The best week of my life revisited
Well, I got word this week that my first video of significant length landed on the desk of the founder of Adventures in Missions. And he liked it.
View ArticleGood news for Optimizing Windows fans
O'Reilly wants to release my 1999 book, Optimizing Windows for Games, Graphics, and Multimedia , under an open content-style license. I'd love to see the thing released so it can gain widespread...
View ArticleA good tool for salvaging really bad photographs
I've been playing around with the perspective correction feature in Gimp 2.0, and while it's invaluable, I've noticed that it really has a tendency to blur up a picture. You can reduce this some by not...
View ArticleWorking with idiots can kill you
My mom sent me a newspaper article today to make me feel better. Maybe I should say she sent what looks like a newspaper article. I don't think it's genuine, for a number of reasons: no byline, feature...
View ArticleIn defense of Atari
Well, the 20th anniversary of the release of the venerable Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) passed this week. And with it came discussion of how the NES saved the videogame industry after the...
View ArticleFairlight in the news?
A story today about the possibility that a prominent California Republican was once a co-founder of the Commodore 64 warez group Fairlight caused an uproar on Slashdot today. Reading it brought back...
View ArticleI didn’t cause the depression
Various analysts are blaming the current depression on people like me. The reasoning goes like this: I have money in the bank, therefore, I should be out spending it, for the greater good, to stir the...
View ArticleOh. And don’t go panic and sell all your stocks.
The Googles have spoken, and people don’t come here for financial advice, but I’ll say this anyway. The markets have been going bonkers for the last week, but don’t panic. Don’t go dumping your stocks...
View ArticleGreenberg’s Marx Trains Pocket Price Guide, 9th edition: A review
I received my copy of the new 9th edition of the Greenberg Pocket Price Guide for Marx trains this past weekend. Marx used to print on its packages, “One of the many Marx toys. Have you all of them?”...
View ArticleBusted at the Safeway for phone phreaking
Software developer, author, and blogger Jeff Atwood wrote his confessions of the 1980s this week. As a teenager and not-quite-adult, he was a phone phreaker. More of this went on than anyone wants to...
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