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Deuteranopia and/or Deuteranomaly

Posted on August 6, 2010 by thinsoldier

Deuteranopia (1% of males): Lacking the medium-wavelength cones, those affected are again unable to distinguish between colors in the green-yellow-red section of the spectrum. Their neutral point is at a slightly longer wavelength, 498 nm. The deuteranope suffers the same hue … Continue reading →

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What css3 transitions can’t do

Posted on July 23, 2010 by thinsoldier

Can’t blend between an old background image and a new background image. #topnav li { background-image:url(img/navigation.png); } #topnav li:hover { background-image:url(img/navigation-hover.png); } I was expecting it to either: * fade-in the new image on top * fade-out the old image … Continue reading →

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Re: Do’s and Dont’s (rockpapershotgun)

Posted on July 10, 2010 by thinsoldier

These were my comments on 2 recent do/don’t articles at rockpapershotgun re: do’s and don’ts on rock paper shotgun These should be numbered and anchored to make it easier to refer to specific ones when we send our hate-mail to … Continue reading →

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Open World Game of My Dreams

Posted on July 9, 2010 by thinsoldier

Dream Open World Game I want a game like Just Cause 2 but with some improvements:

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Random – June 4, 2010

Posted on July 4, 2010 by thinsoldier

Over capacity Twitter is Over Capacity. [REC] > Quarantine [REC]2 > Cloverfield (in regards to the “realistic” camera technique) [REC]2 > Anything I’ve seen so far this year Seeing how they chickened out on some of the religious bits at … Continue reading →

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Universal Comment Backup

Posted on March 17, 2010 by thinsoldier

I notice more and more people posting a weekly roundup of every tweet they twat  and (like myself) every lengthy comment they left on someone else’s blog. It would be nice if every popular blogging/tweeting platform implemented some kind of … Continue reading →

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eSATA

Posted on February 24, 2010 by thinsoldier

In windows XP I tried converting my external e-sata disk to be “Dynamic”, supposedly making any disk Dynamic makes it hot-swappable. I’m not totally convinced of that. In XP I was able to plug in the drive and fudge around … Continue reading →

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CSS Box Shadow Improvements

Posted on February 20, 2010 by thinsoldier

I’ve been thinking about how we could achieve shadows like the  one to the right of this wordpress layout [screenshot] using just css. The problem is that the shadow tapers off as it gets to the bottom of the menu … Continue reading →

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Posted on February 19, 2010 by thinsoldier

I installed XP so many times that this thing I stuck in my head. It’s probably in the same brain cell where I keep my ICQ number. Two long-ass numbers that I have absolutely no use for but can’t get … Continue reading →

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photoshop tab tool tips are a pain

Posted on February 19, 2010 by thinsoldier

Every time I want to adjust text my mouse has to pass over the tab area. And every time, no matter how fast i move my mouse, it results in a tool tip. I have to wait until it goes … Continue reading →

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