Tuesday, 21 August, 2007 – 00:42
Some of this information will be duplicated in my daily links post from del.icio.us tomorrow morning, but I find it irritating enough that I should say something about it.
What an… interesting day today in the format war between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Disc. I found out about it via a Twitter post from Microsoft’s Major [...]
Saturday, 18 August, 2007 – 07:13
Since I was out of town on business and busy with many other things over a period of a few weeks recently, I found that I had somehow managed to “unplug” a little bit, and haven’t been doing much in the way of playing games since then. It’s actually been rather nice to not be [...]
Wednesday, 8 August, 2007 – 15:02
Behold! A look at what Microsoft is clearly missing out on with their online service right now!
I used to be OK with the fact that I was paying $50 per year for online console gaming. It costs money to run that kind of infrastructure, and to design the services that are so cohesive on a [...]
Wednesday, 8 August, 2007 – 14:37
As I’m sure more of the Internet will soon discover, the pricing mistake mentioned earlier in this space that I had hoped to take advantage of is no more:
Dear Best Buy Customer,
Thank you for your recent Rock Band software order on BestBuy.com.
Unfortunately, our website incorrectly stated that the Rock Band accessories were included with your [...]
Tuesday, 7 August, 2007 – 15:49
The iMacs are coming!
Apple cut the smallest display out of the product loop, redesigned the enclosure in aluminum and glass - which may be part of their new environmental initiatives, and added a glossy display, new keyboard and a few smaller features to the iMac lienup today. Looks nice. Notice one thing, though:
The border around [...]
Tuesday, 7 August, 2007 – 13:05
Can anyone please clue me in on what I just watched here?
I’ve seen some weird Japanese video game advertisements in the past, but this one’s a touch beyond. A touch.
Monday, 6 August, 2007 – 08:21
I’m hoping that some kind of bizarre copyright lawsuit doesn’t bring this thing down, but for the time being, you too can experience gaming the way it once was in the day of monochrome displays and before modern graphics (or even ancient tile-based graphics systems really existed).
It looks a lot like this, updated with a [...]
Thursday, 2 August, 2007 – 21:44
I don’t think I could explain things any better than this video can.
An introduction to Faceball from Face Ball and Vimeo.
I’ve also added an article to my wiki for Faceball and am looking forward to hosting the eventual First Annual Markel Invitational Faceball Tournament.
Thursday, 5 July, 2007 – 20:52
To our Xbox Community:You’ve spoken, and we’ve heard you. Good service and a good customer experience are areas of the business that we care deeply about. And frankly, we’ve not been doing a good enough job.
Seriously, stop flooding our forums and our employees’ blogs with comments. Anyone with a pulse knows we’ve been providing horrible [...]
Wednesday, 13 June, 2007 – 11:50
Geeks who were around for the launch of Halo 2 and were paying close attention to the Internet around that time will have fond memories of ilovebees.com, which was far ahead of its time and a pioneering attempt at alternate reality gaming. Several groups have since tried to start up ARGs, only to have them [...]
Sunday, 10 June, 2007 – 08:32
John Siracusa’s annual WWDC bingo card for the year has been posted, and I’ve already got mine printed and ready to go while I keep up with the live feed at work on Monday.
In case you’re unfamiliar, this has become a tradition in the last few years with the Mac faithful. We dream about the [...]
Sunday, 10 June, 2007 – 06:51
In case you missed it, STS-117 launched launched successfully on Friday and appears to be going quite well. I’m quite upset at myself for not paying more attention to it and forgetting that it was going up this month, and more upset that I never saw anything about it on the news or anywhere else.
It’s [...]
Sunday, 29 April, 2007 – 00:56
Inspired by a thread at 360 Arcadians, I’ve decided that my Xbox 360 going in for repairs was the perfect time to begin attempting to clear out my game backlog (that is, the games I own that I have not yet finished). The entire backlog is listed below.
I began with Shadow of the Colossus, which [...]
Sunday, 26 March, 2006 – 22:26
From John Gruber’s Daring Fireball blog:
The iPod Juggernaut
A very insightful look at the portable music player market and Apple’s stranglehold thereof. He’s right on all points, of course: as an iPod owner and user and general Apple evangelist in my geek life, I’ve heard many of the arguments against the iPod, and this pretty [...]
Monday, 6 March, 2006 – 10:17
From Daring Fireball:
There’s a line in The Usual Suspects where Kevin Spacey’s character Verbal Kint says, “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.â€
The greatest trick Microsoft has gotten away with is convincing the public that the Wintel PC platform is open.
Great defense to the number-one [...]
Monday, 27 February, 2006 – 12:17
If you have ever worked with a corporate mindset, been interested in marketing, or are even just a geek in general, you owe it to yourself to check out this link.
Found via digg.
I will say for the record that this is exactly what I expect when we get around to shopping for Windows Vista, seeing as [...]
Tuesday, 3 January, 2006 – 00:46
Yeah, so I’ve got one.
Achernar Dni’s Gamer card
People who have any kind of access to Xbox Live who read this regularly are required by some sort of obscure law to add me to their friends list immediately. I will respond rather quickly, since I’m trying to build my friends list at this point.
The obvious [...]
Saturday, 7 May, 2005 – 19:25
Check it out on Slashdot.
Check it out on Ars Technica.
Check it out on BoingBoing.
The greatest threat to consumer freedom in recent American history, the so-called “broadcast flag,” has been soundly defeated in a court of law. Your rights to watch and record whatever television programs you wish has been protected, rather than savagely and [...]
Friday, 8 April, 2005 – 18:42
random amazon link
Price is a little steep, but I’d be all over it if I had money.
Or a yard.
*blink*
Actually, now that I think about it, I’d totally buy this just so I could say I had a robotic lawnmower.
Thursday, 17 February, 2005 – 23:39
…but of course, you already knew that.
Bill Gates was fortunate enough to have been interviewed by Peter Jennings (another one of my more favorite people) a night or two ago, and one of the things brought up was the report from last week that the iPod is ubiquitous on the Microsoft campus in Redmond - [...]
Wednesday, 16 February, 2005 – 23:14
And I am so busy playing with my 40GB iPod that I haven’t had the time to do much else other than study and get homework done.
So, I will get back to this after Friday is over and the last paper has been completed and turned in.
That is all.
one, two, three, fourteen
Monday, 7 February, 2005 – 13:09
Daring Fireball: Magic 8-Ball Answers Your Questions Regarding the ‘Napster To Go’ Subscription Service
You should read this article if you at all wondered what the crap Napster was up to with their Super Bowl commercials. I always knew something was off from their advertising campaign, but I didn’t really know until someone pointed out [...]
Friday, 28 January, 2005 – 09:49
I’m sitting in class right now, and there’s not a whole lot to think about other than other things - I am able to take the notes I need while I multitask other thoughts and typing in other windows, and so I wanted to drop something in here so I could give people an idea [...]
Saturday, 22 January, 2005 – 07:14
Ken will get a kick out of this one, since he helped me out with the original setup.
Since I live in an apartment that faces pretty much the wrong way to receive DirecTV signals, we had to install our dish on top of about a seven-foot-tall piece of conduit, which is anchored in a mixing [...]