someone needs to port scummvm (script creation utility for maniac mansion) to the ipod touch. think about it… your on the subway/bus/car/plane/sidewalk having a wicked awesome time playing classics like sam & max hit the road, day of the tentacle, full throttle, the dig (and yes, the list of great scumm games goes on and […]

as you may already know, canadian copyright reform is an issue that is very important to me. so much so that i wrote a letter that i sent to multiple members of parliament to voice my concerns. this was back in early december before i had created this blog, but a digital copy of my […]

ana, you’re awesome. anyone who found the previous post on this topic remotely interesting needs to go and read the comment that she left. here is a quick excerpt that i would like to build on:
if you’ve got posts that are closer together you can gather more data faster, you can get and idea of […]

back from vacation in bc! w000! pics coming soon… and i know i’ve said that before so here they are to show you i’m good for my word:
this nes themed xbox (aka: nesbox) was a gift for my girlfriend jess (who’s a big nes fan), its specs are pretty much the same as mine (minus […]

everyone knows that time goes faster as you get older. previously i believed that this was due to the fact that a given unit of time would comprise a smaller percentage of your total memories. but what of the fact that i barely remember *anything* (temporal experiences, that is. i’m full of knowledge of varying […]

so i recently installed a stats plugin for the blog, then realized that it only works when people view the individual posts. there are a couple of methods of making this happen. I’m trying one of them out, it works like this:
Continue reading ‘meta-post (turns out i didnt like it)
i don’t know if i like […]

i have come to realize that my post yesterday implied that anonymous *itself* was the solution for utopia. thats not entirely what i meant, but thats what you get when you have a blog who’s premise is to publish first drafts and pre-first drafts…
its more of their mindset and call-to-action: they are members of a […]

i’ve come to re-think my first post regarding the fact that huge social change for the better will not be possible before we create intelligences superior to ourselves. the source of my newfound hope: anonymous.
some media outlets report that this group is composed of “terrorists” and “biggots” and generally mean people. this may be true, […]

I thought flash was supposed to be a solution to all our cross-browser woes. Alas, nothing is ever so simple.
I’m trying to detect a well-formed but unavailable url (eg. when you’re server goes down) using the HTTPStatusEvent.
it simply reflects the HTTP status code (if any) that is provided by the networking stack.
“Perfect!” I think to […]