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• On QuickCoords - A tool for quickly capturing coordinates across a series of images.
  on Mar 14, 2014 in engineering programming
  I needed an easy way to manually track the positions of features across a series of more than 600 photographs. Loading each individual photo and copying the coordinates of each point one at a time gets very tedious very fast, and none of the programs...
• On Video Game Programming - Part II: Page Ripping Champion 2013
  on Feb 24, 2014 in game development programming
  Back in May, I announced my intention to develop a game. I spent some time messing around with 3D engines, and was pretty happy with my progress. But then life and work got in the way, and it all ground to a halt. However, I did find time to lurk in...
• On the Elusive Doctor of Philosophy
  on Feb 19, 2014 in engineering libraries more or less nothing
  The number one problem with a PhD is that no one really knows what you need to do to get one. Over the past few years, I've been asked too many questions like "When will you finish?" and "How many pages does your thesis have to be?" The answers are a...
• On... a fifth arbitrarily defined solar cycle?
  on Jan 17, 2014 in land marks
  It's hard to believe that the Earth has completed almost five trips around the sun (at least, it will have by 19:44 this evening) since I started this blog, one boring Saturday afternoon in 2009. Although I have been considerably less active over th...
• On a Sense of Scale in the Solar System
  on Jan 13, 2014 in programming spaaaaaace
  Cary Huang has an awesome Flash application that you might have seen before, called The Scale of the Universe. Although that app is awesome for getting a sense of the sizes of various objects, it is not very good at conveying a sense of distance. To...
• On Video Game Programming
  on Jan 13, 2014 in game development programming video game mechanics
  I haven't really had much time in the last few years to spend time programming something for fun, and I think it's really starting to get to me. In an attempt to fix this, I've set myself a fairly ambitious goal. I'm going to attempt to program a ful...
• On Space and Big Life Decisions
  on Dec 5, 2013 in sky spaaaaaace
  I don't know why, but I've always assumed I'd be going to space one day, and I still know that I somehow will, one day. When I was very young, I wanted to be president of the world and rule from orbit. As I grew into a teenager, I began to understan...
• On Online Learning
  on Oct 7, 2013 in those damn penguins
  There is probably a reason why, after 10 years, I'm still a university student. I can't say what it is, but I think I may be addicted to learning. At the beginning of the year, I discovered MOOCs (massive online open courses) through an article that...
• On Why the Stars We See in the Sky are NOT Long Dead
  on Sep 12, 2013 in sky
  The light from distant stars takes a long time to reach us. High powered telescopes can look at stars that are millions, even billions, of light-years away. Because of this, a surprising number of people believe that when they look up into the sky, t...
• On the "Microsoft Service Center"
  on Aug 29, 2013 in technology
  We regularly receive calls from people claiming to be from "Microsoft Service Center". Usually, I explain to them that I actually use Linux, and then rant on about how a computer technician should have at least heard of Linux until they hang up. Toda...

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