Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, video game consoles can accurately render many many times more polygons per second. What does this translate to? You got it! Lara Croft now has rounder boobs! See for yourself:
Category Archives: Tech
Search for faces
This is pretty cool:
Search for “Marcos Kirsch” in Google Image Search and you get tons of random images (click here).
Add “&imgtype=face” at the end and you get only images with faces on them (click here).
More Joost invites
Ok children, I have a new set of Joost invites. If you have an Intel Mac and would like to try out Joost, let me know through the comments.
[Update April 15th, 2007] They’re all gone… for now. Stay tuned.
Joost
I have been beta testing Joost. This is a computer app created by the same guys who did Kazaa and Skype. It is a peer-to-peer video broadcasting application and it wants to do to the TV industry what Skype is doing to telephony and Kazaa did to file distribution.
The video and sound quality are very good and the interface is slick, especially considering that this is pre-release software. The downside is that there is still very little to watch, but that should change with time. Also, as far as I can tell, it does not broadcast live events at all (I would pay for certain games, for instance).
Joost is still by invitation only. I have one invite left in my account. If you have an Intel Mac and would like to try it out, leave a comment.
Why Vista Sucks Reason #433
At work, on my test machine… if I press the PrtScn key (to take a screenshot, of course) the computer freezes completely, requiring a hard reboot. This worked fine on the same machine using Windows 2000 or WindowsXP (which aren’t exactly works of art either).
On a happier note, I’m scheduled to receive my new Mac later today.
[Update 1/22/2007] Mr. Bhadra confirms his computer freezes when pressing the PrtScn key as well. Even on a clean installation of Vista with no third party software. Maybe the key should be re-labeled Self-Destruct.
Wii Action Shots
Infrared Vision 2
Giant robots with infrared vision keep chasing me. Here’s how I look to them:
Again, the big cold nose proves it’s really me.
Engadget gets hacked!
No mention of this anywhere on the website now. Anyway, I thought it’s interesting. Sadly, either my security is too tight or nobody cares about hacking The Marcos Kirsch Experience
Migrating from MovableType to WordPress
Well, I just imported every entry from my MovableType blog.
Categories preserved, all posts, all comments, even images look ok.
I screwed something up with the character encoding, so accents (i.e. México) look funny. I may or may not fix that, since most of the blog is in English anyway.
I still have to fix the template, to show the del.icio.us links, my own external links (time to clean some of up) and some other minor things such as the randomly-selected blog subtitle (did you ever even notice that?).
Why ditch Movable Type?
a) It’s not GPL. So I can use my version all I want but they made their license more restrictive so I don’t want to upgrade.
b) It’s Perl. As a work buddy of mine (McKay Bradford) eloquently put it, “Perl is a write-only language”.
c) I like PHP. WordPress is PHP, is GPL’d, and is prettier to administer too.
d) Moi made a cool plugin for WordPress. I’m looking forward to use that.
e) There are no, or very little, MovableType templates out there. I’m no web designer so I need all the help I can get.
I’ve also learned that there are quite a few drawbacks to the migration:
a) Lots of work to get it all up and running again. Hey at least all the images are showing up ok.
b) All the permanent links to entries and archives changed. There are many clever ways to get them working again, but… it seems like too much trouble. Not many link to my website, at least to the internal pages, other than the 1984 video and the M&Ms entries. To them, I apologize.
Other than that, things are going smoothly.
Infrared Vision
This is what I would look like to a 25 meter tall killer robot with infrared vision:
…in case you were wondering.
(Yes, it’s really me. My nose is noticeable colder than the rest of my body. Could it be because it’s so big?)