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Japan quake effects length of day and GPS coordinates

Incredibly, the earthquake in Japan was so powerful it sped up the rotation of the Earth resulting in the shrinking of a 24-hour day by 1.8 milliseconds.
Brian Osborne

To the people of Japan the effects are very real. For the rest of the world, the effects are scientifically interesting.

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Behind the Splash Screen (Photoshop)

This is good, just because… they had plenty of notice to move to Cocoa. “Pulled the rug from underneath us” – riiiigggghhhtttt

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Japan Earthquake: before and after

Wow… if you haven’t donated already the Red Cross has launched an appeal.

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Rift Level Ranges

Useful map from Rift Junkies that gives an overview of all the ranges of stuff. Useful for people.

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Gigabit Powerline HD Starter Kit – Firmware Update

This – is… an AWESOME UPDATE. Speed is much better and pings are lower. Brilliant.

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Chrome == Battery Killer

Seriously, wow. Using Chrome 10 on my Air kills battery like no other. The new sandbox rendering system actually never stops using CPU. Like… ever. Unlike Safari. Looks like I’ll have to leave Chrome for a while.

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Simplify your Visual Studio 2010 Toolbar

Obvious but useful advice on making Visual Studio 2010 a workable environment.

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Making git diff highlight whitespace issues

One of those while I remember posts. @mxcl doesn’t like whitespace randomly appearing in commits. Quite frankly, he shouldn’t like it, it’s evil and leads to merge conflicts. So here, quick config I grabbed off of cheat git which solves that problem without the use of GUI tools:

In .gitconfig

[core]
   whitespace=fix,-indent-with-non-tab,trailing-space,cr-at-eol
[color]
  ui = true
[color "branch"]
  current = yellow reverse
  local = yellow
  remote = green
[color "diff"]
  meta = yellow bold
  frag = magenta bold
  old = red bold
  new = green bold
  whitespace = red reverse
[color "status"]
  added = yellow
  changed = green
  untracked = cyan

Hope it helps someone else as much as it helps me! It not only shows problems, but removes them on commit as well.

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New job! Awesomes

It’s really time I got around to posting again. It’s been quite a while and although not many people outside of family and friends really read this blog; it’s about time I updated “the Internet”

I started work as a Mobile Developer for TweetDeck in London last month. It somewhat explains the lack of posting recently as well as why all the consulting stuff disappeared.

I can’t go into the reasons for moving on from Green Man Gaming. But I’m stoked to be working with such an awesome team of guys and girl and becoming part of bringing a great way to experience Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and more to mobile devices.

The first month has gone great. Jumped straight into iOS work and the new TweetDeck for iPhone. It’s a complete re-write of what is currently available and it is looking awesome. I look forward to it being in the wider world.

I update Twitter far more than I update my blog… so you should follow me @joolz.

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Ol’ Grumpy’s guide to player reeducation

I don’t often make a WoW post here… but… Yay, someone said it! I’ve been spending this holiday season suffering pick up groups in World of Warcraft and the common sense finally comes out!

If you think of your instance runs as where you go to farm a quick batch of justice or valor points, you’re part of the problem.

You are there to learn and even to teach.

A lot of people are running around WoW thinking that they can just play it like we’re still in Northrend. We’re not – it’s time for a hard graft. You have to use crowd control now. Hell, on one fight I even found a use for Levitate.

Ol’ Grumpy’s guide to player reeducation.

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