Erik Novales

I read an article this morning on the theft of customer data (including credit card data) from geeks.com, a site from which I had purchased a cheap graphics tablet on a lark about eight months ago. Of course, I immediately got concerned, and checked my credit cards for any suspicious charges, but found none. (The [...]

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So I finally got off of my duff and did an install of Drupal for the main portion of this site, replacing the old placeholder page that was there. Right now there isn’t much (any?) content on there, but I’ll be putting up some projects and other stuff soon, hopefully. I figure it’s better to [...]

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I finally got around to installing the release version of Visual Studio 2008 on my machine. Fortunately, I checked around to see if there was anything special that I needed to do when uninstalling the beta, and found this article listing the recommended series of steps to uninstall the beta. I seem to remember there [...]

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As an SMU alumnus, I feel compelled to comment on the hiring of June Jones as the new football coach. The football program has been in shambles ever since the NCAA death penalty was brought down on the Mustangs, and, personally, I feel that it will be very difficult, if not impossible, to rebuild the [...]

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The Arsenal won Saturday night (the second night of a back-to-back pair of games) to notch their first consecutive victories of the season. They defeated the reigning D-League champion Dakota Wizards 106-97 in a game that was probably their best showing of the season. Recent acquisition Marcus Campbell had a hot hand in the first [...]

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…but they’re still winless on the road. Last night they won a 105-103 squeaker against the Albuquerque Thunderbirds, although in my opinion, the game shouldn’t have gone down to the final possession. The Arsenal had a 10 point lead with a couple of minutes left to play, but played sloppy down the stretch and were [...]

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Sapp tells Raiders he’s retiring, ending stellar 13-year career Sapp posted a two word message on his Web site, www.qbkilla.com, announcing his intention: “I’M DONE!” I’m sorry, but “QB Killa” sounds like one of the fake names I would use when filling a team up with max-ability-score players in an NFL video game…

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Through a rather convoluted (but interesting) path, I came upon an Escapist article from earlier this year which trashes one of the whipping boys of game design, the escort mission. While I certainly wouldn’t disagree that there are tons of terrible escort missions in games, I think that escort missions don’t have to be terrible. [...]

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I’ve been under the weather lately, but once I’m feeling better, I’ll be back to writing more regularly. Hope everyone out there has a happy new year!

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