Using Eclipse (Helios) and following the “Hello World SWT” tutorial, I would get “No projects found to import” when trying to import SWT into my new project. Turns out the current SWT archive (3.6) is incomplete. I was able to import SWT 2.5.2 into my project. Download it here.

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Since I upgraded my PC to Vista, iTunes had been skipping. Under XP on the same machine, iTunes had been playing OK. Playback would stutter/skip several times a minute. It was really annoying. I couldn’t find a fix anywhere, although all the fixes seemed to point to Quicktime or upgrading codecs. However my fix turned out to be something else. In Quicktime, I changed “Play audio using” from “Direct Sound” to “Windows Audio Session”. No more skipping! Apparently the “Windows Audio Session” option became available with iTunes 9.

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While you may wish to argue the finer points of wiping hard drives, whether 1 pass of random ones and zeros is enough, I have discovered the most fun method: physical destruction. Tools: a hammer, a few screwdrivers and a strong magnet. (If you don’t have these tools, you can go the less fun route.)

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Click here to generate mixed drink recipies with DrinkGen.

Some examples of drinks invented with DrinkGen:

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Charles Robert Darwin FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist who realised and demonstrated that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors through the process he called natural selection. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and much of the general public in his lifetime, while his theory of natural selection came to be widely seen as the primary explanation of the process of evolution in the 1930s, and now forms the basis of modern evolutionary theory. In modified form, Darwin’s scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, providing logical explanation for the diversity of life. [Text from Wikipedia]

You might want to listen to the BBC In Our Time special on Darwin.

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Liam teaches How to Manga

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How many of these have you seen?

Seeing a “Geek Movies” list on Facebook inspired me to make this list of movies. I’d say its my geek list of movies. Not the best movies ever made. Not the best science fiction either. Not even a list of all the movies I’ve seen or plan on seeing. Some I don’t even like. Just that I think they in some way have Geek Cachet. Let’s just call it a Geek List of Movies.

(x) 12 Monkeys
(x) 1984
(x) 2001
( ) 2010
(x) 28 Days Later
(x) 28 Weeks Later
(x) A Scanner Darkly
(x) A.I. Artificial Intelligence
(x) Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
(x) Aeon Flux
(x) Akira
(x) Alien
( ) Alien 3
(x) Alien Resurrection
(x) Aliens
(x) Altered States
(Read the article)

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Page 1 (of 3) of Kim and my comic, “Son, It’s Time You Knew“.

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