Monthly Archives: November 2006

Second Life and libsecondlife

Google’s link to libsecondlife says, ‘libsecondlife is an open source project to reverse engineer the Second Life networking protocol.’ How is it ‘your’, i.e. the community of Second Life residents’, protocol if it has to be reverse engineered? A scalable … Continue reading

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Closing the loop on Core Recipes

A while back, I had some problems with Apple’s Core Data ‘Core Recipes’ example. I couldn’t find anything on Google, so I emailed a friend of a friend at Apple, and ended up getting some VERY helpful troubleshooting tips from … Continue reading

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Aperture

There are plenty of reviews of Aperture around the web already, but I’ve commented on Aperture, Lightroom Beta, and six-color channel mixing in the past, so I’ll just add my two cents: Aperture 1.5 is really, really easy to jump … Continue reading

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Celebrity

Another month, another celebrity cracks under the pressure. There’s nothing special about celebrities, especially television and film celebrities, except that they’re famously entertaining. It’s unfortunate when a celebrity does something stupid or belitting in public like Michael Richards, but it’s … Continue reading

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Enola Gay

I was on a tour of the Smithsonian Air and Space museum annex, listening to retired WWII-era aviators tell about their experiences flying the planes they have in the annex. I was in my early 20’s at the time, and … Continue reading

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