tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16386642456960213542024-03-06T08:23:52.314+01:00Daedalus Young MediaDaedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-90791807750107489452011-12-26T03:33:00.004+01:002011-12-26T03:36:12.537+01:00Daedalus Plays MinecraftDaedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-81091102639080572262010-12-23T14:35:00.002+01:002010-12-23T14:43:30.385+01:00Viewer 2?Oh hai! In case you're wondering, I probably won't finish the extensive review of Viewer 2 anytime soon. It's been several months, and to be honest, I haven't been using SL at all in that time. So I haven't had a chance to get annoyed by the Viewer. Why? Well, I kind of lost interest. There's nothing really that attracts me anymore. I'm not giving up or leaving SL or anything like that, it's justDaedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-85130810805059692522010-04-03T23:35:00.004+02:002010-04-04T01:48:50.551+02:00SL Viewer 2: the menusOk, so SL Viewer 2 is now the official viewer. So I suppose they've put a lot of thought and work into it, making sure the most obvious (and easily fixed) bugs are gone and it's more user-friendly than any viewer ever could be. Let's have a look.This is part 3Hey, now I closed the Address bar, I don't see my current location anymore. Let's just look in the menus to see if there's anything that Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-51042959395671901492010-04-03T22:12:00.009+02:002010-04-03T23:35:31.621+02:00SL Viewer 2: PreferencesOk, so SL Viewer 2 is now the official viewer. So I suppose they've put a lot of thought and work into it, making sure the most obvious (and easily fixed) bugs are gone and it's more user-friendly than any viewer ever could be. Let's have a look.This is part 2We're off to set our Preferences, so let's just for now get rid of all these buttons in the bottom bar (where I ended part 1), I like the Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-25430651074776171652010-04-03T15:26:00.009+02:002010-04-03T22:12:50.001+02:00SL Viewer 2: initial thoughtsOk, so SL Viewer 2 is now the official viewer. So I suppose they've put a lot of thought and work into it, making sure the most obvious (and easily fixed) bugs are gone and it's more user-friendly than any viewer ever could be. Let's have a look.This is part 1Ok, that looks rather... dark. And big and clunky, really. And there's a lot of unused (read: wasted) space, on the menu bar, on the Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-32444565453118741762009-09-09T17:48:00.003+02:002009-09-09T18:08:29.877+02:00A Day Without CatsToday has been declared The Day Without Cats by urlesque.com. Now I ask you! What is this madness! According to several joining the ban, it is to give our beloved cats a break. They're performing their cattesque tricks on the interwebz every single day, they should have a day off once in a while. But is is my humble opinion that ignoring cats on the nets all day is not going to help our fuzry Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-42635751098996186772009-08-19T14:39:00.005+02:002009-08-29T13:35:56.166+02:00Plugin analogiesAs it seems a lot of people totally adore plugins, I thought I'd come up with some ideas if their precious plugins would be used in the same way in the outside world. Then let's reconsider if they're still so cool or if plugins truly suck.Analogy 1I am Dutch. I barely speak German. If I'd meet someone from Germany, chances are they don't speak Dutch. Now how would I tell them something I think Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-24927400680263083262009-08-18T18:30:00.002+02:002009-08-19T15:18:48.832+02:00Plugins, and why they suckIn response to the blogpost Introducing the LLMedia API I commented that plugins suck. And they do. Suck donkeys. Big time. Let me tell you why:For example I use plugins in webbrowsers, because I think that is what's most commonly known.1. They kill your content.So you spent hours of creating the perfect Flash banner + menu + navigation bar. It looks great, has some minor sounds that people can Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-65659528650430311562009-06-06T16:00:00.002+02:002009-06-06T16:08:59.448+02:00Hey! It's Drawing Day!Have you drawn today? If not, you should :P After all, it's Drawing Day. In case you want to know, it's every first Saturday of June. It started last year, in 2008. So now is the 2nd edition. And may I say, I think this year's entry of mine is better than last year's.I made a nice vid of my drawing:If you want to see my drawing a little better, you can do so on deviantART.OH! And if you have Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-92088865200084805662009-06-04T13:32:00.002+02:002009-06-04T13:45:31.701+02:00Drawing Day 09It's coming! Remember Drawing Day 08? Well this year, it'll be same, but better! Personally, I hope I can find the time to draw something too, so this year we'll get even closer to the goal of 1 million drawings made for Drawing Day.Oh yeah, did I mention it will be held on 6 June 2009? Yes, that's this Sunday. So get your gear together and draw!Also check out this cool video:Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-75001324704151615432009-05-15T22:08:00.008+02:002009-05-16T15:18:36.394+02:00Be amazed. Be very amazed.I'm terribly excited right now. In just a few hours from now (May 15, 10 pm CEST), Wolfram|Alpha will open its doors. The extra cool thing is they'll be doing a live webcast of the behind-the-scenes process. So yes, I'm sure you'll be jumping up and down with excitement as you're reading this too, right?If not, you may not realize the potential Wolfram|Alpha (I'll be calling it Wolpha from now onDaedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-87657979468612368672009-04-10T04:26:00.005+02:002009-04-11T10:05:43.681+02:00Spammed LifeSo when I wake up in the morning (or usually, afternoon) and go check my e-mail to see if that cutie finally answered my Valentine's Day card (sent back in 2007, but you have to keep hoping), I usually see something like this:All received SL Group Notices while I was offline. It's been like this ever since I joined SL over 2 years ago. By now it's part of my daily routine to simply click the 'Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-61568136556923645702008-11-17T16:24:00.002+01:002008-11-17T16:50:51.299+01:00I made a Quality ImageI really hadn't expected this. I just made a simple, quick animation and thought it'd be cool already if it'd just be put online somewhere. Of course I put it online myself, but I've done that before, so I knew what to expect, what would happen. And that it should take months to see if it had any effect. But now this all happened in a week.But what happened, you may ask. You see, I was a bit Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-89695134565696302342008-10-29T22:34:00.004+01:002008-10-29T22:56:43.074+01:00Out Of Order & Love Hurts - short filmsI recently did on-set sound recording for two short horror films, both produced by Media Republic. I got them both on dvd, but I never knew they were online, until now. I thought it'd be cool to show them on here too, hopefully you enjoy them. As they're scary movies, they should be just right for Halloween.I'd like to add today's my 29th birthday. That's completely off-topic though.Oh, and the Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-28503074756881568252008-09-29T18:35:00.007+02:002008-09-30T06:33:00.032+02:00GraphJam, I'm on itYou may have heard of GraphJam. Especially if you regularly visit sites like ICHC. Then you know what it is. If not, let me try to explain.GraphJam is a site with, as the name implies, graphs. Afaik initially started out as graphs about songs, for example lyrics breakdowns. But the song chart meme became a bit lame, after the 8th Doo Wah Diddy Diddy Dum Diddy Doo graph.So people also started Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-6273517774709369712008-09-12T00:54:00.004+02:002008-09-12T01:13:20.663+02:00Creation of a universeBig Bang - a universe is born.We travel through space and time, to a planet called Earth, where in Switzerland at CERN a particle accelerator known as the LHC shoots two protons into eachother. And deep within that LHC...Big Bang - a universe is born.We travel through space and time...What if -we- are living on a yet undiscovered particle deep within an enormous LHC?(If you don't get it: this is Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-50387180307156644842008-09-02T16:24:00.004+02:002008-09-02T17:14:30.642+02:00User Generated Content DatabaseI once found a link in the Revver forums to the ugcDb. I was told I should register there. I followed the link, but couldn't easily figure out what it was and how it worked, so I left it, thinking I'd check it out sometime later.As it turned out, 'later' was now. I registered yesterday and that already made it clearer to me what it's for.First, the name. User Generated Content Database. Is that aDaedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-23965847204286860172008-08-24T01:54:00.007+02:002008-08-24T02:30:07.094+02:0024 hours time-lapse: A day in the lifeI was playing and experimenting with iMovie's built-in time-lapse function and decided it'd be cool to make a 24 hour recording with it.I did some testing (among which a 5 hour cloud movement recording compressed to 5 minutes) and paid attention to the weather forecast as the camera would be partially outside and I didn't want rain on it. 16 August seemed to be the perfect day, so I set it all upDaedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-46357109187923432322008-07-22T00:50:00.004+02:002008-07-23T23:51:28.643+02:00I can has T-Shirt?Yes, you can! For all the broken hearted people out there (and those feeling sorry for them), I designed this cool t-shirt. Can be printed on white or several colours dark shirts. Do check out my Cafepress shop to see all options.[Update 23 Jul] Now also available in more Euro-friendly Spreadshirt shop.Heart and text designed by me, drawn by hand, then modelled in Blender, blood splatter and Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-15054723448631153182008-06-07T18:00:00.002+02:002008-06-07T18:09:31.397+02:00My Drawing Day 08 drawingYes, I participated too in Drawing Day 08. The problem though is that I can't draw. But I thought, compare something bad to something that's even worse and it won't look so terrible, so I drew "The artist who couldn't draw but still participated in Drawing Day 08". It is available for everybody's joy and excitement under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 license on deviantART. And Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-53401209693495150892008-06-07T13:50:00.006+02:002008-06-07T18:01:15.550+02:00Drawing Day 2008Today, first Saturday of June, we celebrate Drawing Day. A day on which we remember the joy we had when we first picked up a pencil and created a piece of art. Well I don't remember my first pencil, nor do I know how joyful that experience was, but I do like this idea.There's no real goal to achieve, although Mick Gow (who I think is head of the project) and his team are hoping for 1 million Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-81013026136544658762008-06-01T01:36:00.004+02:002008-06-01T02:21:53.936+02:00Who really should've wonYeah, I know, it's a good while ago by now, but I really needed to give my opinion on this matter. You see, the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 was won by the wrong country.I don't have anything against Russia in general, it's just that their song sucked. Sucked bad. As a musician, I know what I'm talking about and I know what's good and what's terribly bad. Or at least I think I know. And therefor,Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-4994319827062161272008-06-01T01:14:00.003+02:002008-06-01T01:21:38.620+02:00SLang Life adAyumi Cassini made this cool video ad for SLang Life magazine. Check it out and if you haven't subscribed yet, then what are you waiting for? It's a completely free subscription, it won't cost you even a penny. So there's really no reason for you not to subscribe. Now. Well, after watching this video.Now you can go ahead and subscribe.Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-14666664202147429472008-05-25T00:34:00.004+02:002008-06-01T02:46:23.320+02:00Back!You're probably wondering if I was gone then. Yes, I was actually, for a while, for the reasons listed below...First of all, I went on vacation at the end of April, first week of May. Destination Istria, Croatia. As usual, I have photographic evidence. :P So I was gone for a week, but that still was a fun absense (for me anyway).Second, and this is the no-fun part, I had some severe hard disk Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-69068272487690999262008-04-11T00:43:00.006+02:002008-04-11T01:41:36.543+02:00Being a LindenImagine you've been away for a weekend or a week and haven't been on SL. Whenever you log in again, surely you have some IMs waiting, some Inventory offers, some Group Notices. No big problem, you read it, check it all out and do what you came inworld for. Now imagine you have lots of IMs and Inventory offers every single day!A while ago I saw a site made by a Linden with a small storyline about Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com2