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The points you bring up are minor in the grand scheme of things. I doubt even the unbelievable growth in Canadian oil sands production will be enough to sustain global oil production increases for much longer, if at all. (more…)

I recently had a problem that some of my Flash programs were not behaving correctly when served from my http://disemia.com/ website. This led to a very difficult situation of being able to properly test my flash. (more…)

There are a few important factors which must be considered (more…)

• a war in Iraq prevents proper drilling/production
• a war in Afghanistan prevents shipment
• Brazil has a large new find
• Venezuela's reserves seem to be bigger than previously though
• Saudi Arabia and company appear

Well, perhaps so. (more…)

Perhaps peak American Oil as the various oil producers decide to send it somewhere more lucrative... (replies…)

More evidence to suggest we are at or reaching peak oil. From the article: (more…)

Updated version (replies…)

Loading the words of a dictionary into an in-memory structure for the purpose of lookups occurs quite commonly in computing. That is, if we allow word to mean any sequence of bytes, letters, or other structured data. Indeed such lookup is one of the cornerstones of computing. (more…)

I've always wanted to write a word game like Boggle: a game where the player has to form words using the letters on dice. It's a fun game, and would be a good addition to my Flash library. So I built Worgle, or I should say, am building Worgle. (more…)

But it shouldn't create a new item, "Edit" is supposed to edit the old item, like it did when I replied... (replies…)