August 7, 2009
My Xbox 360 has finally joined it’s brethren in the land of the lost. We’ve had a lot of good memories she and I, playing Halo 3 single player straight through after picking it up on midnight release. We crushed the Covenant and fought back the Flood together. It was like I was the Master Chief and she was my Cortana.
July 13, 2009
Today, two brave adventurous spirits will set out on the journey of a life time. Their destination: Jaco, Costa Rica. Their purpose: to live, and experience life in its fullest. Their adventures will be chronicled at 37 days in Jaco. Don’t miss a single part!
July 12, 2009
Click me for extremely gooey closeup
Just because it’s hot outside and the sun is cooking your skin doesn’t mean you should stop cooking hot meals for yourself. Here’s a quick and easy recipe for an indulgent Grilled Cheese that’s not your average sandwich.
July 12, 2009
Currently considering taking requests for music at the wedding in September. If anybody would like to hear any specific songs, let it be known in the comments. Artist, Song Title (album if you know it), and whether it should be played during Dinner or Dancing. Have at it!
July 9, 2009
Yes, he actually said this
In case any of you had been sitting on your laurels thinking that the internets were a series of tubes in which every man, woman and child were equal, please be aware that you’re about to get what they refer to in the scientific community as an ass kicking.
June 30, 2009
Here’s a fun fact: email was first used in 1965. That means it predates the internet, hell it even predates ARPANET, which was the precursor to the internet. Sadly, nobody has cared to improve email in the past 44 years aside from the addition of MIME, which allowed the sending of embedded multimedia.
At its very essence, email is the digital equivalent to snail mail (postal service). You take a simple message and perhaps some attachments, and send it to either a single person or to a group of people. The communication path however, is disjointed. Depending on how the recipients of your message respond, the conversation can become an entwined, branching mess of time-wasting garbage. And if somebody is added late to the trail of emails, catching up on the conversation becomes an exercise in scrolling and skimming, which can only lead to overlooking pertinent threads of the conversation.
While email is meant to be a tool used today in business for collaboration and efficient communication, most (if not all) companies are turning towards alternative means of collaboration to enhance the way that their employees work. Whether it be a company wide twitter platform, or an intranet blogging platform, or even simply instant messaging services the growing trend is that email is nearing it’s end. The people have spoken, and email simply doesn’t cut it in the world of twitter, the blogosphere, and Gmail anymore.
June 25, 2009
If you haven’t heard, Michael Jackson died today. Here’s a tribute to the man who gave us one of the greatest arcade titles of all time: Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker.
June 24, 2009
I’ve never done a proper ‘Review’ of anything, although it’s always been something that I’ve mulled over in the back of my head. To be honest, I’ve always secretly aspired to be a tech journalist, especially if that ‘tech’ means video games… but don’t tell anybody (I said it was a secret, damn it). Let’s call this a ‘beta’ review in the sense that I don’t know what kind of format I’d like to use for future reviews-if there are any, that is. However, with that being said, I’ve always enjoyed the Kotaku review format. It provides simple, straight-forward opinion under the Loved/Hated categories and doesn’t judge the game on an arbitrary number scale. The reason for this is simple, and laid out clearly in their Reviews FAQ:
Boiling down pages of analysis to a single grade or score or number of pumpkins doesn’t help readers, it hurts them, reducing the process of critiquing what is often a living document into black and white terms, when there is often a world of gray left untouched.
They go on to say that by providing the reader with the basic facts they allow an educated and informed choice to be made. The reader is thus empowered to make their own decisions about whether the subject under review is worthy of their hard earned cash or not.
This review will very loosely follow this format (key word loosely); however being that this is a “beta” review of a somewhat beta product, you shouldn’t get too attached. There’s plenty of opportunity for change in the future. In fact, if you have any comments about this format or the subject matter please feel free to drop a line in the comments section.
April 1, 2009
Note: I realize I’ve skipped day 8. There are few words for what happened on the eighth day, and I am trying to bring those words forth, but pictures are worth a thousand words as they say. And I don’t know if I want to publicly show the pictures. We’ll see what happens… Anyway, enjoy my final day in China because I don’t think that I did…
Day 9: The best prank I’ve ever fallen for
China Eastern Airlines may quite possibly have just pulled off the greatest April Fools joke ever. Let me indulge you in a story of peculiarity and confusion. This involves myself, of course, and approximately 108 other people. It is my last day in China and I have a long day of travel to look forward to. This is the story of those travels…
April 1, 2009
Day 7: Testing the Limits of the Human Stomach
Today wasn’t much different from any of the other days. We started off with some breakfast and then took the taxi to the Fu Tian Free Trade Zone and then hopped on the Shuttle that took us all the way to ISH3 where IBM/ISTC is located. We spend a couple of hours working and then went out for lunch at a local Chinese place. Today’s lunch was at a restaurant that is a stone’s throw from the main entrance to Fu Tian and also where we catch the shuttle in the morning. This area where the restaurant was, featured tables located along the walls of the space and additionally around a large oval shaped fountain in the middle of the room. The fountain was not operational (possibly to save costs in the same way that many levels of ISH3 are kept totally dark throughout the day and only illuminated by the glow from laptop screens), and rightfully so as there was one additional table located right near the spout at the center of the fountain.
