Wednesday, October 29, 2014

First Impressions: Sony Playstation 4

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My brothers got me a PS4 for my birthday, so here are my first impressions. The first thing I did after unboxing the unit was to install an...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Review: Resogun

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My brothers gave me a PS4 on my birthday, so the first thing I did was to download and fire up Resogun . I wasn't able to get into Hous...
Monday, October 27, 2014

Review: Binary Domain

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I started playing Binary Domain by accident. I was playing Killzone 2 and getting frustrated at one stage. That's the fault of the fir...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

Review: The Flash Boys

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Books about Wall Street have a way of being incredibly depressing. For instance, Elizabeth Warren's story about fighting Wall Street ha...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Review: The Inquisitor's Apprentice

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I loved Chris Moriarty's Spin State , Spin Control , and Ghost Spin , so when I saw that she'd written a series of young adult books...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Review: Powerstation PSX-3 Jumpstarter/Air Compressor

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My old cheapo tire inflator bit the dust, and I wanted a better unit. I figured that I might as well get one that could jump start a car as ...
Monday, October 20, 2014

Review: Hario Mini Mill

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Lots of people raved to me about the benefits of grinding your own coffee from coffee beans rather than buying pre-ground coffee. It sounded...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Review: The Dark Defiles

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The Dark Defiles is the final book of Richard Morgan's fantasy trilogy that started with The Steel Remains and The Cold Commands . I...
Saturday, October 11, 2014

Review: Africa

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It is no secret that if you want to use your HDTV to the max, you attach a blu-ray player to it and then play one of BBC's nature docu...
Wednesday, October 08, 2014

Trains for Toddlers

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Bowen is a train fanatic. He says so himself, and I'm not sure I can disagree. The big problem with train sets is that there's an an...
Tuesday, October 07, 2014

S24O With a Toddler

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I've never participated in a S24O , mostly because back when I didn't have kids, I'd always have time and would use as much of a...
Monday, October 06, 2014

Gaming the Coding Interview

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Paul Graham's essay on how you can't really game startups had me thinking about the coding interview. Google had a lot of studies s...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Power Tools for Home Use

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Once you become a home owner, you end up with lots of little jobs that you have to work on that are too small to call a handyman for, and to...
Monday, September 29, 2014

Review: Able Brewing Disk for Aeropress

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Steve Grimm raved about the Able Brewing Disk for Aeropress , and I liked the idea of  not using disposable paper filters for each cup of ...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

Video Games

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After playing through a series of video games, I'm realizing a few things about video games if you're a time-pressed adult. The firs...
Saturday, September 27, 2014

Review: Killzone 3

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Since I was so surprisingly engrossed in Killzone Mercenary , I decided to pick up the Killzone Trilogy . If this was a novel series, you...
Friday, September 26, 2014

Review: True Romance

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Somehow, I missed True Romance when it first came out in the theaters, and when I saw that Amazon was having a sale on a Quentin Tarantino ...
Thursday, September 25, 2014

Review: Indie Game The Movie

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I will admit that I know Jon Blow, one of the 3 game developers featured on Indie Game , and that was one of the draws of the movie to me. T...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Vanguard's Unique Corporate Structure

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One thing I've come to realize over and over again, is that very few people understand what makes Vanguard such a unique company. Some ...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Review: Windows 8.1 Pro

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A couple of years ago, I upgraded my desktop top Windows 8 Pro . Just a few months later, the machine corrupted its own hard drive, but I wa...