About a couple of years ago, I bought a 500 GB hard drive for file backups. I had started ripping MP3s from my CD collection as well as storing all of my digital photographs and didn’t want to lose any of them. Plus, I had years worth of various code files in various […]

Work continues on my data compression library. I have completed:

RLE
PackBits (including the 16-bit variant)
Delta Row
Huffman (including the dynamic variant)
Arithmetic Encoding (including the dynamic variant)
LZW (including support for non-byte alphabets)
LZ77 (including the LZSS variant, as well as adding an index hash to speed up pattern searches)

The performance is very good across all the algorithms, particularly […]

I finally found the CD with the pictures from the hike up Mount Pierce in 2005. I’ve uploaded the lot and updated the photo gallery.