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Daily Archives Saturday, July 2008

Block Sizes

There is a recent thread on the OTN forum about block sizing and the impact it may have on performance. The thread contains some interesting insights into the problems of testing and trouble-shooting. Unfortunately the thread has accumulated so much extraneous material that it has become hard to separate the wheat from the chaff.
So I [...]

Posted 19 July 2008 † Jonathan Lewis § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

WALL-E…

WALL-E is probably one of the most impressive CGI films I’ve ever seen. The first thing that struck me was how realistic everything looked. At times you could be fooled into thinking it was live action with a computer generated character superimposed. That’s Pixar Animation Studios for you. The second half of the film looks [...]

Posted 19 July 2008 † Tim... § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Word of the Day

I learned a new word today, nerdcore. Here’s how the Urban Dictionary defines it:
Any form of music that is made by nerds, for nerds, or about nerdly things. Nerdcore can be made in any style of music, but most people identify it in either its pop-punk or hip-hop forms.
With the important caveat:
Nerdcore should not be [...]

Posted 19 July 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °