To anticipate and prevent
I. Hate. April Fools. Don’t get me wrong, the concept is cool and all but as usual the internet has ruined things. Cute and harmless jokes are fine, but the plethora of fake news stories that come out make it so you can’t use the internet at all on April First of each year. In…
One thing I yearn for when I am programming is a debugger like Perl’s interpreter. If you had a bug in your code, it would tell you almost exactly where it was, and even suggest fixes sometimes (Ex: You probably forgot a semicolon at the end of line X). Unfortunately, that isn’t the case with…
I’ve been playing Battlefield: Bad Company 2 quite a bit. In fact, I’m getting close to 100%ing the achievements. Normally, I’m not an achievement whore like some of my game playing compatriots, but BC2 makes it fairly easy (and enjoyable). This past evening I was working on finishing ‘Communication Issues’ and ‘Complete Blackout’ (destroy the…
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Perfect Dark recently (17 March 2010) arrived on Xbox Live. This game was originally published for the N64 and came with a 4 MB RAM expander for said device (later it became available with just the game). If you didn’t have the RAM expander, you were limited to only part of the Combat Simulator (see…
View Larger Map General Area: Back side of Pleasant Hill, Pacheco and into El Sobrante Difficulty: Easy Ride Length: ~20mn one way Special Note: None. Route Points: Point A to Point B — This is actually Reliez Valley Rd. It is a bit windy but has a number of stop signs. It really isn’t anything…
A long time ago (like last year) in a state far far away (Nevada), my job wasn’t terribly busy so I got permission to start learning iPhone development. I went ahead and purchased The iPhone Developers Cookbook, setup the MacBook Air and got started with learning. Of course just a few days later I got…