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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-Jul-29: The Strata tower is a skyscraper in London that has built in wind turbines. I would have done it differently, but at least its a start. [9340] [1]
2010-Jul-29: Creating your own Windows 7 boot media for CD/DVDs or USB Flash Drives (UFD) using the Windows Automated Installer Kit (WAIK). [9339] [1]
2010-Jul-29: A list of the top 25 best Android Apps. [9338] [1]
2010-Jul-29: The XEmacs programmer's text editor. The Emacs Wiki. Ymacs is an Emacs-like editor that runs in a browser. [1026] [1]
2010-Jul-29: Nuclear power has now passed another hurdle (backwards though) it is now being recognized as being more expensive than solar power (which probably makes it a lot more expensive than wind power). [9337] [1]
2010-Jul-29: A recommendation for xmind, an outlining / idea-mapping tool. [9336] [1]
2010-Jul-29: The Ewee-PT is a Segway-like electric walker, this is a lot less expensive. [9335] [1]
2010-Jul-29: A room temperature superconductor might have been discovered. [9334] [1]
2010-Jul-29: Toshiba's new Super Charge Ion Battery (SCIB) can accept a 90% charge in just 10 minutes and last for 5000 charge cycles. This would make for a very big change in the electric vehicle market since recharging while on a trip could be done in a reasonable time - just about as long as it takes to buy a coffee and a doughnut. These are getting closer to market. [6965] [1]
2010-Jul-29: Perhaps the iPod Touch can be made more useful by adding 3G connectivity to it. [9333] [1]
2010-Jul-29: Painting your car pink might deter thieves. [9332] [1]
2010-Jul-27: Currently only two Android tablet vendors are making their source code available. [9331] [1]
2010-Jul-27: Toshiba is going to try the Android/ARM based smartbook market with their AC100. Now, if only it had a twist around display that could convert it into a tablet. Engadget takes a look at one here. [9226] [1]
2010-Jul-27: How to get Windows Event Logs from within Python. [9330] [1]
2010-Jul-27: There might be a lot of Earth-like planets and the Kepler Space Telescope team might have already found some. [9329] [1]
2010-Jul-27: Boilsoft makes a number of video tools, including a video splitter and joiner and VD creation software. [9328] [1] [2]
2010-Jul-27: CherryPal are producing a $99 netbook called Africa, this is going to run Linux or Windows CE on a 400MHz ARM processor with 256MB of RAM and a 7-inch display. That price is going to turn some heads. This kept inexpensive by assembling it from odd lots of inexpensive components. Augen is selling a $99 smart book called the GenBook 74 through Kmart in the US which looks very similar to the CherryPal unit. [8847] [1]
2010-Jul-26: How to use GNU Screen to run and monitor many things at once. Another tutorial on using Screen. [8574] [1]
2010-Jul-26: A look at command line argument parsing in Python. [9327] [1]
2010-Jul-26: A rather elegant wooden computer case, designed as a tall side-table. [9326] [1]
2010-Jul-26: The Sony VAIO P now has a Chinese clone twin, selling for under $300. [9325] [1]
2010-Jul-26: A recent court case is clairifing the limits of typical DMCA battles, this time finding that a security dongle is not necessarily a "copy control" device and so tampering with it may not be a violation of the DMCA. [9324] [1]
2010-Jul-26: Hookbox is a websocket / webpush server. [9323] [1]
2010-Jul-26: A $150 Android tablet is to be sold by Kmart, it's rather limited in RAM at it only has 256MB. [9322] [1]