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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…
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Mobile post
This is my first post to my newly-setup Blogger blog with the Google Blogger app for iOS.
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What to do with this site?
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…
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How do I newsgroups?
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.…
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Recommended App: MarsEdit
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. …
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Zork is hard and confusing, revisiting “Themes for an Imaginary Film”,and “Pump Up the Volume”
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.…
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Frotz
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…
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Finished Photopia
Well I just finished Photopia… I think I got it? I suppose since I haven’t read much lately so I don’t read that well? I mean I can read Engadget and Autoblog posts, but this is a different kind of…
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Interactive Fiction Intro
Inspired by the film Get Lamp: The Text Adventure Documentary (watch), I decided I wanted to play one of these games. As I mentioned in a previous post, I have started playing Photopia. However, I thought I would post some…
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Two documentaries for really nerdy people
I’ve watched a couple of documentaries recently by a guy named Jason Scott. The first one, Get Lamp: The Text Adventure Documentary, I had seen before. Its about text-based adventures, which is a form of interactive fiction. The genre was largely…