Posted in Moving, Opinion on Nov 11th, 2007 3 Comments »
What on earth is going on in that photo? I have no idea either, I just needed a distraction and figured maybe you did to. Apologies if you are female and not yet on the “oh my it is so modern to be bisexual” bandwagon and thus got nothing out of that aside from a […]
Posted in Secrets Man Was Not Meant To Know, Opinion, Online Communities on Nov 5th, 2007 2 Comments »
So I got this in my inbox after my recent flurry of tweets:
I’d link to their Twitter profiles but I don’t want to give them the inbound traffic. Needless to say these are spammer accounts. But… I don’t get it. What a pointless waste of time for someone. Twitter makes them totally ignorable by default. […]
Posted in Opinion, Online Communities, Web Development on Nov 4th, 2007 No Comments »
So I’ve been test driving Flock tonight. If you don’t know what Flock is I don’t blame you. I’d imagine that unless you were on the cusp of social networking (and if you are you have my condolences) that you’ve never heard of it. Here is how the company behind Flock describes themselves:
Flock is a […]
Posted in Video Games, Reviews, Opinion on Sep 20th, 2007 6 Comments »
I recently took the time to finish Bioshock. Being adorably similar to one of my favorite games ever - System Shock 2 - I was really eager to see how they finished off the plot which at least at some points appeared quite nuanced. It ended up being a bit disappointing, but we’ll save the […]
Posted in LOL, Opinion on Sep 11th, 2007 No Comments »
I’m not American, but I bet it still applies.
WASHINGTON, DC—According to a study released Monday by the Hammond Political Research Group, many of the nation’s liberals are suffering from a vastly diminished sense of outrage.
“With so many right-wing shams to choose from, it’s simply too daunting for the average, left-leaning citizen to maintain a […]
Posted in Video Games, Opinion on Sep 11th, 2007 No Comments »
While I’d really love to be playing a lot more Bioshock I am finding myself entirely unable to find the time. Between work and family commitments I’m barely getting 5 hours of sleep a night. While chaotic and productive, its a bit of a drag - but it all makes me especially glad for the […]
Posted in Video Games, Opinion on Aug 31st, 2007 1 Comment »
Had a spare 30 minutes after a hectic week of playing catchup so I popped in Bioshock.
Unfortunately I have discovered that while extremely cool looking and thematically lavish, the developers do an inexcusably bad job of establishing the premises of the game world. Its really disappointing.
Posted in The Day Job, Opinion, Web Development on Aug 3rd, 2007 1 Comment »
I’m going to violate the cardinal rule of blogging in that I’m going to link to an article that is 17 days old. I know! It is horrifying! I am dropping all pretense of trying to make people believe I’m on the cutting edge of some arbitrary meme and instead I’m going to talk about […]
Posted in Video Games, Opinion on Aug 1st, 2007 5 Comments »
GamePolitics is reporting on a brewing controversy regarding the released footage of Resident Evil 5. To the consternation of some, Capcom has selected an African village to be the target of bio-organic infestation this time around, and since the protagonist - Chris Redfield of Resident Evil 2 - is white there are all sorts of […]
Posted in Culture, Video Games, Opinion on Jul 17th, 2007 7 Comments »
E3 has come and gone and it seemed a good time to muse on an issue of personal interest to me: the time commitment required to be a “gamer”. I participate in a number of gaming related communities, and universally I find that in those groups I’m typically the individual that actually participates in the […]