I just finished book 6 of Mizuni-san's Prince of the Dark Kingdom (Harry Potter fanfiction). I've been using an auto-generated EPUB, but the quality was pretty bad, since it didn't understand the formatting. To fix that, I decided to make my own EPUB using some Python and some Pandoc.
Linker problems building Chromium on Fedora 20
I need to build Chromium on a machine that runs Fedora 20 today, and I had some trouble due to this error:
[12269/24399] LINK gles2_conform_support
FAILED: c++ -Wl,-z,now -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--fatal-warnings -pthread -Wl,-z,noexecstack -fPIC -B/home/blong/workspace/chromium/src/third_party/binutils/Linux_x64 …Review: Geeksphone Revolution
I just got my Geeksphone Revolution in the mail. Since no one else seems to have a real hands-on review, I figured I'd do a quick one myself. Unfortunately, I'm about to switch to a Sprint-based carrier, so I won't actually get to use this phone very long, but it'll …
Fixing blurry textures in Minecraft
Today I installed Minecraft on a new computer and the textures all looked terrible and blurry:
Since the fix wasn't terribly obvious, I figured I'd document it here in the hopes that search engines pick it up.
After a lot of trial and error, I determined that the problem was …
Review: Anker Astro Slim2 Battery Charger
Lifehacker recently featured a deal where you can buy a battery pack for $20 (now $28). $20 is my "not real money" limit, and when I spend the day reading at my favorite tea store, the battery on my phone tends to die. I got the battery on Friday and …