laptops are evil. i will have like 25 minutes of battery life left according to the little power meter thing then suddenly it will beep, change the meter to read 4%, and tell me to plug in immediately! what happened to those 21 minutes?!

ladytron rocks.

here's a great way to make simple test scenes:

1. write a maya translater to export to xml
2. use ruby and rexml to process the xml into a c header
3. #include

mmx is great. sse is not. mmx fits all the uses i try it with just great (64 bit stuff, rgba pixels, etc). everytime i use sse i end up wasting so many cycles shuffling data in and out of memory and between the registers. a horizontal add instruction would help a lot (which sse3 has i think).

warcraft 3 explorer is my homage to the greatest game ever made.