Gordaen’s Blog

Sometimes you read a headline and know that the story is going to be perfect blog material; it can be so good that you don’t even have to read the article. The advantage to actually reading it, or at least skimming it, is that you can pick out huge chunks of text to quote [...]

Unfortunately, ATI does not appear to be very “Linux-friendly.” Their Linux drivers are scarcely supported in many cases, so I shouldn’t have been surprised when I installed Ubuntu and couldn’t set the resolution I wanted on my Acer Aspire 5672 laptop. My only options were 1024×768, 800×600, and 640×480, but the screen is [...]

Lasers have been shown in Science Fiction movies for a long time. Just like many inventions, they were first theorized and then made quite a while ago (the first working examples were in the 50’s!). Since then, lasers have been added to nearly every invention, revolutionizing entire industries (music, medical, etc.). Have [...]

Light… We rely on it and plenty of it because our eyes are terrible. Other mammals would mock us, but their brains are small. It’s a trade off. Over the years, we’ve burned ourselves to find out fire is bright and hot. Eventually, electricity led to the advent of the incandescent [...]

Someone in a forum a week or two ago was asking about manipulating RSS feeds with simple PHP. I had not really done much with this, but I was definitely interested in it. Creating a PHP script which outputs a custom XML feed is not too hard, but it can be really redundant [...]