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I know of a site where I can get a chart that shows the temperature of Lake Tahoe taken from a few different research buoys in the lake. It’s a great resource but it’s a bit painful to use. I have created a form in this blog post…
Continue readingIn the process of copying content from www.rectorsquid.com, I decided to include a link to my kayaking trip map page. The image below is a snapshot of the page but is not up-to-date. Click on the image to go to the map page and see the most up-to-date…
Continue readingRolling Ball Sculpture I’ll need to post some photos soon. I’m working on a billiard ball rolling ball sculpture. It is about 4.5 feet tall and has a chain lift like a roller coaster. The cool feature of this sculpture is the authentic roller coaster look and feel….
Continue readingI finished my initial SSE2 project. It worked out well but I was hoping that it would work out better than just “well.” The algorithm I needed to speed up is called the Smith-Waterman algorithm. In reality, Smith and Waterman modified a type of algorithm called a dynamic…
Continue readingI don’t have time to do it now but I’m looking forward to writing up a description of the things I’m learning using the SSE2 instructions. One thing I see already is that making an 8 item pipeline and operating on 8 items in parallel only seems to…
Continue reading#define MYMAX( a, b, c ) ( c = ( a & ~( ( a – b ) >> 31 ) ) | ( b & ( ( a – b ) >> 31 ) ) ) An interesting thing that can be done is this: #define MYMAX(…
Continue readingI found a bug in IE 8 related to showing and hiding div elements. I have some simply JavaScript code that runs when a button the page it clicked. <input class=”optionsbutton” type=”button” name=”ButtonHide” value=”Show” OnClick=”showoptions( true )”/> The showoptions function is quite simple as are the functions it…
Continue readingUntil the train game code is working well enough to play an actual game, I’m tempted to do no 3D work. I’ll need an interim user interface and so far, that has not been a problem. It has not been a problem because there has been no real…
Continue readingI thought that maybe my train game should look a little better. I changed the timer callback to be fast enough that a 40 car train took 100% of one CPU to position and move. It looks nice and the rubber-banding when dragging the track laying took looks…
Continue readingFirst, I want to ignore a mouse button click when my window is in the background. I want the Window to become active and come to the front but I don’t want a mouse message about it. Microsoft does some really odd things. I found is that there…
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