tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53742178417366782792011-11-27T17:34:29.768-08:00Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14896470931726371257noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5374217841736678279.post-45212207058201894772011-02-18T14:14:00.001-08:002011-02-18T14:15:21.858-08:00In Ubuntu, if you get the message "The VPN service failed to start", then remove the trailing slash or whitespace at the end of your gateway name!<div><br /></div><div>Hooray for helpful error messages. :-/</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5374217841736678279-4521220705820189477?l=geekforhire.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14896470931726371257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5374217841736678279.post-54651813576593360192008-08-27T14:36:00.000-07:002008-08-28T20:37:37.378-07:00Inspired by <a href="http://www.experimentalgameplay.com/game.php?g=1">Tower of Goo</a>, I wanted to see if I could make my own goo balls. However, the balls in Tower of Goo use scaled bitmaps to look gooey, and I wanted to go a little beyond that, to make the goo really feel "juicy" and dynamic -- stretchy and squishy. Mainly, I wanted to give the impression that mass was conserved as two balls were stretched away from each other. Here's the result... just roll your mouse over to see the effect. Let me know what you think!<br /><br /><a style="left: 0px ! important; top: 0px ! important;" title="Click here to block this object with Adblock Plus" class="abp-objtab-016946730870863613 visible ontop" href="http://warren.j.francis.googlepages.com/gooTest.swf"></a><embed pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://warren.j.francis.googlepages.com/gooTest.swf" height="300" width="400"></embed><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5374217841736678279-5465181357659336019?l=geekforhire.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14896470931726371257noreply@blogger.com1