Fanboyism (2007/04/16)
Engadget has a poll up, for “best console of 2006”. I first saw this through a link on a Playstation fan forum, where someone had cheerfully commented that “second place isn’t bad, with all the negative press”. Now, consider that, of the other three contenders, one is the Nintendo DS, which was released before 2006, and one is the “GP2X MK2”, a specialized hobbyist console. Obviously, the third is the Wii. The numbers were pretty solid last I checked; the Wii was at 63% of the vote, and the PS3 at 24%. Second place is, in this case, quite bad.
[read more...]Integris Mortgage followup (2007/03/23)
Integris Mortgage finally got around to hiring lawyers. I suspect they’re paying a lot of money, because these guys sure love to write stuff.
[read more...]Yet another Christian message board (2007/03/22)
One of the frustrations of online communities is that it’s hard to make a good one. I last ran a BBS back in the early 90s; it was called “Schrodinger’s Cathouse”, and many people assumed my last name was Schrodinger.
[read more...]The man knew how to throw a party. (2007/03/17)
I went to a funeral today.
[read more...]Why I'm getting sorta sick of Sam Harris (2007/03/16)
There’s this guy, Sam Harris, who has made quite a name for himself in the evangelistic atheist community. I first became aware of him through some ads he took out on the Internet Infidels discussion site. They had the text “The End of Faith” superimposed on a mushroom cloud.
[read more...]UPS gets innovative with the concept of "history" (2007/02/15)
So, I ordered a thing. And, because it is a thing I need for work, I paid extra money for “next-day delivery”. It was shipped yesterday.
[read more...]Google Checkout sees poor customer satisfaction: Duh. (2007/01/21)
Google Checkout Sees Poor Customer Satisfaction, says Slashdot.
[read more...]William Carlos Williams is laughing in his grave (2007/01/20)
From http://punkassblog.com/2007/01/18/this-is-just-to-say/:
[read more...]Why Nintendo seems to be winning (2007/01/15)
I’ve been hanging out on a PS3 board (because I’m doing paying work on the PS3 right now), and I’ve noticed something. Many of the PS3 fans are absolutely confident that the Wii will “get boring” once people are “used to the controls”. They’re seeing it entirely in terms of novelty value; that the controls are attractive only because they are unfamiliar.
[read more...]Amiga RDB disk partition unpacking utility (2007/01/11)
I'm too lazy to publish this properly or clean it up. [read more...]