Review: The Way of Kings
A few weeks ago, I mentioned the release of The Way of Kings, the first installment of Brandon Sanderson’s new epic, The Stormlight Archive. I’ve had a bunch of other stuff distracting me since then,...
View ArticleThe more things change…
Many years ago, back in 2000 or 2001, I forget the exact date but sometime in that time period, I ordered some books from Amazon and had them shipped by UPS. The shipping date came and went, and my...
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Programmers and social skills
Someone recently asked a very interesting question over at programmers.stackexchange.com. Unfortunately, though somewhat predictably, people jumped all over it and it ended up getting closed and then...
View ArticleJob opportunities at WideOrbit
Just thought I’d throw this one out there. My employer, WideOrbit, is currently hiring. We’ve got multiple development positions open for both Delphi and C#/Silverlight skillsets. (SQL experience,...
View ArticleAn email from Stardock
As you may know if you’ve been reading for a while, I’m a gamer. Have been pretty much my whole life. In fact, it was the prospect of creating my own video games that first got me into programming. A...
View ArticleFun with voice control
It was my brother’s birthday a few days ago. The family got together and we took him out to dinner at a restaurant nearby. I’d just gotten a new car a few weeks back, and he hadn’t seen it yet, so I...
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Heading to Australia
A while back, the Australian Delphi Users’ Group put out a call for papers for a conference they were planning to hold in March of 2013. I sent in a submission and it ended up getting accepted, so in...
View ArticleNew Year, new job, new town, same me
A lot’s happened in my life over the last few weeks, but most of it revolves around one basic fact: I quit my job at WideOrbit to take a new one with De Novo Software. The project I’m working on now...
View ArticleFixed my blog
So apparently I got hacked somehow. Not sure what happened, but someone found a way in to my WordPress installation and started using it to serve spammy ad links. I’ve rooted out the problem and...
View ArticleBeds and burgers
What do a bed and a burger have in common? Not much, at first glance. You eat a burger and sleep in a bed, and certainly not the other way around. (You might eat a burger while in bed, if you’re a...
View ArticleShameless Plug: uArm Swift
I just ran across this on IndieGoGo. Everyone remember the cute lab robots from the first Iron Man movie? Well, the people at uFactory are trying to actually build them. (More or less.) They’re...
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