1. This week in music (February the 8th, 2010 | 2:14 am)
    Top 5 artists:
    1. Zelda Reorchestrated - 350 plays
    2. Nox Arcana - 220 plays
    3. Nobuo Uematsu - 218 plays
    4. Arcana - 196 plays
    5. Dark Sanctuary - 188 plays
    Total artists: 60, total plays: 2748
  2. + Mandelbrot and Julia generator (February the 7th, 2010 | 12:41 am)

    Over the past couple of days I've been working on what started as a Mandelbrot Set generator, but has expanded into a Julia Set generator and, with the growing number of command-line parameters, can generate other stuff too, like Tricorn and Multibrot sets. Currently I'm using the simple escape-time algorithm for generating colours, which looks a bit rubbish, but it's a start to having wonderfully coloured fractals.

  3. Having fun writing a #Mandelbrot generator in C :D (February the 6th, 2010 | 12:07 am)
  4. Made the identi.ca feed on my #website a lot more lifestreamy (February the 5th, 2010 | 4:47 pm)
  5. !listening to Jeff Wayne's 'War of the Worlds' (February the 4th, 2010 | 6:38 pm)
  6. Aww, my vnStat database somehow vanished, I've lost a couple of months worth of stats for my #server :( (February the 3rd, 2010 | 5:02 pm)
  7. Wrote a simple script using #sendxmpp to notify me about the status of my server: http://tinyurl.com/yzwjzj6 (February the 2nd, 2010 | 8:09 pm)
  8. + XMPP Status Updates (February the 2nd, 2010 | 8:03 pm)

    Yesterday I had the idea of writing a cronjob to, every five minutes say, check things like the CPU load and temperature, and send me a message via Jabber is anything was amiss. I then realised that I could have this script send me a list of new posts in my RSS feeds, and a list of package updates, and even a notification when a torrent is done.

  9. Server bug earlier: all tools reported / was full, and couldn't save any files. After rebooting, it showed the correct usage of 2GB... (February the 1st, 2010 | 10:55 pm)
  10. Trying to get my server to speak to me via #jabber... (February the 1st, 2010 | 5:57 pm)
  1. Having fun writing a #Mandelbrot generator in C :D (February the 6th, 2010 | 12:07 am)
  2. Made the identi.ca feed on my #website a lot more lifestreamy (February the 5th, 2010 | 4:47 pm)
  3. !listening to Jeff Wayne's 'War of the Worlds' (February the 4th, 2010 | 6:38 pm)
  4. Aww, my vnStat database somehow vanished, I've lost a couple of months worth of stats for my #server :( (February the 3rd, 2010 | 5:02 pm)
  5. Wrote a simple script using #sendxmpp to notify me about the status of my server: http://tinyurl.com/yzwjzj6 (February the 2nd, 2010 | 8:09 pm)
  6. Server bug earlier: all tools reported / was full, and couldn't save any files. After rebooting, it showed the correct usage of 2GB... (February the 1st, 2010 | 10:55 pm)
  7. Trying to get my server to speak to me via #jabber... (February the 1st, 2010 | 5:57 pm)
  8. Just tried #opera 10.5 pre-alpha: looks very nice but fonts are bad, facebook doesn't load, and the UI doesn't seem to like tiling WMs much. (February the 1st, 2010 | 8:27 am)
  9. Fiddling around with my #website again… I just can't leave it alone. (February the 1st, 2010 | 12:35 am)
  10. Woah, HTML5 video in Youtube! http://www.youtube.com/html5 (January the 21st, 2010 | 4:34 pm)
  1. + Mandelbrot and Julia generator (February the 7th, 2010 | 12:41 am)

    Over the past couple of days I've been working on what started as a Mandelbrot Set generator, but has expanded into a Julia Set generator and, with the growing number of command-line parameters, can generate other stuff too, like Tricorn and Multibrot sets. Currently I'm using the simple escape-time algorithm for generating colours, which looks a bit rubbish, but it's a start to having wonderfully coloured fractals.

  2. + XMPP Status Updates (February the 2nd, 2010 | 8:03 pm)

    Yesterday I had the idea of writing a cronjob to, every five minutes say, check things like the CPU load and temperature, and send me a message via Jabber is anything was amiss. I then realised that I could have this script send me a list of new posts in my RSS feeds, and a list of package updates, and even a notification when a torrent is done.

  3. + Why Hurd? (January the 29th, 2010 | 11:11 am)

    A thread by opengl_cpp on the Ubuntu forums got me thinking about, well, why Hurd? Why Arch Hurd? I posted a short answer in that thread but now I'll try to answer more in depth here.

  4. + Arch Hurd has a logo and a package! (January the 18th, 2010 | 8:24 pm)

    So, the logo contest I started on the 16th is now over, voting has been done, and a winner has been selected. I present to you, created by thoughtcrime and fastfret79, the new official Arch Hurd logo!

  5. + Arch Hurd is bootable! (January the 16th, 2010 | 10:40 pm)

    Arch Hurd has hit a big milestone, it can be booted! We can all bask in microkernally, if not particularly Archy yet, goodness. Now we need to improve our bootable environment (it has no config files, /dev is empty, et cetera) and start work on a toolchain, autotools, pacman, and all the other things we need to build packages. Currently, it's a pretty useless system—but not for long :)

  6. + My Server (January the 14th, 2010 | 11:08 am)

    I've decided to remove the generally weeks-out-of-date server page from my website and instead post about it here whenever I do a significant or interesting change. So, this post isn't really anything new, it's just covering/updating the server page that currently exists.

  7. + Warm fuzzy feeling (January the 13th, 2010 | 8:54 pm)

    Noticed the little array of buttons on the right there? They're the cause of the warm fuzzy feeling I'm currently experiencing. Of course, there's the normal warm fuzzy feeling that every webmaster feels when their site validates in both the (X)HTML and CSS versions of their choice, but there's another button there, cause of another warm fuzzy feeling.

  8. + MPX (January the 13th, 2010 | 9:38 am)

    Have you ever wished you could control more than one pointer at the same time in the same X server? No? Well, I'll show you how anyway. X11R7.5 included support for MPX—which allows you to have many keyboards and mice connected to your computer at once. I haven't actually played around with multiple keyboards though: I imagine it'd be a bit hard to get used to.

  9. + Arch Hurd (January the 13th, 2010 | 8:29 am)

    This has already been covered by other bloggers but, as I did found the project (albeit accidentally), I think I'm justified in writing a post about it :)

  10. + New blog; website plans (January the 13th, 2010 | 12:10 am)

    Well, as you can see, I have decided to attempt blogging again. I'm hoping that, this time, I won't resort to meaningless drivel to fill the gap between the occasional good post ;)

  1. + Screenshot: 2010-01-29 (January the 29th, 2010 | 12:00 am)
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  3. + Screenshot: 2009-11-01 (November the 1st, 2009 | 12:00 am)
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  4. + Screenshot: 2009-10-01 (October the 1st, 2009 | 1:00 am)
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  5. + Screenshot: 2009-09-12 (September the 12th, 2009 | 1:00 am)
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  6. + Screenshot: 2009-09-06 (September the 6th, 2009 | 1:00 am)
    2009-09-06
  7. + Screenshot: 2009-08-08 (August the 8th, 2009 | 1:00 am)
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  8. + Screenshot: 2009-07-16 (July the 16th, 2009 | 1:00 am)
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  9. + Screenshot: 2009-07-15 (July the 15th, 2009 | 1:00 am)
    2009-07-15
  10. + Screenshot: 2009-07-11 (July the 11th, 2009 | 1:00 am)
    2009-07-11
  1. This week in music (February the 8th, 2010 | 2:14 am)
    Top 5 artists:
    1. Zelda Reorchestrated - 350 plays
    2. Nox Arcana - 220 plays
    3. Nobuo Uematsu - 218 plays
    4. Arcana - 196 plays
    5. Dark Sanctuary - 188 plays
    Total artists: 60, total plays: 2748