Note: This post was originally published on iamianwright.com it’s been moved here for archival purposes. Performance, economy and price, you can’t have all three, there’s always a compromise. The difficulty comes in deciding where to compromise and figuring out which is best in the long run. For example lets budget £3,000 for a car, it needs four wheels and preferably four seats. Compromising performance gets you a 2002 Ford Fiesta 1.4 Diesel, 64mpg and 68bhp. Compromising economy gets you a 1996 Skyline 2.5 Turbo, around 20mpg and over 250bhp. Compromising price gets you a 2006 Alpina D3 2.0 Diesel, 47.9mpg and 200bhp but for three times the budget at £9,000. ...

Note: This post was originally published on iamianwright.com it’s been moved here for archival purposes. Wow. Hack a Day made mention of The Pirate Bay’s suggestion that they were going to turn to Low Orbit Server Stations as a way to avoid being shutdown in future. With the development of GPS controlled drones, far-reaching cheap radio equipment and tiny new computers like the Raspberry Pi, we’re going to experiment with sending out some small drones that will float some kilometers up in the air. ...

Note: This post was originally published on iamianwright.com it’s been moved here for archival purposes. Following on from yesterday, I downloaded Borderlands from the Mac App Store along with Half-Life 2 Episode 1, Half-Life 2 Episode 2, Portal and Portal 2 from Steam. Borderlands worked immediately with the 360 controller. A good start. Portal 2 also worked straight away but sadly none of the other Steam games recognised the controller. I tried the exec 360controller command in the developer console but that didn’t make any difference either. Having done more reading online it appears that the Mac version of Steam doesn’t support gamepads with the source games. An article written in May 2010 mentions: ...

Note: This post was originally published on iamianwright.com it’s been moved here for archival purposes. I saw a lady on the gadget show playing games on a MacBook Pro with a 360 controller and as I already have two wireless controllers for my 360 I thought it was worth investigating. A little bit of research online told me that you need a Microsoft dongle to make the wireless controllers work with a computer or I could buy a wired controller for less than the cost of the dongle. ...

Note: This post was originally published on iamianwright.com it’s been moved here for archival purposes. I set myself a little project yesterday to make an image where the head follows the cursor around the screen. I thought it would be an interesting way to learn jQuery. I took nine images of me and then I put together a simple test. The image was set to absolute positioning, 200px from top and 200px from the left. This allows me to set up a series of if statements that find out if the cursor was in a specific sector. ...