I’ve been unable to post to the blog for the past few days as Blogger has been having issues with sFTP. Whenever I tried to publish a post, I was getting this error: java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out Apparently I wasn’t alone as I found quite a few posts on the Blogger support forums about the [...]
Archive of entries posted in December 2008
Santa’s gone Centro!
I’m a long-time Palm user: I’ve owned four different Palm OS devices over the past 12 years from the original Pilot 1000 to my Treo 680. Palm is finally starting to do some advertising, and the latest round of Santa’s Gone Centro videos are pretty funny. I’m looking forward to CES next week as Palm [...]
Merry Christmas! Now go frag someone …
We got back this evening from our trip to Los Angeles, CA where we spent Christmas with my wife’s family. Back in 2004, my brothers-in-law and I started a (somewhat dubious) new tradition: the holiday frag fest. We were all at my in-laws house that year and we all had laptops and my father-in-law had [...]
WIJFR: Protector
Phssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his thirty-two thousand years. His mission: save, develop, and protect the group of Pak breeders sent out into space some two and a half million years before … Brennan was a Belter, the product of a fiercely independent, somewhat anarchic society living in, on, and around [...]
Rock Band … well, rocks!
I played Guitar Hero for the first time last Christmas at a relative’s house. Since then I’ve dabbled with the GH demo kiosk at Best Buy and played drums briefly on Rock Band at a friend’s house. It seemed like a lot of fun and really appealed to the air guitarist and table drummer in [...]
WIJFR: The Ringworld Engineers
20 years have passed since Louis Wu’s escape from the Ringworld. Now, kidnapped by the mate of Nessus, their two-headed alien companion of the previous voyage, Louis and his catlike ally Chmeee are transported back to the Ringworld – now spinning dangerously off-center – in an attempt to discover the cause of the aberrant rotation [...]
Mario Kart, the live version
Every Sunday night my daughter and I hop online and play Mario Kart Wii against my siblings (and other friends) for about an hour. It’s great fun. Check out this live version of Mario Kart created by Rémi Gaillard. Do not attempt at home!
Ready for spring
I can’t wait for March 2009 … My brother and I went to our first Cleveland Indians spring training game at Chain of Lakes Park back in 1999. Since moving to Florida in 2001, I’ve been out to see the Tribe in Winterhaven at least one weekend every March. Sadly, this past year the Tribe [...]
The mouse at 40
The beloved computer mouse turned 40 earlier this week. Check out some of these great video clips from Doug Englebart’s 1968 demo at Stanford. Jump right to clip #12 to see Doug demo the mouse and explain how it works. Did you know they used to call the cursor (or pointer) the bug? Really cool, [...]
I did it!
Last night I reached my goal in Wii Fit: my BMI is now 21.86 and I weigh 166lbs. This is down from a BMI of 26 and a weight of 200lbs when I started my new fitness “program” back in May. It wasn’t all due to Wii Fit. Let’s face it: just buying a Wii [...]
