Like many people, my first experience programming was with Quickbasic. I was about 12 years old, and was obsessed with the console based role playing games of the time.

Not content to just play Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy, I wanted to also make my own.

After a few weeks of hacking away at Quickbasic, I released a little demo of the game engine on the internet. I found it the other day, and the memories of this game are what prompted this post.

"Wow, is this for real?" That was the first thought I had when the iLiad was in my hands. This digital paper device displays text in the same clarity you get when you read from good old books. The display doesn't look like any computer display you are familiar with. It has a somewhat fake look to it, but then you start interacting with it...that was a real 'wow' moment for me.

I recently downloaded a file from Rapidshare, a popular upload site. I used to be a fan of this site, even though the download limits were quite annoying and prevented massive leeching. I am no longer a fan or a user of Rapidshare and I will tell you why. Earlier today, the image verification took on a sinister tone. The only explanation was that it was searching my irc and email logs and got so sick of me that it passed judgement. Click on the attachment to see the captcha that struck fear and emotional anguish into my troubled and tortured soul.

While browsing Dzone, I stumbled upon this blog article:

Indian outsourcing is killing IT

While the article itself was a good thesis ruined by faulty logic and gross over generalization. It does warrant enough truth for me to want to comment on.

First off, I'm a software contractor, and because of that, I do work with a lot of people who were originally from India. Some of them are excellent, some of them are not so great. A few of them are downright horrible. What makes the difference?

I was feeling a little homesick today and missing my car (a 2004 Honda Civic named Shego after the villainess in Kim Possible) and thought it would be interesting to write about some of my favorite geeky cars. And, as a bonus feature, I'm also going to tell you why I think it's sexy when a man drives one... ;)

So, without any further ado, I proudly present my favorite geekmobiles: 

5) The Smart Car

The online community has been buzzing about the rumors of the Google Phone.

Supposedly, Google has contracted HTC (Manufacturers of smart phones such as the Dash, Wing, and MDA) to create a custom Linux based smart phone for them to market.

Yes, my javascript tab control is done. You can go play with it at:

My example page!

Yesterday, I got 130 page views and nobody downloaded it. That makes me sad. :(

I've been buried over the last two weeks writing and reviewing code for my company, as we gear up for a major release.

A coworker who works under me who happens to have a masters degree in CS was working on a new promotional page.

The logic checked the selected device for capability to support a feature. If the feature was supported, then it would display a small link on the page about it.

For the financially savvy geek:

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I've been working on making a top 100 list of "The Greatest Moments in Comic Book History". It is nigh impossible to get it done though. There are so many fantastic moments, and yes, somehow this is tough.

I should probably change it to "The Greatest Moments in Modern Comic History" or something. perhaps I should just reduce the number from one hundred, to fifty.