Blender and What Else I've Been Up To

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Obviously, I haven't posted anything in a long while. (This seems to be the way I've begun all of my recent posts). It's not that I don't want to, I just haven't had time to bring my posts to fruition. I currently have two posts "in the hopper" which need a few more tweaks before I can publish them. One is about my keyboard, and one is about my computer case.

Because it's been ages, (and I don't seem to be able to get my posts ready to publish), I've decided to throw caution to the wind and publish this post.

I guess I'll talk a bit about Blender, since I've been playing with it this week. I'd never really used Blender before Monday this week. I had used a variety of other software (mostly 3D Studio Max), and whilst I wouldn't call myself a pro; I think I've become fairly proficient. Blender was surprising. Read more »


Basic Password Generator

Not having much time to update the site regularly has been a bit of a problem. But sometimes I do manage to find a few spare minutes here and there to play around with tiny projects. Late last week, I was taking a look at my friend Alastair's blog http://www.lazyefficient.com/ where he had published a small post about a password generation service.

"I used to use http://www.goodpassword.com for generating random passwords for random accounts I created. However when I went there this morning I noticed that the site has gone to a Pay-For-Service model (rather than advertising). You only find this out after clicking the "Generate Password" button."
- lazyefficient.com

So, after taking a look at Alastair's password generator, I decided it'd be a fun little diversion to build my own. Not that I personally use anything like that, but it's more about the joy of coding for me. Read more »


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