Yikes! another year older …

http://www.lambdacs.com/debugger/debugger.html

Interesting debugging tool. I should give it a spin one of these days.

It’s kind of funny but video games haven’t gotten any better over the last decade. The production values have gotten better (sound, graphics …) but gameplay remains about the same. In fact, it’s almost a cliche that older games had better gameplay while all the modern games are rehashes of a genre (how is doom 3/halo different from castle wolfenstein?)

Anyway I discovered that two “classics” from when I was growing up are now available.
One is the open sourced version of Star Control 2 called the Ur-Quan Masters and the
other is Pirates. Made me think about other classic video games I’ve played:
wing commander
syndicate
championship manager
civilization
….

They don’t make games like they used to…

One of my performance goals for the year was to write a white paper based on some framework software that I built this year (found this useful page http://www.stelzner.com/copy-g-HowTo-whitepapers.php discussing what that will involve). I think the paper will center around our stack, the java stack (jsf,shale,tile,sitemesh/spring-mvc + spring/hibernate) the ruby on rails framework and how each of those compares to one another.

Introducing the google maps pedometer….

Running route from yesterday.

I decided to try a new look. Plus I wanted to muck about with the advanced template feature supplied by typepad. The new look borrows from one of their pre-designed themes and used that to start my advanced template. It’s a little darker, the fonts are a little smaller (though they are still readable on my tiny 12in screen). I managed to get content from flickr, allconsuming and 43things on the sidebar with the javascript they supplied. It kind of neat I wonder how they did that with their javascript.