Merry Christmas, two weeks early. Luminesweeper, a puzzle game for GBA that simulates everybody's favorite PSP game, is now free software.
I'm getting an early Christmas present ready for the world: the source code to Luminesweeper. When the package is ready, Luminesweeper will become a Pin Eight project.
The movie trailer you are about to watch is not about the shining example of a family comedy that you might think it's about. (QuickTime or compatible media player required.)
The PSP has been downgraded. Now everybody can join in on the homebrew fun. It still doesn't change my decision to buy a DS though.
My birthday is in a week. If you want to help me buy a Nintendo DS so that I can add one more platform to my skill set, please make a donation.
The fourth anniversary of the terrorist destruction of the World Trade Center towers has come and gone without any significant terrorist activity. Praise the Lord.
Oil prices are skyrocketing due in part to Hurricane Katrina's destruction of refineries in the Mississippi Valley. But Shell is exploring a new process for mining the oil shale fields in Colorado that, if it pans out, may bring crude oil down to 30 USD per barrel.
The Sony PSP handheld video game system just came out in Europe. If you haven't been following it, Sony had been aggressively fighting firms that had been importing North American PSP systems and (unfortunately) winning. But now that the PSP is officially available in Europe, the problem shouldn't continue. Still, it's up to you to decide whether the PSP is worth the price that Sony is asking.
Here's something else that may or may not affect your decision: For the last few months, I've been working off and on on a GBA game called Luminesweeper. If you have a GBA or Nintendo DS and either a flash card or a GBA Movie Player, and you're curious about Bandai's Lumines but not curious enough to plunk down $290 for a PSP and a game, give Luminesweeper a try.
On another note: CareerBuilder doesn't seem to turn up many job leads anymore. Know anyone who wants to hire a programmer in an entry-level position in Fort Wayne, Indiana? Show them my resume.
A lot of the spyware on many PCs that run a Windows operating system comes in through Microsoft Internet Explorer's tendency to install any software it sees on a web page, through a mechanism called "drive-by download". To help keep drive-by downloads from infecting your computer and slowing it down, you can install the Firefox web browser and use it instead of the blue 'e'.
Don't buy J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books. If you do, you fund publishers who support the notion that people do not have the right to read books that they purchased. If you can't live without your Potter, then I'd suggest checking your public library in a couple weeks.
While I update my resume, you can read my latest article about the Nintendo DS and the Sony PSP and decide for yourself which to buy instead of blindly following the fanboys.
The distributed computing project Seventeen Or Bust has discovered the largest known prime number that is not a Mersenne number. This makes eight primes down, nine to go.
Don't get carried away (SWF game; safe for work).
If you can see this, you're on the new server.
I want to play a freakin' PSP. I don't even want to own one; I just want to play Lumines, if only for fifteen minutes.
Oh, and I've caught all the Weebles.
April 1, 2005Halo 2 for GBA. Make of it what you will.
As I write this, there are π decifortnights (3.14 * 0.1 * 14 = 4.40 days) until the release of Playskool's direct-to-video animated title Welcome to Weebleville. But for those who want pie now, you can watch the Wobbl and Bob videos online or buy them on DVD.
Turns out I was running out of space on my site. The 8ad binary demo and some Bono Act items are no longer available.