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Monthly Archives: June 2009
Our (possibly) scary future: two data points
In my RSS reader today, I came across two (seemingly) unrelated posts that ended up colliding in my mind and making me feel, well… a bit troubled about certain aspects of our glorious, technofuture. The first is a video, “What … Continue reading
The path of success is paved with failure
Will Wright is, I think, one of the most important and visionary designers in the video game industry. Years ago, he basically invented the “Sim” genre with the creation of SimCity and, eventually, The Sims, two of the most popular … Continue reading
For a brief, shimmering moment… we’re spam free
After my recent WordPress kerfuffle, my old spam filtering plugin went away for a few days. During four days’ time, I received almost 300 spam comments/trackbacks on the blog. Fun! I got the blog fixed (for the moment), got rid … Continue reading
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Here is why, eventually, Microsoft is doomed
Yesterday, I discovered the lovely new “not-a-dictionary” word site, Wordnik. Simpy delightful for a verbaphile such as myself. Now, I use the drop-down search engine thingy that comes with Firefox. You know… that little box in the upper right where … Continue reading
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Once again, WordPress has borked
In the words of Tina Fey, “What the what?!” The good news is I’m getting much better at completely tearing down WordPress and putting it back in again. Bad news is that “better” still means 2 hours of funnin’ around. … Continue reading
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