Surprise! tgorg.com is back up after a year or so of downtime. Quite a few changes have been made under the hood during that time. We’re now running under WordPress (which I hope is easier to maintain than Drupal for these kinds of things), and the theme has also been completely changed. You’ll notice that things work well on a mobile phone now too. Cool! Continue reading Hello Again…
Yeah, I know I haven’t posted anything on tgorg.com, in, like, one and a half years. Unfortunately, I’ve been a bit busy, to say the least. But anyways, I’ve just found and purchased The Journeyman Project Turbo 2 : Buried in Time, a sequel to The Journeyman Project, a game that I’ve played when I was a kid back in the day. Much to my surprise, when I opened the box, I found both Buried in Time and the original game! Awesome.
One of the memories I have of it was, strangely enough, the readme file. Just for laughs and giggles, I’ve decided to post the readme file. I’ve (in)appropriately bolded and italized all the old technology references. Times have most certainly changed…
Continue reading Blast from the Past – The Journeyman Project Turbo Readme
Making a duplicator for your church, home, or studio is really easy, and can save you money versus ordering a brand name duplicator. I had the opportunity to build one for my church, so I figure it’d be helpful to pass along a few tips on how to get one built.
Continue reading Howto: Building your own CD/DVD duplicator
So, yeah it’s been like five or six months since I’ve posted last. There was a lot of stress getting a bunch of stuff done, and, now that some of it’s done, I’ll probably be a little more active here. Here’s what I’ve been up to: Continue reading tgorg update! It’s been awhile!
For those of you who don’t know, Microsoft has been pretty busy lately making a few videos with Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates. It’s kinda funny, you may want to look at them (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/).
There’s an interesting thing to note here. First, this isn’t Microsoft’s first foray with funny videos. They’ve been doing it for several of their events; the most recent of which was a video about Bill Gates trying different “vocations” to determine what to do when he’s retired. But this is their first attempt at something at a more national level.
So what does this mean? To me, Microsoft has found a hook. They used what seemed to work in small scale, and brought it to a larger scale with satisfying results. However there’s more to this than just funny videos.
Microsoft always reminded me of, well, people like me. The geek. The semi-awkward guy that knew a lot (and by the way, Apple would be the cool suave dude-guy and IBM the seasoned engineer). However, now they have something that they can show off that’s bold; their humor. They show themselves to be able to be funny, and funny in a way that makes their geekiness shine. Sorta like a rock star geek that has no inhibitions. Or someone you see in their car singing at the top of their lungs without knowing they’re being watched by people in cars around him. I think a lot of that is attributed to Bill Gates being in the video.
There’s something attractive in this portrayal of themselves; the “I’m a geek and I don’t care what others think” kinda deal. I think if they keep going with that image they could do pretty well. It make me more interested in Microsoft. Just my hunch; I don’t know too well about the industry to make an 100% accurate statement.
Feel free to sound off on this…
This short how-to will allow you to call command line apps in the background (i.e. doesn’t “pop-up” in front of your app) within your The Games Factory (original version 1.06) game or app
Continue reading How-To: Run a command-line application in the background in The Games Factory
Cuil.com, just released to the public two days ago, is a new search engine that’s out to take on the giants that are Google, MSN, and Yahoo with a giant of it’s own; it’s super huge index database. But does it work?
Continue reading Quick Look: cuil.com
Hello everyone. There’s been some outages ever since Friday, due to the fact that I’ve been upgrading the site to the most current version of Drupal that supports the same modules. We should be good now…
From now on, I’ll be (hopefully) doing more blog posts on both technology and the web that are more engaging and interesting than the usual “tgorg updates” I’ve been doing every once in awhile. Hope you like it!
Acer just recently announced that they will be putting Linux in more of it’s boxes (the complete article here: http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2218172/acer-pushes-linux-hard). The report mentions that Acer will be using it’s own distro, which got me thinking “what if all PC manufactures did this and created their own distro for their PCs?”. Continue reading News in Review: Acer and Linux – The Start of Something Big?
Hello everyone. Now that I’ll be out of college in a week, I’ll be able to spend a little more time on here. There’s a couple of side projects that I want to work on, as well as a few things that I haven’t posted yet… I’ll get into what those side projects are later, since they’re not done yet, and I’ve been prone to let the cat out of the bag before anything reasonable comes up.
In other news, some friends of mine are working on a student film entitled “Carriefield”. Turns out that Glenn Zervas, a person my family is friends with is also doing some composing work on some of the music. You can check out Carriefield at the facebook group here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=12358596731
That’s all for now…