Okay, this is really late, and I *did* wish my sister a happy birthday way back on October 4th. But I’ve been digging around at my dad’s place for some old treasures, and among some cool old computer game boxes and some old photos, I found a record that Erin got as a present back […]
It’s been a busy time since my last post: the game is finished and off to be manufactured, should be in stores in September; we took a 7500 km family trip through the north-west of the USA; during that trip I attended the Christian Game Developers Conference and had a very inspirational and enjoyable time. […]
Take a look at what $5600 can buy you. Yes, a bunch of gruff half-naked guys wandering around on top of your house. And as a bonus, they put shingles down too. Can’t ask for much more. In other news, I’ve survived 9 of the 10 days that my family has been away for. I’ve […]
Happy Birthday Peter: 6 years old today. It seems to have become an annual tradition to blog about Peter’s birthday because there is usually a video game connection. For Peter’s 4th birthday we made the Super Mario Birthday Cake, and for Peter’s 5th birthday we noticed how popular the pictures of his birthday cake had […]
Google Maps has been a favourite site of mine for quite a while, especially for its “Get Directions” feature. Type in the “from” and the “to” locations, and it’ll work out a path, and give a distance and directions. Frequently I was just as interested in the distance as the directions, and I found myself […]
When I decided to take the new job, one of the factors that helped me in my decision was a bit in our contract that allows 25 working days to decide whether to keep the new job or not. I had that time to see if this could really work, and it was a bit […]
Yesterday was my last day in the IT department at work. I started there December 16th, 1996 as a student and became a real full-time employee on May 14th of 1997. Despite having the same job title all along, I’ve done a lot of different jobs over the last ten years: an Internet help desk […]
Happy New Year, all of you telecommunicators. We weren’t feeling 100% today, so we stayed home and had a lazy pajama day. Sorry that we missed Darren and Jenn’s party and our other friends there. Hope you guys had a good time. It’s been quite a while since I got any game programming done. I’ve […]
Ever since my family outgrew my truck (7 people, and only 6 seats in my F-150) I’ve been dreaming of having a new truck that would seat us all. While I’ll probably have to settle for a van or Suburban that can seat 8 or 9, what I really want is a truck with, say, […]
I finally managed to get to 10,000 words in my sort-of NanoWriMo. Even if I don’t make the target, it’s been pretty fun doing all this memoiring. The blog spam problem came back. It was just one guy who always left the name “Hi there”. I tried modifying the PHP code to ignore anything from […]