Wii-on game
To present the new WION service which Geodan set up with its partners we, Geodan Research, were asked to create a nice WION related game. WION services is about preventing digging up cables and other underground infrastructure. The game will be used during conferences at the booth as a public-magnet.
Animation showing the original map and the final map
Loedertje has arrived
This morning I’ve collected Loedertje from the animal shelter. Apparently she was quite the lady and they warned me that she was very difficult. When I met her I thought she was a cuty. Apparently this affection wasn’t mutual since she digged her claw in my carefully stretched hand. However it was in a playful kind of way and she looked quite happy with herself.
I was told that she couldn’t live with other cats and they didn’t want to let her out of the cage otherwise she’ll kill them all 
. So she reminded me of Frodo and I decided that I would take my chances with her. Getting her in the carrying basket turned out to be a major problem and in the end I received her in an industrial style cage.
Once in the car she calmed down a bit, happily meowing away. This gave me hope for her mood at home. I put the cage in the living room and prepared her litter box. Next I let her loose in front of that box. She quickly moved out of the cage and started to inspect her new home. Every time she passed me she purred a bit and wanted to be stroked.
I had to leave for work but when I got back, she walked towards me. She is very inquisitive and doesn’t stay longer than 5 minutes at the same place. She seems to be very happy and affectionate, so if this is a difficult cat, I’d like to know what an easy cat is.
Loedertje doing her rounds
netatalk and os x playing up
I’ve spent my entire evening fixing my appletalk set up after I accidentally ‘upgraded’ my handcrafted netatalk with the stock ubuntu one. I crafted my own because the stock package doesn’t support encrypted passwords.
I’ve reinstalled, rebuild and rebooted netatalk on the server and I kept getting this error:
“The operation cannot be completed because one or more required items cannot be found. (Error code -35)”
Googling this error didn’t give me much and it took me a while to realize that googling for: error code -35 will give you no useful results do to the minus sign. In the end I discovered that it is not ubuntu but Apple to blame for the error. Apparently at some point in time the globalpreferences get fcked. So the solution is:
rm ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist