Travis Newman

Author: Travis Newman

  • Made a salad and saw some games

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    So today I found myself strolling around Collin Creek Mall and had to stop at the local retro game shop GCX. I’ve been rediscovering how awesome my dreamcast is, so I wanted to see what they had for sale. Most of what they had was the usual crap, but they did have a few interesting…

  • Between shifts

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    Came over to my parents place between shifts today. Talked with dad a lot about his ongoing amateur radio project. From what I understand, he’s leading a series of training sessions designed to teach amateur radio operators how to use digital communication between computers over the ham bands. More specifically, in an emergency situation, no…

  • Nighty night

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    I thought I’d wrap up the night with a to-do list: 1) Migrate content from WordPress on the iMac to Blogger. 2) Get back on Code Year and learn CSS, among other things. 3) See about getting a more current study guide for the tech apps test. 4) Fill in holes in tech apps notes.…

  • Windows Live Writer

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    I’ve used Windows Live Writer in the past for some posts, and I just got it setup again in my Windows 7 installation.  This is more of a ‘Hello World!’ than anything else.  I think the blog might still need a little formatting.  I think the post titles, despite being in a much larger font,…

  • Mobile post

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    This is my first post to my newly-setup Blogger blog with the Google Blogger app for iOS.

  • What to do with this site?

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    So, I’ve had this site up for a hot minute, and I’ve been thinking about a direction I might want to take it in. There are basically three things that get me going in life: Technology, music, and cars. I’ve already posted a bit about technology on here. I’ve talked about newsgroups, text based video…

  • How do I newsgroups?

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    Newsgroups are a pretty great part of my life. They are very high performance, secure, relatively inexpensive, and reliable. The terminology and technology working in the background is different, but for those familiar with torrents, the process is virtually identical. Let’s get started. 1. Premium Usenet Provider First, you’ll need a premium usenet provider. If…

  • Recommended App: MarsEdit

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    I’m writing this post using a program called MarsEdit.  MarsEdit is a weblog publishing utility.  This is handy for me because the WordPress interface is pretty beefy and my old PowerBookG4 struggles a little bit with big websites like that.  MarsEdit doesn’t have a huge processor/RAM footprint.  Give it a shot. Also, PureMac is an…

  • Zork is hard and confusing, revisiting “Themes for an Imaginary Film”,and “Pump Up the Volume”

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    So I played Zork for a little bit…  and stopped.  I managed to get underneath a house and kill a troll and pick up some stuff and get hella lost.  Maps are very helpful for text adventures, by the way. I get how to move around and pick stuff up, but I’m just not sure…

  • Frotz

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    Frotz is a free interactive fiction app for the iPhone.  I just played through Photopia on it just to test it out, and it works quite well.  If you happen to get the free app, go to Settings > Getting Started.  Getting started has “New to Interactive Fiction?” and “No, Really, Where Do I Start?”…