Articles tagged 'eldiablo'
Free software at it's finest? Apr 1 2006
This is why I’m starting to switch over where possible to free software, and in particular, why I wanted to get a fully functional Linux desktop up and running (which I’ve now done with my old shuttlebox, an AMD64 3200+ with a gig of RAM, and Fedora Core 5 on it).
Diva is fully functional, commercial grade video editing software, that’s open source and free. Although this is the initial 0.0.1 release, it’s already looking professional, and feature packed. A product of the Google Summer of Code, kudos to the main man behind it, and a real testament to the power of Mono/Gnome, and some keen coding. Awesome.
Technorati Tags: el, eldiablo, diva, “diva project”, “video editing”, “open source”, mono, gnome, mdk, “fedora core”
And the hits, they keep on a coming... Apr 1 2006
As you can tell by now, I’m on a blogging marathon. My aim is to blog more regularly, but to start with I’m getting through a whole host of things I wanted to blog about. And here’s another…
Centralia. Meant nothing to me, until I read this article. I’m sure I’m not the only person that finds this most interesting. There’s not a whole lot else to say about it, except that it looks like it could be what this years film adaptation of the PlayStation game Silent Hill might have drawn some influences from. In fact, looking carefully on IMDB for the film, it was known as “Silent Hill: Centralia” as a working title. I haven’t played the game well enough to know whether that itself was based upon the story of this Pennsylvanian town, or whether this extra reference was made within the movie to add to the existing story of the original 1999 Silent Hill video game, however it seems that somewhere at least, the story of Centralia is appealing as a basis for horror thriller fiction - despite the fact that the fires underground the town still burn this very day. Crazy stuff.
Technorati Tags: el, eldiablo, centralia, “silent hill”, interesting
Gotta love April Fools Apr 1 2006
So another April Fools day, another Google joke. I still think the best April Fools prank that Google could pull would be to actually pick one of these bogus ideas they come up with every year, and try to make it stick. The Lunar base, the MentalPlex, or Google Romance - come April 2nd, I want to see it still proudly displayed as part of the Google portfolio. I mean after all, it’s Google we’re talking about, of course it’d work.
But my favourite April Fools joke I’ve seen today is GameSpots excellent and totally serious feature on the best Final Fantasy games. The top ten Final Fantasy games of all time to be exact. Including some games that have nothing to do with Final Fantasy, as well as counting Final Fantasy VIII twice because it’s so awesome, it’s definitely a definitive article for the FF fan. My vote for the best FF game of all time? RF Online. It’s more Final Fantasy than FFXI ever could be :-)
I want one Apr 1 2006
Here’s a piece of tech I’d like on my wrist - a SleepTracker. While reading Signal vs Noise, an interesting post caught my eye singing the praises of two pieces of kit - the StressEraser, and the SleepTracker. The StressEraser doesn’t appeal so much - luckily (at the minute at least) I’m doing a pretty good job of keeping stress under control, however the SleepTracker seems like a fairly cool toy, seeing as I always seem to suffer from grogginess and “over-tiredness” when I wake. To be able to be woken up during a certain window, at a time that the device thinks would suit me best (at an almost-awake moment) might leave me feeling a bit more with it and fresh in the mornings.
At £85 it’s not cheap, but isn’t overly expensive either. Might have to give it a go.
Much ado about nothin' Mar 20 2006
Genius. I see the outrage over the South Park episode taking the piss out of the rather easy target that is scientology rages on. It does make me laugh, with all the press generated about this, and with the obvious mocking nature that the creators are treating this extra attention with (knowing full well all it’s doing is making people tune in more than ever), not many people have stopped to consider this. In nine seasons now, South Park has mocked and taken the mickey out of almost EVERYTHING. A lot of people have been able to laugh at themselves being ridiculed on South Park. Others just didn’t care. But not many public figures or major news events have escaped the attention of Matt Stone and Trey Parker. My advice to those offended by this latest furore - get over it! Sit back and enjoy - it’s still one of the freshest and funniest shows on television.
Technorati Tags: el, eldiablo, “south park”, scientology, tv, stan, kenny, cartman, kyle
Come on the Fulham Mar 20 2006
Get in. Today’s result was awesome, and a bit of a shock to say the least. Fulham showed how impressive they have been all season at home, in one immaculate 90 minute performance. And Chelsea showed another slice of why people are beginning to dislike them - they aren’t very good at handling defeat. Either way, Fulham edge closer to guaranteeing Premiership football next year, and to a Fulham fan like me, that’s all that really matters right now.
Technorati Tags: el, eldiablo, football, soccer, fulham, chelsea, premiership
Aesthetics Mar 18 2006
Few minor updates to the blog software yesterday evening, resulting in only a few visual changes, but giving me even more power over the design. After the last round of changes I made I still wasn’t satisfied with the level of customization that could be achieved, but now I think that pretty much anything should be possible with it! For the time being I’ve kept the changes modest, over the next few days and weeks I’ll be making some design changes to the blog, and also hopefully launching a few sites using the software, all with differing designs ;-)
Technorati Tags: el, eldiablo, scrawl, blogging
TV Akimbo Mar 17 2006
Sweet, check this out. Now if only they’d bring it to the UK, and perhaps add a few more big name shows - the idea is rock solid though, especially with their own hardware.
More on this, and a few other interesting things I’ve come across but not had time to blog about, later (when I’ve got time to blog about them).
GWritely Mar 9 2006
Ooh, a favourite of mine, Writely, acquired by Google. Can’t say I’m surprised, it was such a quality service that it was only a matter of time before one of the big boys decided “hey, that’d be a nice feather in our cap”. Add to that Google’s apparent desire to crush Microsoft, and you’ve got the recipe for one nice acquisition. No figures banded about from what I can see yet though, it’d be interesting to see how it stacks up to a few other interesting sales over the last few months. Glad to see current service is unaffected, as it’s something I use regularly (dare I say, almost rely on?). Also, smart move locking down registrations for the time being, should ensure that there’s no degradation in the service due to the obvious interest spike this will create. Exciting times, and congratulations to the guys and gals over at Writely.
Technorati Tags: el, eldiablo, writely, google, microsoft, “web 2.0”
Buffy up for grabs Mar 4 2006
Just over a day left until this Buffy boxset goes to the highest bidder on eBay. Worth well over £200, but at the minute it’s at just a meagre £102 - this could be a bit of a bargain for the die-hard Buffy fan! There’s still time to put your money where you mouth is and grab a limited edition slice of Buffy ;-)
Technorati Tags: el, eldiablo, buffy, ebay
Scrawl updates Mar 4 2006
Big updates last few days to the software I use for this very blog. Firstly, an almost complete rewrite of the software itself (Scrawl), turning it into a fully blown content management system, allowing far greater customization. I can now use Scrawl to host multiple sites, mapped to different domains, and each site allows static content to be added, new blogs to be created, posts to be added, aswell as comments and blog categories too. I still have feeds available for each blog, and an XML-RPC interface so that I can write this very post, and all my others, from within Performancing. On top of that, the way Scrawl has been restructured makes it nice and easy for me to write new plugins, to host other types of content, such as reviews, polls, charts, stats, anything I can think of!
The style can be fully customized - expect the style of this blog to change over the coming days as I play with it, and each site hosted on the Scrawl software can have its own design. I plan to host more sites, for different projects and ventures, using the software.
It uses a nice model view controller architecture now, using my recent additions to xFramework to great advantage, and then it uses Xml and Xsl transforms to display the data. All in all, much better, faster, and more reliable!
So that’s it really, the only downside was the url change required, however the old url now redirects to this page (the RSS feed url redirects to the blog HTML page too however). But with the new system, I can change my blogs design as many times as I want, aswell as add features and updates, without affecting any of the core stuff, like the post data, or the url structure. Scrawl is here to stay, and soon I want to allow people to use it for their blogs, sites, project pages, anything. If you have an idea of what you might want to use Scrawl for, do get in touch.
Technorati Tags: el, eldiablo, scrawl, blogging, coding, dotnet, mono, performancing
Ride the 'Vine Mar 4 2006
So I see that Newsvine has launched. Sweet. I’ve been involved in the beta test going on for the last eight weeks or so, and now the site, its features, and its content, is available to all. Such a great idea, and with a really nice implementation, it’s feature set has already grown since when I first started using it, and with more improvements planned, it’s got a bright future. Come on in and ride the ‘vine!
Technorati Tags: el, eldiablo, newsvine, blogging, web-2.0
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