Wednesday, 10 November, 2004, 03:53
I should really start making notes of the time I wrote the news posts on this page ;-) I think I'll start with this entry. Since there's no easy way of doing it using my current ghetto-rigged CMS, I'll have to manually enter the time in the header of each entry. Oh well ... little things you learn as you go on, I guess.
We tested the VR project on the C-Wall today, and it was hilarious. Looks like the frame-stable version of the code will get thrown out in favor of one that is not frame-stable. There's a 3-second delay in tracking when the frame-stable version is used, so if you move your hand you see the resulting movement 3 seconds later. That is a pain. The delay is not there with the non-frame-stable version ... I guess I'll dump the current frame-stable code into the other framework so it'll run better. Also, I have to change the size of the paddle because it takes up the entire screen when it's in view. But, the paddle now has 6DOF movement, which is
really cool.
If you didn't understand the above paragraph, don't worry. I'm thinking of videotaping our presentation of the project and posting it up here. Maybe then you'll understand. Or, you could just ask me ;-)
I haven't gotten
any mail from this site. That's alright, I know not many people visit it anyway ... so far I know of maybe four people. That reminds me ... expect an orange color scheme soon, because my sister (one of the four) has requested it. At this point the site is still very flexible in terms of color schemes due to the lack of visitors.
Firefox 1.0 is out, and I've uploaded it to the files page. There's a difference in how style switching is done using Firefox 1.0. No little pallette or crayon box icon appears in the status bar. Instead, you need to go to the View menu, choose "Page Style", and select the style you want. This works in the preview releases of Firefox as well. I'm not going to post "OMG WTF BIL GAETS SI TEH DEBIL" messages and bitch at you if you don't switch to Firefox, but if you want to give something new a try (or if you have Firefox and just want the current version) go ahead to the files page and download it. Sure, it doesn't come with Flash or Java or anything like that, but the point is to make it as lightweight and extensible as possible.
That just about ends my geeky language-laced ravings for today. Now, I'm gonna go hit
www.bodyforlife.com and browse through their exercise programs to see how I can make my self look dead sexy.