As a voluntary exile from the Game industry, I do spend time thinking about how the skills I have can be applied to other kinds or products. If you spend any time at all doing that I keep coming back to the idea of making the web more 3d. That’s possibly because I spend about…

I’m going to attempt to amplify what I said yesterday by showing how a development process is organized around several levels. These levels really represent a hierarchy of abstactions which a project must define and utilize. At the lowest level is the Language. In most cases this comes to you as a black box and…

I used to have a book on 6502 assembly language programming back in the days when I was trying to recreate the arcade game Defender on my Atari 800. I think I may have forgotten most of what is in the book. I do remember that A9 is hex for LDA (load accumulator) but I…

Several religious groups are recently becoming more and more vocal about what they want and expect the current Administration to do for them. This approach while criticized by many, is clearly Biblical. You just have to know where to look for the examples. You might have some trouble finding this behavior in Jesus’ life. He…

Because 12 percent of China’s exports to the U.S. end up on Wal-Mart’s shelves, and because Wal-Mart’s trade with China accounts for 1 percent of that country’s gross domestic product, the company exerts tremendous downward pressure on prices. Link By its own count, Wal-Mart has 460 terabytes of data stored on Teradata mainframes, made by…

Maybe i’ll just post cool things. for a while. Here’s one more .

Not much else to say about this .

My biggest problem with Mr. Bush’s approach to the GWOT is that he seems to think its a war we can win with Tanks and Airplanes. They do have a role but we aren’t going to defeat the enemy completely with them. The real job is going to be much more difficult and involves things…

So we knew the Pakistani’s were selling Nuclear Secrets Before 9/11? Before we invaded Iraq? On March 27, 2001, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf threw a banquet for Abdul Qadeer Khan. A German-trained metallurgist, Khan had led Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program from its infancy. Musharraf’s celebration marked Khan’s unexpected retirement. By then, Musharraf had good reason…

In less than 1 hour you can listen and know more about the Iraq and Middle East than 9 of 10 Americans. You don’t even have to agree with everything Zogby says.