It turns out that one of my favorite authors, Walter Jon Williams, wrote the space portion of the game Spore:
“Spore” (Electronic Arts)
At the time of my writing this, the Amazon reviews are still abysmal because of the retarded DRM they’ve put in place.
I’m sure they’ll loosen up sometime soon.
In the meantime the reviews are pretty [...]
Because I hate going to a gym in the mornings, I decided I would give Wi Fit a try so that I can supplement my normal training schedule with some extra effective morning mild exercise. I’ve been checking intermittently to see if Amazon had them, because I really don’t care enough to go and hunt [...]
I had a gamer friend ask me why I didn’t have any trophies yet for Super Stardust HD, one of my favorite PS3 games.
I had no idea what she was talking about, so naturally I searched for “stardust trophies” and found that the Playstation network has finally added achievements, much like the xbox people have [...]
I have been working hard to avoid Blackberries of all kinds having seen sales people (who if you ask anyone who works with technology, they will tell you that people in sales push for the worst solutions available almost all the time) fiddle with them for years.
They never quite worked right.
Their voice quality sucked.
They’re a [...]
Every time I have an interaction with AT&T wireless, it is an agonizing and drawn out horror of an experience. Because I know this, I only call then when absolutely necessary. Basically this is when they break things and I need to figure out why my stuff is busted.
I spent about four hours on the [...]
Chris Soghoian made an interesting point in his recent cnet article entitled iPhone rules pose Net neutrality, antitrust concerns. My key point of interest here is the following:
Apple’s, and to a degree AT&T, inclination to lock in customers is counter to the current direction of the market. Verizon is opening their cellular network and allowing [...]
As I never bothered to buy a Gamecube, I only played smash brothers with drunk people at college parties and when I visited my cousins a bunch of years ago.
With Super Smash Brothers Brawl now out for Wii, my lack of skill is showing and must be corrected to preserve my nerdly reputation.
What is there [...]
I was asked for help with someones iphone recently. It is amazing how many guides are out there and nearly all of them have a very specific instructions of what to do. If you don’t fit into their ideal situation, then you need to figure it out yourself.
Because I’ve spent a lot of time figuring [...]
As any proper geek should, I now have configured my new hardware to closely integrate into my life.
Most of it was quite straight forward, but there were a couple snags worth mentioning.
First is the Nokia Lifeblog software. You need to know the correct settings for things like Flickr and Wordpress.
Second, N95 support is absent from [...]
It is amazing to me that the Wii console is still out of stock most places.
Since I’ve had mine since January, this is not a major concern for me. For the rest of you out there that are still hunting for yours, I offer the following advice:
Try to find a Wii at your local stores [...]
