October 2007
19 posts
Work work...
Another solid 8 hours of work this Saturday. Since we’re moving towards super-crunch time for our current project, we’re putting in a lot of extra hours. Although that cuts out a lot of private time (and time for blog updates), it’s time well spent on an awesome product :)
“To the window, to the wall, To the sweat drip down my balls, To all these...”
– Lil’ Jon - Get Low Lyrics- I’m speechless.
Startcraft 2 Gameplay Videos
They look spectacular. Blizzard really knows how to execute. It’s great to see is that they added a ton of new technologies (such as IK) in subtle ways. The details make for a very dense gameplay experience, without ever overshadowing the clarity of what’s happening in the game or on the screen. Check it at StarCraft II
US Budget
I just read an article in Rolling Stone how the US Government spent a few hundred million dollars on same insane (and useless) missile defense. After snooping around a bit some more online I came across this PDF from the whitehouse site with a breakdown of the US Budget. It’s pretty interesting to look through the file. If you look at it, start at page 21, which has a general breakdown of...
A shotgun rack for your bed!?!
I just saw this on TV, it’s the most awesome product commercial I’ve seen in a while. Check out the video at Home Back-Up Protection.
James sent me this video on Halo 3. It's funny,... →
Featuritis
- FI / Christoph + says: I takes a while to get into Visio, but once you know to ignore 98% of it's features (like with any Microsoft program), it gets a lot easier.
- FI / Christoph + says: Or better, which 2% of it's features are actually useful.
- FI / Joe + says: true, and i guess that's y i hate them
- FI / Joe + says: i found w/ omnigraffle i actually used 98% of its features
- FI / Joe + says: and found them all useful
NBBJ - Kaori's firm has a brand-new website. Make... →
Hooray for Flash 10!!!
Flash 10 looks awesome. Finally they revise their Text display classes. TextFields have been the worst torture of my life and have been insanely hard to work with in the previous 3-4 version of Flash. Can’t wait for this pain to be over. It seems like Adobe is attacking a major issue with the player with every release that comes out. Flash 8 got a new rendering engine, Flash 9 a new virtual...
