http://www.brad-oliver.com:8081/~boliver/blog/ or a hole lot of Brad en-us bradman@pobox.com Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:58:36 -0700 http://www.brad-oliver.com:8081/~boliver/blog/archives/001099.html I don't pay as much attention to my blog as I used to, but I just spent a few minutes catching up on the comments you folks have left in the past few months, so rather than try to... http://www.brad-oliver.com:8081/~boliver/blog/archives/001097.html Steven Frank of Panic once said on his Twitter account, "Twitter: Kills blogs dead" and that's about true. Since I've increased my "tweeting" or whatever it's called, I haven't had much interest in posting blog entries -- not that... http://www.brad-oliver.com:8081/~boliver/blog/archives/001092.html As some of you who follow Aspyr's Mac games may know, we released Universal Binary patches for Jedi Knight 2 and Jedi Academy last year before I left for Apple. For the most part these worked fine, but they... http://www.brad-oliver.com:8081/~boliver/blog/archives/001090.html At the start of the year, I jumped into this generation of game consoles and picked up a PS3, an Xbox 360 and a Wii. I had no emotional investment with any of them beforehand, and I frankly don't... http://www.brad-oliver.com:8081/~boliver/blog/archives/001089.html I'll admit it: I'm Home-curious. I downloaded the new Playstation Home social app for the PS3 yesterday and took it for a spin. Thing is, I don't care for Second Life, which is essentially what Home is, and although... http://www.brad-oliver.com:8081/~boliver/blog/archives/001088.html On most Tuesdays, Beth and I go to a sports bar near here called Padre Murphy's for their 2-for-1 burger night and some beers. It's a pretty good local restaurant, and they also happen to offer off-track-betting on geyhound... http://www.brad-oliver.com:8081/~boliver/blog/archives/001086.html When I play video games nowadays, the bulk of my time is spent on the Xbox 360. I've been meaning to write a blog entry about that but it'll have to wait. In the meantime, here's a brief rundown... http://www.brad-oliver.com:8081/~boliver/blog/archives/001085.html We bought a bed from Ashley furniture in mid-August, and as part of the deal, we received "$300 of free gas!" with the usual asterisks and restrictions that accompany such an offer. The deal is that we get coupons... http://www.brad-oliver.com:8081/~boliver/blog/archives/001084.html Without going into too much on the "why", I recently found myself with a need to rewrite the way Call of Duty 1 redraws flares. The original game is based on the Quake 3 engine, and so the flare... http://www.brad-oliver.com:8081/~boliver/blog/archives/001080.html Some background: we have 2 dogs (3 years old) and one cat (12 years old). Ever since we got the dogs, we haven't had a way to get the dogs and cat(s) to get along, so our eventual solution... http://www.brad-oliver.com:8081/~boliver/blog/archives/001078.html I more or less gave away the answer in my prior post, but if you want to not cheat, see if you can spot the bug in this code - apologies for the formatting. I'll add the disclaimer that... http://www.brad-oliver.com:8081/~boliver/blog/archives/001077.html So my first project since I returned to Aspyr has shipped. I've been waffling if I should mention it or not because it's a departure for me and I'm unclear how it will be received, but here goes: it... http://www.brad-oliver.com:8081/~boliver/blog/archives/001066.html About a week or two ago, I created an account on Twitter after watching Beth "tweet" (I 'd say "twit" but the Twitter folks frown on that). I haven't fully figured out why people like it yet. It's like... http://www.brad-oliver.com:8081/~boliver/blog/archives/001065.html I was driving back from lunch in Tempe today, going up I-17 when traffic slowed to a stop ahead of me - all 4 lanes. I thought it was perhaps an accident or something similar but it soon became... http://www.brad-oliver.com:8081/~boliver/blog/archives/001064.html Beth loves the original Viva Piñata for the Xbox 360 and I have to say the game really grew on me as well. When we found out a sequel was coming, we made plans to pick it up. As...