Author: Eric Mesa

  • Romantic Still Life

  • Truth

    As before, click on the image to see the accompanying text.

  • Wall

    Wall is a great command if you’re intent on getting notoriety/kicked off the box you’re on. It broadcasts a message to every terminal open for every logged on user. For this reason, it may be turned off on the computer you’re on. This means every xterm, gnome-terminal, etc and every one of the 6 VTs…

  • Outage

    Sorry for the outage of the server – we had a power outage here last night. Everything should be back up now.

  • Best Score….Ever!

    Just finished my first Warlords game and I won a domination victory with my highest score ever! 12108!! Got ranked as Charlemagne! Save file to uploaded in the future.

  • Enough is Enough

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  • Civ4: Warlords Absolute first impression

    There is a new, war oriented opening movie that kicks butt! The opening screen no longer plays the happy Lion King-like theme, but a more ominous one. Instead of a nice happy world in the background to the main menu, we have an impatient looking warrior who likes to twirl his sword. Impressive!

  • My Best Civ4 Game Ever

    Before I get to playing civ4: Warlods, I wanted to share my best high score ever in civ4. It was as the Eric-Chin IV of the Chinese. My final score was 7217 (the next one is 5699! as the japanese) and I finished in 1988 AD with a Domination victory in Chieftain difficulty. I might…

  • Not my favorite installation screen

  • Civ 4: Warlords is Out!

    Today is the official release of Civ4: Warlords! Go get it, but make sure you leave me a copy!

  • Mondays

  • Children’s Book to teach them about DRM

    Paradigms are a battle of the mind that take place when we prepare our children with certain expectations about the world. Don’t let them grow up thinking there’s something right about Digital Restrictions Management! Have them read The Pig and the Box and let them learn about why software and culture need to be libre.…

  • Night-time Black and White

  • Grandfather

  • My first published book of photography!

    Today I received my copy of the photography book I’ve published, Eric Mesa’s Top 40 flickr Images. It’s a great feeling to finally have the book published after having worked on it since April. There were a few false starts with the publishing process as I figured out how to make sure my final PDF…