I am in the market for a gaming PC (will talk more about which games in a few days) and attended Commodore-sponsored drinks at the Games Convention in Leipzig last week. Of course, only the real nerdy read this blog so I don’t need to explain who Commodore is (a blast from the past is [...]
What a great jump. It’s the south face of Jungfrau (see map below). And I thought Cresta was hardcore. Will have to try this sometime.
Gotta love the “ready, set, see ya” at the end.
Jungfrau on Google Maps (great job on making them embeddable):
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UPDATE: Found this on YouTube and really made me look forward [...]
Douglas Adams:
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
I delved deeply into the MMO scene sometime last year (more on that in a few days) during a consulting project for Tom Glocer, CEO of Reuters, and the Reuters Venture Board on the applicability of gaming user interfaces in financial services software (/me thinks briefly about where that NDA got to but I think [...]
The MP3 of the week, courtesy of a Beatport download is an electronica version of Paranoid (YouTube video of original song nicely old school!, lyrics…when will someone build a decent lyrics site??) by Black Sabbath (see Sleevenotez, Last.FM). Released as part of the first, self-titled compilation by Dialect Recordings (see Discogs), the original minimalist electronic [...]
One company that keeps reappearing in conversations seemingly every day in the last weeks is Blackhawk Network. Blackhawk is the US leader in prepaid third-party branded gift cards, with over 60,000 stores carrying its cards.
From all we hear about it, sounds like a great business to be in. Unfortunately, the company is already owned by [...]
Beatport is a music download service I hadn’t heard about. Having recently moved from the UK where the electronica part of my eclectic taste in music (some doubt I have any taste at all) was well served by Juno and a beat-up vinyl-to-mp3 setup (seems like it’s easier to go mp3 to vinyl these days), [...]
As expected, casual gaming beats online video and social networking in internet media time budget share (i.e., the percentage of time spent on one activity while online - I gotta find a new word for that) according to a report by Parks Associates (who?). I expect monetization of casual gaming, i.e. internet media money [...]
SandHill.com has an interesting Enterprise Software survey that shows opinions of attendees to their 2007 Enterprise conference. Of course nothing is representative but there are interesting tidbits. Notice the lack of IBM in the following (noted by Tim O’Reilly):
Here are the SandHill.com survey results.
I wanted to write about something that happened to me in the last three months which I had never though possible. While I was always a bit of a metalhead having grown up with Floyd and Zeppelin, I always had a deep disdain for speed, progressive, thrash and whatever other metal that incorporated a fair [...]
