Since I post regularly about TV series on different sites on the Internet I will try to post it as well on my blog. The series im going to talk about today is the new NBC series, Persons Unknown. Persons Unknown is a Mystery/Sci-Fi series who is similar to the old TV show The Prisoner . It is about a group of strangers captured against their will in a deserted town some where in the world. Escaping this town is not possible since it’s borders are being protected by mysterious forces. Every episode adds new information about who the people are and why they are there and even more new questions.
I wont tell you more about it, just check out the trailer and if you like it, start watching 
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As I wrote before, I’ve been working on an OpenStreetMap application in .NET that renders directly to the screen instead of using pre-rendered tiles. I’ve been working on this for a few hours a week for the last 4 weeks and I’ve made big progress in the load times. It loads the ways & nodes in 20-30secs and renders the map on a 1650×1050 resolution in 0.6-0.8 seconds 
It still not real time but I am using the .NET GDI+ library which does not support any hardware acceleration, I have been thinking of moving to a different method of painting like WPF, OpenGL or D3D since those methods do have HW acceleration
As a side project I’ve been working on a little path finding as wel but that is still in a pre-alpha status
Thats it for today
Sony has recently released a new Firmware for the Playstation 3 that made all the effort in the Open Remote Play project for nothing. ORP is a project that allows you to control your ps3 via your PC/Laptop/PDA/Phone, seems interesting doesnt it? Well unfortunatly its not working anymore. Heres a quick note from the developers:
Sony! C’mon… For real?!
So if you’re able to quit and exit out of Fight Night Round 4 for a moment or two, you’ll see Sony has released PS3 Firmware Update 2.80. And despite what Mr. Lempel says —
The playback quality of some PLAYSTATION 3 format software has been improved.
Sony has also put a damper on Open Remote Play. Those tricky bastards have seemingly “poisoned” the video stream… If you start the ORP client and establish a Remote Play connection, you’ll notice the video quickly becomes garbled nonsense and eventually the client bails. The good news — you can still make the connection, meaning the authentication hasn’t changed any…
Last weekend I flashed my HTC Touch Diamond from the default ROM with Windows Mobile 6.1 to a custom ROM from XDA-Developers with Windows Mobile 6.5. XDA-Developers is a site where developers try to get the best out of their HTC Devices, mostly running Windows Mobile. My first impression of this custom rom and Windows Mobile 6.5 was… WOW! It really improved, okay its not Android or the iPhone but its a lot better then the standard WM6.1 Professional.
So whats new in Windows Mobile 6.5:
- The new start menu
- New today plugin
- New lock screen
- Menu’s have been redesigned
- Pocket Internet Explorer, its comparable to Opera Mobile now
- MyPhone, although its also available for other versions
I really enjoyed it, but since HTC didnt release an own Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM its still pretty buggy. Im sure it cause of the custom rom, not because of Windows Mobile 6.5
Last thursday I went to the cinema, to see theThe Hangover. I havent been to the cinema since The Dark knight so it was awhile ago for me. And i must say, its the best movie of 2009! Not that 2009 has brought us so many great movies though
For everybody who havent seen it yet, go to the cinema ASAP. Dont wait for the DVD/Blu-ray release since thats gonna take a few months.
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I have recently launched Plakbak, a simple pastebin written in PHP and is powered by Stikked. The reason behind this was that I couldnt find an easy to use and fast pastbin for simple code pasting. Instead of wasting my own time by writing one on my own, i chose to use Stikked which suits all my needs.
Check it out on www.plakbak.nl
After I finished some of my projects recently, I found a new project! It doesnt have any use yet but its going to be an OpenStreetMap parser for .Net. Ofcourse there are already OpenStreetMap applications written in .Net but I want to try out some for myself.
First of all, OpenStreetMap files are .osm files with XML markup. As we all know, XML can be pretty big and slow. At first, I thought it would be a nice idea to put all this info in a SQLite database. But after running some test I found out that it was even slower then XML. I searched abit on the internet and decided I could use binary files aswel. I wrote a small binary reader/writer and the 1.5GB XML of The Netherlands is now only 250MB. And its loaded in ~3seconds, depending on the amount of tags.
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ClipBoard2ImageShack
Small tool to upload an image in your clipboard to imageshack! It automatically makes a history.txt with all your uploaded image url’s. The ImageShack URL is copied to the clipboard when the upload is finished
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Wazaaa,
I bought a Playstation 3 
!!! Including the games GTA:IV, Farcry 2 & Assasins Creed. And I LOVE IT. Got really tired of getting the latest hardware for my pc, and since I wanted a HTPC aswel I gave up on PC gaming and bought a PS3!
I have wasted 6hours to find out why my Java blowfish encryption script gave an illegal keysize exception, and it was because this pathetic law;
The export of cryptography refers to the transfer from one country to another of devices and technology related to cryptography. Since World War II, Western governments, including the U.S. and its NATO allies, have regulated the export of cryptography for national security considerations, and, for a time, defined cryptography to be a munition.
In order to fix this problem, just download the JCE (Java Cryptography Extension) libs from the official Sun site