It’s 4am. I can’t sleep. Too much stuff to think about. Here’s a quick sampling of the sort of thing that I think about at this time of day before I have to be up for work in four hours. Lots of people say that we count in base 10 because we have 10 fingers. [...]

I just finished Outliers, a book Malcolm Gladwell. The book is fascinating – yet has a rather depressing note to it. The examples in the book are many and varied, and go from why most Canadian hockey league players are born in January to why most geniuses don’t actually get anywhere in life. It all [...]

Had a system go down over the week, so have been scrambling around behind the scenes to get things back where they were. More here later. Cheers, tom

While I adore the zombie horror game Left 4 Dead, the online co-op play seems to be hit-and-miss at the moment. Depending on which server you auto-connect to, you end up with something laggy, or completely inappropriate to your level of play. So, since I happen to have my own dedicated system I decided to [...]

While I had all the best intentions of posting more neat and interesting stuff (well, to me, that is), I managed to run smack into Left 4 Dead and things haven't been quite the same since. Sure, I'm still the standard-issue Midwest programming geek, but I just happen to flinch a hell of a lot [...]