Operating Systems

OS X: A Secret Love Affair

Good evening, I am somewhat of an odd person in the eyes of my peers. I someone who enjoys using OS X for daily tasks in a Windows dominated environment. Everyone I know uses Windows. Some know what Linux. Some of those know that is more than just for servers. Some also know that Linux …

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Games

The Beta Batlle.net App is Kinda Cool

Hi,   I have to say the Batlle.net Desktop Launcher App Thingie is kinda cool. You can login once then launch all your Blizzard games from one place without having to re-login. Even across restarts. And you can install your games without downloading that awful launcher for each one of them. And it has subtle …

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Life

My Puny Bitcoin Farm

Hi ppl, If you don’t know what a bitcoin is, you’ve probably have been living in a troll cave under a wet rock! If you do know, then you know that GPUs are no longer cutting it as miners. There’s a whole ASIC miner craze going on. The cheapest device you can get(albeit not the …

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Games Life

Building Your Own PC

Hi. My first ever PC was built by a couple of economics majors(now big time moguls) who probably had no clue what all the parts did but found ways to snap them together like Legos (ok, am I being too harsh?). The components were mainly “no-name” or “built on a ship from Taiwan” as we …

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Site Updates

Switched to a VPS for Hosting

Hello absent fans, I’ve dreamed for a while to mess around with my own VPS. Ever since I got my Raspberry PI I tried to cram as much stuff as possible into it. But… the poor thing has its limitations. So I migrated the wordpress site to a VPS on the cloud running some Ubuntu …

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Games Life

Why Do I Play Games?

Hello… umm… anyone there? A recent article on Kotaku (http://kotaku.com/why-do-we-play-games-458801312) has reminded me of something I’ve been wanting to write about for a while. While the question “why do you play games?” (video games in particular, ofc) seems like rhetorical nonsense to some, a lot of people who haven’t discovered the joys of gaming ask …

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Site Updates

I'm back! On a PI!

Hello, No… this blog is not dead. I am currently running it off my Raspberry PI. How great is that? What? You don’t know what a Raspberry PI is?? Go here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/. Now!

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Games Gaming List

Let's Remember that Game: Episode 1

Hello, Do you know that feeling when you remember a game that you discovered and really like and felt special because it wasn’t one of those big publisher games that are all over the media? Well, if you don’t, you should try harder :)! I want to create a series of posts remembering games that …

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