Many sites ask you for birthday information for one reason or another (sometimes for no reason at all). Putting aside the fact that sites really shouldn’t ask for information they don’t need, using the information for additional spam really makes little sense to me. On birthdays (I’ve had a few), I have found I typically [...]
In High Fidelity, John Cusack makes top 5 lists of everything from his breakups to best motion picture soundtracks. Here are my top 5 cities to move to following London in no particular order: Tokyo Vancouver New York San Francisco Seattle The noticeable omissions are Hong Kong, which was excluded because of a lack of [...]
Why do websites still insist on using usernames instead of e-mail addresses as unique logins? Remembering passwords for the multitude of sites out there is already a chore. To usernames to that list is like remembering two sets of passwords. I could use the same strange and probably unique username everywhere but then find that [...]
I am 2 days away from my thesis deadline. The tests and results have been interesting and I lvoe talking about it. Typing about it is another matter altogether but then I’ll be glad I went through the process of collating the infromation in a digestible format (if by digestible, I mean a 70-100 page [...]
Yes, I’ve been incredibly busy with my thesis work. If you look at the thread, you’ll see that Tom and others contributed a lot in helping me refine my test. Thanks to all of you, I have a better chance of passing. Actually, I got my interim transcript and found I actually did better than [...]
People ask if I’m blogging less because I’m busy. Perhaps it’s, simply because there is simply nothing left to report in the world.
In 1992, I wrote an RPG with a few classmates of mine for a computer science project. We called ourselves Prism Software. Later, we found the name was already in use so we renamed ourselves to Illusion Software. The name was completely unnecessary but it was fun to put up the piece of paper on [...]
As some of you know, Im doing a masters thesis (if you can call it that given its to be done within 13 wks) on a subject related to video gaming. Im going to try to be REALLY brief in the description of the thesis but if you have a few extra cycles, Id love [...]
Every so often, I stumble on some interesting and intelligent articles. Increasingly, these articles offer a public comment area immediately following the article for anyone to give feedback. From reading these blogs and articles, this is the conclusion I have come to: The internet is a giant Jerry Springer show. I hate Jerry Springer because [...]
I’m finally done. It took 5 vodka and red bulls and about 8 hours before relief set in but it has now. Exams are done, the portfolio piece is done, in fact all but my thesis due August 27th is done. That’s 60% of my course that’s under the belt now. Now I don’t know [...]
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