So… I’ve been practicing my way toward drawing reflective and transparent objects / surfaces. Update/Edit: after more research it appears there are various tools for measures and sanity-checks, so I don’t feel too bad now about my wobbly contours and symmetry problems!
slideshow after the jump.
The Agenda (TVO) Apr 13th 2012: All I can say is, thank goodness for Francisco Rico-Martinez, whose slightly-more nuanced insights trump Binoy’s reductionist rationales for why people go anywhere. Tsk…
interesting little site… http://www.archiafrika.org/en/Archiafrika
[updated for readability, sort of. I wrote the first version at 3am, people].
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The increasing acceptance of Agile BA… to the extent that the IIBA has even written an Agile extension to the BABOK., is one of many changes afoot in the world of Business Analysis.
The Agile ethos is slowly making inroads into the world of business and enterprise analysis, which has so far clung to variants of the Waterfall methodology. I don’t think plan-driven methodologies will ever be completely eradicated, for massive, safety-critical deployments… but for everything else, the times they are a-changing…
What’s with the asides creeping into my recent posts list?! You’d think functionality for nuking this behaviour would come out of the box, but no.
After some googling, it came down to a roll-your-own-widget hack. Which is just a roll-your-own-plugin hack in disguise. Thankfully, better people have treaded this path ahead of me: for the meat and potatoes of the fix, Michael Fields’ post on finagling post formats is probably all you need…
Unless you’re a plugin-phobic, php-challenged / php-rusty lazy blogger like moi, in which case you’ll probably also want to look in the horse’s mouth here and peek at a proof of concept of sorts, here. If you’re lazier still, the plugin code is after the jump. Continue reading
Testing my new recent posts plugin. It works! Squeeee!! Looking forward to more of these mildly-pointless post formats…
I remember discovering that that the humble drumstick came in a bewildering variety of brands, shapes, lengths, weights, materials, tips… you name it. But I mostly still had 3 buckets for any such hitting instruments: there were, very basically, mallets, sticks and brushes.
So imagine my quizzical looks when I was introduced to a pair of Pro-mark Cool Rods. They didn’t look right. They looked like a stick had mated with a brush and birthed twins. Or, more plausibly, someone had just duck-taped a bundle of incense sticks. It wasn’t even immediately clear which end was the ‘hitting’ end, till you thought about it.. “They’re just like sticks,” I was being re-assured. Uhm. OK. Those who knew best had decided that I should have a pair, and they weren’t pricey, so I thought why not give it a go. Continue reading
That’s right. I’m telling you to go see THE RAID: redemption. <= R / 18A.
Wah! A movie in MALAY makes it to hollywood… and it is AWESOME.!!!
I braved the 18A / R rating. I BRAVED it. Something I almost never do, on principle. You can too, if you know how to time your squints. But to be honest all the violence were split-second shots. No lingering over the gore afterwards. Also, being Indonesian fare (and from the backstory) I knew the types of violence that would be resorted to and the types that wouldn’t, and I was right. Continue reading
[update] – have since stopped being lazy and installed the “Do not track” and “keep my opt-outs” chrome plugins. Hope that does the trick…[/update]
I love how google can’t even be bothered to PRETEND it doesn’t know you logged out and the previous browser session is over and that it should probably be serving up RANDOM-looking ads round about now.
But no. The insidious sifting of my net trajectories for possible cash value doesn’t skip a beat. (And no: Hawaii, as ever, didn’t quite fall on the centroid of my hotelCost-vs-duration-vs-flightCost triangle, so that’s toppled over and done with). Continue reading
Well the comments thread was fun.
And to the “this should be contacts… why would everyone start wearing glasses again?!” detractors: some of us are still squeamish about messing with our eyeballs, thank you very much. And anyway, glasses have become fashion accessories of a sort.
But I concur, with those who have said it, that this sure as hell can’t be voice-activated. It’s annoying enough listening to people shout into their handsets in public. And what if someone else in the vicinity was also shouting commands at their glasses? And they were standing very near to you (e.g. in a packed elevator or subway car)? Eggzackly. So if nothing else google, start tracking eyeball movements the way most sci-fi writers have plainly and painstakingly laid out in the blueprint for the future. Also, you might want to officially roll out those driverless cars, because those are going to have to co-evolve with this tech, for blindingly (haha!!) obvious reasons.
