Category: lounge

Dutch Boten Anna

When I first heard the intriguing (at least to geeks I guess ;)) song Boten Anna, I couldn’t help hearing resemblence with some West-Flemish (my dialect) words. Soon I had a funny West-Fl version of (at least,) the beginning of the song. While I didn’t execute the implementation of it, I wasn’t surprised to see a Dutch guy has done it, it is so typical for them. 😉

Also, it seems the Flemish are good at ripping of the rip-off 🙂

Pillow fighting while announcing Friends

Last week I was starting my dinner with tv on and as Veronique De Kock was announcing Friends I suddenly heard some girl giggling and Veronique reacting indignified. By the time I had a chance to look up, the only thing I saw left were some feathers as proof of some ‘cat fight’. 🙂 It certainly did not seem like a planned event, a few planned seconds later, the series took off.

I was wondering what was going on and if anyone else noticed that. 🙂

So today I get zita news in my mailbox, claiming the presenter’s attack. Still don’t get it.. 🙂

P.S.: movies at link take very long time to load

a few site stats

Since May 2006 I switched to Google Analytics for site stats. Tonight I thought I’d take a look at the progress of last 8 months (timeframe TF2) in comparison to the 8 months before that (TF1). It was to be expected to have more traffic in TF2 than in TF1. Generally, this was also the case, although I was kind of surprised that TF1 did better during the 3rd and 4th month… No apparent explanation for that (both TF’s had a comparable number of posts during that period, although I can imagine the general public finds an ipod a more interesting subject than programming Qt ;)).

In general there were 30% more pageviews in TF2 (3000 in 8 months, peanuts, I know ;))
Now for the fun stuff:

  • visitors: came from 85 countries. 1. USA 2. Belgium 3. Germany
  • OS: Windows -10% in favor of Mac users. Linux stays the same.
  • browser: I’m happy that the vast majority of visitors does not use Internut Exploiter. Firefox is the big winner here. Opera third..
  • screen resolution: 47 different ones!! It seems still a lot of people use 1024×768 (25%). An equal amount uses 1280×1024. Some guy browses on a 800×5000 screen res!!

Ok, that’s it for today. Signing off..

oh btw, Frets on Fire turns out to be pretty addictive. The world chart really gives an incentive to keep practicing 😉

open source guitar hero

you(‘d) like to rock, preferably in an open source way? 🙂 Then Frets on Fire is definitely something for you!
I was amazed by the polish-factor of this project! It all looks (and sounds!) quite nice, the tutorial is simply hilarious. 🙂

The inverted keyboard approach as a surrogate guitar works surprisingly well. I think in the 9 years that I own my trusty Mitsumi keyboard, I never jammed the keys as hard as today. 😉

Tip: FoF comes with only 3 songs, but you can import songs both from Guitar Hero I & II. Also check out this community site for some extra songs.

Frets on Fire guy

Pingus

In case you didn’t know, Pingus, the open source Lemmings clone, has with its 0.7 release its first SDL port binary. Meaning, you can play it on windows too now. 🙂 I’m lame, I know 😉

As I were going to sleep, I thought I’d try out those tutorial island levels. After finishing the island I come to realise this is as far as the game is finished right now. =) That doesn’t mean the game has limited gameplay (how can an open source game have limited gameplay anyway? 😉 ). After all,

  1. there were already 22 nicely polished levels, introducing the several types of pingi (?, lol).
  2. There is a level editor. Temporarily not included, due to the SDL porting process, I guess.
  3. There are loads of ‘unofficial‘ levels which you can load manually.
  4. It took me more time than anticipated, take a look at the clock. 😉

I really love this project and I hope they keep on developing it!

P.S.: they even created a little storyline, very cute 😉

Pingus on Tutorial Island

P.P.S: I just read this interesting interview with the Pingus developer. This guy has dipped his toes in all kinds of open source games! 🙂