The statistics for May 2009 are: Attribute Value  Number of Pages 188  Size of site 127.38 MiB (HELM provides the total)  Number of Visits 1866 (Google Analytics)  Number of unique visitors 1412 (Google Analytics)  Total page views 3768 (Google Analytics)  Bandwidth 1.20 GiB (server control panel)   A snap-shot of visitor locations on 1 June 2009. Read Full Story

... and now, so do I. Previously I saw no point in adding a forum, because there was little to discuss, and I didn't want to join the hordes of webmasters with forums on their website simply because "I can." There are enough online discussion boards without a topic to discuss as-is. This website has slowly grown to the point at which a forum could be useful. In particular, the RadeonHD driver project is now reaching a stage at which I am ready to release a beta version to a sele... Read Full Story

Today a section on marketing was added to this website. It may seem strange for marketing to appear on the personal website of an engineer. However, marketing is an essential component of engineering companies. If you build a better mouse trap, the world will not beat a path to your door unless they know about your mouse trap, understand why it is better, and why it would be useful to them. Without a marketing strategy (which is more than just advertising), that better mouse trap will languis... Read Full Story

New Zealand is on the Pacific rim of fire, and so has volcanos and periodically experiences earthquakes. This geological activity has shaped the stunning scenery that New Zealanders (and visitors to the country) enjoy. It also occasionally makes you jump when a strongish earthquake hits the local area, as happened recently. Eruptions of molten lava, ash, or just boiling mud happen once every several years, which can close airports due to the danger of fine ash clogging up the jet engines. Som... Read Full Story

I have decided to drop the "month in review" blog posts in favour of simply posting the statistics. The montly reviews seem a bit pointless now that developing and maintaining this website has become routine. The statistics for April 2009 are: Attribute Value  Number of Pages 170  Size of site 121.49 MiB (HELM provides the total)  Number of Visits 1651 (Google Analytics)  Number of unique visitors 1241 (Google Analytics)  Total page views 3501... Read Full Story

Recently I noticed that Google's "Googlebot" was using this website's search engine. This is not exactly surprising since a website's search engine may be able to find pages that are not well linked to by others. Nevertheless, it is interesting to see how the Googlebot performs its task. Here are some entries from the log (truncated so that its easier to fit into the page): url=search/&commit=Search&q=operates Mozilla/5.0+(compatible;+Googlebot/2.1;++http:/... Read Full Story

Last night I discovered that all CSS capable web-browsers would make the page content above an anchor vanish when that anchor was linked to. For example, clicking on the comments link for a blog post would result in all content above the comments section to disappear under the page header. This is rather unpleasant behaviour since it looks unprofessional, and it is impossible to scroll up in order to view the rest of the content. After hours of fault-finding and internet scouring, it turned o... Read Full Story

Recently the OWB web-browser for Amiga OS 4.x was updated to version 10, and last night I upgraded and tested this website with it. To my horror OWB was ignoring the CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) stylesheet and presenting the user with an unformatted page. Initially I thought that CSS might be broken, but no other website that I visited had this problem. Even stranger was that the webpage was shown properly when viewed from a version that had been saved to disk. After a lot of checking and rech... Read Full Story

Celestia running using MiniGL 2.x on Amiga OS 4. I'm pleased to announce that MiniGL 2.1 beta has been released. This release includes many bug fixes, including the elusive MiniGL watchdog task crash, which was responsible for random lockups. The release also includes updated developer files for all new features in MiniGL 2.x. MiniGL is a 3D API which is compatible to OpenGL(tm). It implements a subset of that API and was designed for speed, therefore it directly interfaces with Warp3D... Read Full Story

This month, the major change to this website was a proper logo, and corresponding layout changes. This was motivated in part due to Google disabling my AdSense account (thanks to visitors to this site making invalid clicks on AdSense advertisements). Other improvements to usability, have also been made. I did intend to write a blog entry regarding creating logos with no budget, but I have lacked the free time necessary to make that happen. Maybe later... The statistics for the last month: ... Read Full Story