Feel free to gloat Jeff

As some of you know, Ogre refuses to get with the rest of the world and use Firefox, preferring his Opera browser. I used Opera before Firefox came out and admit that it was very good, but I prefer Firefox now for various reasons that I can't even really define. The clunkiness of Opera's linux version (at least when I last tried it out) was probably a big factor.

At any rate, it's time for Opera to get some back here, because I just found out that they've released a browser for the Nintendo DS. It's (of course) only available in Japan for the time being but it will come out in the US in not too long and that's gonna be pretty cool. According the the Wired article I read about it (other note I signed up for a years subscription to Wired and it cost me all of ten bucks) there are some video demos floating around and it looks like they did a pretty solid job of working with the DS interface in a way that actually makes sense. I'm stoked about it, because the idea of having the intarwebs without lugging a laptop, pretending a cell phone web browser is actually usable, or buying one of those awful sidekicks (complete with useless T-Mobile or whatever) is rather awesome.

Whoops Jay's Dumb

Doh. After the presentation for the LUG where I demoed my blogger stuff I forgot to turn comment moderation back off and managed to get bitten by it's lack of emails twice now. I just now noticed that I missed several comments. My apologies to all who were ignored. Also, I've read some Blender tutorials and I'm going to give it a shot once the weather cools down enough for my tower to not turn the office into a sauna. I'll start with still images and if I make anything worth showing I'll post it here.

Time to learn something new.

I've decided that I really want to learn one of those programs where you can make your own CG animations (think ghetto Shrek or Toy Story). I realize I'm pretty bad at art but it just looks so cool that even if all I ever got was like a spinning glowy cube I'd be pretty stoked. So somebody bug me about that in like a month in case I get lazy and don't do anything with it. Also, suggestions for a good Linux app would be welcome. :)