In part one, our hero was left feeling like neither the liberal party nor the conservative party (instances of these being the Republicans and the Democrats in the United States, or the Liberals and the Conservatives in Canada) was truly his (or her) party. Stephanie commented on Part 1 and noted that it’s not just […]
I finally finished Portal. This game deserves every award it’s won. If you haven’t finished it yet, go do it now. Aperture Science. We do what we must, because we can.
HD DVD has been having a rough time lately, and now that Wal-Mart has pulled HD DVD, it’s pretty much over. Microsoft needs to respond. Here’s the situation that millions of Xbox 360 owners are in: We want HD movies. Nobody’s going to buy an HD DVD drive for the 360 now, and HD movie […]
I’ve been in California for the last week and one effect that I’ve noticed is that a lot of web sites are more responsive down here than in Ottawa. Of course this makes some sense – Ottawa is a long way from California, so the number of hops from me to, say, google.com, is much […]
Dreamhost, the host that hosts my blog and some other sites I play with, screwed up. But they did something that most companies don’t do when they screw up: They posted a very good explanation of what went wrong, how they fixed it, and how they set things up so this particular problem won’t happen […]
That’s the error message I get when I try to activate Windows Vista on my media center. The product key is good; I called Microsoft and they even generated and gave me a different product key to try. Same message. Vista has decided that my grace period is over (60 days after installation) and it’s […]
Looks like the Blu-Ray camp is making an attempt to end the format war. Warner Bros just signed on as an exclusive, meaning now about 75% of studios are Blu-Ray exclusive. I still think this is a bad idea, because the lack of a combo format means stores will have to stock two SKUs for […]
Jeff Atwood’s “The Trouble with PDFs” post lists advanced layout as the virtue of PDF, but as he points out, there isn’t much these days that you can do with PDF when it comes to layout that you can’t do with HTML and CSS. The real benefit to PDF as far as I’m concerned is […]
A while ago, I spent a bit of time trying to figure out what codec I should use to encode videos that I was creating of my son and the random other stuff I’d been capturing with my digital camera. It came down to DivX, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Windows Media Video (WMV), or QuickTime. The AVI […]
Well, thanks, I guess. The video marketplace is live now in Canada, so we can rent HD movies and have them downloaded to our consoles. The cost varies depending on the movie – a way to gauge how tolerant we are of high prices? Believers, for example, costs 440 Microsoft Points for the standard definition […]