Someone in the South Bay with the geocaching name Scourge is removing some of those pesky lame micros that never should have been approved in the first place. His (or her) log entry is always only the mystic message “pum-SPAK!” Having been put on the right path by Equinox who swears no knowledge of the [...]
I’ve been bitten by the Blizzard bug again. This time it’s the new World of Warcraft saga, a huge four-CD massively multiplayer online role-playing game, or MMORPG for short. The predecessor, Warcraft III, never gelled with me, mainly due to its complexity and less-than-interesting playing, but WoW is a fun, engaging, and addictive timewaster.
Installation is [...]
Here’s a quick-and-easy Photoshop tutorial that, if nothing else, reminds me how to create the look of torn paper.
I often create neat effects in Photoshop, but I just as often forget how to recreate them simply because I quickly move on to other unrelated projects. I began to piece together some neat old treasure-map-like paper yesterday and realized that I didn’t want to forget how to make it this time. Thus, this mini [...]
I’ve avoided the topic of last month’s tsunami until now. No particular reason other than the holidays, taxes, and the stomach flu. I am saddened by the unprecedented number of losses. Unfortunately, it seems my early prediction of losses exceeding 180,000 is coming to fruition.
The personal stories are almost overwhelming:
Ena Jenkins of Australia suspects that [...]
I was in a meeting recently in which one of the participants referred to China and Mexico as Third World countries because of their economic status. Since my recollection of the definition of the numbered worlds reflected an established politically democratic system as the leading criteria, I needed clarification.
According to the open Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia, [...]
