Archive for September, 2004
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21 Sep 2004
Although it hasn't yet been unveiled (so I can't quite reveal details), I can now mention that I have been spending the last month or so working on a project for the Mozilla Foundation, specifically the Spread Firefox campaign. After reading a blog post calling for Web programmers, I responded and was recruited as one of the "two top candidates" out of roughly 115 responses.
It seems that my project will be announced either this week or next, and then you can revel in its amazingness. If you needed evidence, here's a spreadfirefox news item mentioning me and my "very important piece of code". Stay tuned!
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17 Sep 2004
The Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, and Half-Life: Source Release Candidates have been sent to Vivendi. Now we play the waiting game (some more).
The waiting game sucks. Let's play Hungry, Hungry Hippos!
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16 Sep 2004
This is the most amazing thing I've read in weeks, about Stanley Milgram's other study: 'Excuse Me. May I Have Your Seat?'
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16 Sep 2004
The are a lot of good reasons to drink a glass of red wine every day. Now, there might be just as many to drink a pint of stout, too. Bring on the Guinness!
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16 Sep 2004
If I still read it, I would have known about this earlier, but Michael Jantze ended The Norm, apparently as of this last Monday. The story is that his wife is trying to raise money so that Michael can make the comic strip purely online. This, combined with PvP's "free for newspapers" deal makes this an interesting time for print comics. Let's hope this is the start of change in the industry.
But let's not hold our breaths.
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15 Sep 2004
Quake IV. Not being made by id, but based on an id engine (Doom 3, obviously). It'll look good, but will it be good?
Update 09-16: Just FYI, it's being made by Raven Software, makers of games such as Jedi Outcast, Soldier of Fortune, and Elite Force. All of those were fun games, to say the least. That bodes well.
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15 Sep 2004
I think it's been about four years since I purchased blank CD-R media, but somehow I have more discs than ever. This project to make a disc spindle lamp makes me want to burn a lot of them quickly.
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14 Sep 2004
New Line has yet to announce an official release date for the Extended Edition of Return of the King, but the rumor is that it'll be December, and the exact date will be announced in the next couple of weeks.
More interestingly, here is an incredibly long list of the added scenes. Spoilery if you don't want to know what's going to be in it, but let me say this: wow. Almost every single major and minor scene that I missed will be included. This is going to be an amazing movie.
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14 Sep 2004
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14 Sep 2004
Read the story about Gabe's son's birth (it's the second post on that day, titled "My son"). Here are my first two thoughts:
- That's the best baby shirt ever made.
- Gabe (his real name is Mike Krahulik) named his son Gabe? Should I name my firstborn Plutor?