My Work

Ok for some weird reason the firefox on my ubuntu box has been .. you know.. really really slow.. switching between tabs etc.. are slow.. at least so I perceive ... any way.. turns out i wasn't the only one.. lucky for me i found a post on ubuntu forums which said.. i had to disable the ipv6 thing in about:config.... so here is what is supposed to be done if you are facing this issue: 1) type about:config in your address bar 2) once you see the config, search for ipv6 3) you will find only one entry in there.. double click it to toggle it to true. 4) restart firefox.. you will find that it is a definitely better than what it used to be. (well it is for me at least) Now the Video Player keeps flashing the screen while playing a video.. while compiz is enabled.. so the solution.. again... is just a config change.. i dont' see why these things are not put in by default but here you go... check out the link just in case you are lazy to hit the link.. here is the extract... * GStre...

So i've been spending time with inkscape to see how good it is for creating character art and then animations from that... essentially sprites.. so.. here is what i was able to create following some tutorial .. I kinda skipped through some of it coz i think i got the hang of it.. any way.. here we go.. the drawing...

Some thing i drew in inkscape just after getting inspired by svg art around the web.

Yet another successful pyweek flies by.. well not yet.. but at least the major part of it is. Just in case you were wondering what the heck pyweek is.. just visit the website will you. I've been participating in this event ever since i found out about it during college. Enough of this stuff... let's get to the good part ... If you have a wii or heard about it.. you will have heard that its' a low end system with not much of graphics power etc, but some of the games that are available on this system are really very innovative. One such example is the game called deBlob (by THQ). This was a student project which got adopted into a commercial game. So why the hell am i talking about it in a post dedicated for pyweek?.. well this game kinda inspired me to write write something similar. I've been waiting for the right moment and PyWeek9 presented the right opportunity. Why?.. coz the theme for this pyweek was 'Feather' So i thought ill' build a game around paint...