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I got a new NetGear WGU624 "Double 108 Mbps Wireless Firewall Router" from Stapels. The box claims that its range is 400+ ft. Which seems pretty accurate. I tested the actual distance by using a Wireless 108G WG111T USB Key. I used surfing the net and listening to Winamp radio to judge the reception. I had excellent reception until I got to right about where the arrows indicate. I got about 30 feet past the basketball hoop at pretty much the base of that tree. And still had good reception. Beyond that I couldn’t get a clear signal. Wherever I did have signal, the connection was fast. I didn’t use any kind of signal boosters.

Now that the Nehe Winamp Plugin results have finially been posted. I’m going to try and motivate some Nehe followers to get interested in a Firefox Plugin contest.

The technical aspects appear to be already worked out. And Firefox has really good documentation. The contest would be to run OpenGL code from within a Firefox plugin. The “Windowless” demo from the Gecko Plugin SDK uses Win32 calls to draw, so it shouldn’t hard to get OpenGL to work.

Just need to put this in here:

Piece of cake:

I was inspired by [this article] on the BBC that describes ant behavior:

I was thinking that it would be a neat project in the future to have a contest in which the purpose is to make an ant sized robot that can be integrated successfully into an ant colony. The robotic ant would have to be integrated into the colony for two weeks to be successful.

These are two excellent resources for making icons for the web or other applications!

[Making XP Style Icons]
[Making MacOS Style Icons]

The following [article] compares Intel Prescott vs AMD 64 to pretty good detail.

I use the Firefox for security reasons. According to the latest polls 25% of online users are using Firefox too. Microsoft is losing 1% of their IE market share to Firefox each month.

And now there’s a tool that makes using the browser immensely better than IE.
The [Web Developer Extension] for FireFox is now available.

It’s funny, google has indexed every [piece of artwork] I have every posted online.

Update (Google has since re-indexed and hence dropped my image cache).

A friend of mine just registered the domain name: spleensoft.com

I found myself wondering, what does the spleen do, which I found here: [What it does].

In simple terms:
The spleen is a bacterial college for your antibodies. All disease is studied there and memorized to produce better antibodies later.

Starting this month in December, three programming contests are about to arrive.

1. Winamp Plugin Contest at Nehe:
[Details]
[Discussion]
[More Discussion]
[Results]

2. 72 Hour game programming contest at GDC:
[Details]
[Results]

3. Three Month Mini Contest at Nehe:
[Details]
[Discussion]

4. GIMP 2.2 Splash Screen Contest:
[Details]

I was compelled to do a Winamp mini contest entry over at Nehe.

# urlify - turn URL's into HTML links
my $text = "Check the website, http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/repr.";
$text =~ 
	s{
		b			# start at word boundary
		(			# capture to $1
		(https?|telnet|gopher|file|wais|ftp) :
					# resource and colon
		[w/#~:.?+=&%@!-] +?	# one or more valid
					# characters
					# but take as little as
					# possible
		)
		(?=			# lookahead
			[.:?-] *	# for possible punct
			(?: [^w/#~:.?+=&%@!-]	# invalid character
			  | $ )		# or end of string
		)
	}{<a href="$1">link</a>}igox;

The TagCMA project has been taking up so much of my time that I’ve decided to give the collaborative model editor its own site.

tagcma.com