Year: 2008

  • Mark Haigh-Hutchinson passes away

    Last week I was in a business meeting, when a friend dropped the bomb that Mark Haigh-Hutchinson had passed away. Mark and I worked together quite a bit back when he was working on Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire for the Nintendo64 (I was an engineer at Nintendo at the time). We kept in […]

  • Computer Hungry, Need Power!

    Last week we were having some storms here in San Francisco, so I plugged my XP machine into a monster back-up power unit, an APC Back-UPS XS 1500. It’s supposed to be good for 900 watts, which is good since my previous decade-old back-up unit was only good for 450 watts, and you know, computers […]