Developmentally Challenged

USATODAY.com - U.S. students say press freedoms go too far
This is pretty sick. I’ve always harbored the feeling that kids are stupid, myself included, but this really goes way beyond what I previously defined as stupid.
One in three U.S. high school students say the press ought to be more restricted, and even more say the […]

Ben and I jammed for a while tonight on a bunch of things.
Torque Process Lists and ITickable
If you didn’t catch it from my last .plan I put an interface into Torque 1.4 called ITickable. It’s designed to let any object you make get ticks without needing for it to depend on GameBase, you simply add […]

Success at long last. 

Get Album Art for your iTunes Songs.
Real quick entry before I hit the sack. This is really, really cool. You export your iTunes library as a text file, upload it to this website, then it displays all the art for the albums you have, and you can just select the songs in the album, and […]

There are clearly powers which do not want the iTunes/WoW project to succeed. I decided that, since I wasn’t making a lot of headway with how I wanted to do the display portion, I should actually build the functionality first. The plan was that I would first get functionality working with just the trusty ’std::cin’ […]

The Exquisite Flavour Of Exclusivity
An absolutly hilarious comic by the Penny Arcade guys, as usual. Supposidly they are going to start running our Zap! ads soon which will be sweet. Zap! is really picking up with the addition of Bots that actually let people play when no-one is on. They still need a lot of […]

Well, right now it isn’t much, but the software instructs the Direct3D device to re-clear the render-target to pink. (It’s my favorite crayon) It works with Dawn of War, Evil Genius, Torque Shader Engine, and the DXSDK examples…but not with World of Warcraft. Why? I have no idea. I made sure I told it to […]

Well it’s now a good 7 hours since I started this project. I can now start any D3D app without modifying what’s in it’s directory or anything, and have it get hooked by my application and use my custom code. I can trap the Direct3DDevice that it is using and should, therefore, be able to […]

I was playing World of Warcraft and I really wanted to hear the song Drive by R.E.M. and I have these little media keys across the top of my keyboard, but that only goes forward and back etc. I want to search for a song directly…that song, I wanted to hear that song.
Then the idea […]

FeedBurner - Point your feed here. We’ll do the rest.
I stumbled across FeedBurner today and it is a great tool for bloggers and pretty much anyone who has an RSS feed that they can’t directly control, so I switched my feed for this blog over to FeedBurner and changed the html data to reflect this, […]