Monthly Archives: July 2004

aaaah, irony

An amusing “Hitchhikers’ Guide” look at XP

glass instruments for lomac

An early preview of LomacGlass is available if you would like to see how it’s progressing. There’s a README in the zip file which explains installation. At the moment all you’ll get is the instrument data in the console, but it’s real time and quite cool. Instrument development is next. What I plan to do [...]

java swing i18n

I’ve been doing some exercises with my LomacGlass instrumentation software as practice for my M301 exam coming up in October. M301 involves a fair bit of Java Swing and multithreading, which is an ideal environment for LomacGlass. One cool feature which I’ve almost perfected this week is Swing internationalisation (i18n), basically allowing the user to [...]

there’s a first time for everything

Seen today, for the first time…

aussie (c)rap

Is it just me, or does rap/hip-hop in an australian accent always sound really stupid? Does anyone know of an example that isn’t rubbish?

never let a journalist near a helicopter

http://www.rcheliclub.co.nz/barry.htm

obfuscation

One of the big problems of software development in the area of intellectual property protection is decompilation of code. I’ve recently found a great little library called yGuard which is an obfuscator for Java. What the hell is an obfuscator? well, once you’ve generated your jar file (a single file containing all of the code [...]

it’s a real book – it has an ISBN

The Zen of Bowel Movements – A Spiritual Approach to Constipation

the secret diary of an expectant father – part 3

We let the cat out of the bag at Le Gavroche last night where we were having dinner with Dad and Lyn. Out of the blue, just before dessert, I said “so how does it feel knowing you’ll be grandparents in March?” – Dad’s face was priceless – I could see the cogs turning as [...]

geek joke

Courtesy of scottblog: roses are #ff0000 violets are #0000ff chown -R you ~/base