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An hour of darkness

Not total darkness, mind you, but dark enough to notice.  When you walk outside, it’s almost like it’s really late and the stores are closed, but they’re not, the lights (if any) are just dim.  I finished dinner with some old colleagues when Earth Hour struck, and I decided to spend some quality time with [...]

A new Battle.net for the digital distribution age

Seems like Blizzard is making sure it’s ready for the age of game communities and digital downloads (ala Steam).  Blizzard just announced the new Battle.net, an update to its free online matchmaking service.

The new Battle.net features a centralized account for all your games starting with World of Warcraft.  If you’re an existing WoW player, you [...]

one small hamster controlled robot, one giant leap towards world robot domination

I had a strong intention of finishing by today a post I started working on last night, but I always get sidetracked by hamster-controlled robots (which I first saw at last night’s Attack of the Show) and Watchmen ticket reservations.

Perhaps I should start using Tangent Logs to manage my distractions.  Could be a good supplement [...]

Hello world! (migration test)

Am testing a different host.  Nothing wrong with my current host, actually, but I just wanted to get my hands on how others out there perform.

— update —

There we go, things seem to be in order.  Now, let’s see how this setup performs.

Some maintenance here and there

Second to the last weekend before xmas. Shops, malls, and restos are packed with people buying gifts and attending parties. Traffic scaled as much, even late at night the traffic is like it was still 7pm. I don’t like going head-on with that.

So I got myself some takeout and decided to just [...]

How many books have I left out…?

I got books all over the place, and that’s partly by design. I tend to want to have a book within reach wherever I am, so I typically have a few at the living room, around the bedroom, at the car (some nearby and some at the back), and a few at work.

Of course, [...]

The Chrome Pendulum

I actually started writing this post on a Nokia E61i while I was at Italiani’s for dinner.  Unfortunately, WordPress 2.6.1 didn’t seem to play well with Opera Mini 4.1, so I lost what I typed.

No biggie, it wasn’t very long.  I just wanted to say at runtime that, prior to leaveing the house for a [...]

Nomad Tech, Robot Log 2008.07/10

Tech

Google’s Open Source Protocol Buffers Offer Scalability, Speed
Poker program battles humans in Vegas – It would really suck if this machine ate your money.
PDF format becomes ISO standard
My Yahoo Drops ‘Beta,’ Paves Way to OpenSocial Apps
Firefox 3 Beefs up Page Info
Owner Of Infamous JPEG Patent Tries To Line Jump The Re-Exam Process
Exploring Lively, Google’s [...]

Firefox 3 Gets the Guiness!

Firefox 3 got the Guiness World Record for most downloaded software in a 24 hour period!!!  Here’s the word from Spread Firefox:

We did it! We set a Guinness World Record.

Thanks to the support of the always amazing Mozilla community, we now hold a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. From [...]

Nomad Tech Log, 2006.06/24

Tech News

You coffe’s too strong? it might have been hacked!
Man Fired When Laptop Malware Downloaded Porn
IP traffic to ‘double’ every two years
Computer scientists scour your holiday photos
Reddit goes open-source!

Features

5 reasons I won’t be getting on the open id train (opinion)
No, David Pogue, Ebook Piracy Is Not a Given (opinion)
The greatest defunct Web sites [...]