Recently, my post count has mostly stopped. Since the media center is now functioning stable, there's not much to report other than I'm finding myself wanting an AM/FM tuner card for the PC so I can pipe broadcast radio through my home without adding additional devices to my TVs. Everything else...
I know that I have been mostly absent over the past two months. Things have picked up at work and It has mostly taken over my life. That said, when I actually do get some downtime, I've been spending it playing games and not entirely motivated to write for the blog. However, I can tell you that a...
It has been a while since I posted a blog entry. I'm still here although I have to say that I've been swamped with things to do for the past month. That said, I did find time to read a great book, "Gauntlgrym", by R.A. Salvatore. This book has to be his best Drizzt book to date. I read the book in a matter of days; it kept me up nights with just-one-more-page syndrome and I can't wait for the next book. Only 50 weeks to go if he releases the next one in the same timeframe as he has released the last five books.
As I always do with the books I read, I sell them after I'm done. You can find my ebay listing here for the book that I just finished. I'm one of those readers that will read a book once and never touch it again. It's not that it is not a good book worth multiple readings but in the same way that I rarely eat leftovers, I can't read a book twice.
Gauntlgrym is a tale that is unlike every other book in the Drizzt series. It spans decades as it follows Drizzt and Bruenor's latest quest to find the home that we've heard Bruenor talk about in a couple of the previous books. The book gives Salvatore a chance to reflect upon the events of the last book in the series and because this book spans decades, we get a chance to see how Drizzt and Bruenor have evolved in a world where Catti-Bree, Wulfgar and Regis are no longer with them. In addition to that, just when you seem to think you've explored all that Drizzt has to offer as a character, Jarlaxle reveals an entirely new viewpoint to us that frankly, I never thought of before. Read on if you want to learn more about the book and my thoughts on the meat of the story but I'm not able to discuss it without revealing the contents of the book so spoilers will follow. You've been warned.
Yesterday, I wrote about the mayoral candidate debate that took place during Wednesday's Louisville Venture Club meeting. I don't write alot about politics but when I failed to find funding for Ages of Athiria partly because the deal couldn't be done in Louisville, I decided to see what the three candidates for mayor were going to do for small businesses here in the city. Today, I am going to finish the writeup and draw a couple of conclusions based on my own political beliefs. They are my own opinion and as soon as I am done, I'll go back to game design and other such topics. As I did yesterday, I'm recapping and adding color to my Twitter stream.
As I grow older, local politics seems to be more important to me for some reason that I cannot fully explain just yet. Many of my friends couldn't care less as long as Calipari is recruiting good recruits at UK or their daughters are progressing along in softball. You could have said the same about me as early as last October. (Ok not the Calipari part but you get the point.) Perhaps it is because I failed to raise money for my company that I've become interested in local politics. One of the reasons why I couldn't raise money was because the deal could not get done in Louisville. There is exactly one firm here in Louisville that is large enough to fund a company with $15+ million and they met with me under the preconception that they were not interested in funding a video game. The other reasons why I failed to raise funding are outlined in my post to the Ages of Athiria community.
When I heard that the three candidates for Louisville's Mayor position were coming to the Venture Club, I immediately registered for what eventually became a sold out event. It seems that I am not the only one interested in hearing how the next mayor will work to create jobs and empower small business. I wasn't left wanting for more answers when the meeting was done and now that I've let the experience simmer for a day, I'm blogging about it for others to read.
With this press release from Apple, Steve Jobs is officially drinking his own cool aid and drunk from his overflowing cup. http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/29/steve-jobs-publishes-some-thoughts-on-flash-many-many-thou/ Let’s address his six points. 1) Flash is not open. This is generally true but...
Adobe isn't going far enough in it's war with Apple. On one side of the relationship, they have a blogger for Flash ranting about the new iPhone SDK rules. Then, in another division, all is well and good for Flash on the Mac using a new Apple API . I'm of the mind that Apple's new iPhone...
I recently came across a situation where I needed to use my laptop to give a software code review at a remote office. I’m not guaranteed that the office will have internet connectivity so I needed to prepare. Since we’re meeting with someone locally and two other people remotely for this...
Call it Blog 2.0. I’ve been meaning to get my blog off of the Community Server 2007 platform that was abandoned by Telligent for quite some time. My only problem was that I had a wealth of posts in the Community Server database that I needed to migrate. Well, a few months back, Telligent...
Happy New Year! May your resolutions last longer than 24 hours. :) It’s a new decade and a new year. I was watching a montage of sports highlights on ESPN last night just after the ball dropped and I was amazed at all the things we’ve seen in sports. Add in all the other parts of life and...
