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Humble Indie Bundle: Cross-Platform Games!
May 5th, 2010Get 'em while you can -- over at Wolfire's Humble Indie Bundle, five games are for "sale". You can donate as little as you want -- I imagine you can toss a penny in and grab all five titles. Personally I didn't try such a low amount because I felt like I… more »
Snowed Under, Part Deux
February 6th, 2010Well, according to news reports, my area (the mid-atlantic region) is weathering a catastrophic winter event (a.k.a. a blizzard). As I wrote before, when the snow comes knocking, DSL invariably craps out. This storm serves as another datapoint confirming… more »
Star Trek Online Open Beta
January 18th, 2010Here is a cinematic video I made of my custom cruiser (a modified Vesper-class medium cruiser) doing a space exploration mission in the Arcanis Arm Cluster. There are countless other STO videos displaying heavy combat, both on the ground and space; this… more »
Snowed Under Without DSL
December 19th, 2009The past few days have been trying for my family and I. Our DSL has been completely down for our entire area code for 48 hours, and it's estimated to be down for yet another 48 to 72 hours. We are all addicted to the Internet for one reason or another, s… more »
Chrome OS Before Its Time
November 19th, 2009The source code for the current state of Chromium OS was released today, to much fanfare and a press conference at Google's Mountain View headquarters.I downloaded and built the operating system per Google's own instructions, and was pretty underwhel… more »
Never Fear; fbdev Is Here!
September 30th, 2009So I was trying to install the Fedora 12 Alpha KDE Live CD. Silly me. I knew this would be a terrifying effort in futility from the beginning, but I just had to do it.
Turns out the Nvidia GeForce GTX 280 in my desktop is one of several chips that are… more »
Dreaming Of Universal Audio Stacks
August 23rd, 2009I have a dream that my favorite audio applications will one day coexist in a configuration where they will not be judged by their choice of audio API, but by the usefulness of their functionality. -- Adapted from Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" spe… more »
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