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These are planks from a shack, or dock, or fence. They've been bleached by sun and rain, and have a slight bit of moss.

I started out with the MapZone sample wood texture, but changed it to remove some artifacts that didn't render well; I also changed how the maps were generated.

Sometimes, I create textures. Most of the time, they are crap, but sometimes, they are nice. Especially when I start from some other art (which is always re-usable). I place these textures in the public domain -- do with them what you will!

I realized that there is no available description of the different XNA game ratings other than on the actual game submit and review forms, which aren't easily found through search engines (and require sign-up and attempted game submissions to actually get to read). So here are an excerpt of the descriptions, as of 2008-12-18:

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I had a rough week-end. Well, no, no laid-off engineer entered our offices and shot people dead, and my house didn't burn down, but still.

Sometimes, you may find that you're trying to re-write an existing file, but if you write less data than was in the file originally, there will be old data left over at the end of the file. However, this shows a bigger problem with your file handling.

You should generally not re-write the same file in place. Instead, use a "safe save," where you do the following:

Note that this is not legal advice, because legal advice applies to any particular situation. This is just an overview of different kinds of protection for computer software. There are four kinds of protection that generally apply to computer programming:

After working on the 3D game Ko-Ado the Cloud for the Dream-Build-Play competition, I decided to relax with a simpler, 2D-based game. And what better genre to start out with than the real-time strategy game?

I don't get it -- why can't things work the way they are supposed to?

I recently had a birthday, and bought myself a shiny new Logitech diNovo Edge bluetooth keyboard for my home theater PC (which is a Mac Mini running Vista Ultimate). Totally not necessary, but hey: birthday!

I use and try out a lot of software, just by doing a lot of different kinds of work. I edit audio, I draw vector graphics, I edit photos and textures, I edit 3D models, I work on presentations, spreadsheets and written documents. Then, I do work as a software programmer, with an IDE, text editor, debugger, and the actual program I'm debugging.