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Avatar

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Avatar. A friend recommended it to me. I scoffed, it’s a CGI dream, probably a shit story.

Then I weakened and went to see it at the Colchester Odeon, in 3d.

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Voodoo Lights

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Voodoo Lights was and is still the best screen saver ever written. Years ago I was so impressed that I did something I had never done, and probably never will again. I bought it!..

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Modelling glamour portfolio

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

I’ve got some glamour portfolio photo sessions up for grabs to support a new project I am working on. At the end of it you’ll get all the pics for your portfolio. Of course there are limits, but hey, try your luck.

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CRC32 on MPEG2 section data

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

I’ve been digging around some other projects, and found this algorithm for calculating the checksum on section data in an MPEG2 transport stream.

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Recovery

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Dare I say it, but is a recovery beginning. No…  But we see glimmers of hope.

I think that the banking sector may be stabilizing, but the economy is in for a bumpy ride as the consequences play out.

Game Of Life (Conway) in Java

Friday, June 27th, 2008

I have had a fascination with the game of life by Conway for many years, too many to mention. I wrote a life client on an A5000 and optimized the hell out of it on that beautiful ARM processor. That little 20 mhz ARM out performed a 66 mhz 486 dx2 in this discipline.

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