09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
This is the Hex code to remember.
It’s the HD-DVD Processing Key for most movies released so far. I was not aware that a string of numbers and letters was copyrightable. Perhaps its just my ignorance but it seems that someone is abusing the DMCA again.
There’s quite a stir on digg about this. Apparently, there’s a “revolution” going on from this single number. Might as well spread it a little bit. :D
Starting yesterday, I had my final tests for this semester of College. So far, I think I’ve done pretty well. I had a biology test, a KPED/HED test (basically health), and a geography test. They were all really easy (at least, I think they were :P), and I hope I did good on ‘em.
Tomorrow, I have a Comp II final, and then the day after, I have a speech final. Strangely enough, I think the speech final is the test I’m worrying about the most. There’s a lot of material that we’ve covered since the last test, so, I don’t know how that’ll turn out.
In other news, me, my roommate, and some friends from the dorm have started a new project. I can’t reveal many details (mainly because they’re not worked out, yet :D), but it does involve some type of filming. We did our “recording session” last night, and it was a blast! The “creative juices” were really flowing last night, and it was very niiice! Be on the lookout for more details in the coming months (hopefully).
That’s about it for now, though. Tune in next time for some more randomness from my life. :P
I know I’ve been a bit lax with the postings lately, but it seems college has caught up with me in the past few weeks. I’ve had four speeches to give, three major papers to write, and countless numbers of tests to take. As such, I’ve been rather busy with college, and not my blog.
Other than college stuff, though, not much has really happened since the last post. Perhaps the only interesting thing was that I helped set up a new Halo clan (woo, nerd :P), whose debut release was fairly well received on High Impact Halo (in case you missed the alt-text of the HIH link to your left, HIH is basically the Halo tricking Mecca on the Intarwebz). You can see the video (it’s of a glitch on the new Halo map, Tombstone, that was recently released) here on Mythica. I did the capturing (along with Spuff), and Brain Virus did the editing. I think it turned out really nicely.
So, I know this post is basically a cop-out post saying I’m still alive and don’t despair, and for that I apologize. I do offer this comic in return, however:
This video was made by some of the people who live down the hall in my dorm. Yeah, seriously.
This is pretty old, but I was just recently introduced to it by Clent. It’s freaking hilarious.
Over the past few days, I’ve upgraded Drupal to the newest version available and installed a few new module-y goodness, mainly to work on a project I had. I was inspired by Cullen (of irc.bungie.org fame) to create a list of all the animes that I have seen or want to see. After hacking around with the Content Creation Kit and Views modules, I finally got it to how I wanted it. You can see the sexy final version here.
I like the way it turned out, and if any of you visitors have any suggestions for stuff that I should watch, then leave me a note in the comments. I might extend these module combinations to make a list of movies I’d like to see / have seen.
Yes but No but Yes has an article listing their “Top 15 Unintentionally Funny Comic Panels.” The one above isn’t one of the top 15, but it shows the variety of panels you will find in the list. Some of them are insanely hilarious.
March 17, John W. Backus died.
Backus was the computer scientist most famous for FORTRAN, the first high-level programming language and creator of the Backus-Naur form, the most commonly used form to define many programming languages and other communication protocols. He was the recipient of the Turing Award, the highest honor for the computer programming field.
His complete eulogy is here.
He will be missed.
There’s talk on the mozilla.dev.planning that the Mozilla Corporation could be considering creating a new Mozilla-based Desktop Environment (like GNOME or KDE) soon.
“I’m only proposing that we make a desktop environment, the same thing that KDE and Gnome, are. The only reason I mentioned a “Mozilla OS” is because we’d probably also want to release distributions for one of more specific kernels as a whole OS, including with it Firefox, Thunderbird, and any other applications built with the Mozilla platform available then. Currently there are plenty of kernels to put a Mozilla desktop environment on.” – Emery Denuccio
Sounds pretty interesting, really.
Someone took the time recently to create two of the vehicles from the Halo universe in the medium of Lego. It’s pretty awesome.
You’ve got your UNSC M12LRV (a.k.a. Warthog [or Puma]):
And your Covenant Spectre:
Pretty freaking pimp:
You can see the rest on the Flickr stream.