Dear Google
Google Docs is the most painful document editor i’ve had to use in my life. I caught myself strugging with it and editing raw HTML the other day. If you have write HTML code… its ceases to be a document writing tool and just becomes notepad.
I moved over to Adobe’s Buzzword … wow… thats what Google Docs should have been years ago.
Zune
My Zune must be playing jokes on me… its strange. Lately i’ve noticed it playing two closely related songs back to back.
First after listening to Petra Haden - Don’t Stop Believin’ it then played the original. Not so big a stretch… they have the same titles.
And just now it went from Beatallica - Leper Madonna to Leper Messiah!
Is it possessed or just coincidence?
(also its cool that i can find any music video i want on YouTube).
NVidiots
I happened to come across this news item today…
NVIDIA ForceWare 185.66 BETA
- Adds support for Ambient Occlusion – the newest NVIDIA Control Panel feature to offer enhanced 3D gaming realism exclusively to GeForce GPUs.
For a second i thought i fell into a April Fools joke…. but really NVidia? There are no importaint bugs or performance issues to address? You need to implement your own SSAO in the driver?
I’m sure the art directors of the industry will raise their voices in praise of this huge step. No longer do they have to concern themselves with how their games look. NVidia and the game players will “fix” the problems with your art in the driver control panel… the tool of choice for serious artists.
I hope this driver feature dies… bad NVidia… no cookie.
GDC 2009
I’m currently a little loopy from the pre-GDC crunch…
Windows 7
Seems like the Windows 7 public beta is fairly popular… i would be installing it myself if i wasn’t so busy.
I hope this somehow is an indicator of pent up demand for a new OS that isn’t Vista. XP is now 8 years old and its no secret that the failures of Vista adoption by the masses, and hence DX10, has set back graphics advancements in the PC game industry. It seems to still be around 30% of gamers according to the Valve and Unity hardware surveys… not quite enough to bother to support it.
I hope to see a DX11 GFX device for Torque 3D in the near future… some really cool stuff will be possible.
Sloppy art makes money
After my disapointing experience with GTA4 i decided to finally pick up GTA: San Andreas via Steam to find some satisfaction.
I had more fun with it than the latest GTA release and took notice how some of the half assed art didn’t really matter.
Make it fun to play… the rest will work itself out.
Relaunched
For a long time this site has been dead and just catching my email. I’ve been so preoccupied with work that almost everthing else has taken a back burner. I’m ready to change that.
So i’ve decided to refocus this site on games, game development, and in particular trying to run our small indie team on a daily basis.
I’ve always found that writing helps me better understand things, so at least it will be educational for myself. 
