One word - 2008

One New Year’s resolution I made this year is to do more blogging and writing. So let’s kick off 2008 with a meme! Oh my!
From Derek, who responded to Jen, who stole it from Colleen.
Here are the ground rules:
1. After reading my answers, copy and paste the list into your comment.
2. Change my one-word responses [...]

Posted at Jan 2nd | 3 comments | Filed Under: fun, meme read on

Fluid - A site specific browser

Came across a neat idea today in Fluid, an app for OS X that turns a website into what appears to be an “application”, so it gets an icon on the Dock, etc. I like this idea because it gets rid of the whole idea of where an “application” comes from and treats web apps [...]

Posted at Dec 28th | 1 comment | Filed Under: mac read on

Fall Foliage

I’ve always been afraid to post anything not purely geek / technical here, but hell, if Tim Bray can do it, so can I damnit! So here are a bunch of photos taken of various flowers / plants in my backyard, gloriously hanging on as fall begins to win the battle of the seasons. There’s [...]

Posted at Oct 15th | 4 comments | Filed Under: photography read on

Peggle Game Review

Ben “Yahtzee” Crosshaw has his latest video game review up on The Escapist, this time for Peggle.

I have to admit that I spent about 3 hours playing Peggle the other night after I ordered the Orange Box thing and Valve tossed it in for free.
I really like Ben’s reviews. His Bioshock review was awesome, even [...]

Posted at Oct 2nd | no comments | Filed Under: fun, games read on

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