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From the Professional to Semi-Professional to the Personal

May 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Time rolls on, work is slowly getting somewhat less crazy as time for Valhalla approaches. I always become a combination of depressed, manic, and generally a stress puppy when faire time comes around. I’m trying desperately to get into high gear for the faire, but I feel rather like I’m a manual transmission car and [...]

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Tags: Personal · The Day Job

Programmer pops question on girlfriend’s video game

April 15th, 2008 · No Comments

JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Hiding a ring in a bouquet just wasn’t enough when a computer programmer decided to pop the question.
Bernie Peng reprogrammed Tammy Li’s favorite video game, “Bejeweled,” so a ring and a marriage proposal would show up on the screen when she reached a certain score.
Li reached the needed score [...]

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Tags: Geek Toys · The Day Job

About the previous GTA IV Post

March 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Well, so some folks have known what the project is I’m working on, for others not so much. This is still a locked posting since some of the details of our work aren’t fully public yet. Anyway, we’re in the final push, and it’s both scary and exciting. Even more than on Battlefields and the [...]

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RockStar Announces GTA IV Online Stats & Site…

March 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Today Rockstar announced a new website called the Rockstar Social Club. Essentially a high tech leaderboard, the first supported game will be (drum roll) Grand Theft Auto IV (surprise!). Compatible with Xbox LIVE and PSN, players can register starting April 15th to track all sorts of neat stuff they do in GTA IV when it’s [...]

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Weighing in on the Gizmodo affair

January 12th, 2008 · No Comments

By now if you’re reading this post, you’ve already heard about the stunt that the tech gizmo blogging site, Gizmodo, pulled at CES this week. A doodad called TV-B-Gone had fallen into the dolt’s hands, and they had the bright idea to wander around turning off every TV in sight. Now at CES, that’s about [...]

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Tags: Geek Toys · Programming · The Day Job