I’ve started writing a new game. I switched from my second version of ‘Pachinko Fever’ to this ‘pseudo’ RPG style game. We’ll see how it goes. I have the game-play in mind… but its not finalized. I...

This review of the Ergo Pro keyboard from Matias is more then a thinly veiled exercise I dreamed up to test the keyboard… but not much. The keyboard was delivered today from Amazon. Had to replace...

Recently I’ve been big into trying to figure out how to upgrade the sound coming from my audio system. I’ve looked at tube amps to make proper use of my turntable. (Yeah, that’s right… vinyl.) But ...

I lost twelve pounds. I have eight to go. I stopped eating flour, rice and potato. When I was a vegetarian, flour, rice and potato was mostly my diet. Tastes good, but you never really feel full. ...

This is my last post about the 2015 Cassandra Summit. This is mostly a list of random details that I wanted to keep track of. Most people may not find this useful. DataStax 4.8 will have better ‘e...

The Cassandra summit that DataStax hosted this year had just shy of 140 sessions over two days. Each session was grouped into tracks such as operations, development and architecture. They had a hal...

This last week I went to the Cassandra summit that Datastax had put on. The first day was training and certification, and the following two day was the conference itself. I had been playing with Ca...

I finally took my cousin’s advice and I’m making a game with a story to it. I’ve made some progress getting a generic RPG together with libgdx where the game flow, stories, npcs and loot/abilities ...

I installed the Google opinions app a while ago thinking it was just a standard marketing survey app. It comes up with a few questions during the week about various products, and for your time, it’...

I had a ‘massive’ install of a bunch of apps on my phone. It looks like its sprint-mandated bloatware. (I use ting, but we all know how that goes…. had to get the S5 from ting, so….) Anyways…. I r...