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28 October, 2008 (14:32) | Uncategorized

Let’s avoid back-to-back Halloween postings (which means, I left this blog unattended for a year) with a little technical update on TubeSock. (To cut to the chase and download the latest TubeSock, click here.)
Almost immediately upon releasing TubeSock 3.0 beta 17 on Friday, I received reports of its total and utter failure. Beta 17 worked [...]

In L&D…

10 May, 2007 (10:15) | Uncategorized

It’s 11:11 am, we’ve been at the hospital for almost four hours. Michelle’s water has broken, so the baby is definitely coming today!

3D Ultrasound

14 February, 2007 (23:05) | Uncategorized

 Meet Marshall. Estimated date of arrival: May 12. Estimated weight: 10 pounds. Estimated SAT score: 1600.    

WiiSaber, the Wii Remote enabled lightsaber simulator

18 December, 2006 (22:26) | Uncategorized

Download this app. Launch it. Press the red “sync” button on your Wii Remote. Then:

(a) hold remote in hand, like a dork pretending to hold a lightsaber.
(b) swing it around, like a dork pretending to be a Jedi.
Get yer geek on, fanboys!
I took the saber rendering code a a forum posting on gamedev.net, but [...]

Stinkbot site down

15 August, 2006 (08:29) | Uncategorized

Looks like sometime last night the http://stinkbot.com web site was accidentally redirected to the robterrell.com web site, creating an endless loop of redirects. That’s what we get for doing web site admin after midnight. Anyway, http://stinkbot.com/Tubesock is back up now.Thanks for your patience.

Tubesock beta

26 July, 2006 (20:36) | Uncategorized

I finally wrote my first Cocoa-based Mac OS X application. I’m all growns up.
For a while I’d been looking for a good reason to learn Cocoa, but I never found the right project. I overheard someone ask how to get YouTube videos onto their video iPod, and ding! Not too involved, easy enough to do. [...]

first post!

1 January, 2005 (12:00) | Uncategorized

My name is Rob Terrell. I moved my web site here from http://www.vgg.com/rob. I can’t exactly remember why. I had a good reason.
A little history: years ago, the url http://www.robterrell.com actually belonged to a totally different Rob Terrell. Apparently he’s an artist in Ann Arbor. He had lots of pictures of cute animals on his [...]