Monday, April 28, 2014

Review: Android Studio

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Since helping my wife with her Nutrition Tracker App, I'd had a chance to try both Eclipse and Android Studio for android app developm...
Friday, April 25, 2014

Why it now makes sense to build your own PC

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I've always been tempted to build my own PC. I'm no stranger to the tools, since my internship at Geoworks effectively required me ...
Thursday, April 24, 2014

Review: Nuun Active Hydration

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I've long been a user of Cytomax as a supplement for my water bottles. It's cheap, easy to use, and keeps the cramps away adequatel...
Thursday, April 17, 2014

Why I can't help PMs, Sales People, or Marketing folks negotiate

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Occasionally, I'll get a sales person, product manager or program manager, or even a marketing person ask me to help negotiate their com...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

First Impressions: Microsoft Surface Pro

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Our trusty X201 had been getting long in the tooth, and Xiaoqin decided to try some Android development. If you've ever tried Android S...
Tuesday, April 08, 2014

Review: Flower

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I picked up Flower as part of the Journey Collector's Edition , but if you pick up the digital PS4 edition, you'll get it for the ...
Monday, April 07, 2014

Review: Journey

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Journey , for me, was a magical experience. When I sit down a reflect on the games I've played since December last year, many of them fa...
Friday, April 04, 2014

Review: Pixeljunk Monsters Ultimate HD

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I'm a big fan of the tower defense genre of games, and have sunk countless hours into the original flash-based game , as well as much ni...
Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Review: Aggressive Tax Avoidance For Real Estate Investors, 19th Edition

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While I'm not quite an accidental landlord, since we got married we've had a rental property to manage. There are all sorts of issue...
Friday, March 28, 2014

Review: Bioshock Infinite

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One of the interesting things about catching up on 10 years of games is that since I'd been exposed continuously to only good games, it...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

Review: Sennheiser CX 200

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My favorite headphones for on-the-go sonic isolation are still the Etymotic In-Ear Monitors . Mine are several years old and still going str...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

The Oculus Rift "Sellout"

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Yesterday's announcement of the Oculus Rift acquisition by Facebook has already garnered negative reactions amongst gamers and game de...

First Impressions: Nokia 521 Smartphone

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Microsoft can't seem to do anything right, so when they paired up with Nokia (who can't seem to make a fashionable smart phone) to m...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Cameras for Kids

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If your kid is anything like mine, he's at this point had plenty of photos and videos of him, and has by now figured out to pose for pic...
Sunday, March 23, 2014

Review: Caffeinated

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It's true. Being a parent can drive anyone to try drugs. I'm definitely a testament to that: after being a parent, I started getting...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Price Reduction: Independent Cycle Touring

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Spring is here, and if you're planning a bike tour, now's the time to do it. I've reduced the price of the PDF copy of Independe...
Sunday, March 16, 2014

Review: The Rise of Superman

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The Rise of Superman is ostensibly Steven Kotler's book about Flow , as experienced through extreme athletes. In reality, it seems to b...
Monday, March 10, 2014

PSA: New RSS and Atom Feeds

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I was previously using Feedburner , which is now dead. As a result, your existing feed reader probably is no longer receiving updates for my...
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Sunday, March 09, 2014

Review: Telltale Games The Walking Dead Season 1 (PS Vita)

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I got The Walking Dead as part of my PS Vita package . However, the loading times for the game was so long and the loading frequency was so...
Wednesday, March 05, 2014

When will the next generation of game consoles launch?

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While I'm thinking about why game consoles are likely to be around for quite a while , it was instructive for me to take a look at what ...