From Orisinal: Morning Sunshine:
wget http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/carrot.swf
emerge -av swftools
swfextract -s 31 carrot.swf -o carrot.mp3
mplayer -loop 0 carrot.mp3
Or replace with any other Orisinal song :)
Note: -s 31 depends on the sound index number, which may be different – do swfextract foo.swf to check.
Blog posting has been slow lately. This is mostly due to real life and connectivity issues, but despite this I have had some time to dabble in the various public projects I juggle. The pace is not rapid enough to be able to keep up a alternate-day post like I used to, but is suitable for a summary post, such as this one.
The ThoughtScore Project
The first project is my ever-incomplete ThoughtScore animated movie. The highlight of this update is that there has been an animation update with a few extra shots added. You can view the ThoughtScore Blender animation here, or click the screenshot below.
You may view more feedback on its BlenderArtists forum thread (page 4).
The project also got awarded its own domain with some content I pulled together quickly in about an hour. See ThoughtScore.org.
I do have a couple more scenes prepped and awaiting animation & rendering, so more updates will be popping up.
live.WIPUP
WIPUP, a way to share works in progresses, has experienced the yearly dip in content due to the holiday season, but live.WIPUP (the bleeding-edge iteration of WIPUP) has received experimental design changes and slight SEO updates.
live.WIPUP -like the projects it was built to showcase- is also a work-in-progress. It’s incomplete, but as always, hopefully a step in the right direction. Text link to check out live.WIPUP – share your works in progress here.
Real Life
Apart from badminton, taking a break from learning Chinese, globetrotting, and client work, this picture says it all.
Well, that’s it for a brief summary of what I’ve been up to. I hope everybody have also had a great Christmas, New Year, upcoming Chinese New Year, and awesome holiday.
No doubt anybody with a domain name online has heard of the infamous GoDaddy. Whilst I’ve been dutifully spending time away from the computer this holiday, I’ve kept a close eye on the SOPA act as well as registrars’ reactions towards it. GoDaddy already has horrible customer service, horrible products, horrible interface, horrible advertising … and they also support SOPA.
Unfortunately I do have a couple of domains left on GoDaddy for legacy reasons and laziness on my part, but this was the final straw to migrate away (to Namecheap, if anybody’s interested). If you own a domain with them, spend the extra 5 minutes to migrate. It’s worth it.
A while back I sold Failnation.com to the Cheezburger Inc Network of sites. I recently checked it and found it had been rerouted to a subsection of FAILBlog – currently housing “classic” fails. An appropriate new function, I think. The humour isn’t quite my cup of tea, but this is the Internet, after all.
As you might’ve guessed from the title of this post, I am now in Shanghai and I have been for almost a month now. Apart from socialising with relatives, most of my time is spent on my job, with the free time I have soaked up by learning how to speak Mandarin. This has effectively stalled most if not all of my public projects – however once in a while it is good to just intensively learn and experience rather than the create-create-create I am normally used to. It’s also been good to have time to fix up and investigate a lot of nagging issues I’ve procrastinated in the past, such as creating a more robust backup solution, setting up better permissions on my webserver for alpha projects and hosted projects, and figuring out exactly how close my computer is to death.
Shanghai is cold. But Shanghai also has a lot of delicious food. The latter excuses the former. When I’m not resisting the cold and tanking up my stomach, I have experienced the usual touristy sights such as The Bund, public parks, ancient Chinese garden- oh, what’s that? No mention of the Great Wall or Tian’anmen Square? Yes, because that’s in Beijing, not Shanghai – which I will drop by and enjoy in the near future.
There was also a brief meet-up with Patrick Lauer (bonsaikitten) which was interesting given my previous geographic inconveniences meaning I could rarely meet up with anybody. If anybody else is in the area or knows of any FOSS events, give me a shout.
Every day is a linguistic challenge as I plough through new words to learn, but probably the best thing about being in Shanghai is that being back in an asian country means I play Badminton twice a week again.
Will be posting more updates to WIPUP in the near future.
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