Brian Hudson

Intel has announced that they will be releasing Threading Building Blocks 2.0 as both an open source and commercial product. You can check out the open source version here.
I’ll be getting my hands on a quad-core machine pretty soon and am excited to see what sort of performance gains I can get using this. I [...]

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Oddly enough Utica, NY has it’s own brewery. The Saranac Brewery is actually pretty widely known, making Saranac, and Utica Club which they claim is the first licenesed beer to be sold after the prohibition.
You can see a picture of the brewery on their brewery page. I don’t know who the photographer is that took this [...]

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I need a major boost in computing power! My computer is definetly starting to show it’s age. Whilst it was quite nearly the best money could buy at the time, 4-5 years makes just about anything a senior citizen in the world of computer hardware.
I’m even been running out of HD space lately. My data drive is [...]

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Finally!!! The semester has come to an end. Though I have to admit, this semester has been better than most.
Many of the Masters courses I have taken have involved theory, and little to no application. My Computer Graphics course this semester was a pleasant change. In lecture, the professor covered the theory exclusively, and it was [...]

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Have you ever Googled yourself? I have! I think it’s pretty interesting to see what you can find out about yourself by searching on Google.
I did a search for “Brian Hudson” yesterday and my blog showed up as the 8th result. Quite disappointing, I want to be number 1!
I also found a newsletter published by [...]

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BioShock is a new FPS due out this year on PC and XBox 360. It seems to be highly anticipated, and has been selected by several IGN editors as their most anticipated game this year as can be seen here.
I came across this video of some of the water effects in BioShock today and they are [...]

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My GSoC 2007 proposal has been accepted!
This summer I will be developing a Material Editor for OGRE. You can read the entire proposal here.
Casey Borders will be my GSoC mentor this summer. I have been following his activity within the OGRE community over the past few months (OgreAL & TwOgre) via his blog and am looking [...]

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This blog has been getting nailed with Comment Spam lately.
I’ve made a few changes to the site that will hopefully stop the majority of them.
The only noticable one for anyone trying to post comments here is that the minimum time that must pass before you can post consecutive posts has increased to around 3 minutes.

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