Here is a very good article explaining how we managed to get into the HTML standards mess that we’re in. It also explains a bit about why we’re not going to see an end to this mess anytime soon.
Essentially browser support was intended for pages written by knowledgeable programmers, so they were pretty tolerant […]

I just read this Penny Arcade comic and it reminded me of the good old days when we’d have LAN parties. Eight or so guys would drag their machines over and we’d throw down on the latest shooter that was available. I think our record attendance was 16 people packing into one house. […]

As you may or may not be aware the upcoming Batman movie is doing its best to clog the internet with advertising. Along with the movie’s home page the following is a list of web sites they’ve created for the movie.

The Gotham City Times
I Believe in Harvey Dent
Gotham Cable News
Dana Worthington
Citezens for Batman
Saint Swithuns […]

Yesterday I mentioned architecture limitations of browser plug-ins. This isn’t the only place that such limitations occur. Just about all closed source applications for Linux share this problem.
Linux is pretty tolerant of processor architecture, the Debian distribution can work on any of 11 architectures. I can see how this makes providing full […]

After I bought the Wii most of my video gaming left the PC and moved to console. After paying several hundred dollars on the Wii, some extra controllers, and a few games I wanted to be sure got my money’s worth. This means that I’ve pretty much stopped playing Team Fortress 2, which […]