Archives for the Month of April, 2008

The transition seems to have gone rather smoothly

That’s nice. Thanks for bearing with me. I expect that the site will perform much better now.

Recent and future downtime

I noticed today that my blog was down–a database error that was quickly fixed once I actually noticed it wasn’t available. However, this probably isn’t much of an issue, as I didn’t actually hear about it, which leads me to believe nobody else was actually looking, and the people who would be looking are probably [...]

Braid

PartnerNet may or may not exist. But if it does, I might have just been playing Braid with some coworkers. Possibly.
If I was, in fact, playing it, then it is very compelling, and I would be looking forward to the final release.
Out with the vagueness!
I’ve been interested in playing Braid for more than a year [...]

I got my $1.08 back

And I really didn’t even care about it.
I stopped by Border’s this evening after eating dinner nearby, and decided to pick up a new soft cover Moleskine notebook, with a few of the smaller, pocket-sized notebooks for on-the-go note taking.
It occurred to me, while driving home, that the cost of the notebooks was higher than [...]

Bruce Sterling on the design interaction

I’m a big fan of Bruce Sterling, not only as a sf writer but also as a design thinker. He’s good at distilling a lot of seemingly-disparate information into consumable bits and then mixing those up into some very interesting ideas.

Bruce Sterling from Innovationsforum on Vimeo.