March
Bleeding and Daydreaming

Today it's a really bad cover of "The Way It Is" (originally by Tupac). Rally bad.

I hacked my thumb with a knife on Monday. Cutting a frozen bagel of all things. Worse than the last time I hacked myself cutting a frozen bagel. Maybe you don't want to eat a bagel at my house. It's one of those little injuries that you can't just ignore. Every time I dress myself, eat, or whatever other basic thing I do for the past couple days it's been bugging me.

Closet Air Supply Fan

Damn that's a good song.

Wrapping up the GDC Expo

The expo floor just closed and Jeff and I made it out at the front of the wave of people heading for the doors. In the last few minutes we did get to talk to a few more exhibitors we hadn't seen yesterday.

Working with Production Companies - Learning More Good Stuff at the GDC

There was a talk given yesterday by Rosanna Sun about the benefits of working with a Hollywood production company. I took some notes and mixed it up with some of my opinion. I wish I had time to write up more, but we have to do lunch. Anyway, here's some of what I've got...

Another thing about Wireless Gaming at GDC

I just wanted to add a little more about things said during the State of Wireless session. Oliver Miao (CEO of Centerscore) had a good point. To paraphrase, he said that people are lazy, if they have a cell phone in their pocket that they can play games on, they will. Even if they have a Playstation 3 at home, the cell phone is right there. I think this is a huge reason for the wireless game market to even exist. The limits on the hardware and the fees that a user incurs make it a bad platform for someone to choose when they think about playing a video game.

State of the State of the Mobile Industry from the GDC

The State of The Mobile Industry talk just wrapped up at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. It was informative with some of the encouraging this-is-just-the-beginning pep talk, but not too much. The focus (at least from the time we arrived) was on the cell phone market.

Finally taking off

Okay, so now I'm one of those guys at the airport that collect around the AC outlets to get some juice for their notebook computers. I've got no issues with that.

Send in the Clones

There are some great write-ups over on Wonderland about Second Life and some of the talks that have gone on at GDC already.

As for me, Jeff and I pretty much have plans firmed up. I can't wait - I fly out tomorrow night.

New Release of Blender 3d

Blender 3d has just put out a new release. The release notes state that version 2.36 is all about fixing bugs. I see a couple of new features listed in there as well, though.

Betting on a loser
I knew that Sony introduced the 3 1/2" floppy disk to the world back in 1981. I also knew that Sony was one of the inventors of the CD. I knew that many companies subsequently manufactured floppy disks and CDs. The prices of that media dropped over time throught the competition. So I thought I was picking a good contender when I bought a Sony DSC-P72 digital camera a couple years back. With this purchase I bought into the memory stick format. I was told time and time again that compact flash was the way to go. I figured compact flash was getting long in the tooth and it was time that it would be replaced.