Archive for May, 2008
Where's (isn't) Waldo?
About a year or so ago, my aunt and uncle wanted to have a new carpet installed in their home. They worked with the installers to determine a time that they can come over to install the carpet based on their work schedule. They said that looking back, they apparently gave too much information about [...]
NBC/Universal shows their spiteful side
According to PC World this morning, NBC/Universal has moved to the Zune platform after abandoning Apple’s iTunes Store, the most successful online digital retailer in the world. I generally don’t post profanity on here, but WTF? I just don’t get it. Not only is the Zune a complete joke (it doesn’t even have a clock), [...]
Why I preorder my games
This article on Ars Technica brought about a lot of comments about why preordering videogames is a stupid idea. I’d like to defend the notion of preordering and explain a little bit about why I do it. Preordering started with laserdiscs. There were so few printed that if you didn’t get one on release day, [...]