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Google wave nominations

tobbez — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:28:07 +0000

Seeing as I now have 19 nominations left from the second and third batch I received, I’ll offer the same thing as Ax0n over at H-I-R did: be among the first 19 to post your email address as base64 in the comments, and I’ll send you one.

Amsterdam & beginnings of Hacking at Random

tobbez — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:18:54 +0000

Just posting these few photos before I go to sleep today. Since I didn’t get my real camera with me all of them are taken with my mobile phone camera, so quality isn’t really that great (slight understatement). Anyway, most of them are from the way to, and in, Amsterdam, except the last one which is the not completely completed lounge @ HAR.

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If you want to see more photos from HAR, do check flickr.

Bits and pieces

tobbez — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:43:10 +0000

These are some interesting links I’ve picked up during the past months. Some of them are quite old, so don’t be surprised if you’ve already seen some of them.

Let’s begin with how robots could be looking at humans.

And then a pair of personality related articles: a few things you should know about introverts (that’s me). And also a comparison, if you will, of the Wide/Deep personality types.

I found 10 Attributes of Really Lazy People quite entertaining.

And some reasons as to why I will never get an facebook account. Another, less serious, but still valid view on the same topic.

If you feel like you have too much time on your hans you could always do what this guy did: write a ray-tracing renderer from scratch.

Here‘s some interesting views on today’s CS education, though I’ve not personally seen all those changes where I’m studying. It also presents a few things that are important for CS students to learn (more specifically in the programming area).

And at last, a nice explanation as to why writing general applications isn’t always the right choice.

Blog challenge: Hovie clip

tobbez — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:09:07 +0000

So, I’ve been challenged by Linnea with finding a clip from a movie whose name starts with the letter ‘H’, so here you go.

Now I challenge ozamosi, and YOU to find a clip from a movie that starts with the next letter in the alphabet, namely ‘I’. The ones you challenge will have to find clips from movies that start with the letter after that (‘J’), and so on.

ryara.net v3

tobbez — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 00:33:56 +0000

I’ve yet again remade my website (second time this year), and I think it looks better than the older two.
New for this version is a new PHP backend for the portfolio part, which I’m quite happy with. Eventually I’ll probably release the source for it, too.

I’d also like to thank Andreas Viklund for the template I used, and friends of mine for help with a few design decisions.

Boredom yields creativity

tobbez — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 01:10:29 +0000

Well, sometimes at least. A couple of days ago when I was bored I entertained myself with “enhancing” a crossword from a newspaper, and here’s the result:

I think it looks quite interesting, but I think I’ll try to use a bigger crossword next time (if it comes).

SvsG source released

tobbez — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:37:50 +0000

Yep, I’ve decided to release the source of the game SvsG that I made together with a classmate quite a long time ago. It’s released under the MIT license, and you can find it here.

I haven’t cleaned up the directories, but it should still be usable (otherwise you could just import the important files into a new project).

It should also be noted that I consider most of the code not to be very well written. But it’s still usable. ;)

Challenge: Last clue

tobbez — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:20:52 +0000

Yes, it’s now time for the last clue, here and it is (the original unenciphered text). The text is from Wikipedia (Credit given where credit is due).

And so, as stated before, getting the cipher key should now be a question of brute force ;)

Challenge: Continued

tobbez — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 23:08:08 +0000

Seeing that I’ve once again have access to the files related to the challenge, it’s time for the next part.
As promised before I’ve now released the source code of the cipher, and you may aquire it from my projects page.

It should now be at least a little bit easier to take on the challenge, but as said before: if no-one manages to beat it, I’ll post the unencrypted text in one week. And after that it should only be a matter of brute force to beat it ;) .

Good luck!

Challenge: Delay

tobbez — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:46:34 +0000

As some of you already know, I’ll have to delay the challenge for some time. This is because my laptop’s AC adapter broke, and the only place I had everything related to the challenge was on the laptop. So you’ll … Continue reading →