Archive for the 'Site News' Category

Update

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

I updated the music player in the sidebar and used one of the new skins that came with it. I like the skin, but it’s not a good fit for the site. It’ll do for now.

The New Photo Gallery

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

I added a Photo Gallery link in the sidebar. Browse and enjoy.

A General Life Reorganization

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

I’ve decided to improve my life. I’ve let things go. I’m not sure how or why it happened, but it did and it’s time to tie up the loose threads.
I have a presence on 3 different blogging engines. Well, 2 really. I have this blog, which I’ve been devoting to technical […]

The Crucible Framework

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

The ideas and software design for Effluency 2.0 are coming together.
Effluency 2.0 will use a site framework dubbed Crucible, which will consist of areas, where each area will consist of a specific kind of communication medium. Areas will include such media as: user profiles, blogs, discussion forums, chat, private studios (for fiction writing, digital […]

Digging Deeper - The Format of Color

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

From the comments embedded within the Imaging.h file:
Image pixels are composed of colors. The representation of color in an image, its color format, can take many forms.
a) Indexed vs Direct Color
Color information in an image may be directly specified in the image’s data stream or indirectly via indexes into an associated color palette.
b) […]

Changes

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

This site, as well as a few of the others that I maintain, will be undergoing a massive overhaul soon. As you can see from the frequency of my posts, I’m really not that much of a blogger, preferring to interact with forum members and post there in context rather than post news about […]

FeldChronicles #2

Monday, July 10th, 2006

I finished FeldChronicles #2 today, all 51 chapters. You can find it in the fiction section at right.

Comments…

Monday, July 3rd, 2006

Last week, I had enabled comments on this site. After receiving a heaping dose of spam, I shut them off again.

Database Problems

Friday, June 9th, 2006

It looks like the database that serves the Barscape forum and the Tewksbury SpedPAC sites are both down as of an hour and a half ago. DreamHost is looking into it.
Bummer. I had a new FeldChronicles installment ready to go.
Edit: All set now.

The New Year

Monday, January 2nd, 2006

Happy New Year and all that jazz.
Well, the plague seems to have finally run its course for the most part. After a round of antibiotics, I finally began to feel like my old self. However, after the antibiotics cleared out of my system, the old tickle, phlegm and cough came back, though not […]