Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘My Stuff’ Category
Street Hawker
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010I’ve been looking for an idea for a new article to send in for the SFSFW’s Ragnarok and I think I may just have found it a mashup of Steampunk and the short lived 80’s TV show Street Hawk… This is the Honourable Jesse Macintosh, a former penny-farthing policeman, whose reputation was perilously injured whilst […]
10 Worst Valentines Albums in the World Ever!
Thursday, February 11th, 2010Greatest Sickly Love Songs The One with Pink Roses on the Cover Twelve Songs You’d Forgotten and One You Still Sing in the Bath Last Years Valentines Album with a Different Cover on It Songs that Say I Hate You More than Words Ever Could (Double CD with Sleeve Notes) Some Random Album I Grabbed […]
Go Penguins II
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010I had hoped to post a gallery of Go Penguin photographs I took after work tonight in St George’s Hall Liverpool as sixty of them are displayed before being put up for auction later in the week. Photoshop doesn’t seem to want to do the image processing automatically so I’ll have to go through them […]
Downloads Fixed
Saturday, January 30th, 2010My apologies to anyone who was trying to download anything directly from impworks. I managed to knock out the download handling so all the links were broken. It’s up and running again now.
Rotating Star Field II
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010Last week I posted a Rotating Star Field. I’ve enhanced the script that builds the Vue scene from the star data to approximate the colour of the stars from their spectra and to size them relative to each other too. Unfortunately the high quality, uncompressed render comes in at about 1.2GB and I’ve yet to […]
Translate This Button
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010I’ve just added a Translate.This button in about 5 minutes to the left hand menu. Looks to be a nice little JavaScript implementation of the Google translation service. I know there are WordPress plug-ins to do this but I’ve had mixed experience with those in the past so I’m going to try this one out […]
Rotating Star Field
Sunday, January 17th, 2010A tweet last night took me to a site that linked to another The Astronomy Nexus which had a handy csv file of astronomical data. The CSV includes all stars in Hipparcos or closer than 50 parsecs to us. Thats almost 120,000 stars. I knocked together a quick script to import the data into Vue […]
The Ghost of Moderation Present
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009I’ve just cleaned up some random text spam messages that hit here earlier today. Nothing offensive or innapropriate but a waste of my time. To make my life easier (and stop anything bad getting through) I’ve tightened the moderation of comments on this blog up. If that puts the spammers off I’ll loosen the moderation […]
SLA Industry Pages are Back
Saturday, December 5th, 2009In the dim and distant past (well circa 1996), when I had my first web site on mudhole, I had some pages about SLA Industries a British, dystopian, science fiction, table top role-playing game. Last night I revived some of those pages from back-ups. So for the first time in quite awhile (well probably 8 […]
Tree Gobos
Sunday, November 29th, 2009I’ve added a set of 10 leafless, winter tree gel materials for Vue to my free stuff pages today. Tested in Vue 7 Pioneer, Vue 7.5 Infinite and Vue 8 Infinite.