I’m using the Flock Developer Preview to post this, via the built-in blogging interface. Flock is built on Firefox and is designed to be a "social browser." I tried posting this last night, but Flock kept returning a scripting error. Seems to be working fine today. I don’t know if this browser will change the [...]
Yesterday I installed Adobe Creative Suite Premium (purchased using Rona’s phenomenal educational discount), and it’s awesome! For years I used Photoshop 5.5 in Windows, and I’ve been waffling between The Gimp and Graphic Converter on the Mac. I’m ecstatic to have Photoshop once more, and this time it’s version 8.0, with a free upgrade to [...]
I’m writing this post on my new computer! Last Wednesday I got fed up waiting for my old machine to perform seemingly non-stressful tasks like installing the latest test build of Encarta Reference Library 2005. It was highly frustrating, so on Thursday morning after Rona got back from her first set of trumpet lessons at [...]
I was just thinking earlier today about Myst and Riven and how the first and third games were so fun. I didn’t consciously progress to wishing for a fourth Myst game, but maybe my subconscious worked some powerful Mojo. I just found an ad for Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, which is due in stores this [...]
I got a package today from my pals over at Cranium. It included a comp copy of Hullabaloo, the game I exhaustively tested over there a while back with Karim and J.T., both of whom I worked with previously on Encarta. Apparently Hullabaloo won an Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Best Toy Award! I sure hope that [...]
I’ve been geeking out a bit with Rona’s dad, the Techiest of Our Four Dads®. He has me convinced that an iPod would be a fine addition to our gadget collection, especially with the recent release of iTunes for Windows. Now the only problem is getting enough dough to afford one. Oh well–they’ll be cheaper [...]
