I just figured out that I am suddenly in favour of “cloud computing”. I have switched my opinion 180 degrees on this just today. Here is my revelation…
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My History of Programming
I started programming computers in the summer of 1983, so I’m closing in on 28 years of programming. It has been an interesting journey so far – programming for fun, then for school, then for work – and now back to fun again…
Need To Hold a Seance?
So you would like to hold a séance, but you don’t know how to get a hold of a medium to conduct the séance for you. What should you do? Why, buy an app and let it do the work for you, of course! 🙂
Enter Ghost Seance for the iPhone. Yes, there’s an app for that!
Collaboration With A Ten Year Old
This past weekend I was showing my daughters a preview of an upcoming iPhone game I am currently developing. My oldest daughter, now 10, had a few questions.
Wizard’s Orb
Check out this strategy puzzle game for the iPhone.
There are some promo codes available to download it for free:
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These will only work once each, so when they’re gone that’s it. 🙂
I Shall Not Facebook
This is my long overdue rant about Facebook. I am facing a Facebook barrage daily — it’s escalating, and it’s getting annoying.
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The Humble Indie Bundle
This is an interesting idea: pay what you want for software. I thought that such an exercise might lead to an overwhelming majority of people paying “nothing”, but it looks like that didn’t happen.
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Little Brother
I must have been living under a rock, because although I had read the name “Cory Doctorow” online a few times in the past, I really didn’t know who he was or what he was about, until I stumbled upon his book “Little Brother”….
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The Day I Wanted to Un-Delete a File in Linux
I think Carlo Wood’s introduction to the problem is about as eloquent as I could say it: “It happens to everyone sooner or later: a split second after you hit Enter you realize your mistake, but it’s too late; you just deleted a valuable file or directory for which no backup exists. Or maybe you have a backup, but it’s a month old… and in shock you see the past month flash before your eyes as you realize in pain what you’ll have to do all over again…”
How Do Normal People Survive With One?
I have had at least two computers up and running in my house ever since about 1993. At various times in the past twelve years I have toyed with the idea of going back down to one, but it never happens – there is just too much benefit.
I got to wondering today: what do people do when they only have one computer in the house? (I’ll call these “normal people”!)
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