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Podcasts I’m Listening to 2011
It’s been a little over a year, so I wanted to make a new, updated list of the podcasts I’m currently listening to. For shows I covered before, I’m just going to copy the description over, verbatim. Science The Naked Scientists – This has nothing to do with nudity. It’s a British thing, like The…
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KDE 2010-2015 (KDE 4.x)
Desktop – Super Mario: Fedora – KDE 4: 2015 Programming Activity: Video Editing Activity: Video Games Activity: Photography Activity: 11 Dec: Multimedia Activity: School Activity: Main Activity: 2014 Programming Activity: 11 Dec: Video Editing Activity: 11 Dec: Video Games Activity: 11 Dec: Photography Activity: 11 Dec: Multimedia Activity: 11 Dec: School Activity: 11 Dec: Main…
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Top 200 Photos: #155
Here is today’s Top 200 Photo photo #155 is: Ever since I moved to Baltimore, I’ve been in the city during Otakon, the annual anime convention. The first couple of times it was a complete accident. For the the past two years I’ve looked up the dates ahead of time and made sure to…
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Gaming in February
Again, just a small blog post to document the video games I played with throughout the year to make it easier to do a recap at the end of the year. Assassin’s Creed II (30 min) – I booted this sucker up to get some of the easy trophies I’d missed while playing the game…
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Assassin’s Creed vs Assassin’s Creed II
Because I rarely play games when they first come out, I had the occasion to play Assassin’s Creed and Assassin’s Creed II back-to-back. As I’ve mentioned before ( near the end of the post ) getting to experience sequels one after another can yield some benefits over waiting years in between. (Plus, in the case…
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Using Boxee for the First Time
My wife enjoys watching TV a lot more than I do. I prefer interactive or creative pursuits like programming, photography, or video games. If, tomorrow, all the TV studios said we could no longer use the Internet to freely watch their programs (with ads, of course), I wouldn’t buy cable. Once I’d broken that shackle,…
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Civilized
I was on the phone with my dad a couple weekends ago and he asked if I was playing Civilization 5. He’d heard that Dan was playing it and was surprised that it was still around and Dan and I were still playing it. I told him I was playing it and reminded him that…
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Guess What? Linux May Not Be for Everyone
I feel like I may have covered bits of this here and there, but I couldn’t find it after a cursory check through my blog. Fanaticism is fanaticism, whether it’s religious or technological it follows the same path. Witness anyone who has just become an evangelical Christian (and it probably extends to other religions) as…
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When Achievements are a Good Thing
?At first I ridiculed achievements/trophies. The idea that grown men and women (and, heck anyone over 12 years old) would care about getting these achievements enough to continue playing through their games until they earned them all seemed ludicrous. Then, I acknowledged it was a fun way to compete with friends in games that are…
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A Quick Review: Windows 7
This is the first time in nearly 10 years that I’m moving to a new version of WIndows. I pop the CD in and boot up. I see a text screen as Windows “loads files”. Nothing here different from a Linux distro. Then the Windows logo pops up. Wow, I’m impressed that Microsoft finally caught…
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The Price of Technology
We all know that technology continues to get cheaper and cheaper every year. But this was brought into sharp relief yesterday when I looked up the invoice for Dave’s computer to see what components it contained. I built Dave’s computer in 2006. It was a graduation present from my parents and meant to be Dave’s…
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Otakon 2010
Just like last year, I went to Otakon, but didn’t pay to get in. Perhaps next year. So, like last year, I mostly photographed people under the the awning of the convention center. Unlike last year, I asked lots of people if I could photograph them. It paid off as I was able to get lots…
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The NeoEconomy
There’s a new system of exchange of goods and services that threatens to rock the economic system and it’s not some new form of derivatives. Digital goods and services are growing larger and larger, but economics has not yet caught up. This is scary because more and more of our economy is based upon digital…
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Why I don’t Care if Free TV Disappears from the Net
When I flew to Tampa last week, there was a magazine cover that claimed the days of free professional content over the Internet were over. The cable companies had a way, it claimed, to control the programs available and keep us paying >$100/month for cable. I didn’t read the article, but I have a guess…
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Podcasts I’m Listening To
I’ve been listening to podcasts for about two years now. I got into it because I love listening to some NPR programs, but they are always on when I’m at work or asleep on the weekends. Eventually, I heard on NPR that they have podcasts of various shows. I checked it out right away because…