Feel free to request other designs if you have one that takes your fancy. I've done a couple of custom Traveller designs already.
Thursday, December 08, 2005
Lots of Firefly/Serenity Designs
I've spent a fair bit of time in the last two days create a whole bunch of great Firefly/Serenity designs. The quotes from the TV show and movie are great additions to a cool T-shirt, so I've created my shot at the movie logo, and added some of the funnier quotes.
Feel free to request other designs if you have one that takes your fancy. I've done a couple of custom Traveller designs already.
Feel free to request other designs if you have one that takes your fancy. I've done a couple of custom Traveller designs already.
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
Falkayn's Store: Sci-fi, IT geek and pirate gear!
I am proud to announce Falkayn's Store, a place where you can buy gear designed by me with sci-fi, IT geek and pirate themes.
Here is some of the designs:
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
One of Nine (well actually Eight)
Heh, this is nonsense ... but fun late night nonsense:
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Sunday, October 23, 2005
Keeping Busy With Babies
Things have been a bit hectic in the McDonald household, we had a new addition to the family last week, a beautiful baby girl. My posting frequency has been a bit slow, but I am getting back in the saddle this week.
Our thanks to everyone who has given us such great support, gifts (pink of course!) and love during this time.
Angus McDonald
Our thanks to everyone who has given us such great support, gifts (pink of course!) and love during this time.
Angus McDonald
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Snowy Software - Software Asset Management Tools
Our new endeavour, Snowy Software, is an ecommerce website with a range of great software asset management tools (stuff that does software audits, license management, usage tracking/metering and software deployment administration).
There is even a FREE 30-day trial (yes, free as in beer) available for most of the products. Also check out what we are doing with Cattle Dog, especially our new IT asset management blog, the Round Up!
There is even a FREE 30-day trial (yes, free as in beer) available for most of the products. Also check out what we are doing with Cattle Dog, especially our new IT asset management blog, the Round Up!
Friday, August 05, 2005
Political Islam
In reading Wikipedia tonight I found myself learning about the difference between Islamist and Islamic. Basically the former is a political movement holding that Islam is not just the ideal religion but also the ideal political system for governing the state. Most Muslims are NOT Islamist, but Islamic.
Having said that, there is also an interesting online website called NO to Political Islam Petition, which attracts signatures as a way of showing disagreement with the Islamist principles. If you are Muslim then I invite you to do so, if not, then you might want to visit them and see what they are about anyway.
For some reason the world seems a brighter place for knowing this - although I feel foolish for not having done the research myself after 9/11.
UPDATE: The International Crisis Group has an interesting article called Islamism, Violence and Reform that points out that Islamism is not a unified movement, especially amongst Sunni supporters of it. Again, worthwhile reading.
Having said that, there is also an interesting online website called NO to Political Islam Petition, which attracts signatures as a way of showing disagreement with the Islamist principles. If you are Muslim then I invite you to do so, if not, then you might want to visit them and see what they are about anyway.
For some reason the world seems a brighter place for knowing this - although I feel foolish for not having done the research myself after 9/11.
UPDATE: The International Crisis Group has an interesting article called Islamism, Violence and Reform that points out that Islamism is not a unified movement, especially amongst Sunni supporters of it. Again, worthwhile reading.
Thursday, July 21, 2005
Generating Random Boolean Sequences Using Cellular Automata
Today vbAccelerator became my favourite site for VB tips and great usable source code. Those of you that know me well, understand that programming in VB6 is not my idea of bliss, but sometimes it is the most effective tool available (as it is today).
One of the vbAccelerator tips that could be applied to almost any programming language demonstrates Generating Random Boolean Sequences Using Cellular Automata.
This is a randomisation method that the author adapted from Stephen Wolfram's book "A New Kind Of Science". Which is also available online. Unlike existing randomisation methods in VB, this allows for a much closer approximation of true randomness.
The embarrassing thing about this is that I've had this book gathering dust on my bookshelves for a while now, and I can think of at least one use of cellular automata that I could have applied since then!
One of the vbAccelerator tips that could be applied to almost any programming language demonstrates Generating Random Boolean Sequences Using Cellular Automata.
This is a randomisation method that the author adapted from Stephen Wolfram's book "A New Kind Of Science". Which is also available online. Unlike existing randomisation methods in VB, this allows for a much closer approximation of true randomness.
The embarrassing thing about this is that I've had this book gathering dust on my bookshelves for a while now, and I can think of at least one use of cellular automata that I could have applied since then!
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