Obfuscate Penguin

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1. Oceans Eleven: A Card Game For AisleRiot Solitaire

   A few months back I ported a Windows card game called “Ocean’s Eleven” to GNOME as part of the AisleRiot suite of solitaire.

   Added to the code section at 18:01:19 UTC on Thursday the 10^th of July 2008.

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2. Paul, Graphic-Novel Style

   My brother Paul is a fan of Heroes, so, when gift time rolled around, I thought it’d be an interesting idea to put into practice what I had learned from an online tutorial for Illustrator some time ago, and present him with a graphic-novel–style portrait.

   Added to the doodle section at 04:32:10 UTC on Tuesday the 24^th of June 2008.

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3. Demolition in Berlin

   Back in April 2006, I visited Berlin.  Of all the photographs I took there, these are among my favourites as, although they’re of destruction, they represent the ongoing redevelopments taking place in the German capital following re-unification.  Plus, to me, the cranes look like giant dinosaurs nibbling at the building.

   Added to the photo section at 02:46:19 UTC on Monday the 23^rd of June 2008.

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4. Using live.co.uk e-mail addresses with Thunderbird

   Country-specific versions of live mail accounts can be made to work with the Webmail add-on in Thunderbird by adding the appropriate line in domains.txt

   Added to the code section at 21:17:14 UTC on Thursday the 19^th of June 2008.

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5. Where To Start?

   I’ve always had trouble when starting to write something new.  There are several reasons for this, but not the least of which is that there’s just something fundamentally difficult for me in the process of turning my starbursty thoughts into a linear stream of text

   Added to the thought section at 11:29:05 UTC on Friday the 13^th of June 2008.

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6. Random YouTube Regionalisation

   RandomTube is a Firefox extension to randomise the country-specific version when visiting YouTube. (Not for those unwilling to be baffled by a lot of foreign language text.)

   Added to the code section at 09:53:17 UTC on Sunday the 24^th of June 2007.

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7. YouTube Studio Tour: Character Development

   What if everyone on YouTube were an actor hired by the studio? Eventually there’d be a behind-the-scenes documentary, right?

   This is part 3 of that programme, exploring the process of character development.

   Added to the film section at 23:54:07 UTC on Thursday the 12^th of April 2007.

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8. Antarctic Weather Report

   Bob the Penguin tells us what to expect from the skies above the southern continent on Tuesday, 30^th January 2007.

   Added to the film section at 23:23:04 UTC on Thursday the 15^th of February 2007.

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