While browsing Gizmodo, I came accross a good write up about eBooks, and their future and when or if it might come about.
The article makes some comparisons to the iPod and it’s penetration into the industry, but then says it similarities stop at the fact that the eBook changes the fundamental way in which the [...]
Archive > July 2004
eBooks Editorial
Nintendo DS – Very Nice
The final look of the Nintendo DS has been announced and pictures are out there. My, my, this is a pretty gaming machine. Nintendo really took to heart comments about the DS that they got from E3 and made the system sleeker and shiny, and made sure it had all it could need [...]
Where did it go?
While making some routine searches this morning, I found I was getting error messages from Google and it was an odd sensation. When you are used to using a tool and having it be reliable and quick, when it’s broke you arn’t quite sure what to do at first. I eventually gave up, [...]
Billionaire hangs with the locals
It seems that Bill Gates takes his days off like the rest of us, except he can do it pretty much any day of the week. Still I like his tan. I think it’s better than mine at this point. Sad, but office life does that to you way too quickly.
Where’s the goods PC games?
I was pointed to this article on JoeUser.com from the creator of Galactic Civilizations and other stratagy games. It’s a typical blast of the PC gaming industry and it’s habits of releasing buggy, incomplete games, and then patching them later.
He goes into the history of his company, Stardock and how over the years they [...]
RSS Fiendish?
I found this article on RSS while reading Slashdot.
In it Chad Dickerson, of InfoWorld, talks of the growing pains of RSS (Really-Simple-Syndication) as the number of users of feeds go up, and the clients that they use are not “smart”. He likens the hits InfoWorld gets at the top of every hour to a [...]
Book – Marching Powder
Marching Powder : A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America’s Strangest Jail
My wife, Jess, picked up this book while we were on a trip in an independant bookstore. The back of the book pulls you in with this crazy story of a prison in Bolivia where the inmates must buy their own [...]
Peasant’s Quest
Coming soon to a 286 near you! Homestar Runner, creators of some great flash cartoons, seem to be entering into the adventure game market. Always worth a trip, Homestar Runner should be a stop from time to time. Nice to see a parody on the old King’s Quest games.
Fourth Gen iPods
With the annoucement of the fourth generation iPods, I’m thinking the day I get one is approaching more quickly. Now it’s sleeker, cheaper, and still retains that sexy look. The 20GB model is coming down to $299, and that will just be right in my price point range. Should be a nice [...]
The Scion xB
After seeing this orange box type car when driving around, and falling completely in love with it’s design appeal I had to find out what kind of car it was. Getting way to close, but close enough I could read the little “Scion” on the emblem. Who the hell is Scion? A little [...]
Linky linky
- Cnet has a great article on how the iPod is undermining Microsoft’s efforts at being the DRM king (DRM = Digital Rights Management). With iPods being the hip new accessory these days, people are complaining that the Microsoft encoded files included on some newer releases, won’t play on their iPod. When consumers [...]
Linux on an old PC
So everyone is getting on the Lunix bandwagon, or at least the open souce revolution. I’ve recently made the switch to Firefox, the open source browser from the Mozilla team. I’ve been very pleased with it so far. A few new things to get used to, but the new features, and the [...]
About that article
I mentioned yesterday that an article in the Classic Gamer Magazine made me pause and think for a moment. It was titled “An Inside Joke” by Todd Deci. In it he details a situation similar to mine.
Being a gamer, and married, you want your significant other to enjoy at least part of your [...]
Classic Gamer Magazine Issue #2
Classic Gamer Magazine has just released their second issue, in PDF format. On a quick look through it keeps up the quality of their first downloadable issue, and has some interesting content inside. One article in particular resonated with me. I’ll talk about it later on in another post. But go [...]
The Philadelphia Story
I watched The Philadelphia Story last night with my wife. Since the movie makes my wife’s “top 5 movies of all time” list, it was a must watch movie. I’ve always wanted to see the movie anyways with it being on the AFI’s top 100 list, and I am slowly progressing through that [...]
