It's been a long time since I wrote on this blog. I recently attended a talk with Phil Zimmerman recently and it was the opportunity to reuse pgp/gpg and I thought it was a good idea to talk about it. Why I often had the questions why I would need to use strong encryption, especially since it used …
What could go wrong ?
In the list of daily WTF, I stumbled upon this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF9bbY3-lQU Someone backflipping over a speeding formula. That's impressive. Kinda dumb & useless as well.
Music and mood
I always listen to music, but most of the time I don't really care or pay attention. I tend to use quite random playlist and mostly let them run. Or at least, this what I thought until I recently checked. What I discovered surprised me. Most people say their mood will be influenced by the …
What I currently play, march edition
Roughly 5 years after everyone, I've started playing the Witcher 2. I don't have much available time so I play in easy mode. The fighting system is good, despite requiring to memorize 6 pictograms for some sorts (I actually did not memorize them but bound them to some mouse buttons). The quest part is simple but …
Box with non vertical sides
While creating a perch for our parrot, I stumbled upon something non trivial : if you want to assemble a box with non vertical sides, what cut angle are you supposed to use to have a nice assembly ? It's obvious that it should be a trapeze, but what would be the α angle ? Easy …
Je regarde youtube
Pour changer, voilà un article en français. J'ai longuement hésité à le faire, puis je me suis lancé. Avec 10 ans de retard, je découvre youtube. J'ai un peu honte, je travaille dans la technologie, j'ai travaillé dans l'industrie des médias et c'est seulement maintenant que je m'intérèsse à ce nouveau média. Pour moi, youtube, …
Egg shape and camshaft
Introduction For some tinkering, I wanted to be able to draw a standard, egg-shaped cam and compute the displacement it was generating. I thought this was a trivial problem, but I couldn't find anything, so I'll describe the path I used. As a side note, the end-goal was to generate some 3D animation with persistence …
Chromasquad
I've recently had to fly oversea (yesterday) and this is usually for me the opportunity to try new things: can't really sleep, in-flight entertainment is usually crappy, so here I go. I tried a new game called Chromasquad. Reason why I tried this is simple : I recently got it in a humble bundle (monthly …
Youtube and me, second round
My first try with youtube was such a tremendous success (ahem) that I had to try again. The main problem of previous video was a really crappy sound. I did lots of tests since and discovered that my headset is producing decent sound quality with audacity. However, if I try to record directly from lightworks …
Youtube and me
I'm from a generation who was taught that the ultimate source of knowledge are the books. I managed to evolve on my own and found that internet is a wonderful place where lots of people share lots of interesting stuff. I was pretty happy with that situation : look for a blog post or an instructable, …
Bruce's hideout 