Personal

Jan 6 2006

Things are happening. Things are always happening, of course, but lately they’re happening a lot. First, the big news: I got paid for the book. More on that soon. With the money I’ve paid off most of my car loan, and I’ve earmarked a couple of dollars for some new toys. My love of photography […]

Jan 3 2006

When I was a lot younger, about nine years old, I was reading a lot of sci-fi. Ringworld Engineers was a book I picked up from my school library, and I read it from cover to cover. The book was a bit beyond me at the time, I remember getting quite lost while reading it. […]

Jan 3 2006

I’m going to get a new camera. I probably won’t be able to afford it until I get paid for the book, but that said I can’t really afford anything until I get paid for the book. Moving on: I currently have a Canon G3, which has served me very well for a very long […]

Games

Dec 26 2005

Two new items of note: 1. I’ve been updating GameSX.com a lot recently. There’s no splashpage anymore either. After nine years I finally had a complaint, so I removed it. 2. There’s a short article on Backup Technique + GameLab Magazines you might be interested in. “If you were any kind of hacker in Japan […]

Games

Nov 3 2005

I did a comparison of all three of Namco’s Galaga ’88 ports: PC Engine, X68000 and Arcade. If you like, you can click here. I picked up PacPix and Meteos for Nintendo’s DS yesterday, and there’ll be a review of both very soon. Initial impressions: PacPix is really well done, challenging and varied, but so […]

Oct 12 2005

Yesterday afternoon I spotted a rhinoceros beetle on the side of the road. I screeched to a halt and picked it up, but it was dead. I was heartened, however, by the thought that beetles were around the area, and that I might actually find one or two. As you may or may not know […]

Oct 5 2005

With apologies, my phone only does UTF-8 and my mailserver chokes on it. This badly encoded text had broken the RSS feed – this meaningless text is designed to resolve the problem.

Oct 3 2005

So we’re moving in about five weeks. It’s going to kill me, for sure. Moving overseas for me is like reinventing myself with all the work done months before results can be known. Should I sell all my games? Keep only the good stuff? What about the insane rare stuff? And the pile of stuff […]