Doppelgangers

broderic on July 6, 2008

I knew it wasn’t just me who thought that there are too many dudes who can be mistaken for Zach Braff.

Nuke the fridge

broderic on June 20, 2008

Why haven’t I heard about this phrase before? It wants desperately to be the “jump the shark” for the late 00’s. Oh, well, you can’t have it all I guess.

But it does seem to sum up the problem with the movies nowadays. What to do when you’ve place your characters in an unbelievable, tenuous situation? You nuke the fridge! What absurdity! I like that, but it is the worst way to get out of a jam.

Plus, the fridge thing flying over the heads of the doomed nazis was absolutely brilliant. One step further down the bizarre that was Indy 4.

Link of the Day [6.14.08]

broderic on June 14, 2008

I’m tracking you as you surf this site. Sorry. Big brother is here.

But over the weekend statcounter went down. If you visited this site at the time, you would’ve had to have waited until the request for the statcounter badge timed out before you saw any content. Sorry again.

Those guys at statcounter also are sorry. And they’ll tell you how it happened. Blow by blow and in excruciating technical detail. Hunh? Whatever! But it’s good to know that they don’t keep you in the dark.

They’ll make amends next time.

http://blog.statcounter.com/?p=91

InternetExplorer 7 is ugly

broderic on June 6, 2008

At work, I upgraded to the latest Micrsoft browser for the tabbed browsing. I must say using it daily that it is the worst looking piece of software I am unfortunately using.

The tabs don’t look right. They’re flush against the content of the browser box. They don’t stand out enough to tell which tab you’re browsing.

What’s with the swap of the application menus and the location bar? Is that a Vista thing and is that pretty retarded?

What’s with that toolbar for home, print and rss field? It looks lonely out there like its waiting to be used in an Office toolbar.

Why are the back buttons round, but the refresh and stop buttons square?

What is wrong with the people in Redmond? Is this the best they can do?

The Union label

broderic on June 6, 2008

This is a post from around June 2005 which I never posted either because it is incomplete or I forgot. Or maybe I got bloggered and was unable to post but never came back to it. Anywhoo enjoy!

BoingBoing points out a Wired article about game coders wanting to support the voice actors in there quest for royalties from recording vocals for games only if they can get a slice of the profits too. I say fooey on them.

The main thing about the actors is that they have a union to back them up. They have the clout with many other unions to help them in on this. What does the game coder have?

Maybe if game coders would think about unionizing they may have some leverage to ask for royalties as well. But if they keep the “To each his own” philosophy then, screw ’em.

Now, I am not saying that they don’t deserve any royalties. As a programmer/software engineer myself I support getting paid. They do the most amazing work and don’t get credit for it. But what gets me is the libertarian like politics that pervade the software industry.