November 20th, 2004
rakaz, maker of some very nice Firefox wallpapers, also has a set of forum and IM avatars. Very nice if you want to show your support for Firefox and perhaps get a few IE-using friends to ask you about your avatar. Anyway, that wasn’t the reason I was looking for avatars. The reason was me coming across Tom Werner’s Gravatars (or Globally Recognized Avatars).
Looks like a cool thing to implement on this weblog. There’s a WordPress plugin, but plugins don’t work on the nightly I’m using so I’ll probably wait until WordPress 1.3, or if I ever get my butt off to try to get a CVS version to work.
(And yes, this is a concise, rushed entry because I’ve got my Half-Life 2. It’s Half-Life 2 weekend!)
Ryan Boren, one of the developers of WordPress (which powers this blog), has an interim update on what’s going on behind the scenes in WordPress development and the new features in WordPress 1.3. Pages, themes, enclosures, and a richer plugin API are some things to look forward to. (2)
November 17th, 2004
This is pretty cool. MSN Search beta solves any polynomial equations you enter into its search box.
I tried with higher degree polynomials but it seems it can only solve up to cubic equations (try x^3 -27 = 0). Quartic equations, like x^4 + 6x^3 - 5x^2 - 10x - 3 = 0, return a vanilla search result page.
Via Neil Turner via Chris Pirillo.
November 16th, 2004
The whole world is playing Half-Life 2 except for those of us in Singapore who pre-ordered or decided to get the retail box versions. Apparently, and this is news from the local community forum grapevine, the sole distributor of Half-Life 2 in Singapore, iGames, has delayed the release date to 19th November (GMT +8). Lots of disgruntled people in the HardwareZone PC Games forum. (I’m one of them, but I prefer to be quietly disgruntled.)
After I posted my previous entry, I decided to go for the retail Standard Edition and went down to the local computer hub to reserve a copy. The guy there said it’d probably be out tommorrow (unlikely, as I found out later it’d arrive probably on the 19th like I said above). Argh… More waiting. Now I kinda wish I’d bought from Steam a week or so ago and I’d be playing it right now instead of blogging about not being able to play it.
November 15th, 2004
Konfabulator has finally been ported to Windows! Now I can at least get to experience the neat little app that made such news in blogs all over some months ago. (Note to reader: I’m refraining from word-butchery, so where “blogosphere” may be more appropriate in this case, I’m not going to be tempted into using it.)
Looks nice doesn’t it?
I’m not even sure I need the weather widget, but the What To Do, iTunes remote, and RSS feed aggregator looks to be useful.
Mac users get all the cool-looking, drool-worthy stuff (though I’ve seen a mean KDE setup), and also some of the coolest technology.
Via coresite.org.
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