ScalaBox2D performance problems solved

Turns out I had a small bug in the broad phase collision detection that caused all the performance problems. It is now fixed and the speed is now roughly equal to JBox2D.

URL Alphabet

When FireFox 3.0 (or was it 2.0 even?) added the new location bar, I was initially not so happy with it. But I got used to it pretty quickly and now it saves me a lot of typing when I want to visit my favourite sites. Typing one letter is usually enough. I thought I’d write down the whole English alphabet and what the location bar shows first for each letter. I think this sums up my current interests pretty nicely. Except some sites in this list are not really my favourite, they just happen to start with an uncommon letter.

Update: Oh man, I’m so behind the times. Seems that this was a meme in 2006.

A is for http://adventuregamers.com/

B is for http://www.box2d.org/forum/

C is for http://city24.ee/ (real estate portal)

D is for http://dzone.com/

E is for http://eurogamer.net/

F is for http://frictionalgames.com/forum/ (still checking every now and then to see if someone solved the mystery)

G is for http://google.com/ (surprise!)

H is for http://hansa.ee/ (although they are now SwedBank, I still use the old URL out of habit)

I is for http://www.idlethumbs.net/ (in it’s current incarnation an awesome video game podcast by Chris Remo, Jake Rodkin, Nick Breckon and occasionally Steve Gaynor)

J is for http://jazz.net/

K is for http://kv.ee/ (real estate portal)

L is for http://localhost:8080/ :)

L is also for http://listofdomainnamespointingtoidlethumbsdotnet.info/

M is for http://mail.google.com/

N is for http://news.google.com/

O is for http://www.offworld.com/

P is for http://planeteclipse.org/ (and some other planets follow)

Q is for http://www.infoq.com/

R is for http://rockpapershotgun.com/ (the best of PC-focused games journalism)

S is for http://scala-lang.org/

T is for http://twitter.com/

U is for … wow. Nothing interesting for U

V is for http://villane.wordpress.com/wp-admin/

W is for http://wired.com/

X is for http://xkcd.com/

Y is for http://youtube.com/ (another big surprise!)

Z is for http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation (awesome video game reviews by Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw)

What’s your URL alphabet?

Is Blogger easily hackable?

I hadn’t checked my old blog at Blogger for a few weeks and when I tried to log in to Blogger yesterday I found I couldn’t access it. They now consider my blog a spam blog and it will have to be reviewed by a human before they can restore my access to it. WTF, I thought, and proceeded to check the site (I won’t link to it, you can guess if you really want to or maybe you remember for some reason). Indeed, it was filled with porn advertising and my content was gone. I’m not sure what will happen next, but for the moment I’m locked out of my blog while it’s displaying porn spam. All I can do is remove links to it from wherever possible.

I’m not sure what the moral of the story is, but it surely raises a question for me: is Blogger easily hackable? If whoever hacked it would have guessed/sniffed my password somehow, they would also have access to my Gmail account, which would be quite a bit more worrying, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Of course, I changed my Google account’s password after this.

I do remember one time when logging into Blogger with my account, I actually gained access to someone else’s blog, who was probably coming from the same IP address as I. Might they be doing any security checks based on IP? At that time I did nothing about it, but in hindsight I probably should have notified Blogger about that incident.

In any case, I’m moving my blog to villane.wordpress.com for the moment, also considering moving it to my own server later.