OK, so I’ve made some comments about the Madman site in the past but lately I have been getting more and more upset by outages in the service. Right now that has really reached boiling point as I’ve been trying to get to the site for the last 7 hours. Read on for more ranting on the subject, along with some (hopefully) constructive criticism.
Archive for December, 2007
SAGE, as seen on Slashdot and Digg, is a mathematical modelling and computation tool. I’ve never used Mathematica or MATLAB so I don’t exactly have a need for this but I’m sure someone may get some use out of it. It uses Python as its scripting language so it should be easier to extend than using a custom language.
Recently I’ve been doing some work on a desktop Java application and I decided to use Eclipse and my IDE. I hadn’t used it for a while (since I did my 4th year engineering project - almost 3 years ago now) and I’m loving all the features and how easy it makes some things.
This is what I hope is the first in a series of posts I’d like to title “Cool Entertainment You May Not Know About”, or CEYMNKA. OK, so that’s a bit of a mouthful. Anyway, this review will be about a show I have enjoyed for a while, Psych, which has just started airing in Australia and I think will be well worth checking out if you’re a fan of detective shows or comedies.
Good news everyone! Bender’s Big Score is out on DVD (and, naturally, torrent sites) and it’s exactly what every Futurama fan has been waiting for. More Futurama! If you were expecting some sort of biblical, mind-blowing, unparalleled Futurama experience then this is most certainly not it - what it is is more of the same. So if you think “more Futurama” is not worth paying attention to then you should probably stop reading now. And you have my deepest sympathy.
This is something that has bothered me for many years now and is so absurdly simple and silly that I finally feel the need to rant about it on the interweb. I love Minotaur but I really, really wish they would stop putting their damned price stickers on the product itself, rather than on the shrinkwrap. I mean, for a store that basically survives off niche markets, which are far more likely to be composed of collectors, it doesn’t make any sense to me that they would basically damage the merchandise they’re selling.