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Why Diablo 3 is less addictive than Diablo 2 - Blizzard Responds 7 Jun 2012 | 09:49 am
Wow. Looks like my post about Diablo 3 struck a nerve - over 100,000 views in less than 2 days, a great discussion in the comments and over on Hacker News, and a couple replies from the Diablo 3 team...
Why Diablo 3 is less addictive than Diablo 2: a “scientific” explanation 5 Jun 2012 | 01:05 pm
UPDATE: Got a response from Blizzard! Click here to read it. Lately I’ve been amusing myself by reading Charles Duhigg’s “The Power of Habit” and playing Diablo 3 (not simultaneously). Diablo 3’s lau...
“Go Daddy opposes SOPA.” 30 Dec 2011 | 07:01 pm
Heh. Sorry GoDaddy, too little, too late. But I’ve been meaning to switch for a while now, thanks for finally prompting me to do it.
Getting nginx to play nicely with Rails and the static content in /public 13 Sep 2011 | 01:47 pm
I’m far from a good sysadmin. I don’t have the patience to RTFM, I never remember syntax, and I usually don’t have the discipline to document what I do, meaning any sysadmin work usually ends up a fru...
LyricFind PlayBook app is out! 31 Aug 2011 | 04:56 am
It’s really only a coincidence that my last two posts are about the PlayBook - I haven’t worked with it that much, although it actually is a great little tablet. Today I pushed out the LyricFind app ...
MobileMonday Toronto - RIM PlayBook 5 Apr 2011 | 05:07 pm
Just got back from a pretty good presentation for Mobile Monday Toronto by RIM’s Tyler Lessard. The first half of the presentation was about RIM and BlackBerry phones, the second was a demo of the Pla...
Releasing an iPhone game: Whack-a-Kitty three weeks later 8 Jan 2011 | 07:12 am
I released my first iPhone game, Whack-a-Kitty, on Dec. 20, almost 3 weeks ago. People have been asking how it went, so here are some numbers and first impressions. First, if you missed it the first ...
Whack-a-Kitty is finally out! 21 Dec 2010 | 06:13 am
It feels like I’ve been working on this game forever, but it’s actually only been 3 months - a lot of it evenings and weekends. The game itself has been done for a while, but it’s been stuck in the ap...
Android running on iPhone 22 Apr 2010 | 02:44 pm
This is impressive, to say the least. A Canadian hacker has managed to get Android running on the iPhone. The important stuff seems to work - wifi, the browser, playing music, SMS, making calls… oh, a...
40 Android Business Models 10 Feb 2010 | 05:51 am
While trying to figure out how to get access to paid apps on the Android Market in Canada (come on, Google… you know you want to, the Canadian dollar is strong nowadays), I stumbled on a blog series l...
