I’d like to think I’m a casual gamer; That would be a vast mistruth. I’ve owned an Atari 2600, NES, SNES, N64, Xbox, PS, GBA, Xbox 360, and several gaming computers. While I don’t enjoy all types of games, there are certain genres that continually suck me in.
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Linking to from one document to another is basically the foundation of the internet. The URL of a document is the address you point your browser at to retrieve some content. Content on the internet is meant to be read. You drive readers to your content by publishing the URL. Ideally you want your content to be available to readers not only now, but for years hence.
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After buying a new Mac Mini, I quickly became aware of a rather annoying clicking sound. Imagine sitting in a quiet room, working silently, then hearing a soft clicking sound. Imagine this sound happening seemingly randomly, at a frequency of about once every 5 minutes. It drove me up the wall.
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Yesterday I was out partaking in some fine English brown ale and Chicago deep dish pizza, when the waiter noticed me reading something on my iPod Touch. He started asking the usual “Is that a Touch or an iPhone?” and “Do all iPhone apps work on the Touch?” questions, which I’ve grown used to at this point. Then he surprised me, by telling me about the Kindle app for the iPhone, and generally gushing about the Kindle hardware. I ended up discussing some of my first-hand experiences with various e-book readers, and eventually we subsided into trading favorite authors.
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I compiled the latest Handbrake source code a few weeks ago and started testing it out on both my Mac and PC. I’ve got a collection of video that I’d like to have in H.264 format, and I want the files to work on the iPod Touch, iPhone, stream to the Xbox 360, and maintain enough quality to look good on a 40″ television.
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