Friday, August 9th 2002 16:16
Sounds belivable.
Evil Mind Rays
Basically, someone has invented a device to propel sound direct into your brain. This is Good, because it means that in the future we will be able to do things like listen to differant movies in a car, or true 3D directional sound in movies and computer games and... and...
And when you walk past a coke machine, you'll get the subliminal message of "you're thirsty, arn't you?". And when you walk though a town you won't be able to listen to music on your headphones for all the blasting stuff.
Oh, yes. And hitting someone with 150db of sound (as the article mentions) is better than shooting them how, exactly?
Normal design returns tomorrow
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Friday, August 9th 2002 2:00
We don't need no stinkin' graphics
Inspired by playing with aalib, and and ascii art in general, we present the new Aquarionics design. in 100%, pure ascii!! (Don't belive me? View the source, luke.)
Bored? Me? Damn, you guessed.
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Thursday, August 8th 2002 18:47
The Vanishing Buffometer
It's been noticed, so I should really explain. The Buffometer, like the webcam and the "listening to" bit, is part of the Wonderful Dynamic Aquarionics Bit. Basically, the Buffometer only appears if it's been updated in two weeks. Likewise the webcam will vanish if it dies for five days, and the listening to is current to two.
Because I dislike outdated things being on the front page :-)
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Thursday, August 8th 2002 17:02
Webcam
The Aquaricam is back :-)
The drivers are as flakey as they ever were (And it's over a year now since the Aquaricam was taken down for crapness beyond the pale) although they seem to work better under Win2k.
Anyhow, the new webcam is here. Knock yourself out :-)
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Wednesday, August 7th 2002 20:08
Archives
Aquarionics Archives are back online. Bet none of you missed them :-)
The archive page used to be the only place where older entries could be got at, but since January that hasn't been true, and search engines were linking to both the front page and archive pages, which was suboptimal. So I've rewritten the archive page to use the calendar function I originally wrote for NSD. Go Go Gadget Code-Reuse.
It also means the "Aquarion's Calendar" stuff is coming back, since I am now able to write it in a way that doesn't use 31 seperate SQL Accesses(!!!!) per month. Isn't expertise-level improvement wonderful?. The new commenting system is now worked out, but is going to have implimentation issues, mainly that there are now six hundred messages attached to five types of database object (Gosh, number of comments will soon overtake number of entries, which is cool, since comments have only been running since the 21st December), so until I can work out how I can work out which comment belongs to which original entry, and then put that into the right field, the sooner I write Aq2TreeOComments 2.0...
Oh, the code for the new comments system is in /src/, (Automatically, since all /src/ is is a list of symlinks to the code Aquarionics actually uses)
And I was accused of being from the netherlands last night by St-lemer, which was Odd
In less interesting news, I managed to sleep from midnight until 14:30 today, which is odd and frankly scary. Regular sleep patten time, methinks...
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