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Survival of the Fittest

unwesen — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:02:16 +0000

As a vegan, I get a fair amount of weird shit when this particular lifestyle choice of mine comes up in conversation. I’m in two minds about that: on the one hand, it’s a choice of mine, and not exactly a common choice, so I understand that people have difficulty with it. On the other [...]

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Survival of the Fittest

Raph Koster: Are virtual worlds over?

unwesen — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:18:06 +0000

It’s funny how these things go. A few days after my bringing up again how virtual worlds and social networking sites are essentially the same thing, Raph Koster writes a blog post entitled Are virtual worlds over? There’s a ton in that article I agree with, and some I disagree with. Let’s briefly start with how [...]

Raph Koster: Are virtual worlds over?

Games, Virtual Worlds and the Internet

unwesen — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:16:19 +0000

First, watch this: it’s Jesse Schell speaking at DICE about the future of gaming. Wii Games – E3 2010 – Guitar Hero 5 The funny part to me is that I’ve been there before, at Joost of all places. I’m not going to go into a lot of detail in this post, I just want to raise [...]

Games, Virtual Worlds and the Internet

Android Activity Lifecycle

unwesen — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:17:45 +0000

This article is part 4 of 4 in the series Android DevelopmentIt saddens me to say this, but Android’s Activity Lifecycle is broken by design. It saddens me, because I enjoy developing for Android, and would like to be able to only say good things about it. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t bad sides either. [...]

Android Activity Lifecycle

MD5 in Password-Based Encryption

unwesen — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:05:02 +0000

First, a word of warning: I am no cryptography expert. But I’ve read a lot about cryptography, written a few implementations of cryptographic algorithms, and am not generally confused by cryptographic terminology. People like myself seem to be an oddly rare breed. Most programmers I meet seem to think of cryptography as magic dust one sprinkles [...]

MD5 in Password-Based Encryption

Netbook

unwesen — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:40:42 +0000

One of the less expected consequences of visiting FOSDEM 2010 was that I now want a netbook. I’ve never really understood those things — too small to do anything useful with, but too large to fit in your pocket. But now I understand their use, somewhat. They’re great for lugging around all day, and offer just [...]

Netbook

FOAF + Encryption

unwesen — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:46:16 +0000

Image via Wikipedia I’m lucky that I can count Dan Brickley and Libby Miller amongst my acquaintances. Not only did they come up with FOAF, they’re also the awesome sort of people that you can throw half-baked ideas at, and they’ll bounce back with something equally interesting1. I’ve been spending a fair amount of time recently mulling [...]

FOAF + Encryption

Contradictions

unwesen — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:30:57 +0000

I live in a strange world, that very few people I know really understand. I suppose that could be said of everyone, but that’s not my point. My point is that I regularly encounter situations in which arguments I make are considered strange. I assume that that’s because few people fully realize the extent to [...]

Contradictions

John Sanbonmatsu: Metahumanism

unwesen — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:59:12 +0000

For some reason I found myself reading a lot about humanism today, and was reminded again by how many vegans view veganism as something of an extension of humanism to encompass non-human animals. I liked that view of veganism, and, certain that someone must have thought to extend humanism in this fashion, wondered what they [...]

John Sanbonmatsu: Metahumanism

Android, Intents, Binding

unwesen — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:36:24 +0000

After I recently stuck out my neck and all but accused Google of implementing a broken solution for code re-use, I really need to follow up on a discussion that started. I’m too cold and tired to do that today, though. Today, I’d like to warm up to that discussion by spending some time on the [...]

Android, Intents, Binding