All Those Wonderful Toys!
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007You may have noticed from the sidebar widget that I’m replaying the LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga on the Wii. I’ve been suffering from a nasty head cold and it makes paying attention to Bioshock difficult. My new Xbox 360 (seriously, getting that as an early 40th gift from my wife, mother-in-law and aunt-in-law [...]
Keyboard Navigation
Friday, July 13th, 2007I’ve recently been using only the keyboard to navigate in Google Reader. Between this new practice and switching the view to list mode, it’s far even more efficient. I can now parse a lot more data, much more quickly, than when I was using mouse navigation.
I only wish the web sites I do need [...]
Cute Li’l Critters
Thursday, July 5th, 2007Ms. Z and I took in Ratatouille yesterday with a couple of friends. I have this… thing, about rats. As a young child, the story of the rat plague in the Pied Piper of Hamlin made quite an impression on me and as a young adult I had a series of dreams that, were I [...]
Google Maps Just Got Smart(er?)
Thursday, June 28th, 2007I’ve been meaning to blog extensively about this problem I have with Google Maps, namely that I know the routes and traffic patterns in my area better than they do.
That’s not the problem.
The problem is that they don’t allow me to set way points when they provide me with driving instructions. I prefer to avoid [...]
WiiWare
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007I’ve tried to write this post about four times now and keep typing things like, “Booyah!” and, “boy-eee!” I’m not normally one for utterance such as that, so here’s the official press release…
SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 27, 2007 – The search for the next ingeniously ground-breaking video game has begun. At a private developers conference [...]
OLPC Presentation
Friday, June 22nd, 2007This is an hour long presentation…
Stalling For Time
Thursday, May 31st, 2007I rendered out an image for a post on Luc Besson’s storytelling style and forgot to reshape the narrative correctly. It would be counterproductive to release the post with an incorrect (or no) image as the post is really more about our storytelling model (as described in the white paper) than it is about Luc [...]
He Woz
Friday, May 11th, 2007Wozniak is on Science Friday with Ira Flatow this afternoon.
He. Cracks. Me. Up.
The official site isn’t accurate, or I’d link to the podcast. Perhaps they (the local NPR station) pulled out the big guns (from the archive, I bet) to help with the Spring fund raising.
Well, here’s the Science Friday site. Perhaps they’ll update soon [...]
Here We Go Again…
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007From a purely ecological standpoint, it’s a dodgy proposition to attempt to control an undesirable ecological condition by introducing a new species.
At best, you face unforeseen consequences as the ecosystem adjusts to the presence of an exotic species. At worst, the interlopers become a new predatory menace that seriously destabilizes the environment.
Microsoft just released a [...]