A Little Paranoia Goes a Long Way

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 …

Visual Studio 2008 RTM install

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 …

The Arsenal are winning at home…

…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 …

QB Killa

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…

In Defense of the Escort Mission

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. …