Several months ago a very good friend and former co-worker got in contact with me with a site called skeptoid.com. It’s a podcast site that goes into trying to debunk several of the conspiracy theories floating around out there.
A World View
August 28th, 2010Working with Scons
June 6th, 2010I’ve been working to create my own software for a while called myToolbox. It was origianlly created using PHP, Javascript, and MySQL, however, I’ve now decided to move to using Java. Doing so has been both enlightening and frustrating as moving towards a new programming language is not always easy. Especially, when one is moving to a language that is as strict as Java. Read the rest of this entry »
Ubuntu 10.04
May 16th, 2010For those looking for an alternative Operating System to Microsoft Windows I just thought I would post that Ubuntu 10.04 was released a few weeks ago. Check out the new version on their main page:
While I personally am looking way to move to a more Freedom orientent version of GNU Linux, like gNewSense, I do recommend Ubuntu as a start OS for people looking to explore alternatives to Windows. Check it out when you get a chance.
Ah Facebook, How I Love to Hate Thee…
May 16th, 2010Amazing how many people hate Facebook. And the animosity towards it has steady been growing. So much so that a new Free software version is being developed which will allow for user to control the software and control the data on their own servers. Read the rest of this entry »
Catherine Austin Fitts
May 16th, 2010If you haven’t heard of this woman, do a quick Google search and look for some of her videos from 2005 where she describes the economic collapse headed down the pipe. Now she was on the Alex Jones show. Read the rest of this entry »
Sintel Trailer Released
May 14th, 2010Well, the Blender Foundation is at it again. They are currently working on finishing up the third Blender Open Movie Project. Here is the trailer: Read the rest of this entry »
Ebon Moglen and Freedom Software
May 1st, 2010Eben Moglen is an intelligent and wise lawyer who’s helped to create the framework under which the GNU General Public License. That license has been responsible for creating much of the software that runs many of the servers that run the Internet, and many of the Linux desktops we use. I recently found this video of his speaking about the future of Free Software, Intellectual Property, and the Creative Commons. Read the rest of this entry »
Blender and the RoboThespian
February 26th, 2010As I’ve told so many people, the future is really about openness. Here is an example of a really creative use of Blender.
Several engineers and designers got together to create a robot for people to toy around with. Read the rest of this entry »
A Few Sketches This Week …
October 10th, 2009Just wanted to post a few sketches I did this week. Their for the office I work at. Let see what comes up as we go along.
C ya.
Compiling and Running Blender 2.5
September 9th, 2009So I’ve been itching to get my fingers on the development build of Blender 2.5. Mainly because I want to start becoming familiar with the new features and interface, and I want to start experimenting with some of the source code. So I began by following the directions from the Blender developer site. The build process was not that hard for me even though it took about 3 hours for me to resolve some of the build errors I was getting. The reason it was pretty easy is because there was a lot of documentation through various parts of the web which explain how to do this. So I just read through some of them and eventually got the build to function properly without any errors. Now I have Blender 2.5 running on my system and will continue to get updates as we move through the development process.