Posts

Thanks to all who came to the panel discussion this morning! I really enjoyed it and realize I need to post more on my blog. My presentation$$

I found this the other day and think it would be perfect for the Game Distribution network for my non-existing open console. It is called OpenCDS and it is being used for the open-source game OpenFrag. From OpenFrag’s website (http://wiki.openfrag.org/wiki/OpenCDS_About): OpenCDS is a Valve$$ Steam$$ inspired application, where you are able to easily browse, download, manage, update, run games. OpenCDS is completely written in Java and therefore a very cross-platform application. With the ability to customize your OpenCDS, using skins and plugins, you are able to receive the application in your language. With a sophisticated download and manage system, you are able to keep your enlisted games up to date, and therefore opt-in for optimal game experience. I’m not sure if this is the same project as on the Java OpenCDS site (https://opencds.dev.java.net/). ...

I just found out a handful of people have recording contracts! Irish-girl, Australian-guy and some others. http://www.votefortheworst.com/americanidol7contestants

Since no one I was routing for got in, I’m done with this season. If only they had kept Kyle…

As I’ve been playing with MythTV, Ubuntu and the like for a year now, I keep coming up with the idea of an open source game console. I’ve figured that someone would have thought of this before, but, I can never find anything on the interweb about it. My idea is (relatively) simple: come up with a list of hardware and a Linux OS that can play games out to a TV/HDTV/Monitor. The kind of games I’m talking about are the quick arcade games (Extreme Tux Racer), RPG (Westnoth), fighting (Paintown), etc. I’m not sure exactly what games, but, the eventual goal would be for teams and indies to make games that run on the console. Maybe even a way to buy games via digital distribution. ...

This looks like the best use of a Nintendo DS until Final Fantasy Tactics DS comes out. As Susan Arendt wrote on Wired’s Game|Life: Disney is currently field-testing the use of DS Lites as an interactive tour guide and map for its Magic Kingdom resorts. Most brilliant idea ever? Quite possibly. Having just come from Disney World, I know how helpful it would have been at the park. A small screen to tell you how to get from Laugh Floor to PotC as quick as possible or where to buy a Rice Krispy treat would have been awesome. ...

The episode in Port Deposit Maryland aired last night. My co-workers and I went up and helped on Day 4. I was on the team that built the plane. This is a link to the project. BTW, the thumbtacks as rivets…that was my idea. So was moving the flight sim gear down. The designer wanted the screens to be up by the windshield but I told him it was too cramped and the kid would get eye strain. ...

After 10 years of using a product, you can still learn something…this helped me today with a rather dumb Flash problem. How to Get Flash AS2 to Display Italicized HTML Text | rabidGadfly

An article about trying to run a blog while sailing off the coast of Mexico. It’s sounds hard but not impossible. Sailboat Blogger Vies for Seaside Broadband

This is more of a note to myself: I used my friend’s SCORM conformant Flash template that he created in late 2005/early 2006. He stopped using it in a SCORM LMS and then added the code to prevent the ActiveX control from appearing in IE. I started a project last year with it and just got the files back “assuming” that I could plop it into my LMS. Unfortunately, the version of flashObject (1.3.c) he used since moving away from the LMS blocked the setValue calls from the Flash movie so it wouldn’t pass the score. It wasn’t until my other colleague recommended I use a newer version of flashObject, swfObject 1.4.4, that it worked. ...