random musings of a designer, gamer, tea drinker.
June 5th, 2008
Under my radar it slipped until Nick mentioned it recently, the item of conversation of course being Portishead’s “third” (I personally count the live in NYC album which would make Third the fourth album but that is just me) album titled, well, Third.
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May 23rd, 2008
Yesterday episode one of Penny Arcade Adventures game, On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, came out along with a demo of which I promptly downloaded. As a big fan of Penny Arcade I was curious as to what kind of mad cap world they had crafted.
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April 10th, 2008
I had been grumbling when the iPod Touch came out due to the low amount of storage capacity. Thankfully they upped it to 32GB which was more in keeping with what I was looking at seeming my G5 iPod Video has a 30GB storage capacity on it.
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March 26th, 2008
When Uru Ages Beyond Myst and its online counterpart Uru Live was launched, players starting out found themselves at The Cleft, the “gateway” to D’ni. To those who follow the D’ni Lore this was a place of significant historical value and a place much desired to be visited.
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February 5th, 2008
You know I had this big old post set up in my mind, my views on the closure of the game (again) along with other things.
But Alah beat me to it and pretty much summed up things perfectly for me.
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December 13th, 2007
Håkon Wium Lie posted an open letter in which is revealed that Opera has filed a formal complaint with the European Commission to force Microsoft to support open Web standards in its browser Internet Explorer.
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November 24th, 2007
I had been hearing a lot of hype about Portal, so I purchased The Orange Box recently. I wasn’t so interested in Half Life 2 until I found out the Portal Gun can be added to the game, I bought it mainly for Portal itself.
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November 1st, 2007
Previously I mentioned of my interest in Flickrvision. Well I recently discovered Twittervision, same basic principle of Flickrvision but with people’s “tweets”.
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October 18th, 2007
Todays quote come from my dearest.
“what the hell are you doing to my eyes”
Taken out of context one could wonder what on earth she is referring too. She was of course refering to a test image of the new navigation bar I am working on for the MOUL site.
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September 26th, 2007
I have been digging through some old Uru stuff on my computer recently, and it got me thinking about the comparisons between Uru “Prologue” Live and Uru Live. I’m not going to address the fact that Prologue never made it out of beta because that doesn’t seem fair.
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