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Retro-gaming: Torus Trooper
In the mood for a bit of retro-gaming? Try out this amazing abstract shooter. Torus Trooper is a fantastic game, where you fly a fighter through a twisted torus filled with enemies. The art brings you back to the era of wireframe graphics. The trancy, techno music provides an excellent, motivating yet relaxing ambience. The…
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The Filter Problem
Recently, Matt Asay blogged about Clay Shirky’s keynote on Web 2.0 Expo. I must agree that many problematic aspects of my web experience hinge on the concept of filtering. Now I realize that ultimately everyone on the web can read my content. However, I would prefer different people to get different content at different times. …
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Hard Crash
Yesterday I realized I need more sleep. Basically living the life of a rockstar: 5 hours sleep and then 1.5-2 hours of a catnaps just doesn’t work for me. Initially I became more productive with more time in my day. But it seems that illness and tiredness caught up with me. And I get irritated,…
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How Not to Run a Community-Project: justCheckers Post-Mortem
So the day before yesterday, Aaron Seigo wrote up a brilliant piece on running a community-driven project. Since I stole^H^H^H^H^Hborrowed his post, I want to contribute back my own experiences. The justCheckers project is currently in a semi-active state at the moment. But in its heyday, we had a group of 5 active developers. But…
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Building a Community
Ok. Aaron Seigo of the KDE project is a genius. He really is. Not only does he lead the absolutely revolutionary Plasma project in KDE, but he also knows what he is talking about. Anyway he wrote a kickass article about how to build a community in open source. And I’m too lazy to write…
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Dear Lazyweb: How Do You Deal with Blockers?
After reading a number of post on the Ubuntu and KDE planets, addressed to Dear Lazyweb. I’m not going to be lazy and not do research on this topic. Rather I am interested in hearing how people deal with certain problems. So I’m going to turn the blog over to you guys and gal, and…
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A Short Paper on Snowfall and its Effects on a Northerly People
We take a break from our regularly scheduled program on technology, gaming, freedom, life management and progress updates; for a totally pointless post. Up in the frigid northern regions called Canada, there lives a nation of people who well… basically live there. The very thought that someone would want to north of the 49th parallel,…
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A Week into the Year, and Back to Writing
A non-calendar week (7 days) passed already for this year. And I can say that I’m about 1/52 or less than 2% in completing this year’s goals. One goals is to finish writing and publishing my first science fiction novel, Echoes in the Endless. Thanks to my good friend Domenic’s suggestions I am reworking the…
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Windows? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Windows!!!
I just read this article on Phoronix on the Phoenix HyperSpace quick boot Linux. So a quick boot Linux partition installed side-by-side with Windows is nothing new. It happened early last year. Rather what this article shows is the increased awareness of Linux in the vendor space. It also shows that vendors will ditch their…
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Time Management Resolutions for 2009
The fifth day into the year, and I can already foresee a number of huge changes in my life. As I mentioned before the transition from thinking like a university student to a fully self-sufficient adult is a pretty huge one. One of the things that I foresee is a glorious lack of time. Essentially,…