Bolt (Movie)

Awesome!

I love the hamster. :) I miss having pets. :(

"Ring ring. Who's there? Destiny. I've been expecting your call. *INSANE CACKLING*" Mwahahahaha I can totally see myself doing this. In fact, I drove my girlfriend crazy when I cackled insanely every five minutes on the long drive home.

Nvidia Problem

Curse you Nvidia!!! I was playing Fallout 3 and the scariest thing happened: pixels were randomly changing color! I could barely make out the game and I immediately restarted my laptop. How am I supposed to play now?! If my video card breaks then how am I supposed to use my laptop? It's not like I can go out and easily buy a replacement video card. Curse you Nvidia! May the people responsible have their eyes rot out of their skulls at their happiest moment and may their love ones turn and scorn them away.

Curse you Nvidia for selling poor quality cards. I curse you a billion times. I have always used Nvidia cards since the first time I bought one six years ago. I have always enjoyed the stunning graphics of the games I have played on my beloved cards. No more. Curse you Nvidia. I curse you.

Honey and Calamansi

Eherm. Test results have confirmed that Honey and Calamansi together has a powerful laxative effect. Subsequent testing to determine which parts and in what concentration of the solution have been vehemently denied.

M3U Playlist Export Thingy

I have favorite mp3s scattered over many different locations/albums and I want to listen to them on my psp. I wanted to have winamp copy them from the playlist directly to my mp3 but I couldn't find anything on the net. I also didn't want to go to each mp3's folder and copy paste them into my psp. After scouring the net for a winamp plugin and finding no success I decided to write my own app. Sadly, I don't have time to play around with making a winamp plugin so the best I could do in a few hours was to write an app that would export mp3 entries found in a M3U playlist file and copy them into a specified directory.

Here it is! It's a java .jar file so you need to have Java installed and double click on it. I think this will only work on Windows because of the SWT stuff I used but I really don't know.

This was made using the jigloo eclipse plugin as well as the SWT library. I had fun learning SWT.

Here is the source in case anyone wants to modify it for their own uses.

It looks ugly and would give any coder nightmares to decipher the generic variable names and haphazard placing of functions.

Java AI book

Here's a new Java book on Artificial Programming by Mark Watson. I wish this came out a few years earlier.

Special Problem

Woot! Someone noticed my vid on the robots and he/she wants to try and do something similar. I'm posting my special problem here for him/her to see.

*English should have non-gender-specific pronouns or whatever they're called like Tagalog has.

Special Problem

Great Music for Coding

Wow. Man. The soundtrack to the movie The Fountain is awesome. Sounds kinda like Smashing Pumpkins' The end is the beginning is the end but more... awesome. It doesn't distract me with vocals and it's easy to tune out when I have to really concentrate and then when I need a mood boost it's great to listen to. 

I So Agree

http://peoplemakelifeawful.blogspot.com/2008/10/sorry-i-didnt-know-this-was-one-way.html

I'm looking at you students from UPLB. I have to either walk on the street or on the grass just to go my way. Even groups of two don't form a single file. Bastards.

Blues Traveller - Run Around

I'm looking for their new(ish) single. I think it's titled I Get Wild. Or something. Help me out here?

Programmable robots

This here's a programmable robot I spotted in a bookstore or something convention at SMX Mall of Asia. I soooo badly want one but this one costs 150,000 pesos. That's right. It's a monetary equivalent of 3 motorcycles. Or a second-hand car. There are cheaper versions. One module with one body segment and 4 wheels costs 15,000 pesos. Oh wait, I'm not sure about the 150,000 pesos for the puppy-bot above. I think the 150K is for the snake-bot. Anyway. I want. For what possible purpose you might ask. For world domination, of course. Von Neumann machines!

Evolved Robot vs Tracker

Here's a sample video of my robot controller that I built with a neural network attached to the scannedRobot event and used genetic algorithm to evolve the weights of its neural network. The opponent is a sample robot that came with Robocode. It's a homing and tracking robot.

The Man Who Can't Be Moved

by The Script

The Joker