Dark Sun Worldwide Game Day Recap

While I might not be the strongest believ­er in fate, I hap­pi­ly rec­og­nize and accept serendip­i­ty when it occurs. I had signed up for the lastest Dun­geons & Drag­ons World­wide Game Day — to get play­ers famil­iar with the new Dark Sun Cam­paign Set­ting sup­ple­ment — with my local gam­ing group. As it turns out,… Con­tin­ue read­ing Dark Sun World­wide Game Day Recap

No More Watchmen

So Alan Moore says that he does­n’t even want the rights to Watch­men back after DC approach­es him with a deal. So, no more Watch­men sto­ries. Nor­mal­ly, I find myself always want­i­ng more from a world so rich as that cre­at­ed by Moore and artist Dave Gib­bons. How­ev­er, for some rea­son, I can­not imag­ine want­i­ng… Con­tin­ue read­ing No More Watchmen

iPhone for the Deaf

deafmac.org on the WWDC keynote by Steve Jobs yes­ter­day: The “one more thing” from Steve Jobs was some­thing we all expect­ed – video call­ing on the iPhone 4. What was not expect­ed was how it put Amer­i­can Sign Lan­guage users in the spot­light, at the very end of the Face­Time video. Of every­thing in the (near­ly… Con­tin­ue read­ing iPhone for the Deaf

Steam on the Mac

While I think it’s great that Steam is final­ly avail­able for mac users, I’ve still yet to ben­e­fit from it. I first bought Por­tal about two years ago and played it via Boot Camp on my iMac. It was just as won­der­ful as every­one said it was and I had a great time. Some time… Con­tin­ue read­ing Steam on the Mac

Designing User-Focused Context Sensitive Help

This pre­sen­ta­tion by Matthew Elli­son [Goog docs] giv­en at last year’s Aus­tralasian Online Doc­u­men­ta­tion and Con­tent Con­fer­ence (AODC 2009) has some excel­lent points on how to craft online help for con­text sen­si­tive calls. This is some­thing Bent­ley uses (a lot) and I’m try­ing to catch up on. There are real­ly a lot of excel­lent points… Con­tin­ue read­ing Design­ing User-Focused Con­text Sen­si­tive Help

Tax and Spend Conservatives

USA Today’s Den­nis Cau­chon: Fed­er­al, state and local tax­es — includ­ing income, prop­er­ty, sales and oth­er tax­es — con­sumed 9.2% of all per­son­al income in 2009, the low­est rate since 1950, the Bureau of Eco­nom­ic Analy­sis reports. That rate is far below the his­toric aver­age of 12% for the last half-cen­­tu­ry. The over­all tax bur­den… Con­tin­ue read­ing Tax and Spend Conservatives

Dairy Farm Tour

Gen­er­al­ly speak­ing, there are two sides to how we get food in this coun­try: how we think our food is pro­duced and how it real­ly is pro­duced. These two seem to have dras­ti­cal­ly diverged some­where in the 1950s. To a cer­tain extent, this has allowed greater pros­per­i­ty in the form of cheap food for the… Con­tin­ue read­ing Dairy Farm Tour

Self Identification

This was the first year that I ever got to fill out a cen­sus as hus­band, father, home­own­er, and all around adult. The last cen­sus, both Angela and I were liv­ing in a dor­mi­to­ries (in two dif­fer­ent states, no less). It was such an small but sat­is­fac­to­ry sense of self-worth. In the big­ger pic­ture, the… Con­tin­ue read­ing Self Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion