Jon Simpson’s Weblog

Windows Media Video 9 (WMV9) has been the root of many issues for Mac users in dealing with media playback for a long while now. Due to its prevalence on people’s desktop computers, a lot of small video clips that float around the web often carry the .wmv extension, and the playback of these files [...]

Further to my earlier attempts at compiling mplayer from cvs, the bugs that were previously causing errors in the compilation (I believe, due to library dynamic/static linking strangeness and the stripping of symbols) have been fixed quite a while now and I’ve been enjoying up to date builds of mplayer on Mac OS X Tiger.
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This weblog got its 2nd redesign yesterday (after the last one, 5 months ago), and I’m currently working through it trying to find any elusive markup or CSS bugs. I coded this one pretty much from the ground up as strict XHTML and CSS, and everything seems to be looking pretty much how I want [...]

In the real world, things happen in parallel. As I type this, people and objects around the world are doing everything imaginable, in parallel to my typing. Computer programs, traditionally, follow as a set of instructions that are run in order, one after another in a simple step by step execution. Parallel languages provide syntactic [...]