Archive for August, 2008

Just one little problem

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3 years ago
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The search for an excellent hotel room is a hard one for the weary road-warrior.  I thought I had found one, too.  Clean, modern, well decorated.  None of that cheesy grandma furniture.  32″ LCD HDTV…although everything is stretch-o-vision, I can tolerate that…for one night, anyway.  Large work desk, comfy chair…twenty foot ceiling for crying out loud!  Stone tile in the bathroom…marble counter-top…king size pillow-top bed.  Most importantly, it’s within my company-mandated budget!

There’s just one teeny, tiny problem.

An internet connection that feels like dial-up.  It’s painful.  I can’t More >

The New Hotness

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3 years ago
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After much labor and love, the new site design is live.  The old theme I was using was nice, but the css was a rats nest of code and it didn’t always display properly in every browser.  This theme is my own heavily modified version of a theme from the wonderful folks at ThemeLab (home of some very slick themes, you should check them out).  In addition to being hella cool looking, the website now supports Gravatars for comments, and social bookmarking links at the bottom of every post, including a handy “email” and “print” button.  As it turns out, the theme still doesn’t render quite More >

 

Braid: Over-Blown

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3 years ago
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Over the past two weeks, the gaming press has assaulted me with stories about a downloadable Xbox Live game called Braid.  Joystiq and Penny Arcade in particular have been blaring the “OMG BEST GAME EVAR!!1!” trumpets (to paraphrase), but apparently they aren’t alone.  The game is a Super Mario Brothers-styled platformer with time-controlling elements similar to Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, with a unique narrative and hand-painted backdrops and design that’s unlike anything that I’ve ever seen in a game before.  Despite the originality of the game, I just don’t get the hype.

Portal More >

 

What do you mean? A politician LIED?!?

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3 years ago
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Despite my general policy of steering clear of politics on this site, I think it’s pretty safe to say that John Edwards’ political career is pretty much finished.  In case you live under a rock, or haven’t taken your eyes away from 14 year-old Chinese gymnasts pretending to be 16, former senator Edwards ‘fessed-up to having an affair with a campaign staffer who apparently gets around.  A lot.  While cheating on your cancer-ridden wife falls somewhere between “intentionally making babies cry” and “kitten-rape” on the Miserable Bastard Scale, it’s not my place to judge.  After all, it’s a More >

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