This Week in Twitter

  • If you haven’t discovered the fantastic voice of ??? yet, may be it’s time now. http://bit.ly/8JfUM #
  • @Damir Wow, Katharinensteg – das ist ja 200 Meter entfernt von wo ich lebe! in reply to Damir #
  • Silverlight: Setting IsHitTestVisible to true makes the control also invisible for VisualTreeHelper.FindElementsInHostCoordinates. Huh? #
  • SECURITY DISASTER: Thousands of Hotmail passwords posted – http://arst.ch/8ip (via @OneMicrosoftWay). Check if you’re affected #
  • Tried jinni.com. According to it, Kill Bill 1 is similar to: Kill Bill 2 (duh), Lady Snowblood (good match!), and… Rambo (huh!?) #
  • I know no better symbol of happiness than a child flying a kite. #
  • Interesting mice http://bit.ly/7dPnl #
  • @weiss_heiko Ja, und damit sich diese wieder genesen :) in reply to weiss_heiko #
  • This is exactly why I’m a geek: you can see things only God saw before you, and then show them to everyone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfDoQwIAaXg  via @Damir #
  • http://www.smoothdrm.com/ seems to be old news, but I wonder why don’t they have a live demo. #

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1980

USSR in 1980 was a funny place. By this time, only a minority had really believed in communism, but many ”simple” people had nevertheless thought that their life was still better than life standard of the most other nations.

After all, soviet people had a guaranteed job (in fact, everyone has been even REQUIRED to have a job; those who hadn’t could be prosecuted), all kinds of education and health care were free for everyone, it was peace, and by doing some well-known (albeit corrupted) actions you could even be allowed to make a trip into a foreign country and bring back a fashionable jeans and a dream of many soviet boys and girls – a buble gum.

Err… Well, yeah, “they” could make better jeans and bubble gums, but “we” were still better. No only because we didn’t lynched blacks and didn’t have greedy capitalists, but because socialism had future. And capitalism didn’t. Many were adamant of it. I think, my parents supported that too. 

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This Week in Twitter

  • translationparty.com is fun. Tried it with "If I make use of the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am like sounding brass" #
  • What a cool gadget http://j.mp/q3KRw #
  • http://twitpic.com/iumtm – 22 Centigree and sunny today – not bad for September 23 in Germany #
  • Developing DRM solutions at work, isn't it ironic that the Pirate Party represents my interests best in the current Bundestag elections? #
  • http://gizmodo.com/5366263 via @XaocCPS: interesting. Sharp has always been my favorite trademark in consumer electronics. #
  • Intel has implemented Smooth Streaming for netbooks http://j.mp/13DCIq #
  • @XaocCPS Yep :) #
  • The dentist couldn't help but laugh out loudly looking at me trying my usual smile after a huge dose of anesthesia http://j.mp/RFDjd #
  • I favorited a YouTube video — X-Ray Dog – "Acts of Courage" http://bit.ly/34ZRu #
  • Attack! http://j.mp/626kI #
  • Hah! http://j.mp/3bQJBN. Apple's soft for Windows is naughty evil anyway. I'm glad I don't have iPhone thus don't need to install iTunes. #
  • ??? ????, ? ? ???? ?????? ? ?????? ??????. ? ? ?????????, ??????, ??????????! "…each cup of coffee contains one good idea" via rands #
  • ???????????! #
  • Geek is a sexual orientation ;) RT @weiss_heiko: dear source code … you are so beautiful #
  • I like it, when art makes me to hold my breath http://j.mp/17yJDq #
  • ScrollViewer in Silverlight prevents mouse down events from bubbling up. Dunno why, so I declare it as bug. Workaround: IsTabStop=false. #
  • @mirkohumbert Its insulting the twitter web site doesn't support IE6. It isn't much different from any 90ies site to require a new browser. in reply to mirkohumbert #
  • @mirkohumbert A good thing for corps, but not for people. If people really needed better browsers, why would they stick with IE6? :) in reply to mirkohumbert #
  • @mirkohumbert How come FF is better than IE6? It is slower, needs more RAM, and doesn't use Windows Update. 90% of plugins is crap. Tabs? in reply to mirkohumbert #

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The math behind MultiScaleImage.ZoomAboutLogicalPoint

Developing a Silverlight DeepZoom app, I needed to reimplement MultiScaleImage.ZoomAboutLogicalPoint method in terms of changing ViewportWidth and ViewportOrigin, and this is what code I’ve ended with:

public void ZoomAboutPoint(double newScale, Point scalePoint)
{
 double newViewportWidth = _currentViewportWidth / newScale;
 Point centerPoint = new Point(scalePoint.X / this.ActualWidth, scalePoint.Y / this.ActualHeight);
 double aboutLogicalPointFactor = _currentViewportWidth - newViewportWidth;
 Point newViewportOrigin = new Point(
   _currentViewportOrigin.X + aboutLogicalPointFactor * centerPoint.X,
   _currentViewportOrigin.Y + aboutLogicalPointFactor * centerPoint.Y / ControlAspectRatio);
 ...
}

You pass a scale factor (the same as you would for ZoomAboutLogicalPoint) and the scalePoint, which is in coordinate system of your control (for example, retrieved with GetPosition() from a mouse event handler).

UPD.: Added control aspect ration to the last line. Thanks, Benny!

Fireworks

A little more impressions from the Pyronale in Berlin.

This was my first time I saw fireworks live. Well, of course I saw and even did myself the ordinary New Year fireworks. And I’ve also seen some professional fireworks, but from a greater distance.

But this time, I was so close.  And it was WOW. I’ve realized, I was missing a MUST HAVE experience in my life.

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Yeah. Life.

I like the saying of my close friend that goes “????? ?? ???????, ?? ??????? ?????????”. It is hard for me to translate, but it is something along the lines “I’ve wasted [one more] try to live by spoiling it from the very beginning”.

On the other hand, they say “????? ??????, ?? ?? ? ???????”, meaning “Life is full of shit, but we have a big shovel”. A slight shift of the perspective, but with big consequences. In the former sentence, there is no hope any more. In the latter, there is.

So, may be, I’m doing not so bad. May be, some time later I will think about these days and decide I was in fact happy. After all, there is no war and me and the people I love are all alive and relatively healthy. Although, there is another saying “There is no healthy people, but just those, who can postpone the visit to the doctor”.

Oh well. Let’s drink some tea and see what happens next.

This week in Twitter

  1. The dentist couldn’t help but laugh out loudly looking at me trying my usual smile after a huge dose of anesthesia http://j.mp/RFDjd
  2. Intel has implemented Smooth Streaming for netbooks http://j.mp/13DCIq
  3. http://gizmodo.com/5366263 via @XaocCPS: interesting. Sharp has always been my favorite trademark in consumer electronics.

  4. Developing DRM solutions at work, isn’t it ironic that the Pirate Party represents my interests best in the current Bundestag elections?

  5. http://twitpic.com/iumtm – 22 Centigree and sunny today – not bad for September 23 in Germany
  6. What a cool gadget http://j.mp/q3KRw
  7. translationparty.com is fun. Tried it with “If I make use of the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am like sounding brass”

Reorg

Originally, I intended to mix personal and public posts in this blog. After all, I am a single person, and my personal feelings are more or less geeky, and my geek posts are more or less personal.

But I was reflecting about a huge imbalance of personal posts I did recently, so I’ve decided to reorganize categories you see on the sidebar. Now you can split my personality, if you want to.

This Week in Twitter

  • Some day, all social networks will merge into the single Peoplenet. Until there, we need profile pages like http://hi.im/fridental. #
  • Does NYC smog consist from marijuana? ;) http://j.mp/iu99r (via @rands) And seriously: I envy people whose craziness looks so noble. #
  • In Web2.0, even the bank account balance is shared to friends: http://whf.me/fridental #
  • HANA-BI läuft jetzt bei @ARTEtv_de #
  • Summer'09 is warmly kissing good bye. So long! You were a mixed bag, Summer, but your sweet candies will help me to wait till we meet again. #
  • Learned ????????????The learning speed reveals my secret plan: to spend next 40 years learning Chinese, and then rule the world. #

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