November 2007 Entries
Guitar Hero 3 - Raining Blood on Expert mode. I don't think any amount of practice per day is going to help me get to this point.
Car Fat, People Skinny - very relevant to Auckland.
$350 Reward for Solution to Export Notes Databases to Filesystem. Nothing to see here. No migrations going on. Nowhere. Everyone is happy, move along. Tags: IBM , Notes , Godzilla , No Demand
My first thought when I read it was "Wow, people are still bothering obfuscating email addresses?". I guess the answer is yes. I guess when a few minutes of work when publishing addresses can prevent 50,000 spam messages per year per address then it's probably worth doing. Maybe. Link: Graceful E-Mail Obfuscation
The Forgotten Ruby Web Frameworks is a list which contains exactly what it's title says. It's just funny that there's so many of them!
Is Hellgate an MMO or not asks exactly that question. I definitely agree with the sentiment that a new term is required for games that rely heavily on instancing, but I think we could do better than "Instanced Multiplayer Game".
In my opinion, they're simply not the same as other non instanced games. I think that instancing has it's place, and that games like WoW and to some extent SWG got it right with their use of instancing (I liked it more in SWG per se, because there were instanced as well as non instanced dungeons).
There's just something about a...
"If It Looks Like a Cow, Swims Like a Dolphin and Quacks Like a Duck, It Must Be Enterprise Software"
I enjoy hot food.
However, this scares me.