Category: General

  • Today in It’s A Binary World Blogging History

    One Year Ago Today: Politics: Illicit Acquisition of Game of Thrones in Australia and the Death of CISPA Five Years Ago Today: I discuss my 365 Project.

  • Kickstarter Update 4

    It’s December and I should have gotten all of my Kickstarter products by now. But that’s not exactly what happened. Every single one of my Kickstarters was late except the one I had the least faith and relationship with – Random Encounter’s Let Me Tell You a Story. I Fight Dragons – Project Atma (music):…

  • There’s Gold in Them Thar Hills! (3760 BC)

    I had my KVM set to the wrong computer so I accidentally fortified my warrior on the first turn. I didn’t realize this when the second turn started (getting used to playing hot seat) so he sat around for a turn. I started moving him around and discovered that I seem to be in a…

  • Maybe the Slippery Slope is a Good Thing? Slate Has An Interesting Call For Legalizing Polygamy

    The slippery slope rebuttal can be pretty annoying depending on how dumb the person using the argument wants to be.  For example, many people say all the surveillance cameras we have everywhere are a slippery slope towards totalitarian governments.  While I think we still have a few tricks up our sleeves before we have to…

  • In the Wake of SimCity Fiasco Another Look at CitiesXL

    I first played Cities XL in May of 2011.  I last played a year ago in April 2012.  At the time I said I couldn’t wait until Sim City came out.  However, we know what a fiasco that has become.  So, discouraged about playing Sim City I decided to load up Cities XL.  This is…

  • When Twitter is Awesome

    The thing I like the most about Twitter is the ability to interact with creatives in real time.  In the past you had to write a letter to a writer, artist, musician, etc and hope that, maybe, they’d actually read it and that, maybe, they’d feel compelled to reply with something more than boilerplate.  I…

  • Top 20 Most Interesting Photos on flickr

    The last time I could quickly find where I did this was last January. While there are some photos that are similar, there’s been quick a shake-up on the Most Interesting Photos (as determined by flickr’s algorithms).

  • October Video Games Report

    The Walking Dead (14 hours) – I played the latest episode of The Walking Dead.  Because you can’t just save wherever you want, I ended up with 14 hours of playtime.  I still haven’t finished episode 4.

  • XBMC Followup

    Earlier this year I wrote about using xbmc to create your own private Netflix.  I thought I’d update my readers on how I like it.  Here’s what the current version looks like with the default skin: I have linked it up with trakt.tv to track my tv and movie watching (just like music scrobbling with…

  • Approximately a Year Later: Top 200 Photos #9

    The #9 photo was: and now it is: which used to be #7

  • Finishing up First Playthrough of Mass Effect 1

      Sorry I took so long to get to this. My last post had me finding out that the Reapers were actually the most ancient species I’ve heard about until now. And after my face off with Saren on Virmire, I thought I’d have to chase him to Ilos to finish the game. But, nope,…

  • Mid May Photojojo

    This Photojojo consists solely of 365 Project photos.  

  • KDE 4 Look Part 3: A Week of KDE 4.5

    So I’ve used KDE for about a work week.  During that time I’ve pretty much gone to using the KDE versions of all my programs except Konqueror.  I’m not sure if the Fedora 14 version of Konqueror is the one with Webkit, but last time I used Konqueror with KHTML it was mucking up a…

  • Quitting the Nanowrimo

    I love to write so when I started the 2010 NanoWrimo competition 9 days late I thought it would be no big deal to get caught up.  I really under-estimated the effort behind writing over two thousand words a day.  I think I probably could have made it if I had an idea ahead of…

  • Late Oct-Early November 2010 Photojojo Time Capsule

    Here’s my latest Photojojo time capsule with my most “interesting” photos from late October to early November 2009.