After several months of tinkering and gradual updating, I’ve decided the time has come to pull back the curtain, as it were, on one of my recent projects: PinWiki: The Pinball Encyclopedia. It was three days before Christmas, 2006 when the idea popped into my head: the world needs a pinball wiki! Thoughout […]
I really don’t know how to write a blog entry about this. The pundits I deemed most credible have been spending the past few weeks downplaying the possibility of an iPhone. And then Steve gets up there and blows my friggin mind. They did it. They took two amazing products — […]
At Chap’s suggestion I entered Woody into Kottke’s Celebrity Mii Contest, and got one of the runner-up spots! Hooray! Full results here. I must agree: Dave Curry’s Zach Braff really is excellent in its artistry and interpretation, as is the Jack Black for its startling realism. Judge Jen Bekman remarks of Woody: “Great, immediately recognizable, […]
We are probably the most undeserving people on the planet, but we got a Wii! For the uninitiated, Wii is Nintendo’s new gaming system, released on Sunday, November 19. Amazon sold out in less than one minute. I say undeserving because it only really came onto my radar as a serious blip sometime last […]
I’ve followed Joel Spolsky’s writings since before there were blogs. There was a time when he seemed like one of the only people writing interesting stuff about software development. Lately, however, I’d become rather disenchanted with his output. His writing got pretty sparse for a while, and then he became downright prolific. […]
