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Interesting discussion I read on Kotaku a few weeks back about what ails PC Gaming: http://kotaku.com/5206876/what-ails-the-worlds-biggest-gaming-platform As a former PC gamer (the Quake series, Age of X series), I moved to the xbox about 4 years back and never looked … Continue reading →

As I mentioned in another post, I have contacts I care about on just about every IM protocol. Since an open instant messaging protocol is still a bit of a pipe-dream, I have to rely on multi-protocol messenger clients. I’ve … Continue reading →

Since I’m a big fan of XKCD (and of PowerShell), I wrote a PowerShell script to download the entire XKCD archive. It’s not the most elegant script and to save time I re-used the Get-Webfile function from http://poshcode.org/417, but I … Continue reading →

A long long time ago, in an Internet far far way, in an age before Scoble, before Digg, before blogs and RSS, before Wikipedia and yes, even before Google, there was Slashdot. At a time where I poked around on … Continue reading →

There must be something about summer in Seattle that slows my blogging down. It’s been almost 3 months since I wrote anything at all. Looking through my blog I also noticed that I my blogging frequency was low most of … Continue reading →

In the otherwise copycat world of Social Networking, it’s interesting to see LinkedIn do something new: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/20/linkedin-now-for-companies-2/ On Friday morning they will launch company profile pages that partly serve as fact sheets for about 160,000 companies and partly serve to reveal … Continue reading →

Random Fact of the Day: A tidbit that you can learn only by poring over random Wikipedia articles: ‘Jan‘ from The Office (NBC TV show) is the sister of the CEO of Flock (as in the browser company). It’s all … Continue reading →

After reading a few reviews (and partly because I was in the mood for some change {lame, I know}), I decided to ditch BlockBuster Online and switch to Netflix for my movie fix. I’ve been with BBO almost since they … Continue reading →

Here’s wishing everyone who sees this entry a happy new year 2008. In the spirit of a light and lively new year, here’s a new year greeting in legalese I got from someone at work: Please accept with no obligation, … Continue reading →

I finally gave in to geek pressure and decided to get ourselves a new TV. The gorgeous Samsung LNT4065F. 40″, LCD, 1080p. The TV’s due to arrive later this week or early next, so I thought I’d do some early … Continue reading →