Archive for November, 2005
There should be a canon of great video games
Most big ideas can be summarized in one sentence. http://www.google.com/search?q=video+game+canon For those not familiar, a canon is a repertoire of great works that form the fundamental basis of the art. As an example, if we were studying classical music, you’d have to include Beethoven, Bach, and Mozart, at the very least. Similarly, one could also [...]
A look at current browsers
I’ve been trying to determine the primary avantages and disadvantages of the currently available browsers. Currently, the ones I’ve been looking at are Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and Avant Browser. All four are free. In the old days, the differences between browsers was primarily the rendering engine. Netscape and Explorer tended to render things very [...]
What I’m reading
The key to articles like this one is really the title Outrage of the week I’ve been meaning to post a what I’m reading section, but I haven’t gotten to it until now. Personally I find this sort of behavior in the aforementioned article understandable and abhorrent. The only question is how this will inevitably [...]
Profile dump 2
Cheng: oh, i have a funty story about yesterday Me: ? Cheng: lol Cheng: somehow my ninnish alarm clock’s alarm got switched off Me: lol Cheng: so cheng was on snooze mode when he was supposed to be handing in a paper Me: haaha Cheng: but i was having this dream Cheng: and what appeared [...]