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Introduction
This site is a collection of notes, projects and links to things that Stephen Vermeulen has written or wishes to remember. It's not really a blog, rather it's more like a mind-map.Contact Information
stephen@vermeulen.caHere's a blast from the past, a little game called Mine Maze I wrote for the Commodore PET 2001, it was fun enough to get published in Compute! magazine. What was interesting in this game was the asymmetry, the two players had quite different roles.
Recent Changes
2010-Feb-08: One of the studies that linked Autism to vaccines has been recanted. [8960] [1]
2010-Feb-08: Spray-On Liquid Glass would this work on a BBQ grill? [8959] [1] [2]
2010-Feb-08: InPhase Technologies has announced their 300GB Tapestry holographic drives will ship in 2006. Now InPhase is saying they will be shipping a 600GB write-once system in the fall of 2007, while the disks are not cheap at $180/each the drives are insanely expensive at $18,000. Looks like a big flop to me. They have kind of missed their shipping date, they have shown the 300GB drive at NAB in April'08 and claim that it will ship in May'08 (about 2 years late). But it's still the ridiculous $18K for a drive and $180 for a 300GB cartridge, so that's not price competitive with a 3.5 inch 300GB hard drive in an external USB enclosure. Even if you were to write copies to a few drives for redundancy it is just not competitive. And in Aug 2008 we started hearing about layoffs at InPhase. InPhase delays their 300GB holographic drive until late 2009, by which time it will be beyond obsolete - however, the article also mentions that GE is developing something that might compete in the 300GB disk field. In Feb'10 the InPhase saga came to an end. [3717] [1]
2010-Feb-08: It is possible to control a Lego Mindstorms robot from an Android smart phone like the HTC Hero. [8958] [1]
2010-Feb-07: The Hivision PWS700CA could prove to be a very inexpensive Andriod-based 7 inch screen laptop. [8957] [1]
2010-Feb-07: Two new guides to underwater photography: Underwater Photography Guide and a section on Dive Photo Guide. [8956] [1]
2010-Feb-07: Unity is a programming system and engine for writing 3D games with the ability to publish to the PC, Max OS X, web browsers, iPhone and Wii (xbox 360 support is in the works). In Oct'09 they changed their licensing to < href="http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/25840/InDepth_Unity_Launches_Free_Option_Announces_Xbox_360_Support.php">introduce a free license for developers who make less that $100K/year. [8955] [1]
2010-Feb-07: How to obtain More Windows System Information with Python, including the name of the workstation, logged in user (and his groups), IP and MAC addresses. [8954] [1]
2010-Feb-07: The ExoPC Slate is a webpad with an 8.9 inch screen that runs Windows 7. A look at its hardware is here. [8953] [1]
2010-Feb-05: The arduino can be used from Python. [8952] [1]
2010-Feb-05: Using super in Python 3 (and perhaps earlier versions too). [8951] [1]
2010-Feb-05: An alternative to the standard Python threading module, this is the threading2 module. [8950] [1]
2010-Feb-05: Scripting Photoshop with Python by using Photoshop's COM interface. [8949] [1]
2010-Feb-05: A new electrode design could result in lithium-ion batteries that can handle 10,000 charge cycles. [8948] [1]