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I was sad to learn today of Randy Pausch’s passing. Randy Pausch was of course huge in the game industry, as one of the founders of Carnegie Mellon’s well-known Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) lab. My interaction with Randy was years and years ago, when we were both getting involved in the budding virtual reality scene, [...]

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 [...]

It’s the 25th birthday of the Commodore 64, happy birthday! CNN has a piece about it, and the Computer History Museum is having a celebration on December 10. The lovable little computer was my first introduction to affordable home computing. I had cut my baby teeth on a TRS-80 for a few years, and stayed [...]

I just found this video on youtube and had to share it with you all. It is “Stanley and Stella in ‘Breaking the Ice’”. I saw this short as a kid, it was made in 1987 – it was one of the first computer graphics animations that I really fell in love with. Was made [...]

Lately my life has been pretty frenetic. I’m working on a Wii game contract during the day – most days I am on-site with the studio, where I am working to help them optimize their CPU and graphics performance. At night I’ve been working on finishing up some installation routines for some really large PC [...]