Out of Touch with Games

I’ve been meaning to post about how I am out of the loop when it comes to mainstream games these days. Wario Ware? I still haven’t seen it, but apparently it is huge. I didn’t see the Nintendo DS in action until a few weeks ago. In fact, I haven’t seen the . . . → Read More: Out of Touch with Games

It’s My Fault I Bought A Bad Product

I talked previously about how I enjoyed listening to the audio book “100 Ways to Motivate Yourself” by Steve Chandler. I really liked how much I learned from listening to a tape while driving. So I recently bought another audio book called “Develop a Super Memory Auto-matically”. I didn’t know about it . . . → Read More: It’s My Fault I Bought A Bad Product

Stupid Hypotheticals While in Line for Star Wars

While I was waiting in line for the new Star Wars movie last night, I posed this joke of a question: who would win in a fight, Voldemort or Vader?

Funny, right?

Well my girlfriend and our friend started discussing it. Seriously discussing it. They concluded that Voldemort would win since he only had to . . . → Read More: Stupid Hypotheticals While in Line for Star Wars

Wine Talk

This Thursday I am giving a talk on using Wine to run Windows applications on Linux. Wine stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator. It is an implementation of the Win32 API, which means applications run at a normal speed compared to running them in actual emulators like VMWare.

That is, if they . . . → Read More: Wine Talk

Day[24]; // off by one errors

When I was really young, I remember the first time I learned that the first hour of the day started at midnight. It was weird realizing that time moved in this sequence: 10PM, 11PM, 12 AM, 1AM, etc. Thinking about it for awhile, I realized it made sense.

To this day, . . . → Read More: Day[24]; // off by one errors