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Kubrick is, of course, the default theme of Wordpress. I have been working on it on and off, and I figure I should release it before the imminent release of the first beta of CS3.

Included is a variant ChinaRed.

Get it.

Yet another adaptation of a minimalist Wordpress theme, "White as Milk" by Azeem Azeez.

I did the variant with the dark background by request. Not quite happy with it, but I think its usable.

Get it.

Please comment if you are planning to use it, together with the URL of your blog, as Azeem requested to see it in action.

Otherwise known as 大闹天宫 (Da Nao Tian Gong). This was shown on television just about  every year during the Lunar New Year when I was a child, and was a favourite of mine.

Found out there was a DVD release in 2004 but did not manage to find a copy of the 40th anniversary edition for sale on eCommerce sites. The cover of the standard edition is just... butt ugly.

Finally managed to snag a new copy on eBay, for only S$25. Just look at that beautiful packaging. The character art sheets are a very nice touch. The video quality is a disappointment though. Scratches, dust, even some pen marks are visible. Obviously there was no effort made to clean up the source.

That said, this is probably the best that is available at this point of time, and I am very happy with this purchase.

I was planning to go on a major skinning exercise for That Stupid Club, but seeing this, and actually reading about it, I am salivating at The Power that will be available.

Eagerly waiting for the first beta...

Update: link to Ben Tiedt's series of posts introducing Chameleon for own future reference.

New version of Halite released with a snazzy new icon. Changes from 0.27 to 0.28:

1. IP filtering support eMule style ipfilter.dat files.
2. DHT support, thought it is turned off by default.
3. Can select alternate save directory for torrents.

Long time readers of my blog (yes, all two of you!) will know that since BitTorrent Inc announced the acquisition of µTorrent, I have been keeping an eye on the development of Halite, and the library it was based on, libtorrent.

The major stumbling block to more widespread adoption is, I believe, the lack of support for protocol encryption (PE) in libtorrent. Well the bad news is there is still no support. There is good news though. Eóin, author of Halite, is considering implementation of PE and contibuting it to libtorrent. Most excellent. Pity that I am no C++ hacker or I would have given it a shot myself.

I cannot recommend replacing µTorrent with Halite right now, but once PE is implemented, add features and polish from a few more iterations and I should be all over it.