Monthly Archives: October 2007

Portal (initial)

The cake is a lie…
What a fantastic game!  Original and great fun (I chose to beat it over playing TF2!)  Little too short, but there looks to be some extras (as well as downloadable) maps…  I can’t wait to replay it, actually.
And Jonathan Coulton is my hero! (And I’m still alive…)

team fortress 2 (initial)

Oh… My… God.
Absolutely and utterly fantastic.
(more on this later, but in all likelihood, much later as game play comes first!)

documentation

<rant>
If you are going to document your software/middle-ware/project… hell anything, it does no good to document values without telling us what those values are!!
For example, if you have a java configuration file, and the property is something like
system.important.function
And your documentation says that the possible values are
foo|bar|nuts
Without telling us the behavior differences of each value, you’ve [...]

identity 2.0

While the subject matter is quite interesting, and very applicable to the times, take a look at this presentation.  That is how a powerpoint presentation is done — maybe not quite that rapid fire, but the style and substance (based on the Lessig presentation model) is incredibly well done.  Its really sad how Powerpoint’s tools [...]

Grand Canyon (part 1)

Well I know its been a long wait, but I’m finally getting around to processing all those pictures taken in the last 4 months. Expect quite a bit of new stuff coming soon.
We’ll start with two great panorama vistas: The first taken at the ‘Grand View’ vista point and the second taken at the [...]

as the world turns, the apple still falls down

I’m a little late on this one, but we’re still in the middle of this entire mess. Let me first make a few points very clear…
I can think of no company in my lifetime that has undergone the turn around that Apple has. Going from a fringe computer manufacturer that make overpriced [...]

games|art

The debate on whether video games could be art has been held at a low simmer for quite some time. Roger Ebert threw down the gauntlet on which many picked up, including recently Clive Barker, who stirred the pot again. In what I deem is a “final thought” on this issue, Ragnar Tournquist [...]