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Bye Bye LJ... Sorta.
Well, I've decided that I've just had enough of Livejournal. I've had an account for almost 8 years, posted almost 1200 times ( Read more... ) -
End of an Era
When I was a kid and through my early teenage years, videogames meant playing a lot of games and keeping up with the newest games and news from the industry through gaming magazines. My first real job, working for a game store, came about through hanging out at the place until the manager asked me to buy some game mags for him and handed me $20. He ( Read more... ) -
Bye Bye, Love
Much as I hate to keep reminding everyone of the fact that we're in a financial crisis that I don't even remotely understand, there's something I think all of you should know.
Valleywag is reporting that LiveJournal has lost a majority of its employees. 20 of 28 staffers at LJ were let go, with no severance, which consists of project managers and ( Read more... ) -
Vacation From Vacation
There's always a feeling when you come to the end of your vacation time that you need to squeeze a few more things in before heading back to work. That feeling struck me last night in a big way ( Read more... ) -
The Next Big Thing
I've been a huge fan of classic videogames. Hell, I still play NES games all the time and even hacked up my installed version of Linux on my PS3 specifically to make playing those games easier. (More on that later ( Read more... ) -
C is for Christmas
On Christmas Eve, my mom made the bus trip from Montreal to Quebec City to spend some of the Christmas holidays with us. I left work on the 24th and ended up getting on the same bus that Morgan, Billy and my mom were already on for a strange but nice coincidence ( Read more... ) -
Hello World!
So I finally decided to start up my own personal site with a domain and everything. I know it’s a little odd for me to be doing it from out of nowhere, but several things pushed me into the decision ( Read more... ) -
Going Under
I opened the car door and carefully made my way across the iced over path towards the rest of the family, all gathered around the hearse. The snow from the cement path to my father's burial plot had been plowed. I held Billy's hand and waited for my mom to walk over to us. I wrapped an arm around her and followed behind the rest of the family over ( Read more... ) -
My Day
So... 40 of the 80 or so people I work with were told they were being let go next month. My job was safe ( Read more... )