Archive for May, 2005
Next gen consoles at E3
Another May, another E3. This year’s very important because the Big Three (Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo) have released their specs on their new gaming consoles. Without getting into the techical details, I’m most impressed with Sony and Microsoft. You have to give Microsoft a lot of credit for beating the pants off of Nintendo in the [...]
iTunes Music Store offers Final Fantasy soundtracks
Videogames are a huge business. Halo 2 made over $100 million on its first day of release alone (well, $50 a pop is more than a $10 movie ticket, but who’s looking at that?). Final Fantasy has been one of the most successful game franchises ever. The iTunes Music Store started offering 15 Final Fantasy [...]
Two months later – PSP vs. DS
Now that we’re on the eve of E3, I figured I’d plunk down my own 2 cents and reflect on my views on the DS vs. the PSP. Put simply – I haven’t used my DS since the PSP was release. There isn’t enough Nintendogs or interations of Final Fantasy that could make me pick [...]
Why in the world do we need wxWindows?
A few months ago I was put on a project. The goal was to take the code to a project built for Windows using wxWindows and port it to the Mac. It was a speedy process and worked well….at first. For those of you that don’t know, wxWindows, now called wxWidgets, is a toolkit which [...]
Is Stuffit relevant anymore?
For as long as I can remember, I used Stuffit Deluxe for my Mac. When Apple released Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Stuffit Expander was not part of the installation for the first time in many years. Since OS X has .zip creation/expansion built in, I suppose they think that there’s no need for Stufit [...]
Obituaries on wheels
There seems to be a new trend in New Jersey – putting obituaries on cars. These aren’t people that died in the armed forces, either. “Beloved grandfather” or “Favorite uncle” grace the rear and side windows of cars along the Garden State Parkway. At first I thought it was for people that died in Iraq [...]
Revenge of the Wal*Mart shoppers
When the last Star Wars movie was released, there were two different versions of the soundtrack, the common one with 13 tracks, and Target’s exclusive which had a 14th track on it. This time isn’t any different, but has a twist to the story. If you buy the CD at Wal*Mart, you get to download [...]
Candy of the week
The reason why I felt compelled to post an image of a Milky Way bar is because I haven’t had one in so damn long. When you spend 7 years not eating junk, you realize how much you missed something. The thing is, when your pants stop fitting you realize again why you stopped eating [...]
MMORPG OMGWTFBBQ RSVP COD BVD
Anyone play MMORPGs? Everquest? World of Warcraft? Guild Wars? Lineage? Galaxies? Final Fantasy XI? Playing online is such a refreshing change from the static worlds of videogames, and mix in the interaction with real people and you get a gameplay that’s never been done before. Personally, I play EQ, EQ2, WoW, and I just picked [...]
