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A blog engine, a term I just made up, as I’m not certain they’re called engines, is the backend of a Blog. In case you’re really clueless, you’re browsing a Blog now. Blog is an abbreviation of “Weblog”, which essentially means a journal, or a templated website that consists of topical posts. Now that you [...]

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It seems that once again the Aperture Science website (Valve’s site for Portal that has promotional puzzles and whatnot from time to time) has some new content, viva Valve. Today’s new content is Christmas-inspired, with a nice version of the “Still Alive” song, lyricless, with a Christmas theme to it.
I don’t think the rest of [...]

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Now that I’ve played the multiplayer I feel it’s time for a review of this stunning title from Crytek. Seeing videos of this game before release, it’s hard to believe that they could ever deliver on the crazy levels of physics and unique gameplay with free-roaming and extremely intelligent AI, but they have.
The biggest features [...]

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I know that this is nothing new, but now that Leopard’s come out I feel that a new awareness should be spread.
It is easily possible to run MAC OS X 10.4 or 10.5 on a PC. This is made possible by special patches that allow it to boot and install on non-MAC hardware. The rest [...]

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Oink.cd - possibly the greatest music torrent site that’s ever been. If you’re looking for that hard-to-find song, specific recording, or any other music you can think of, that was the place to go. Where, pray tell, does one go for music now?
Well, in the awesome void left by Oink, members new and old have [...]

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I was at Goodwill with some friends perusing for some esoteric junk: old video games, machines, whatever catches my interest. Friends bought some useless things, I purchased a copy of the original Warcraft for $3, and a copy of Halflife: Blue Shift for $3. Considering I don’t own the original Halflife, it would be hard [...]

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This post was originally from October 10, 2007…

I was too. It really annoys me to have to search through text for relevant facts, so I wrote this small script to parse text quickly looking for keywords and save the resultant facts to a second text file. Quite simple, but perhaps useful. You’ll need Python (www.python.org) [...]

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This post is originally from September 17, 2007…

Let’s say you’ve got an item that you’d like to be partially visible, fading out to one side. For example, a planet in the sky that is half-lit by a star. You could use a gradient to cover it up, you could color it in, there are a [...]

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This post is originally from September 17, 2007…

To make things like seen in my Photoshop CS3 icon’s background:
http://eyesofaraven.deviantart.com/art/Photoshop-CS3-Icon-65126343

Paint the background of wherever you want the effect black. If you want it in a portion of the document, make a selection in that portion.
Filter->Render->Lens Flare - You will do this multiple times, most likely. I like [...]

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This post is originally from September 17, 2007…

I went into Walmart to return MoH:A, and they were difficult about it, eventually giving me store credit. I purchased CoH, so I could play that online, and while looking through the games found something amusing.
They had a copy of Age of Empires II and expansion for $20 [...]

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