Monthly Archives: November 2007

Helvetica Film

The Helvetica Film that I ordered a few months ago has finally arrived. Yay!
I’ve gone ahead and taken some photos of the DVD and included bonus items — pictures after the jump.
I’ll post up a brief review of the DVD when I’ve watched it.
 [flash http://blog.hamstu.com/slideshows/helvetica/helvetica.swf]

Updated wp-typogrify

Made some small adjustments to the wp-typogrify README file (mainly bug fix info). Head on over, to check it out.

Manage your Nuclear Power Plant with Adobe AIR!

I’ve been looking into Adobe AIR recently, and this line in the developer’s manual gave me a chuckle.
[…] most errors and alerts can be handled in the normal window display order. (Please refer to the AIR end user license agreement (EULA) for information on AIR’s suitability for time-critical applications such as aircraft and nuclear power plant control.)
OK, […]

The Problem with Archive.org

Update: Well, it looks like the post by Adam was actually really old. (Jul 2) — why is Google Reader showing me feeds this far back…? Hmm. Anyways, I still hold my opinion.
Adam Howell hit’s it right on the nose with his latest post. Archive.org’s Wayback machine should store full page images instead of HTML code. So many […]

Crysis: DirectX 10 vs. DirectX 9

A little off-topic for me (maybe I’ll talk about gaming more often though…) — but this analysis at Gamespot.com struck me as rather interesting.
Crysis: DirectX 10 vs. DirectX 9 - Features at GameSpot
To be honest I can’t see much difference between DX10 and DX9, but I’ll have to try it out myself. Crysis is a very cool game — one that […]