decided I’d probably have to write my own.
Wanting to get something working with minimal fuss I knocked up a simple class that tracked the location of a… Continue reading
Some good old pixel-based artwork
Ms Paint: Painting Mona Lisa – More free videos are here The best bit is reading through the comments. Now, if like me you do actually remember the time before Photoshop, when the only blurring was caused by your eyes losing focus, this isn’t actually such a big deal. However comments like this show just how we’ve “forgotten” that it doesn’t take an expensive art package to make… Continue reading
Readability of Blogs
I came across this post while on a random Stumble session. On there you will find a little program that can crawl an RSS feed and give a reading ease value. Point it at your blog’s feed and see what it says. My blog has the following results
- Syllables per word: 1.49
- Words per sentence: 19.50
- Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease: 60.90
- Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 9.61
- Gunning-Fog Index
The obligatory anti-DRM post
It’s been a while since I posted one of these 
 Take your pick from the following;
The BadVista campaign is an advocate for the freedom of computer users, opposing adoption of Microsoft Windows Vista and promoting free (as in freedom) software alternatives.
http://badvista.fsf.org/
or
DefectiveByDesign.org is a broad-based anti-DRM campaign that is targeting Big Media, unhelpful manufacturers and DRM distributors. The campaign aims to make all manufacturers wary about bringing their DRM-enabled… Continue reading