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Just when I thought I’d seen everything cool that had been done with the Portal song.

“Theremin Hero” First ever attempt – The Portal song (Still Alive) on Theremin. (via conquerearth)

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Project Euler

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Thursday night I discovered Project Euler, a site full of math puzzles that can be solved algorithmically in under a minute each. Since then, I’ve solved the first 30-odd of them. Friday night Marcus and I sat down to solve the week’s new problem as it appeared online (we came in among the first 25 or so).

These are great fun. I think about them quite a lot as a background brain task, and I’m rediscovering how cool math problems can be. To make it a coding excercise, I’m trying too write them all in Lua and not in C, and as a result I feel that I’m getting a lot more confident in everyday Lua hacking.

Geeky pleasures.

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Raving Rabbids cookies, made by Anna the Red, using the same forms as yesterday’s bento. About the forms:

“Cookies were made by buying large circular aluminum cookie cutters and then reshaped with a pair of pliers. One for the body, one for the mouth and one for the stomach ^_^”

Wow.

Next Christmas!

2009 tech predictions

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2008 is over in a couple of hours. Time to make a few predictions for 2009:

  • Desktop sales will continue to decline, with Notebooks out-selling Desktops at least two to one in the consumer market. Netbook sales will increase dramatically.
  • The PC game industry will ignore this, and continue to target the high-end desktop.
  • Touchscreen PCs will be a short-lived fad because there are no applications for it and will likely never be. We’ll be buying even more touchscreen phones instead.
  • There will be no new console annoncements this year, although rumors of Microsoft’s next console will pick up.
  • There will be no new traditional MMORPG launch which has more than 500,000 customers after 6 months. Churn wil be high for all new MMORPGs.
  • The number of Vista installations at the start of 2010 will still be lower than the number of XP installs. DirectX 10 will continue to be a feature for less than 30% of the potential market share. Multi-GPU will continue to be irrelevant.
  • At least one Unity3D game with a decent business model will be released and make money.
  • The great trend in Indie games will continue, and at least one will be making serious money on a console or Steam.
  • CD/DVD game sales will decline. One of the big publishers will finally launch a platform that’s a direct competitor to Steam. Just like in 2008, I will not buy any games that are shrink-wrapped.
  • The Flexus ticket system on the Oslo subway will not leave the testing stage.

Happy 2009!