Bye bye wordpress.com

Moving out to my own domain at last, in case you want to read this blog further please go to krzeszowiec.com.

Enjoy!

P.S.
Big thanks to wordpress.com for free hosting!

dj shadow – six days vs. colonel bagshot – six day war

I love the DJ Shadow “Six days” and video by Wong Kar-wai but I didn’t know that originally it’s Colonel Bagshot song. You’ll find both versions below. Original versions’s good but with the touch of DJ Shadow it gets some more… Well, it’s just better. In case you, dear reader, come from the place in the universe where the Six day war is not known just hit this link. That’s important piece of history.

Kudos goes to GreenElixir for pointing out info about Colonel in one of the comments below DJ Shadow version.

Do you know how to recognize a communist?

If nope here’s the US government piece of propaganda. Really good one.

Frightening, isn’t?

Google Chrome – do not bother.

Read “leak” in the morning, an hour ago watched www.google.com/chrome under my lovely Ubuntu. It took me some time to decide to switch to win to install it before doing it tomorrow at work. And you know? Waste of time. Honestly. They did a good job – browser works fine, renders properly, rendering time is more or less the same as in Firefox. JavaScript runs with the same speed (no real profiling , just a gmail check). Conclusion? No reason to change. That’s it. Try harder Google!

Would be really interesting to have another browser – some complained that (seen on bbc website) we don’t need another browser. Well, we need one – otherwise Mozilla folks will get lazy .

What makes me even more sceptic about it is UI. For me it stinks like IE7. Hate that layout. Maybe it’s just personal preference. Not another cool thing from Google I’m afraid.

Whoa! First post from France

Long time no see!

Almost 3 months ago we moved to… France. We were recovering after the move and few funny things that happened like our cat jumping from balcony (3rd floor, lost for two weeks) and general confusion caused by moving to Cote d’Azur. Yes, we’re living in the Cote d’Azur now, Antibes. Weather’s nice (but not as good as advertised , sea is great and our son loves playing in the water. Couldn’t be better. Almost hehe. Will put link to photos on the flickr.

Anyway, now I work for Amadeus as a J2EE dev in a lovely campus in Sophia Antipolis. I’ll get camera to work one day and will do some nice photos. It’s really lovely place, looks better then Mountain View, CA. No free food though . ‘For real’ I work for GFI Informatique which is contracting company and which send me to a ‘mission’ to Amadeus.

In next few weeks I’ll try to write 2 guides: one for searching a cat in foreign country hehe and the other for moving to Sophia, pros, cons and stuff like that. Maybe it’ll help someone, you never know.

My masters is “almost” done, software works more or less nice (will post jar someday on the project site). Have to finish everything in 20 days so maybe I’ll have my MSc at last in the autumn. Keep fingers crossed.
Back to masters by the way.

Cheers!

P.S.
Moved to wordpress.com, was a bit upset with my hosting, nazwa.pl. Anyway won’t have to do those boring wordpress updates on my own. We’ll see how things works here.

War never changes

Funny way to say important things. Worth watching. Originally posted on pinktentacle

Linzie Hunter vs. Spam

New Limited Edition print

Originally uploaded by Linzie Hunter

Smashing magazine put Linzie spam-collection in their best-of-january-2008. Huh, it’s amazing. Linzie Hunter, UK illustrator had… smashing idea. She collected best of the best spam sentences, and with her astounding talent – look what we’ve got. Spam art! In case you’ll enjoy one of my favourites go and see Linzie website, her portfolio is quite impressive, I’m sure you’ll enjoy it

Be safe, wear a helmet aka don’t let Firefox spread your personal data

A bit more then week ago Lisa Hoover posted extremely interesting article about stuff that might increase your privacy while browsing the net with Firefox on Linux.com. If you wasn’t aware about all that stuff it’s a good read. For example: I wasn’t aware that by posting some popular links a malicious site might get info about which of ‘em you visited. That sounds bad IMHO.

Anyway, the most interesting part for me is the one about TOR – The Onion Routing. That fancy proxy/routing service with a little help of privoxy let you become almost impossible to find by any site that wants to know something about you. Read about details on TOR project site.

The article on wikipedia states that it’s not *that* secure and basically it’s not exactly what people think it is but, from my point of view, it gives you the most interesting thing: advertisers don’t have bloody idea where you are and who you are. While playing with it I had IP from France, Germany, Norway… The other thing is that it’s too slow, almost unusable if you would ask me. On the other hand for people in some countries like Belarus or China it might be pretty helpful when they want to avoid jail.

Back to the article: the most funny part of it is the Lisa e-mail address. Tt’s on GMail! which is the least secure and privacy-aware service as far I know (shame on me, that’s for those who know that I still use it . If you write about security you want to sound serious you should avoid such services. Anyway, great article.

Jesh video #1

So, finally I’ve managed to grab Jesh in action thanks to XVidCap. Nifty tool, makes desktop recording pretty easy IMHO. Anyway, today I’ve uploaded Jesh demonstration to youtube, result’s below. What we’ll see in the movie? 3 basic models loaded, rotating/zooming/moving around, I’ll show how the triangle collapse works as well as edge collapse. Have fun!

Jesh first development snapshot available

Check out first working snapshot! Its awesome
Let me list some features here:

• Allows you to load PLY and Obj models.
  PLY models should contain indexed triangles, Obj files triangles only and should not have ‘parts’.For a load of nice PLY files supported by Jesh the best place to go is The Stanford 3D Scanning Repository.
  Some Obj files that Jesh can handle are located at Obj file format info page. Best choose cube.obj or humanoid_tri.obj. Those were tested
• Moving, rotating and zooming around
• Simplifying mesh with 3 local simplification operations:
  • Edge collapse
  • Half-edge collapse
  • Triangle collapse
• When having one of the simplification operations selected you’ll see which triangle will be affected
• You can choose to render model as points, lines (wireframe) or solid (no lighting yet)
• You can enable back face culling (default), front one (use for Stanford Bunny for example) or disable culling

I hope you’ll have a lot of fun with it, just remember to increase heap size and install Java3d 1.5.1 or newer.
Feedback through mail or issue tracker highly welcome!

Maybe tomorrow I’ll have few minutes to put demonstration on youtube, who knows.