Monthly Archives: May 2002

exams done!

Posted on 2002-05-31 [Friday] by [maven]

yes! now i can get some coding done (gilde, vStrip, wavelet, …)…

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knockin’ on heaven’s door

Posted on 2002-05-28 [Tuesday] by [maven]

the “cowboy bebop movie – knockin’ on heaven’s door” kicks ass! the quality of the animation is awesome and the story is good (but not related to the back-story of the series). the plot-line reminds me a whole of the … Continue reading →

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Recompiled Desk Toy

Posted on 2002-05-26 [Sunday] by [maven]

updated neon genesis evangelion desk-toy again, now compiled w/ delphi 6 personal edition and a link back to my homepage.it was link of the day over at http://www.animenewsnetwork.com, so thanks for that!

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Hoshi no Koe

Posted on 2002-05-25 [Saturday] by [maven]

watch “hoshi no koe” (the voices from a distant star) by shinkai makoto! it’s excellent. lots of cg / mecha, but it actually is about a looooooooong distance relationship. go figure! thanks, bakaMX (although a lot of interlaced frames sneaked … Continue reading →

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Secret Codes

Posted on 2002-05-23 [Thursday] by [maven]

3/MA/7H exam (“numerical solutions to differential equations”) down, three to go…

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permalinks

Posted on 2002-05-22 [Wednesday] by [maven]

you can now (theoretically) link to entries in my blog… simply use the link provided at the end of the entry…

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Never getting it right

Posted on 2002-05-21 [Tuesday] by [maven]

updated the desk-toy again, seems that SetLayeredWindowAttributes converts color-keys to the screen-depth used, but only if no translucency is used. otherwise you have to adjust the color-key manually… huh?

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Anti-Revision Coding

Posted on 2002-05-20 [Monday] by [maven]

did some programming to prevent me from doing any revision: result is the cute neon genesis evangelion desk-toy, coded from an old win 3.1 program i found on the ‘net… try it, you might like it!edit: circumvented a problem under … Continue reading →

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More Audigy Drivers

Posted on 2002-05-18 [Saturday] by [maven]

compaq has released new drivers (newer than creative’s) dated 2002-03-18 for the sb-live & audigy and those haven’t crashed (BAD_POOL_CALLER on closing the wave-out device in winamp) yet (knock on wood). you can find them here (377mb, i.e. the whole … Continue reading →

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matrix teasing

Posted on 2002-05-16 [Thursday] by [maven]

matrix – reloaded / revolutions teaser-trailer is out and looks cool.

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star wars – episode ii – attack of the clones

Posted on 2002-05-16 [Thursday] by [maven]

daniel-approved(tm). way better than episode i. kinda cheesy love-scenes, but hey – lucas is american after all . good film, and excellent f/x (as expected of ILM). the whole background-bit / story comes together really well (i find).

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dying samurai

Posted on 2002-05-14 [Tuesday] by [maven]

watched the second part of the new / 2nd kenshin OVA. sad. sad. but oh so nice…

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