So the big buzz at GDC is about the OnLive gaming service. The basic idea is that OnLive is going to run high end PC games on high end machines and pipe the video to the consumer. The consumer runs a very thin client, either a cheap set top box or a PC or Mac -- and the draw here is that the consumer doesn't have to have a high end gaming machine, ( Read more... )

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On the iTunes store, in TV Shows, one of the categories is "Drama & Sci-Fi".

So last night I dreamed I was looking for some, uh, particular erotica, and was directed to a store I'd never been to, in a kind of sketchy part of my dream landscape. The store was enormous, and apparently, besides the adult books, the owners had acquired the stocks of all the other hobby stores that have ever been in my dreamland. I'm talking ( Read more... )

me: const correctness can bite my shiny metal ass
boss: sorry, your shiny metal ass is private, and clearly const correctness is not your friend
me: don't make me come over there and #define private public

Last night, we finally retired regency from a long tour of duty as the Wabe's NAT/firewall/router machine. For a while we've been wanting to simplify the setup in the computer room downstairs, so last night after phidiana cleaned things up enough for me to move around, I unplugged everything in our Network Operations Center (about 12 square feet of under- ( Read more... )

A Unicode-based comic strip made me laugh unto hyperventilation just now.

Regency is a 7 year old UMax Celeron-366 machine which provides NAT/firewall and shell service here at the Wabe ( Read more... )

The ones I've read in bold, though I think the list is kind of broken.

1. The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell
3. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley -- started it a few times in my youth
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip Dick
5. Neuromancer -- William Gibson
6. Dune -- Frank ( Read more... )

So yeah, the web site is in courier and that's never a good sign, but, oh my god, the lyrics are great.
"Alice is sendin' her message to Bob ( Read more... )