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January 19th, 2013

9:45pm January 15, 2013, in Whitehorse Yukon, Canada.

At my elderly parents house, I decided I would have a bowl of ice cream; in the box of ice I notice a black stick like figure, at first I thought it was a cherry stem but after I scoped the object up, I noticed it wasn’t.

October 20th, 2012

The video game Rocksmith for the PC and all other releases of the game have the same Real Tone Cable. The cable is about 10 feet long; all my personal guitar cables are 25 feet in length. Rocksmith is a game that you are most likely to be playing from over 10 feet away from the TV. A 10 foot cable gives you a realistic playing area of about 5-7 feet and is too short.

A 10 foot cable is too short for many people, the simple solution is to extend the cable, but how.

October 3rd, 2012

So I have been working on a new Web App trying to add all the bells and whistles of software into it, when I noticed Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) failures to update the same way as every other browser does.

August 16th, 2012

I have been playing around with key movement to move an object on the screen when an arrow key has been pressed.

I have four way direction keys and eight way direction keys.

First impressions, the first time I pressed an arrow key, the object moved across the screen at about 10 pixels per second (I think), the object moved at a very slow rate.

If this is true then Java Scripts cycles AKA frame rate is 10. Oh that sucks.

To over come the problem, I have a trigger and intervals system that works around the problem.

The added benefit of the trigger system, can determine if more than one key is pressed at a time, set the frame rate “cycles” per second and can easily stop all key movements in one place.

Java Script has two sets of key maps, Press and Down, both have a different key map.

Maybe in the future I’ll work out a way to dynamically set key events.