Today marks the release of the newest entry into Microsoft’s long legacy of operating systems: Windows 8. Today also marks the biggest change to Windows since the release of Windows 95, and the introduction of the Start Menu; The Start Screen. Over the past year, since the release of the developer preview in Fall of …
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Guild Wars 2: One Instance at a Time
One of the defining characteristics of the Guild Wars series has been its use of instances; unique events in MMO worlds that are separated from the bulk of the normal world. In many games, such events are used for unique mob spawns, such as boss battles, or special events that for whatever reason are an …
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Why (some) Facebook Pages Suck
Facebook pages can be great ways for interaction, but sometimes, things get a little too crazy…
Guild Wars 2
So, it has been about 2 weeks since the release of Guild Wars 2. Let’s just say it has taken up quite a bit of my time. 😉 I have to say, the game is one of the best I have played in years. It has a unique quality among MMO’s in which random cooperation …
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Overall Update: August 2012
Well, from the looks of it, you would think I had fallen off the face of the Earth for weeks at a time, considering how often I post to this website. I find myself to be a man who is an odd combination of too busy and too lazy to get some projects done in …
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First thoughts on Minecraft
Minecraft. A game that has seemingly taken over as one of the must-play games of the past few years. A game where you can build virtually anything, and do virtually anything. A game I never bothered with after a trial play a few years ago. Back in early 2010, I started to see the game …
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Blogging in the Mobile Era: Full Scale Blogging with Mobile Systems
Let’s face it: mobile devices are taking over every aspect of our digital lives. Why sit in front of a massive desktop tower, or lug around a 10 lb laptop, when a tablet PC, or even your cell phone, can do everything you need to do both on and offline? With seamless integration into social …
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No, I’m not dead
As always, when I feel I have not been active here when I should have, I like to make a post to let people know just what is going on. Anyone who attends conventions of any kind knows there is a wind-down period, where their normal life gets back in gear, and for me, it …
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Anime Blues Con
I have been meaning to make this post for a while now: I am even delayed today posting it due to a power outage in the area. Simply put, I am going to Anime Blues Con. This will be my first ever Anime convention, and I am quite excited. Memphis is not known for having …
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A year with an iPod: a quick retrospective
In late 2007, I purchased a Zune 80. I had weighed the options available, the design of units at the time, and the software used to sync them. My experience with iTunes and a borrowed iPod nano had been, suffice to say, less than stellar. Of course, the Zune software was just as clunky, but …
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Video scaling is finally fixed
So, you all know the problems I have had the past few months with video scaling, right? Well, with me having to restore windows on this machine, I naturally had to reinstall the video card drivers, and what would you know, scaling actually works again via GPU. All I can say is that something is …
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A reason to re-install Windows….
So, I am going to have to reinstall Window to my main desktop. The reason? Security center was basically destroyed by a flash based exploit. I noticed a few days ago that, for some reason, the action center icon on the taskbar was just plain gone. Nowhere to be found. I went to the action …
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5 Years of Xadara: Part 3
[Yes, I know this post is long overdue. Sorry about that: as usual life has it’s way of taking up time. That, and Terraria] So, by this time, it was coming up on 2010. Xadara was several years old, but had also grown stagnant. Very little conversation was happening on the forums, and while the …
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Experimenting with ReadyBoost: A quirky tale of caching.
So, sometime last year, I decided to see just what the Windows ReadyBoost feature would do on my desktop machine. Yes, I know the feature is designed with laptops in mind, but at the time I did not yet own a Windows 7 based laptop, so there really wasn’t much I could do, save for …
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Is the Mac Pro dead?
So, for yet another year, rumor around the internet is that Apple is finally going to kill off the Mac Pro computer line. It’s the same story as previous years: Apple has not said anything major about any changes to the Pro line, when compared to the typical overhauls done every season to the other …
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