So everywhere I look, careless forum-lurkers and sloppy journalists are making completely specious assumptions that Apple's switch to Intel implies a switch to x86, x86-64, or IA-64. Now, we may very well be find that to be true eventually (tomorrow), but for now, there simply isn't any evidence yet that Apple has to switch architectures. And I ( Read more... )

Periodically, I decide to give ST Voyager a chance again, and watch a few episodes. Having done this for the fourth time in as many years with the exact same results, I have resolved never to do it again.

It is appropriate that TNG contained this quote which so aptly describes its bastard granddaughter:
They could not possibly know the hell they ( Read more... )

I have noticed a very bad trend among blogs that I read, especially those at Live Journal. Often, when people are faced with a counter-argument or a differing opinion, they choose to respond by flaming, mocking, deleting another's post, or otherwise prematurely ending the debate without graciously responding to the argument. I notice this in ( Read more... )

My good friend David Chen (who created the cover for Simeon's first album) has graciously offered for us use another one of his amazing photographs for our next album cover (forthcoming). We haven't yet decided which one, but there are quite a few that we're excited about.

"You were right. I can do this. I found the edge. Can you live there with me? Can you?"

So earlier I mentioned Gnocatan, the GTK adaptation of Settlers of Catan. At Raistlin's suggestion, I started coding an all java version of the game. Note that there is also a web-based non-free Java version floating around somewhere. However, I wanted something to code, and having a GPLed Java version of the game is excuse enough ( Read more... )

Penny Arcade is a delightfully crass comic and editorial about video games. In the latest comic, as in many others, they make reference to themselves and their role (or lack thereof) in the industry. It was always so obvious that they did this, but I never really considered it before. In no other comic that I've read has the impact of the comic ( Read more... )

Gnocatan, a GTK implementation of the board game Settlers of Catan (this is courtesy of raistlinsb).

Freeciv, a free Civilization 2 knockoff. Very fun, and binary clients for just about any OS.

Arianne, an open source MMORPG. Currently, it is working on a subgame called "Gladiators". The released binaries are Windows-only and very much pre- ( Read more... )

Just 10 minutes ago, something amazing happened as I created music. "What the Hell" and "Not Crap" combined to form something beautiful. But since it is exquisite to me, I can assume it will be hideous to everyone else. I will, of course, not let this bother me. What kind of musician is toppled from his roof by others' misconceptions of music?

For those who don't already know, Pro Tools is the most ubiquitous music production software/hardware system today. It was created by Digidesign originally for Mac-based systems only, but has since been ported to the PC. According to its advocates, the main attraction of the system is the hardware real-time effect expandability. It is claimed ( Read more... )