If you get Australia’s current population:

And divide it by:

You get the idea that perhaps almost 10% (actually ~9.37%) of Australia is using facebook!

Obviously this isn’t super-accurate as there could be people who choose to associate with other countries instead (by joining a different country network) or not joining a regional network at all. There also could be “wannabe” Australians, skewing the results the other way.

Well I’m finally back again. I now have a job. Granted, it doesn’t pay very well, the hours are long, there aren’t really any breaks to speak of… but at least I have a job (and free coffee and quite nice food!). If you ever happen across Stuzzi (on High Street, Northcote) feel free to say “Hi” to the resident dish pig.

Latest fashion transgressions

After being in a western cultural vacuum for over 9 months (well okay there was Westlife, Backstreet Boys and Linkin Park — but they’re not what one would call culturally significant), I again find that many people (and unfortunately now my little sister) have no clue.

• Fluro! (My little sister has succumbed to this “retro” style… And I thought we left behind the fluro and lycra for good?)
• Emo (Anyone seen that Sprite billboard: “If emos are non-conformist, Why do they all look the same?” — it’s sheer brilliance)

And amusingly enough, the thick rimmed glasses are still around (I also recently found a pair in my nanna’s garage of funk, but promptly misplaced them somewhere). Personally I think only the Blues Brothers should be allowed to wear them. I was thankfully wrong about the shoulder pads.

My new toy

After about two months of consideration and two weeks hard work, I now have a white/pearl Asus EeePC 4G. :-)

I can say with pride (and a hint of smugness) that due to my foresight (ie: use a flexible style), this site works quite well on the 800×480 screen.

If you’re interested in one, check out EeeUser.com, as it’s more informative than the Asus page.

Well, it’s been a while since you’ve seen anything from lumaki.com. :-/

This is due to the Homingnetwork.com (really only one guy running the show, apparently) becoming unfortunately bankrupt (after a few years of no apparent problems). Their hosting provider revoked their services, and thus all of Homingnetwork’s customers lost their stuff. And, alas, being overseas makes it harder to administrate a web site (not to mention resurrect one), when the only tools you have is an internet connection and a USB memory stick (and some not-so-good backups — shame on me)…

Anyhow, things are up again (at least partially)… Photos will be back soon, but Flickr is blocked in China, which makes things difficult for me (because I’m still here) and Chinese viewers. :-/

Well, after having a bit of spare time, and a decent computer in front of me, I got around to releasing a new version of this old friend. :-)

For the uninitiated, C-Dogs is an arcade/action shoot-em-up, supporting solo, cooperative and death-match play. Originally for coded for real-mode DOS by Ronny Wester, Jeremy Chin and I ported it to SDL in 2003, and these days I maintain it.

Most visible is the faster scaler, and multiple resolution support. Previously C-Dogs SDL could only run at 320×200, and could be scaled up with a significant performance hit. Now we can scale 2x, 3x and 4x and support resolutions of up to 800×600 (before scaling is applied).

There is now a windows binary, as I sat down and got it compiling and running using Visual C++ Express (which I found to be a very capable IDE).

Interested? Head to the download page. There are Linux and Windows binaries, and older ones for DOS and Mac OS X, as well as links to ports to other platforms (DS, GP2X, Amiga, etc). And of course the source is there, too!

PS: If you’re a Mac developer, and feel generous, feel free to create and send me an OS X package and disk image.

UPDATE: Oops! The version of C-Dogs is 0.4!

Well I’m most definitely chuffed: C-Dogs SDL has finally made its way into the Gentoo Portage tree!

Which is cool after waiting 8 months… hehe…

So if you’re using Gentoo, and wish to test it out, simply:

$ echo "games-arcade/cdogs-sdl *-" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
$ emerge games-arcade/cdogs-sdl
$ cdogs

For more details, check out the Gentoo Online Package Database Page for cdogs-sdl.

Now I really should get around to releasing 0.4 while I’m at it… ;-)