There’s a new trend in PC gaming: browser-based games. And I’m not talking about Flash or Java games. I’m talking about games like Quake Live and Battlefield Heroes. If you’re not aware, these are full 3D free-to-play games (currently in closed beta) that are supported by advertising and microtransactions.
The root of the problem is that [...]
I’m working a lot lately so I haven’t been bored enough to look for reasons to update my blog. What I have been doing is stuff on my
giantbomb.com profile. Giant Bomb is a new website about videogames, it’s sort of like Wikipedia+blog. Apparently it uses the same backend as comicvine.com, which is a comic [...]
I like NIN, but man that last album (Year Zero) annoyed me. Well, mainly the marketing annoyed me. There was an alternate reality game with douches insisting to me that this ARG is different somehow and that it was being made into a movie and it was going to last for the next 3 years. [...]
Here’s what I do on the weekend for fun! I look at web sites on the internet, also known as the information superhighway. In this particular instance I was using
StumbleUpon to provide me with random entertainment, and I Stumbled Upon the good old
Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Being the self-centered ass that most people [...]
My website has been hosted with Dreamhost since 2004. All-in-all they were not a terrible host. They have a well designed proprietary control panel, lots of features for the price and access to manually control all those features. Where they falter is speed and uptime. And, even for (or maybe especially [...]