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Archive for November, 2007

Duels.com Slowly Dying

I don’t know if anyone is still playing Duels.com but the the site has been at a developmental standstill for some time now and it does not seem like any of the top users could still be enjoying themselves.
I check in now and then, mainly because I am really interesting in internet gaming. The game [...]

Checklist for Restoring iPhone

What to check after you do a iPhone restore. (In my case because I am afraid of 1.1.2)

custom wallpaper (when phone is locked)
contacts- are they all there? are contacts syncing with the right source?
photos- photos there? do contacts have the right photo ID assigned? syncing with correct folder? is your camera roll still in place? [...]

Halo 3 and Suicide Sticky Bombing

There is a great article on Wired about suicide grenade-ing in Halo 3.
Or to put it another way: The structure of Xbox Live creates a world composed of two classes — haves and have-nots. And, just as in the real world, some of the disgruntled have-nots are all too willing to toss their lives [...]

How Nintendo Neutered Maniac Mansion

http://www.crockford.com/wrrrld/maniac.html
A pretty good read about Maniac Mansion and what the developers had to go through to get it on the NES. Who knew NOA’s standards were so strict? I mean, you can microwave the hamster!

Pico-ITX Cases on the Way

http://www.logicsupply.com/blog/…
Looks like the people over at Logic Supply already have in a Serener GS-L08 (the most highly anticipated Pico-ITX case) and that they have another- secret- one on the way they they are not talking about. This Serener looks pretty solid and while $140 is not super cheap, it is actually a reasonable price for [...]

OLPC = Computing AK47?

http://www.geek.com/lessons-to-learn-from-the-olpc/
Comment #5
Cheap to produce. Simple to use. Shipped to the poor and needy in foreign markets. Hummm now what export does that remind me of. Oh yah, the AK-47. We all know how good that worked out for us. Except the cheap laptop is infinantly more dangerous than the battle implement that has killed more [...]

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