Eeepe! I did forget that I had a blog... Also, it seems the blogspot server had some severe trouble, which would mean that my blog wasn't accessible. What the heck, this blog has only one reader, and that's me!

I've been spending some time on blender (this is VERY well-done) and specifically with its IKA functionality.

I attended another shoulder replacement: this time a full replacement lasting a good 5 to 5.5 hours performed by the same skilled surgeon as the previous time. Very educational, with a relocation of the teres major and latissimus dorsi thrown in for good measure.

I have also decided to take a more relaxed approach by returning to level-set and fast-marching methods and dscas1 development: I've been spending lots of time on and getting all stressed up about some crackpot neural system ideas that I had. Thus, no Nobel prize this year.

BTW, that kernel patch is now in the ac kernels and should filter through to the main kernel tree at some stage.

Note to world: w3m still rules. I can use it to update via blogger.com (not even opera can do that) and when I edit my blog, w3m automatically opens my favourite text editor (jed, doh) to do this with.

After quite a bit of work, I've fixed a bug in linux kernel 2.4.4 on the VT82C686A south bridge. The patch is submitted to the mailing list, so now hold thumbs that it appears in 2.4.5 (or something).

The GeForce2 eats textures and texture interpolation for breakfast. Large ones. I've rewritten the dscas1 rendering architecture to make more use of the GPU... it should still work on lesser texture-hardware, but oh my, it's beautiful on the GeForce. Memory usage for large CT volumes has been cut with 75% due to the new design.

w3m rules! The sweetest little text-mode browser. See slashdot and the ecfh homepage as rendered by w3m in an xterm with anti-aliased font support.

I attended a hemi shoulder replacement today. The procedure was performed by a very good surgeon, so it was a treat to watch. All of this has given me plenty of new ideas to start playing with.

Today, I cleaned my monitor at home. With Dreft(tm).

I want an Agenda VR3. Whatever happens, I hope these people are very successful, they've gone and done a very brave and clever thing. :)

Today, I cleaned my monitor. With Glassex(tm). Paul did too. We have clean monitors.

One day, we'll have a usable browser. Opera is fine, but the new b7 release for linux crashes a tad too often. It seems after all that mozilla, in spite of being HUGE, is the best we have. Actually, with the price of RAM at the moment, it's not that bad a browser choice.

This weekend was a social occasion of note (yes, geeks have these too). PhotoPoint, where I used to keep all my photos, has decided to start charging for their services. It's a really good service, but in this case I scripted something in python and sh which serves my purposes quite well. This also happened during the weekend (only geeks may do this type of thing during social occasions of note).

One plugin later, and real-time volume rendering of CT-data is working. I told you your hair'd stand on end!

Wheeeeeeee! The plugin system now has double the hair-raising ability. It does all kinds of cute things with plugin dependencies and object pools.

Tomorrow (and Saturday) we're having demos. That means no work will get done, especially since my workstation is going to be part of the frikking demonstration.

In spite of all the administrative and political chores which had to be taken care of, RealWork(tm) won by a great margin. I have formalised my Python/VTK plugin system and can now do things with Python/VTK/C++ interaction which will make your hair stand on end and make me very happy.

This weekend will be dedicated to relaxation, which logically does not exclude liberal amounts of CasualCoding(tm).

I've been busy, very busy. You can download an anti-aliasing patch for XJed by clicking here and you can get an idea of what XJed looks like with anti-aliased font-rendering here.

Otherwise, the meetings just never stop. Fortunately they are interspersed with very interesting colloquia. Still, the net result of all this meeting and listening is that RealWork(tm) has to wait...

My camera now has 8 (2 sets) of NiMH batteries. It is now a happy camera.

I went to visit LKEB today. These guys are doing some seriously cool stuff...

We (office-mate and I) had some demonstrations here at informatics for some of the project leaders. They did look impressed.

I also built some potato versions of my latest unstable jed packages. The reports for vtkFlRenderWindowInteractor are coming in, and it seems that it works perfectly on that other toy operating system.

Whoooooooo! My camera just arrived (quick huh?). I'm happy with that.

Yesterday a whole bunch of us went to KU Leuven and to Materialise in Belgium for an academic visit. It was absolutely worth it... these people are doing some really wonderful things with rapid prototyping (3d printing for the luddites amongst my fans).