Monthly Archives: December 2004

This is a review of a book based on a review of a book I haven’t read. The book is by Jared Diamond and the review is by Malcolm Galdwell. First let me get a few things out of the … Continue reading →

Speed up Firefox.

This is about the worst of the arm chair quarterbacking google articles I have seen. Do we really have to frame everything in software as X vs Microsoft? The crux of the whole article is this statement: The search industry … Continue reading →

This is the best thing I have read today. Some quotes: a good platform strives to be like Seinfeld; about nothing You get brilliant team members attending 3 hours of meetings a day because they happen to know that once … Continue reading →

P2p apps have continued to be popular and effective for millions of users. While its probably true the the majority of bits which travel over these systems are doing so against the will of the “protectors” of the bits (the … Continue reading →

I’ve made both really good and really bad decisions when hiring programmers so even I would take my own advice with a grain of salt. Nevertheless, I thought I’d Jot down a few Ideas about my trials with this. When … Continue reading →

Its generally agreed that our (and the world’s) dependence on Mideast oil negatively impacts our National Security. However, the market forces in place make it very difficult to reduce or eliminate this dependency. The fact is that we won’t transisiton … Continue reading →

As a voluntary exile from the Game industry, I do spend time thinking about how the skills I have can be applied to other kinds or products. If you spend any time at all doing that I keep coming back … Continue reading →

I’m going to attempt to amplify what I said yesterday by showing how a development process is organized around several levels. These levels really represent a hierarchy of abstactions which a project must define and utilize. At the lowest level … Continue reading →

I used to have a book on 6502 assembly language programming back in the days when I was trying to recreate the arcade game Defender on my Atari 800. I think I may have forgotten most of what is in … Continue reading →