January 2009
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iPhone App Shuffle
Getting a Little Too Close to 148
So you’ve had your iPhone or iPod Touch for a while now. It’s become a regular part of your day. You’ve filled it with great productivity apps and plenty of entertainment but, suddenly, you realize you’re running out of screen space. Four apps on screen seven need to be on screen two, and two apps on screen eight need to be on screen...
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Drop7
One iPhone / iPod Touch game that will undoubtably make my favorites list for 2009 finally made its official appearance in the App Store this week and you must go get it… Drop7 (app store link). I’ll wait. Go put it on your phone.
Ok. Now that you are back and spent the last two hours playing Drop7, I obviously don’t have to write anything else. You are already addicted. ...
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WatchHere’s a little video I put together today. It shows the final free moments of the fourth cheeky mouse to use our stove to gain access to our counters. His sibling was captured only minutes earlier, but out this one came, full blown cheekiness, only to get nabbed in the humane trap a few minutes after this video and taken out behind the garage to join his recently released sibling. Its the...
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My Favorite Things of 2008, Part Two
Video Games
I thought it might be hard to choose a favorite video game. With big titles like Fable 2 and GTA IV dominating sales on the Xbox 360, indie games like Braid and World of Goo receiving very well deserved accolades (also Aquaria, a 2007 title, which finally made it to Mac) along with a multitude of interesting Flash and iPhone games which kept me entertained, I wasn’t sure that I...
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Is This the Face of a Heroic Wasteland Survivor?
More on Fallout 3
Below is a screen grab of my Fallout 3 character. One of the great things about this game is the creative freedom it gives you in controlling the type of character — personality, ethics, appearance, etc. — you can play. In games that allow you to shape the appearance of your character, mine usually have short dark hair, glasses and a goatee. Not very original, I...
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From the Mr. Obvious File: People Drive Too Fast
We live on a side street where the speed limit is 25 miles an hour but the average speed of the cars that use the street as a shortcut or to ferry their children to and from the local Middle School is around 40 miles an hour. This means we see our fair share of accidents, including the one below from this morning. From the the length of the skid marks preceding the point of impact, its pretty...
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It's an Ice-Coated World in the Winter
Some photos from today’s freezing rain…
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My Favorite Things of 2008, Part One
During the next couple of weeks, I’ll be sharing my favorite things of the 2009…
iPhone / iPod Touch Apps
MyDiary
I was introduced to the concept of micro-journaling in the 80’s by a writing professor who suggested it as a way to encourage daily writing in the light of my inability to keep a full journal. Micro-journaling has made a comeback recently with online services like...