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  • A Blast from my Coding Past

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    Its not that I don’t code any more… I do… Just not so profusely. But it is strange when code that you wrote a long time ago continues to live on and run a life of its own. wxCURL is precisely one of those projects. The project started back in 2004 (and if the file’s…

  • Lifestream Digest for March 10th

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    Published Lifestream Digest for March 3rd. Shared Google Maps Car Hits a Deer, Records Entire Ordeal (link). Shared 2 links. News: Piracy-targeting law firm investigated by watchdog NBC’s Brian Williams Declares That Public Should Pay for News A little sad about missing #GDC / #GDC10. Really looking forward to spending the week with my nearly…

  • Protected: Blogging Alexis

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  • Protected: Alexis on a Password Protected Basis

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  • Lifestream Digest for March 3rd

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    Published Lifestream Digest for February 24th. Shared 2 links. News: Sony promises bug fix within 24 hours News: Bug cripples original PlayStation 3 models

  • Lifestream Digest for February 24th

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    Published Lifestream Digest for February 17th. Shared How to compete with iPad » Matt Legend Gemmell. Even Walmart commercials in Canada have girl hockey players. [caseyodonnell] The cliques formed by the "cool geeks" are far more exclusive than the "cool kids" cliques. Exclusion begets more extensive exclusion? [caseyodonnell] Oh, so NOW we care about ice…

  • Lifestream Digest for February 17th

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    Published Daily Digest for February 12th. #NBC #Olympic #FAIL : Requiring cable, sattelite, or IPTV for live streaming. As a company you deserve your impending corportate doom. [caseyodonnell] Shared NBC Won’t Stream Most of 2010 Olympics Online – Technorati Technology. Published The Price of “Closed” Hardware. The DSi and PSP Go will never succeed without…

  • Of Geeks, Games, and Girls

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    I read this a while back. The essay, which looks at how geek/nerd culture may discourage women from studying computer science troubled me. It troubled me because much of geek/nerd culture is precisely what is produced by engineers that go into game development. So are these researchers telling me that because games are rooted in…

  • The Price of “Closed” Hardware

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    I’ve been screaming about it for a while now, 2007 to be precise. But the proof is in the numbers. More game developers are working on the iPhone and soon the iPad. The DSi’s lack of support for an open SDK is particularly nonsensical, given its reliance on less expensive games for download. But, the…

  • Daily Digest for February 12th

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    Published Daily Digest for February 5th. Shared Industry survey shows iPhone growth, console development preference. Shared Game developers on iPhone outnumber DS and PSP two-to-one. Published Raising the Dead…. Shared 2 links. NPD: U.S. January Retail Video Game Sales Sink 13 Percent Luxoflux shuttered as layoffs hit Activision dev studios, publisher confirms