Archive for 2007/07


Final Fantasy Retrospecte and Why XPlay Sucks

…The hosts just do -not- connect with me in any way… other than to trigger the, “I want to beat the crap out of you” reflex…

The Fires of Interviews

Okay.. so.. In a previous post I mentioned how I had a VERY important phone call at 4pm. Well, that call was a phone interview with EA Mythic (Formerly Mythic Entertainment) a well respected computer game developer in Fairfax, VA. It went very well. I know this because at the end [...]

“Stop Spam, Read Books” - reCAPTCHA

When books are scanned in, OCR programs attempt to “read” the text and convert it. This is rarely ever anywhere near 100% so the reCAPTCHA project is taking advantage of those few seconds you spend “proving” that your human.

Soccer, Sand, and Scrubs

… With an apartment full of gay guys, there was no shortage of mothering, let me assure you. Ice-packs and elevation and ibuprofen, oh my! …