I must say that this short dramatic reading greatly increased the enjoyablility of my work day. Anyone that has received Nigerian scam email will appreciate the “artistry” of this piece. I would go on a limb and say this could perhaps be the best movie adaptation of a written piece (misspellings and all) […]

David Sklar suggest that RSS could be the “Ultimate Opt-In Solution” over on the O’Reilly Developer Weblogs. I have to say, he has a good point.
If I could just add a personalized feed into my feed reader, we (me and the company) would both be better off: I can trust the source of the message, […]

New features include:

New language updates: Metadata, Generics, Enumerated types, Autoboxing of primitive types
New JVM Monitoring and Management API
Improved out-of-box performance
New (but compatible) default Java look and feel.

I don’t use Java so I don’t really have much else to say about this announcement. Ho-hum. Just Open Source the damn thing.

I was reading this article over at Codewalkers and realized I was in trouble the instant I came across this sentence:

With numerous choices available on the market, considering you don’t want to put too much investment on it, only MySQL stands out from the crowd.

I have no idea why people continue to ignore PostgresSQL. I […]

For all you benchmarking junkies out there, the newest version of 3DMark05 has been released. To anyone that’s not in the know, this is the benchmarking application when testing video cards. You can get a free demo download and run your card through the torture if you so desire, but I would only advise so […]

So I was talking to my business partner/friend Mike Rundle last night about business issues over at Business Logs and decided it was a good time to have a beer. Well if it was a good time to have a beer then it was most definitely a good time to redesign Forever Geek I figured […]

I love comic book movies. No, make that I love super-hero comic book movies, ones where the main character(s) has some special ability caused by a spider bite or coming from a distant planet or even another realm. Sure, the Caped Crusader is a super-hero by his own right, but no one has […]

HL Fallout reports the versions of Half Life that will be available on retail and on Steam.
Retail Boxes

Standard Edition: includes HL2 and CS:Source. Ships on six CDs, in one of three box-art packages (Gordon, Alyx or the G-Man).
Collector’s Edition: includes Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life 1: Source, a Half-Life 2 T-shirt and […]

Nintendo has revealed the final box design for the Nintendo DS. It features a blurb about the included Metroid demo, with a picture of the DS running PictoChat on the side panel.
Yes, we are really that desperate for Nintendo DS news that we make a post just because a picture of the freakin’ cardboard box […]

Because I can’t be bothered to actually do a search, and I love me my DOS games, luckily a reader alerted us to a good index. The index lists the game along with category and version type all with a nice alphabetical order. Most games link directly to a download.

So, fire up your […]

Of course this is a rumor, but it was un-officially announced at the Tokyo Game Show. It seems that including an MP3 player and DVD player functionality caused the priced to be more than twice as much as Nintendo’s DS system. Many are speculating that this means Sony’s PSP will launch Dead On Arrival.
If Nintendo […]

Yes, you read that right… It’s an english to english translation dictionary. Totally useless? Yes. Funny? Also yes.
*BONUS*: it now does German to German, Spanish to Spanish, and French to French translation also! At this rate there’s no limit to the amount of languages you could translate with this site!
via “LFRoS”:http://www.littlefuckingrayofsunshine.com/

Cable Wholesale — cables for everything. cheap.

LiveHTTPHeaders lets you view browser request and server response headers. Great for debugging forms and communications problems, and occasionally diagnosing server issues.

Hot on the heels of the news that the Sims 2 has already old a million copies in just 10 days we have a great testosterone filled review by the Ars crew. They offer a the Alpha Male geeks perspective on this gaming phenomenon and try to answer the question of why in the hell […]

Have you ever had to explain to a colleague, friend, stranger, or politician what RSS is and what the benefits are? I have and I rather do other things with my time. Not that I don’t like to help people, but I get tired of explaining the same thing over and over again. Sort of […]