A smattering of opinions on technology, books, business, and culture. Now in its 4th technology iteration.
26 October 2004
* Halflife 2 coming and will require online activation – we just downloaded the new counterstrike variant with the HL2 engine – oh my god does it look gorgeous, it has toppled Far Cry as the best looking game ever – on an x800 xt anyway. * Lamp stacks a popular notion * Save this for later – how to fix Media Center autoplay DVD behaviour * Monitor IM traffic on your network – if you don’t want to see it in tomorrow’s newspaper, don’t type it. * FlightSim history – I remember the old Apple ][ cassette version, just stick figures for mountains. You could fly off the stick figure grid and just start randomly flying thru Apple ][ memory, and the game did it’s best to render the contents as stick figure geography.