Those who are most loyal to me may recall the project I was working on forever ago: A computer game called Warlords of Weldrovisk. Because I have a lot of productive things to be doing at the moment, my brain wondered into nostalgic reflection upon what I did wrong and why I couldn't quite make the game scale. I think the biggest reason was that I had too many playable factions. I couldn&#. . . [more]. . .

Over this past week, I've played a lot of Mario Kart DS. A lot of it. I also got plenty of chances to stress out about my job and the work I wasn't doing. I suppose the Canadians on the Rubber Room are right: I do suck at vacations. Whenever I played Kart -- as well as a great variety of other racing games -- it always seemed to me like whichever racer was in the lead was always in t. . . [more]. . .

Lots a folks complained about how monstrously long that gWave was. I confess: Though I was enamored with the content, the presentation had a lot of empty babble in it that could'a been not-there. Thankfully, I was able to find this abridged version that cuts out a lot of dead time... a bit awkward to listen too but you get the general gist of it: The long/short of it is this: E-Mail and ins. . . [more]. . .

It should be illegal to pay children to use Dreamweaver. Each passing day, I run into more and more companies who hired some high school kid to build them a web site. He uses Dreamweaver to kludge some piece of crap together. When the natural limitations of his tools and intelligence are reached, he surreptitiously abandons them, taking his slightly-better-than-minimum-wage paychecks and leav. . . [more]. . .

Seriously, I'm a trekkie. Always have been. I watched Kirk smash the snot outta Aliens before I even knew how to ride a bike. Every week of my childhood was spent in passionate anticipation of the next episode of "Picard orders Data to outwit another plot device." The Star Trek series inevitably defined my childhood. Most other shows I ever bothered watching would be rated in their appr. . . [more]. . .

Okay, let's discuss this for a moment. Honestly. This kind of thing is scary. Scary as all get-out. I can't believe how utterly terrifying this insanity is. They busted into five families’ homes dressed like cops. They even shouted, “Police!” But police records reveal home invasion robberies at a cluster of south Phoenix homes in January were the work of a dangerous group of crim. . . [more]. . .

I've said it many times in many other places. I have crap for attention span. It is my greatest weakness. Sometimes playing mental tricks on myself can help. But such gimmicks don't last long in their effectiveness. It doesn't help that we live in a world that revels in distraction. Billboards and TV shows and banner ads everywhere are eager to tug your attention away from the . . . [more]. . .

Okay so ... http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=6541576... here we go again!

Here's the problem: It's a full frontal assault on the free market with a little pro-armament Trojan horse added. A little mouse of victory riding on the back of a giant whale of defeat.

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So last night, I got FWD'd an e-mail conversation from a prospective client that went a little something like this: "The web site is broken." "Works fine for me." "This thing doesn't work right here." "Yeah but I can't duplicate that behavior on the development system." "Well it's happening on the LIVE system." "It's a configuration problem." "I configured it exactly lik. . . [more]. . .

Two players play Yellow or "Defending Team." One player plays Black or "Attacking Team." If "Attacking Team" sinks the ball, that player gets a point. If "Defending Team" sinks the ball, a "Rotation" occurs where all players rotate around the table clockwise: Player on the black bars becomes the Yellow forward. Player who was on Yellow forward becomes Yellow Goalie. Player who was on Yellow. . . [more]. . .