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If you’ve been reading this blog at all, you know how geeked I am about vector graphics. SVG seems to be a promising technology that will open the web and desktop to vector graphics for everyone, while Flash is a technology that has been ubiquitous for almost a decade. Well, it looks like the Khronos Group is getting serious about hardware-accelerated vector graphics support. The OpenVG 1.0 specifications were released last month. Click To Read More...

Since I spent the last 6 months or so getting geeked about web development, SVG, JavaScript, Ajax and XML. I think it’s about time I shift my focus back for a little while on some standard C++ game development for the desktop. I find that my mind naturally migrates every so often (usually 6 months) between interests/hobbies that I have. It’s like my brain is saying that it needs a breather from obsessing about one thing so it’s time to obsess on another. Mild OCD anyone? Click To Read More...

Our library kicks ass. It’s about 3 blocks away so it’s often a place to take the boys and let them blow off steam looking at puzzles, playing with puppets or picking out books. We’ve even picked out some DVDs for them (mostly discs in the Baby Einstein series: Baby Mozart, Baby Newton and Baby Beethoven). The kids love those DVDs, but we have had a hard time keeping their TV watching to under 30-40 minutes/day (I know, still too much for 17-month olds, but c’est la vie). Click To Read More...

I’ve lived in the Chicago area for over six years now and it was only until this summer that my wife finally made me go to the Chicago Botanic Gardens in early July. I loved it. The Gardens are simply stunning, especially considering the extra-dry weather we had. My favourite is the English Walled Garden. I need to visit more places like this. Calming. Beautiful. Natural. Refreshing.

See my Flickr photo stream of the gardens here. We’ve went twice in July but I reached my Flickr upload limit so had to wait until August to upload a few more. I hope to go a few more times this year (good place to take visitors too).

Via Tim Bray: Atom 1.0 is now officially a proposed IETF specification.

Via mozillaZine. It appears that Firefox 1.5 will include support for a series of new JavaScript functions dealing with arrays. These extensions are outside of the Ecma-262 language specification that formally describes JavaScript. Click To Read More...

Kevin posts some thoughts about the EvolGrafix presentation that happened today here. It sounds like EvolGrafix has a little too much talk and not enough to show at this point…