I can finally talk about our latest project — “Shrek The Third” for Microsoft Windows. I’m happy with the way the game turned out and made me realise that perhaps there is a market for casual “platformer” games after all. The game has been approved by Microsoft and Activision and all of those people that… Click this link to continue reading the remainder of this post

A personal friend of mine, George Moudry, has been tinkering with automated code conversion for a year or two now and has finally come up with something that actually appears to be approaching usable functionality. The Code2Code website takes regular C++ code and converts it to C#. The software is not yet Beta, and only… Click here to continue reading the remainder of this post

…bathrooms. Do you have a sexy bathroom? Is your bathroom hot or not? I’ve never had my bathroom described as sexy before. Things that I keep in my pants I’ve had described as sexy. Even elegant. Men and women lust after the things I keep there.* But never my bathroom. My room-mate, who still believes… Thirsting to get the remainder of “Men Who Have Really Sexy…?” Use this link!

Even though it is generally considered by people other than those related to me that I am a“hell of a nice guy”* in my own way there are days when I’m just downright mean. My latest escapade involved CostCo, a seemingly abandoned shopping trolley, and a gadgety item I desperately lusted after. See, at a… Continue reading the rest of the post

So I’ve had a TIVO since the early days. I bought mine a couple of months after they went on sale. I had been thinking of buying one for some time then one day I walk in to Fry’s Electronics, an electronics retail chain on the West Coast and they are just unloading the TIVO… Continue reading the rest of this article

Just wanted to write a brief update to the “What are you reading?” post I made that so many people commented on. Yes. All of those books got read & mini-reviewed. Those books are in addition to the weekly computer book review column that I write. And on top of my regular day job. Several… Looking to get the remainder of “Waste of Time And/Or Space?” Click this link!

The past month or two I’ve received e-mails from law students working on various EFF patent busting cases. The first one was dealing with a computerised version of Solitaire granted in 1995, which is completely absurd as I shipped at least three solitaire games in the very early 1980’s for the Acorn Atom and ZX… Hankering to read the remainder of “EFF Fighting Blackjack Patent?” Click the link!

Ugh! I hate intractable yak shaving problems. Today’s was just pitiful. Luckily I can dodge most of them, but there is always one that has my name on it… So today I had the classic Yak Shaving problem. I encounter about one intractable Yak per week that just makes me blow my top and vent… Continue reading the remainder of “Intractable Yaks!.”

I returned late on Friday evening from Game Developers Conference 2005 held in San Francisco, CA. I had fun, though I am beginning to have misgivings about the direction that it is heading in. There were a number of problems with GDC this year. The food was lacklustre. Many panels were insipid. Conference rooms were… Continue reading the rest of the article

Don’t buy AlienWare Area 51-m or Sager laptops! Here’s why: I’ve owned an Alienware Area 51-m and a Sager NP5560Ultra both purchased within 2 months of each other. One came direct from AlienWare in Florida, the other from PowerNotebooks in Nevada. PowerNotebooks have bent over backwards in their customer service and they are a great… Click this link to read the rest of “Shock! Computer Breaks Outside of Warranty!.”