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Imparting game development wisdom of dubious quality a ridiculously long time.
Today it's fonts. As you can see from my games, I don't like to get too flowery with my fonts. A couple of the games (Pop Pies, Double Twel…
A while back you might remember that I posted a review of a Razer mousepad and headphones. . .I mean "Destructor" and "Piranha" (gotta love Razer's marketing department). I also mentioned that I'd be posting reviews to the Bargain Basement Blog of fun gadgets that weren't necessarily gaming related…
It took a bit of doing, because everything dated to 2001. The underlying class library (a pre-Sun-acquisition version of the OpenO…
It's Edraw Max, and it's one of those flowchart-diagramming tools, not unlike ConceptDraw or Visio 2007. To quote one of the comments, "this is what Visio 2007 should have been". It does all kinds of diagrams and has built-i…
Sorry, but I ain't putting up 30 URL's. I'm far too l…
Back from Casual Connect last week. Most of the coverage is written. I plan to hand most of it off to Drew today. Hopefully he can start cobbling it together into something resembling coverage so it can get posted next week.
Until then, here's a preview of us be…
I'm going in a dozen directions here. I promise to give you more details on my life as I can, and this time I really mean it.
1. I'm spending most of my time on the top-secret-uber-important-project-that's-name-cannot-be-spoken. And the security is really high and you'll ne…
And don't suck up to me by posting a link to one of my reviews. They're completely useless…
I remember the old 386MAX/QEMM days. Those were apps that…
C
C++
C or C++ (which is better)
Assembly
Pascal
Visual Basic
Java
Authoring Tools (Flash,…
And I gotta write a blog. Thus-far, I've been more f…
And apart f…
I'm trying something a little different here.
You see, I get lots of products to review. And I'm loath to turn anything down, and that's for two reasons:
1. I actually rather like writing reviews. It keeps me from living under a bridge, and it keeps my writing skills sharp.
2. I like stuff.
Problem is,…
About 6.5 years ago, Shelly and I were doing the "getting ready to make a baby" shtick, and we toured the babymaking ward of our local hospital to see all the rooms and the check-in procedure and all the i…
As it stands, not all 216 levels are currently available. Like B…
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First up is free science fiction books! Well, not really books per-se, but Tor, the science fiction division of McMillan publishers, is giving away fre…
If you're one of the millions who worship me and live vicariously through me and cannot go 24 hours without immersing yourself in the wonder that is me, then you can keep up with …
And here's the first review from that new schedule. It's the Chumby, which is an adorable little lumpy thing that displays widgets.
https://www.game…
1. nVidia 8800 video card = $190 - $30 rebate
2. Microsoft Windows OneCare = $30 - $30 reb…
So I'm gonna review it. I…
Actually a little background. Shelly's the official AutoCAD witch around here. And the projects she does on AutoCAD (actually Civil 3D, which is a special super-extended version for Civil Engineering) are absolutely enormous. And they take up gobs o…
While it's clearly just my little clipart spaceship with the border removed, I do like the big concentric circles in the back. Gives it a bit of a kitschy "outer…
And I'm rather at a crossroads about the whole thing. There wasn't an entry in the contest…
Just a reminder, I'm looking for cleverness more than just technical skill. If this is something you can initially rough out and can make an improved version later, then do so.
Also if you've already entered and you want to enter another one, feel free.
Shelly's on the last da…