Most web browsers only support a few ancient image formats (mainly PNG, JPEG and GIF), but video formats have improved significantly since those formats were defined. Google is attempting to fix this with their WebP image format, based on VP8. Unfortunately, this only works with Google Chrome and Opera. Since what we want is to encode an image using the advancements in VP8 or h.264, I thought it would be interesting to try encoding single-frame videos and using them as images.
Prince of the Dark Kingdom EPUB and MOBI
I just finished book 6 of Mizuni-san's Prince of the Dark Kingdom (Harry Potter fanfiction). I've been using an auto-generated EPUB, but the quality was pretty bad, since it didn't understand the formatting. To fix that, I decided to make my own EPUB using some Python and some Pandoc.
Linker problems building Chromium on Fedora 20
I need to build Chromium on a machine that runs Fedora 20 today, and I had some trouble due to this error:
[12269/24399] LINK gles2_conform_support
FAILED: c++ -Wl,-z,now -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--fatal-warnings -pthread -Wl,-z,noexecstack -fPIC -B/home/blong/workspace/chromium/src/third_party/binutils/Linux_x64 …Review: Geeksphone Revolution
I just got my Geeksphone Revolution in the mail. Since no one else seems to have a real hands-on review, I figured I'd do a quick one myself. Unfortunately, I'm about to switch to a Sprint-based carrier, so I won't actually get to use this phone very long, but it'll …
Fixing blurry textures in Minecraft
Today I installed Minecraft on a new computer and the textures all looked terrible and blurry:
Since the fix wasn't terribly obvious, I figured I'd document it here in the hopes that search engines pick it up.
After a lot of trial and error, I determined that the problem was …