So I’ve had a TIVO since the early days. I bought mine a couple of months after they went on sale. I had been thinking of buying one for some time then one day I walk in to Fry’s Electronics, an electronics retail chain on the West Coast and they are just unloading the TIVO… Continue reading the rest of the article

While I was walking around the recent 2005 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco I noticed the absence of an old friend who I haven’t seen in several years. What prompted me to think of him was bumping in to several other old friends from my Activision days who were attending the conference. So if… Yearning to get the remainder of “Trying to find Francois-Yves Bertrand?” Use this link!

While I was walking around the recent 2005 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco I noticed the absence of an old friend who I haven’t seen in several years. What prompted me to think of him was bumping in to several other old friends from my Activision days who were attending the conference. So if… Needing to get the remainder of “Trying to find…?” Click this link!

Just wanted to write a brief update to the “What are you reading?” post I made that so many people commented on. Yes. All of those books got read & mini-reviewed. Those books are in addition to the weekly computer book review column that I write. And on top of my regular day job. Several… Click this link to continue reading the rest of “Waste of Time And/Or Space.”

The past month or two I’ve received e-mails from law students working on various EFF patent busting cases. The first one was dealing with a computerised version of Solitaire granted in 1995, which is completely absurd as I shipped at least three solitaire games in the very early 1980′s for the Acorn Atom and ZX… Continue reading the rest of the article

Ugh! I hate intractable yak shaving problems. Today’s was just pitiful. Luckily I can dodge most of them, but there is always one that has my name on it… So today I had the classic Yak Shaving problem. I encounter about one intractable Yak per week that just makes me blow my top and vent… Thirsting to get the remainder of “Intractable Yaks!?” Click the link!

I returned late on Friday evening from Game Developers Conference 2005 held in San Francisco, CA. I had fun, though I am beginning to have misgivings about the direction that it is heading in. There were a number of problems with GDC this year. The food was lacklustre. Many panels were insipid. Conference rooms were… Needing to get the remainder of “Game Developers Conference?” Click the link!

In 2004 I had occasion to purchase several new workstations for my software company. These machines needed to be relatively recent and reasonably well specced. After browsing through Dell and Gateway to see what they had in the way of “workstations” that I could purchase off the shelf nothing really took my fancy. None of… Needing to get the remainder of “Absolutely Bananas?” Click this link!

Don’t buy AlienWare Area 51-m or Sager laptops! Here’s why: I’ve owned an Alienware Area 51-m and a Sager NP5560Ultra both purchased within 2 months of each other. One came direct from AlienWare in Florida, the other from PowerNotebooks in Nevada. PowerNotebooks have bent over backwards in their customer service and they are a great… Click this link to read the rest of the article

Earlier this year, around March, I purchased a brand new Toshiba Portege convertible, the one with the twisty screen. It works great for what I need it for, and it gets abused on a regular basis two and three times a day, thrown in a laptop bag, bounced off of restaurant tables and seats, and… Continue reading the remainder of “Yet Another New Notebook.”