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Monday, September 17, 2001

Here's an article that I wish some of my old managers could have read. According to this Network World Fusion article on application servers, companies overspent by about USD$1B collectively last year.

This might be a good time to check out GNU's ERP and app server offerings.

.: 9/17/2001 10:58:01 AM

Marathon: Aleph One is an open-source addition to the Marathon series of games. Marathon, when it came out back when I was in first year, was a top-notch FPS. It was the first to offer levels with true multiple dimensions (ie bridges you could pass under), and the ability to look up and down. Its a little dated these days, but some of the additions prove to make it totally modern. Incidentally, if you're looking to cut your gaming teeth, this project is looking for volunteers.

... and hey, if its open-source FPS's you're after, go check out NEWDoom. Its DOOM with all kinds of nice OpenGL features like adaptive lighting and smoke.

.: 9/17/2001 10:31:16 AM

Friday, September 14, 2001

Afrotech - Ghetto Hardware Fun. At first I thought this site would be joke stuff. In fact, there are a lot of serviceable ideas for modifying you computer with stuff that you've got lying around the house. Prime example: the owner of the site cranked his graphics card up 50MHz by thermal-gluing pennies to the chips.

.: 9/14/2001 08:24:28 PM

Thursday, September 13, 2001

Computing Made Good, Easy - a great WIRED.COM article on using plaintext only apps and simplifying your environment to increase productivity.

The points about UNIX, and the power of tying smaller apps into a larger system is particularly interesting. Now if I could only get the sixty-odd folders and aliases off my own desktop ...

.: 9/13/2001 12:28:19 PM

Tuesday, September 11, 2001

Okay, hang on ... no ... wait a second. I'll get the fingering right yet.

Its the sounds of your roommate playing the Indigo Girls.

.: 9/11/2001 09:23:47 PM

Monday, September 10, 2001

After about a year of searching, I have finally rediscovered the Zany Video Games Quotes page. This is the page from when AYBABTU sprang.

.: 9/10/2001 01:45:33 PM

aaaaaaaa-AYAH! HWAH! Unh!

.: 9/10/2001 12:42:48 PM

This is Zombo.com.

.: 9/10/2001 11:39:40 AM

Did you know that the phone number for the power plant in The Simpsons is 555-5426? No, you propbably didn't. Because you just don't have enough time on your hands to sit and watch tv with your little black book.

Sadly, other people do.

.: 9/10/2001 10:59:58 AM

Thursday, March 15, 2001

For all the yammering Microsoft is doing about Linux being not-ready-for-prime-time, they're forgetting one sailent fact: there are no Microsoft products in space.

.: 3/15/2001 09:38:57 AM

CNET Presents the Tired of your Job? toolkit, their picks for getting you going on game design.

.: 3/15/2001 08:51:53 AM

Wednesday, March 14, 2001

Question to the iching: What's the deal?

Answer; Unfulfilment: Intimates progress and success. We see a young fox that has nearly crossed the stream, when its tail gets immersed. There will be no advantage in any way.

Wei Ji tells us that the successful accomplishment of whatever the writer had in his mind had not yet been realised. The I-Ching teaches us that there is no such thing as a perfect and abiding state. Just as the seasons of the year change and pursue an ever-recurring round, so is it with the phases of society. The symbolism of the young fox suggests a want of caution on the part of those, in the time and condition denoted by the hexagram, who try to remedy prevailing disorders. Their attempt is not successful and they get themselves into trouble and danger. Whatever can be done must be undertaken in another way.

'Crossing the great stream,' an expression frequent in the I-Ching, may mean undertaking hazardous enterprises, or encountering great difficulties, without any special reference; but more specifically it is understood to be 'the great stream', the Yellow river, which the lords of Zhou must cross in the revolutionary movement against the dynasty of Shang and its tyrant. The passage of it by King Wu, the son of Wen in 1122 BC was certainly one of the greatest deeds in the history of China It was preceded also by long 'waiting,' till the time of assured success came.