The Daily WTF is one of my daily reads. Subtitled “Curious perversions in information technology”, it allows readers to submit wretched source code examples, IT development horror stories, and similar cringe-inducing true-life accounts. (It’s fun to read the comments on source code postings; they bring to mind the old joke, “Q: How many programmers does […]
OK, so I praised a simple dungeon-crawl game that can be completed in 30 minutes. You may ask, why? Well, here’s this report (in the New York Times, no less) by Seth Schiesel about The Burning Crusade, the new expansion to the massively-multiplayer on-line role playing game (MMORPG), World of Warcraft: The big draw in […]
…here’s a website devoted to ways to destroy the earth. As the web creator notes, it’s not quite as easy as you might think: All the explosives mankind has ever created, nuclear or non-, gathered together and detonated simultaneously, would make a significant crater and wreck the planet’s ecosystem, but barely scratch the surface of […]
As some of you know, I was a computer game designer some 20+ years ago, and I maintain an interest in computer games. Lately, I’ve been buying most of my games from Manifesto Games, a computer game distributor with a business model geared towards inexpensive (and downloadable) games from independent game companies. Well, my latest […]
[UPDATED 11/23/07] Note that I’ve now placed all my wallpaper photographs (including the ones below) in their own separate page on this blog (see the “Wallpaper” tab in the pages bar above). Here are some more pictures from last week’s snowstorm (we’ve had one per week since the week before Christmas), complete with wallpaper sizes. […]
Because they build things like this. According to this video’s description, this was built at a “millionaire’s home in Utah.” Hat tip to reddit. ..bruce..
…hope to be back home soon. And, apparently, there will be more snow waiting for me. ..bruce.. (Dayton, Ohio)
…we got another 4″ to 6″ of snow today: The third snowstorm in as many weeks swept into Colorado on Friday, further hampering efforts to restore power to rural homes and rescue thousands of cattle stranded by last week’s blizzard. And another storm is due in next Thursday/Friday — that will make four storms in […]
[UPDATED 11/23/07] Note that I’ve now placed all my wallpaper photographs (including the ones below) on their own separate page on this blog (see the “Wallpaper” tab in the pages bar above). [UPDATED 01/06/07] Since a lot of people appear to be linking to this post as well, I’ve copied the “Winter Sunset” photo and […]
[UPDATED 11/23/07] Note that I’ve now placed all my wallpaper photographs (including this one) in their own page on this blog (you can also use the ‘Wallpaper’ tab in the pages bar above). [UPDATED 01/04/07] Many thanks for Gaius over at Blue Crab Boulevard (one of my favorite blogs) for the link and the kind […]
