Monthly Archives: December 2004

Manchurian Candidate

Just finished watching the remake of the Manchurian Candidate (2004). Do yourself a favor and don’t watch this one. The only thing it has in its favor is that its in color. Otherwise, it is more graphic, more disturbing, with … Continue reading

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Book page meme

Merry Christmas everyone! I was combing through my NetNewsWire backlog and trying to get to 0 items waiting to be read before the New Year and ran across Erik’s book page meme entry. I’ve never done one of these before, … Continue reading

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Eclipse 3.1 M4 – an early Christmas gift from the Eclipse team

Eclipse 3.1 M4 is out. It was released right on time, last Friday, December 17th. This is a nice early Christmas gift from the Eclipse team. As always, since this is a beta release, expect some bugs especially with the … Continue reading

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Project Post-mortems

Post-mortem (noun) – what a good programmer writes after he’s released a product. Also known as project retrospective or after-development report. Here’s some thoughts on the post-mortems by Gus on VoodooPad 2.0 and Brent on MarsEdit 1.0 (which was spun … Continue reading

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I’ll be playing football video games again in 2010

The very first blog that I wrote was part of a website for a video game that I was passionate about: NFL 2K on the Sega Dreamcast. That game was so superior to all the competitors at the time that … Continue reading

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Why Quicksilver rocks

I was going to blog about how Brent wrote up a project retrospective (which he called an after-development report and most people call a post-mortem) on MarsEdit. This is cool because I had wondered openly if he would write a … Continue reading

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ActionSomnia

A new sniglet, to describe my current condition. Definition: This is what happens when you either a) watch an action/adventure movie or b) play a video game late at night. Your mind gets revved up because you feel like you’re … Continue reading

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MarsEdit 1.0 released

MarsEdit 1.0 was released today. I wonder if Brent will do a post-mortem of it like Gus Mueller did with VoodooPad 2.0. I found that to be pretty insightful, especially since it confirmed once again some things that I’ve learned … Continue reading

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IdeaSomnia

In my previous post, I wrote about how Brent had coined two new words: Shower dementia and Shampoo vu. These are Sniglets, or for those of you too young to remember or who didn’t have HBO in the 80s, words … Continue reading

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Back in Blogosphere with MarsEdit

I’ve been busy with work and family and side projects. There never seems to be enough hours in the day to do everything. Also I think I had been spending too much time trying to organize my thoughts and format … Continue reading

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