Yesterday Apple released iTunes for Windows. It seems to be pretty good as a music purchasing mechanism, but it’s iffy as an mp3 player. I like how I can share music with other people on my network, but I don’t like not being able to copy those files locally. The application seems pretty sluggish and…

FLASH: Cynthia Harriss resigns as president of the Disneyland Resort This was rumored to have been coming for a few months now. I bet this would have happened even if that guy hadn’t died on Big Thunder.

Tammy and I have been playing through Diablo II on battle.net lately. She’s an Assassin and I’m a Druid. Last night we killed Diablo, after dying about 30 times each (no joke.) The good thing about dying that many times is that you run out of money really quick – so you eventually have nothing…

We’re still a long way off from seeing a mod chip that lets you play bootable backups on the GameCube, however progress is being made. You can now send GC disc images to your cube over Cat5 cable and play them just like the real thing!

Be sure to tune in to Travel Channel Secrets tomorrow night for a behind-the-scenes look at Disneyland. You see stuff like this all the time when they do documentaries about the Florida parks, especially with WDW’s innovative Utilidoor system. But, for whatever reason, security in Anaheim is a lot tighter, and backstage areas have never…

I am having an extremely awesome day today. My drive to work this morning was amazing. There was no traffic to be found on any of the freeways that I take! It was like driving to work on a weekend! Then Tammy told me it was Columbus Day and it all made sense. You’d think…

Which Fantasy/Sci-Fi Character Are You?

In some ways, it’s a blessing to live in California. In other ways, it’s a curse. The air is nice (usually), the ocean’s close, they film movies and TV shows all around you, there’s no shortage of things to do, and the rest of the country is jealous of you. (They might say they’re not,…

I heard on the radio this morning that Wally George died of pneumonia. Wally was an ultra-conservative who invited guests like porn stars and drug legalization advocates onto his show so that he could yell at them at the top of his lungs. When I was a kid, I tuned in from time to time…

Apparently that Valve hack was much worse than previously thought. At first it just looked like the source code was stolen. Actual level data and art assets weren’t part of the ‘robbery’, so anyone who actually downloaded the source wasn’t able to do much with it, other than build a brand new game using the…