I downloaded and played the Demo of Halo Wars, the new RTS game placed in the Halo universe. I really liked what I saw, and enjoyed playing Skirmishes with the computer opponents.
So I rented the full game when it came out, and I couldn’t even finish the campaign. There are a couple of …
In junior high and high school I had a gym teacher who demanded that we run for miles with essentially no guidance on form, how to train properly for running distance, or how to stay hydrated. She was constantly annoyed with me because I couldn’t breath well while running and because my knees started …
The more I read about the housing crisis and the eventual collapse of the financial markets, the less faith I have in our masters of the universe.
The newest bits of my reading are around the failure of the credit rating agencies like Moodys and S&P to assess risk because of market pressures. First read …
Recently Bobby Jindal got thrust into the national spotlight to offer the republican rebuttal to the president’s state of the union.
Jindal caught a lot of crap for his just outright awful public speaking skills, and as the days crept on, lots of people wanted to get an idea of who this Jindal character is.
Well, turns …
There has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth in iPhone app developer circles around how successful 99 cent apps are, how biased apple’s distribution system is toward cheap apps, and how hard it is to sell finely crafted complex applications for which developers have to ask for more money.
My initial reaction to almost all …
If you haven’t checked it out yet, give yourself 10 minutes and read through Errol’s latest blog for the NYT. He sits down with 3 photo editors and discusses photos of bush with them.
Errol always has interesting opinions about both film and photography, and I’m always entranced by his examination and interpretation of photography. …
Recently I’ve had more free time than is reasonably good for me, and decided to look into the current state of “canal phones”. For the past 5 years or so, I’ve used the Sony MDR-EX71s both at work and at home and I’ve never really had any issue with them. I got them …
If you haven’t seen the link yet, check out Hype Magazine’s 2008 zeitgeist.
I’ve been craving some new music action recently, and I haven’t heard of a large number of these bands, so in an effort to keep up my indie street cred, I’m going to try and make my way through each of these albums …
Slightly before the holidays I picked up the Canon 5DmkII as a replacement to my original 5D. The 5D is still working like a champ, and I have no objections to its performance for the type of photography I do. It still takes amazing full frame images.
But the mkII offered some very concrete …
The Holidays were a mellow time in the life of Joe. I took 2 weeks off of work and just sort of decompressed. Good times were had by all.
I played some games online with Doug, spent a little time with the big swede and hung out on Christmas day with some friends from …