Saturday, October 13th, 2007
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…)
Friday, October 12th, 2007
Oh… My… God.
Absolutely and utterly fantastic.
(more on this later, but in all likelihood, much later as game play comes first!)
Thursday, October 11th, 2007
<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 [...]
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
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 [...]
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
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 [...]
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
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 [...]
Monday, October 1st, 2007
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 [...]