Today I downloaded the XBL demo for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08, a game I was not particularly excited to see out in the wild yet, since I am still halfway through the 07 version. I was afraid that the game would receive the Madden treatment and, except for graphic enhancements, that it would be [...]

I got news for those of you that are thinking that Sunrocket bailed out by filing bankruptcy last July. They didn’t. I just got a letter to creditors, since they owe me part of my prepaid service contract. The letter was not a federal bankruptcy court notice. Instead it was a notice that a company [...]

I just finished BioShock in easy mode, it took about 24 hours, not taking into account the time I had spent on the demo. It is a little disappointing because it was so short, but it was definitely entertaining. If you haven’t read Atlas Shrugged this game is going to look to you like a [...]

This the first golf game I play on the 360. I used to play previous versions of Tiger’s games back during my Windows years. I got fairly good at it, but I was never too crazy about the swing system. The new game is not a lot different from what I used to play 5 [...]

Once again I got so fed up with Firefox on OSX that I had no choice but to ditch it. The basic problem is that it simply locks up until I force quit it. Sometimes it is due to Flash, sometimes it is due to a page that is ridiculously long, like a Fark thread, [...]

Last Friday my fearless leader told me that we are once again hiring.  We are looking for one direct hire programmer, we are not interested in contractors or outsourcing. Our ideal candidate is a senior web applications developer in ASP.net 1.1 and/or 2.0 with one major RDBMS and solid pure ANSI-SQL. In the remote possibility [...]

Ubuntu Servers Hijacked, Used to Launch Attack: The Ubuntu community had to yank five of the eight Ubuntu-hosted community servers sponsored by Canonical offline Aug. 6 after discovering that the servers had been hijacked and were attacking other machines. 10 demerit points because I had to hear about this (first) at Fake Steve Jobs: Freetard [...]

I am getting complaints that my blogroll has some stale entries. If I have your blog listed and the URL is no longer correct please let me know so I can fix it, otherwise I’ll remove it from the list sometime next week.

Well, it was not so hard. I installed WAMP5,  which also has a little problem with hard-coded port 80 assignments, but it was expected so it did not turn into an ordeal. Once it was setup all I had to do was open phpmyadmin to change the root password, change the phpmyadmin config file and [...]

We are having a little bit of a pre-crisis at work about keeping certain documentation up to date. Word documents don’t cut it, even if dumped into VSS, and fearless leader is curious about wikis. Some of the #asp guys are using wikis at work for this purpose and so far the feedback is that [...]