Supposedly, Randy Pausch was on Oprah last week. Dr Pausch is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who is dying from pancreatic cancer. He presented his last lecture at CMU earlier this year. I am not going to link to the Oprah version of the lecture because it is a big piece of crap. Trying [...]
I spoke about Seth Godin in my last post, so I guess I should also talk about Guy Kawasaki. His blog, titled How to Change the World, is definitely worth checking out too. Hmm, my blog needs a cool title too. The last Guy Kawasaki book that I read was The Art of the Start. [...]
In Silicon Valley, there are a lot of stories of meetings happening in hot tubs and deals being done at Bucks. I usually get together with a bunch of friends for a hot tub over at Scott‘s place each week. And we’re usually on the patio at Mel’s Saturday and Sunday morning. A couple of [...]
Tactical Strike is Gold. It was officially announced this morning on the Playstation Blog. There is a trailer for the game over here. I believe the North American street date is November 8th. I’m not 100% sure what the street date is over in Europe and Asia, but it should be shipping soon over there [...]
From here. I fired off an email to Steve Jobs about this. I basically told him that if Apple had to have one must game on the platform that year, it would have to be Half-Life 2. …. At some point Apple did meet with Newell, but I guess nothing came of it except that [...]
D1R-jKKp3NA It’s been about a month since I purchased my MacBook Pro. I can say without a doubt that, Windows is dead to me. The developer in me loves the fact that it is built on top of UNIX. All of those UNIX programs that I missed are available. Aquamacs is the best Emacs I’ve [...]
These instructions are based on this blog post over here. Those instructions are from 2005, there was a little bit of extra work to get it working on my MacBook Pro. OpenMCL You need to download the latest version of OpenMCL. For Mac OS X on Intel, Version 1.0 will NOT work, so you need [...]
So, there is thing called the Internet. And there is thing called the Web and there like up to version 2.0 and stuff. And people get together and talk about it. There is a huge difference between the web development community and the game development community here in Vancouver. Game developers, at least a bunch [...]
Cpc-t-Uwv1I I have recently been surrounding myself with people that expect more from me. As a result, I’ve been expecting more from myself. When your friends are fit, starting their own businesses, living in the coolest neighbourhoods, surrounded by gorgeous women, intense workers, and extremely positive it is difficult to not have those qualities rub [...]