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Free Sokoban skins

Borgar Þorsteinsson — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:56:55 -0000

Every now and then I get contacted by people interested in my Sokoban clones, or some aspect of them. Often it is the levels and/or how to parse them, but often it is the graphics.

Since Sokoban is a popular game to program, I figured I could help aspiring ...

Building PIL against MacPorts on Snow Leopard

Borgar Þorsteinsson — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:54:00 -0000

I spent hours getting this to work so I thought it best to share it, esp. since so many others seem to be having the _jpeg_resync_to_restart error. The problem affected me in the following way: PIL depends on libjpeg, which was present on my system but failing to load and ...

Orðavinda

Borgar Þorsteinsson — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:23:35 -0000

My submission to the programming competition Þú átt orðið was the computer game Orðavinda (loosely translated: "Wordwinder"). The basic premise of the competition was to create something interesting upon a newly opened declension database of modern Icelandic language.

The game is based on an older idea and of course a ...

CSS :target

Borgar Þorsteinsson — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:24:23 -0000

jQuery (or Sizzle) supports :target in browsers where it runs querySelectorAll to handle the work. In older browsers, it doesn't offer fallback support. I guess that this is simply because :target is such an uncommon selector?

I have no idea why you would want to use it, but because ...

Sōkoban

Borgar Þorsteinsson — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:57:14 -0000

A few days without internet do strange things to a computer addict. In my case I start to rummage frenetically though old projects to see if there is anything I can finish, polish, or do something with that doesn't require internet access.

So I found my old Sokoban game ...

Gecko & Webkit

Borgar Þorsteinsson — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:46:22 -0000

I stumbled over Zeldman's opening statement:

When Apple chose Webkit rather than Mozilla Gecko as the basis for its Safari browser, some of us in the web standards community scratched our heads. Sure, Webkit was open-source and standards-compliant.

Really? People were puzzled by this? This always seemed the obvious ...

Islenska.org opin almenningi

Borgar Þorsteinsson — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:17:39 -0000

Á þessum annars ágæta sunnudegi íslenskrar tungu hef ég opnað fyrir notkun á nýrri rímorðabók, orðskiptu, og niðurhali á frumstæðri orðskiptilýsingu sem ég hef haft í smíðum um nokkurt skeið.

Þetta er allt að finna á slóðinni islenska.org, en það er lén sem hefur staðið autt í nokkur ár ...

Opin gögn og endurnýtanleg

Borgar Þorsteinsson — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:48:40 -0000

Við félagarnir tókum okkur til og opnuðum vef, opingogn.net, til þess að reyna að gera upplýsingar um opin gögn á Íslandi aðgengileg miðlægt. Hver sem er má bæta sinni vitneskju inn, og eitthvað er þegar farið að tínast inn.

Það leið ekki langur tími þangað til að ég fékk ...

DV fjallar um tekjur bloggara

Borgar Þorsteinsson — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:19:26 -0000

Skarast hóparnir bloggarar og lesendur DV nægilega mikið til þess að nokkrum sé sama um þetta? Eru bloggarar raunverulega áhugaverður hópur, eða eru leikarar og fréttamenn á hinum miðlinum orðin þreyttar tuggur? Hvað á að sýna fram á með þessu?

Hvað með að birta tekjur einhverra sem raunverulega mundu vera ...

Contrived

Borgar Þorsteinsson — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:16:51 -0000

From the wikipedia entry on Baa, Baa, Black Sheep:

In more recent politically correct times, the nursery rhyme has come under criticism for having racially discriminatory undertones. [...] More recently, in 2006, a nursey school in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England have contrived a version which contains the phrase "rainbow sheep". They claim ...