Rabbadak's blog

Today was a good day. A really, really good one. That's why I'm writing about it. I mean, not only did my mind come up with one heck of a theory, but I also was provided living proof for it just a couple minutes later.

My new theory goes as follows: Replace all known measurement units with percentages, and noone will notice.

Although few actually know about HTML5, it has already been around for a while, long enough to get some decent support from a huge share of of browsers, among them trusty ol' firefox, so all the geeks should be compatible already.

I'm getting old...

it's been 10 years now since I've registered shang.de over at a small webhoster called 1und1, and actually a bit longer since the idea of the shang usergroup exists. Nothing ground-breaking happened since then, tho, but nevertheless, it's been a busy time. We've switched the hoster a couple times, had a couple minor and very few major changes to the site itself, and the membercount still is as undefined as ever. We're still sporting an understatement of a "design", and the content is as diverse as can be. And we're still recruiting.

I'm currently seriously thinking about buying a Nintendo DSi just to play Scribblenauts...

I always had the subconscious desire to - one day - write a game that would rank up with my once-favorite, now-retro console games that I grew up with. You know, those who did a huge part in fueling my interest in the most diverse fields of everything around da comput0r, but still kept me in touch with my fable for audiovisual art.

Eine kleine Zusammenfassung der letzten paar Monate, insbesondere für alle, die dies auf Twitter lesen.

They say mathematics are the language of the nature, but Polar Roses don't look particularly natural to me:

Even though I aimed to work on something completely different, I'm making progress on my GNU/C/SDL/2D particle system. It's been through a couple iterations, and I was switching some core parts from cartesian (X/Y) to polar ("aim and distance") coordinates just recently, but so far it can do all the necessities plus a couple cool things, too. Makes me proud enough to record crappy videos of it, so if you think you can stand me tweaking oddly labeled text entries for 13 minutes without sound, then go ahead and download. ;)

Sometimes you can't see the wood for all the trees around you. I realized this today, as I remembered something that I said a while ago, without really thinking about it: "The soundcard drivers are the only thing keeping me on Windows XP".