Author: Brian

You can find a short film of my 3d dragon mentioned earlier in the “Things that Catch My Eye” category.  It takes a bit to download (the mov is 7mb) and the lighting isn’t good.  So, I’ll probably redo this later.  But...

I’ve nothing very profound to say right now other than that it is really neat that I can sit here at my desk working on documentation (OK and blogging) while a little window shows a NASA control room live as the Mars Orbitor...

or Speaking of Bill Amend OK… While I don’t much believe in “channeling” and technically speaking Bill Watterson isn’t dead even if Chagrin Falls is fairly close to it… this is really starting to freak me out!  I asked Bill about...

I sent these links to Bill Amend of FoxTrot fame (who is a really nice guy btw): http://www.grand-illusions.com/dragon.htm He’s made one and I’ve made one too.  I’ll post some video sometime soon to show you how mine works. Here’s the example...

I didn’t plan on doing anything like this.  So I didn’t track everything  I read.  Luckily I was on a series binge in 2005.  So I could look up the most of them easily.  I’ll try to get reviews of each of these on...

Read in 2006 Saga of Seven Suns Book 4: Scattered Suns by Anderson, Kevin J. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown The Time Machine by Wells, H. G. Califia’s Daughters by Richards, Leigh Those Who Walk in Darkness by Ridley,...

The first of the WordPress 2.0 themes are up! I’m trying out the new BinaryBlue theme.  But it has a BIG surprise waiting for non-localized blogs that try it.  It will crash your blog and your admin pages. It is a...

Justin innocently thought he would have a little competion to allow bloggers to compete with their WordPress 2.0 themes Now in the last day his email box was flooded with entries.  A total of 188 themes were submitted!  Now the poor...

AKA: Alternate Data Streams – An introduction… One of the members of a technical forum to which I belong had a virus detected in a dll that he could not find anywhere on his computer.  In the end, it was discovered...

Steve Trefethen, Senior R&D Engineer Delphi/C#Builder for the Borland Software Corporation had an EXCELLENT post on his BLog. It emphasizes the cost of a mistake that I always see in example code on the web and in WordPress plug-ins as far...