Liam's Blog

Old Skool Notebook

liam — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:57:16 +0000

Many people today use their notebook (laptop) as their main pc and rely on it for anything computer related. The notebook in this video is capable of doing some extra things apart from showing videos of itself on youtube. Enjoy the vid!

http://www.vimeo.com/4116727

Why I’d need more money… SSDs

liam — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:55:32 +0000

Speed is the answer… Not a faster car (as most would think), but a faster PC. Many people think ‘throw in a faster CPU, more RAM and there you have it’ but one of the bottle necks in PC speed are hard disks (due to virtual memory. if you can’t understand what I mean its ok…) The video below is about SSDs (solid state drives), a lot of them actually, in RAID, giving some spectacular results. There is only one problem, SSDs are quite expensive at the moment, very expensive, at least that’s what my bank account says… Enjoy the video…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs

PS. beat that Apple…

Facebook Spoofs and more…

liam — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:25:36 +0000

We are currently waiting for a 3D animation to render so I have time to post a blog… It has been a really hectic week but finally its over. We were working on the Dark Dog website and Chris (thankyou) on a 3D animation

During the week I found some facebook spoofs which I liked and thought I’d share on my blog. Here we go:

First up, facebook and relationships:

Greek Myhtology:

And to conclude, pensionbook:

…every second

liam — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:14:38 +0000

Statistics… love them? hate them? Any way you may feel about the topic probably you’ll love this idea… So many a second is a website that depicts the ongoing stream of events… (http://smas.studioludens.com/)

This is what the thing looks like but I suggest visiting the site:

Love Statistics? Be sure to visit this site then : http://www.worldometers.info/

1,474 megapixel image of Obama’s inauguration

liam — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:56:41 +0000

The image below may be familiar, but there is something really special about this one!

It has been shot at 1,474 Megapixels, basically a large set of images taken using a normal camera by a machine (hint: hit the link for more info) which does it all for you =)

Click here to see the real thing, zoom in and move around (Warning: you’ll proably waste some time here)

PS. you may notice some glitches, ex: zoom in to the lens of the camera on the left, you’ll get what I mean

Hudson River Simulation

liam — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:38:31 +0000

I’m posting this video for 2 reasons:

Its Computer Generated Imagery of a flight simulation - thus making it possible for us to see what we couldn’t, since no one shot a video of the accident.
The guy’s a hero…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G2TLqxWM04

Exam period = Exam related funny stuff

liam — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:00:51 +0000

Hi there,

If you are a student like me who was thinking that exams could have been delayed and was concerned about all that stuff and commotion that was generated by the-two-entities-who-needn’t-be-mentioned recently, you probably know how it feels to be under pressure. One of the best ways to waste some time in these time-lapses (aka i-still-need-to-finish-assignments-and-it-is-exam-time) is to google some exam-related funny stuff and blog about it, thus making the whole situation slightly less stressful for the whole community of under-exam-pressure-time-wasting-people like me.

Below are some examples of what can happen to you if you are reading this blog and have exams in a few days time:

I need to start off with the one who made me laugh most (sorry girls):

Next some classics you have probably seen around

Some less famous ones:

For those still working on your assignments, never write assumptions, its unscientific

For more (time-wasting-stuff) visit the following links:
http://funnyexamanswers.com/ (this one’s good)
http://www.economicshelp.org/funny/funny-gcse-answers.html
http://www.economicshelp.org/funny/smart-exam-answers.html
http://www.economicshelp.org/funny/funny-exam-answers.html
http://www.economicshelp.org/funny/true-funny.html
http://listverse.com/humor/33-funny-exam-answers/

Hope u enjoyed the post,
Good luck for your exams (you really need it if you’ve come this far),

Liam

note to myself: must stop using this-kind-of-i-don’t-know-what-they-call-it stuff/notation/whatever.

The Rainbow Consipracy

liam — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:34:16 +0000

We all know about American stupidity, but this takes things to a whole new level. Enough said, just enjoy the video…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c6HsiixFS8

Funny use of Charts

liam — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:45:45 +0000

When I don’t feel like working, which by the way happens very rarely (ask matthew), I look around the web for amusing things (like Apple’s suggestion to start using an anti-virus [post coming soon]). This week I found an interesting use of charts (pie charts, bar charts, etc). Usually used for statistical analysis or to describe flow, charts are a great tool to describe data/processes visually, but some people found another good use for them.

First off, some funny ones:

Next some charts describing songs, I guess you will guess most of them:

And last but not least (video can be used for verification):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1Ond-OwgU8