Posted in work on November 5th, 2007 No Comments »
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!
Posted in work on October 10th, 2007 No Comments »
The first video of SplashTop that I have seen. Pretty cool stuff, though I am still up in the air about how practical it is until is makes the way to portable devices. Very cool stuff though.
The word on the street is that it is based on Blackbox.
Posted in work on September 12th, 2007 No Comments »
http://www.sizeasy.com/page/size_comparison/…
The important ones here for me are the iPhone (which I am using right now), the HTC Kaiser (which I have my eye one), and the Curve (which is probably the ideal phone for me right now). The Curve is the smallest and I think the lightest, but definitely not the coolest. The thickness of [...]
Posted in work on September 4th, 2007 No Comments »
http://mobilitysite.com/2007/09/asus-u3-available/
Here are the real details on the U3 ultraportable notebook.
Intel® CoreT2 Duo Processor T7500
Mobile Intel® GM965 Chipset, ICH8M
Intel 4965 a/b/g/nGenuine Windows® Vista
nVIDIA GeForce G8400M G External 128MB VRAM
Turbo Cach 384M with 1G system Memory (option); 896M with 2G system Memory
1.3M Pixels Video Camera (option)
RAM DDR2 667MHz, up to 1536MB
SATA HDD up to 160 GB, GPS, [...]
Posted in work on August 9th, 2007 No Comments »
http://ptech.allthingsd.com/…
Walt “the Godfather of tech” Mossberg finally got a change to look at the Zonbu computer. It doesn’t get to deep into the computer, but a number of important issues are brought up, especially the fact that you can get a Dell with a 160GB drive and twice the RAM for about what a Zonbu [...]
Posted in work on August 4th, 2007 1 Comment »
So what’s the best way to keep track of what you do during work each day? I’m trying to find a system that is simple and efficient. I don’t need much, just a basic time sheet that breaks down how I spent my work day. I don’t need:
4:23:12PM- Got coffee
4:27:30PM- Sat back down
Rather, something that [...]
Posted in work on August 1st, 2007 1 Comment »
I finally gave my old version of GAIM the boot and upgraded to Pidgin today. I had been using GAIM 1.5 for a long time and I like it much better than any AIM client, but it has always had a few quirks that were really starting to get on my nerves.
The upgrade to Pidgin [...]