My real barrier here is time, there's just not enough of it to do all the research and all the fiddling that I want to do. So I'm hoping some stray MythTV guru will happen upon this blog entry and solve my problems for me. Read the rest of this entry ...

§335 · February 12, 2007 · Entertainment, Linux, Technology, Video · Comments Off on My Barriers to Geeking Out with Myth ·


Zack Rusin has been posting some interesting tidbits lately about his amazing work on the upcoming Qt 4.3. His latest post made me ponder using SVG as a screen mockup format between developers... Read the rest of this entry ...

§333 · January 26, 2007 · Linux, Software, SVG, Technology · Comments Off on SVG as a Screen Mockup Format? ·


How well do you know your geography? I really suck at it, but I'm getting better by playing these two web browser games:

These SVG games work in modern browsers like Opera 9+ and Firefox 1.5+ and were written by orinoco and published on his Opera blog. I gave him some pointers to get them working in IE+ASV (I updated my guide with these tips too).

He really did some fantastic work - he started with a blank world map on WikiMedia Commons drawn in Inkscape which had all geography stuffed into a single path element and then he broke them out so that each country was its own path, then manually identified them all! It's not an easy task, but it was made easier because the graphics format was an open, well-documented standard in plain text. I hope he continues to experiment with SVG.

Can someone test them in Konqueror and Safari nightlies?


§331 · January 19, 2007 · Games, Opera, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · 4 comments ·


Early in 2005 I started getting interested in SVG, a web standard for vector graphics on web pages. My efforts in this direction were first sparked by a friend and later by the fact that modern browsers like Firefox and Opera have introduced SVG support. This entry is to serve as a guide so people can learn from my experiences. It was originally published in Dec 2005, but I will continue to update it as more items occur to me. It was last updated in Jan 2007.

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§188 · January 19, 2007 · Firefox, JavaScript, Opera, Software, SVG, Technology, Web, XML · 20 comments ·


Via Scripting.com, Dave links to an article from Tom Evslin which complains that Apple Computer Inc. has failed to re-invent the mobile telcom industry. Read the rest of this entry ...

§329 · January 10, 2007 · Technology · Comments Off on Yet More iPhone Thoughts ·