I’m finally able to get back to the “game company stuff” and spend more time with it. Most of the weekend was going back and evaluating what I was working on before my small break, and the realization that I was just tackling a project too large for both my current budget and my time. [...]

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While I try not to get carried away, I can’t help but try to find every possible statistical tool to help me grow both in terms of managing the company along with what kind of market is hitting the site.
With the advent of the recent 2.5.x build of WordPress, the design of the software is [...]

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Knowing that the upcoming release of Grand Theft Auto IV would be under intense scrutiny from all sides of the lovers and haters of video gaming, IGN thought it would be great to put together “Ladies of Liberty City”
Well good job IGN *golf clap*
While anyone could have cut the material together, it was kind of [...]

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For those out there in the ’sphere not a member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP), they’ve just migrated their current member discussion areas to a web-frontend provided by vBulletin.
ASP members can hit it here.
While most readers out there who are accustomed to some kind of pretty web front end for their discussions, the [...]

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Randy Pausch, father of 3 and a Professor at Carnegie Mellon was diagnosed with a terminal pancreatic cancer, and gave his “last lecture” before leaving his duties at the school to spend his time enjoying life and family on Sept. 18th, 2007.
The lecture is an excellent presentation on following your childhood dreams and how important [...]

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One of the more memorable quotes from Ghostbusters was Egon Spengler’s comment “Print is dead.”
While in the context it was made more to perhaps attempt to discontinue being quizzed by the receptionist Jeneane, it was a mildly profound statement.
Fast forward to the announcement today/yesterday about the decision by Ziff-Davis to terminate CGW in print form. [...]

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7326839.stm
(yes I was excited as well, until I realized it was about coffee)
Well in the never-ending struggles of the “caffeine” vs. “non-caffeine” camps, the scientists involved in this study found that a daily dose of caffeine created a positive health experience for the animals they tested. They went as far as to say that a [...]

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Still getting used to the boatload of new features and functionality available in WordPress 2.5,
but at least the site navigation / layout didn’t seem to be clobbered during the upgrade process..
Found this helpful link about 2.5.
While going through the 2.5 beta information a week or so ago, I tripped upon the Stats feature which [...]

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I know the hardcore MMO players are shaking in their boots, but after even a cursory glance at what SOE’s “Free Realms” project is trying to achieve..it just seems strange that Blizzard isn’t trying to grow subscribership by selling Level 60 toons.
If there’s such a concern over the “Glider” or gold farmer companies skewing the [...]

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Well just missed it by a day, but yesterday marked the 35th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon”.
Happy Anniversary!

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