Archive for January, 2007
One of the many visualizations on IBMs “Many Eyes” site is this one: Percentage of people (by U.S. state) who call sugary carbonated beverages “Pop”, “Soda” and “Coke”. “Soda” has a pretty weird distribution. “Coke” is pretty clearly centralized in the South, and “Pop” in the North, but “Soda” is all over the place[ READ MORE ]
I’ve got games coming out of my ears, and the game companies refuse to stop producing more. I was hoping there would maybe be some sort of post-Christmas lull, but I suppose now everyone is shipping the games they meant to get out for the holiday rush. I’m playing a lot of Final Fantasy XII [ READ MORE ]
The poor cat just tried to jump up on top of my new LCD monitor and got a nasty surprise. Where once there was a large, warm CRT to curl up on, there’s now only… well, not much. The monitor and the cat seem to be no worse for wear, although the latter’s pride seemed [ READ MORE ]
All of my new parts arrived on Tuesday, and last night – after also replacing a DVD drive that had been acting up – I tried out the new setup with a round of Neverwinter Nights 2. I even left the side of the case off to make it easy! After about five minutes of [ READ MORE ]
Just to make sure I didn’t accidentally let any money be left over after Christmas, I ordered a bunch of new parts for my computer late last week. The first (and biggest) part arrived today: a new 19″ LCD monitor to replace my current CRT. I had actually debated getting two monitors but the prices [ READ MORE ]
A long time ago Joel wrote a post about “Architecture Astronauts“: When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don’t know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don’t actually mean anything at [ READ MORE ]
So this new blog experiment has been interesting so far. Outwardly, this is only post number three (not counting the mysterious blank post that appeared for a while before I caught it), but I’ve currently got seven drafts in progress, none of which are anywhere close to being postable. I’m discovering that going from “basic [ READ MORE ]