43. head in the clouds – directions in gaming?

hello there kids, today’s word of the day is going to be cloud.  can you say cloud?  thought you could.  now this doesn’t concern what you see when you look at the sky.  nor will it get into a certain…

39. weekend short: happy halloween! …unless you’re capcom

samanosuke and jaques from onimusha 3 capcom has been responsible from some of my favorite time sinks in my lifelong pattern of gaming nerdery, actually increasing their presence in my gaming interests as gaming evolved.   in the 80’s and…

30. alleged game addiction, idiotry, and more ridiculous lawsuits

20,000 hours is an extremely long time to be doing anything – even the basic function of living.  20,000 hours translates into 833 days, which further calculates out to 2.28 years.  it’s enough time complete more than half of a…

29. paul allen vs everyone

paul allen, from forbes’ billionaire list early on when i started this silly little project i did a post touching on tech patent law, concerning apple, google, and htc.  i said then how tech patent lawsuits never fail to entertain, and…

26. public information is, uh… public?

i don’t know whether or not to tag this post as part of my common damn sense series.  but what i do know from this story is that torrents can cause floods. by now you might have read a story…

25. microsoft’s mobile hail mary – windows phone 7

microsoft’s kin two in mobile device tech, the last two years have generally been the era of two companies – apple and google.  apple successfully took the “device” approach, focusing all of their efforts into the iphone line.  google focused…

24. iphone’s antenna issues – motorola with the burn, new york times with the assist.

apple iphone 4 in what seems like the eternal saga of apple and google’s android (for my younger readers, it’s kind of like edward and jacob, just for phones), the war continues to play out in the media.  generally the two tech…

21. IBM spreading malware, google celebrates pac-man in style

i know it’s been a while, and yes, i’m still alive.  now that that’s out of the way: i’m sure some of you have had to attend some sort of conference for work or school before.  generally these are pretty…

19. adobe and apple and microsoft, oh my!

a lot of you that read anything about mobile tech probably know that one of the sticking points with the iphone and the newly released ipad is that these apple mobile products don’t support flash – and on that topic…

18. common damn sense – oh mcafee, you poor bastards

mcafee. holy damn. can i ask, was pcp involved? was that it? was your damn dev team high on the dust? this outburst was real – actually said out loud while reading the morning news in my office concerning mcafee…