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- How would a PSP phone affect mobile gaming?August 18
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The rumour mill has lately been talking about an Android-based PSP phone from Sony Ericsson. While the jury’s still out on whether this magical device is real or not, I’ve been thinking about what it means for phone-based games.
On one hand, it’s not like this’ll be the first time someone’s tried combining phones with handheld game consoles. Remember the Nokia N-Gage? No? Not surprising. It was kind of a flop. Despite attempts to bring phones and games together by Nokia, Apple, and most lately Microsoft, the vast majority of mobile games are for full-fledged mobile consoles like the PlayStation Portable or Nintendo DS.
On the other hand, we’re talking about a
- Good Enough versus PerfectJuly 1
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The perfect is the enemy of the good. – Voltaire
Motivation to perform to perfection is a strong force in western society. The attitude that we have to be better than anyone else at something, to achieve perfection in our activities, has been a strong force throughout modern history, from the world's nations down to the individuals which form their bases. And it's seen every day in projects of all scopes and sizes.
But Voltaire left a message that should be listened to, by everyone on every project – one that is unfortunately ignored by many, to their detriment.
It's a somewhat heretical thought: What if we don't have to be perfect? What if we just do good enough to pass? What will that offer us instead of striving to be the best? Well, what it offers is the ability to work more efficiently and still do a proper job of it.
What is good enough?
It's actually pretty simple. Being good
- Initial impressions on the Windows Live Essentials wave 4 betaJune 29
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Windows Live Essentials wave 4 came out in beta last week, but I’ve just gotten it installed today. I’ve been toying around with it a bit, and I’d like to share some of my first impressions on the betas.
Windows Live Messenger
With the new Live Messenger, Microsoft’s introduced a social timeline to the client, which apparently can tie in to Facebook and MySpace. By default it’s tied into Live’s own social networking/profile system. I prefer the classic UI, which the new version retains (although it’ll give you the social view by default) but if I had more screen space, I’d probably make use of the new view. It’s actually pretty neat, and it’ll probably integrate more services as time goes on, making it more usefu
- Moving the site to a new locationJune 10
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So, you might notice that coldacid.net is now chris.charabaruk.com. Do not be alarmed. I’m rearranging things to repurpose my coldacid handle, with a new coldacid.net site to come around in the near future – one that will not be just my personal stuff, but rather for doing contact programming, various projects, etc.
For now, the domain will lay fallow, passively redirecting people to chris.charabaruk.com, but in late July/early August, the new coldacid development site will appear, and I will start offering services through it. Meanwhile, I hope to get back on the blogging horse here, including posting stuff I was reticent to post when coldacid.net served as the professional and personal site for me.
By the way, anyone out there a decent vector artist and willing to turn some sketches into a proper, vectorized logo for free (or very, very cheap)? Let me know, thanks.
- Taskerrific is gone; what next?May 8
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Well, it’s not really gone, but I’ve shut down the Taskerrific beta and put the site on reserve, as I have neither the time to maintain it nor the money to have the service hosted properly. It sucks having to do that, but right now, I need to make money, not spend it. So Taskerrific is down and I am back on the job hunt.
I have some plans for reviving Taskerrific at a later point, but right now my focus outside of looking for employment is on my writing. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m currently working on a visual novel, and in addition to that, I’ve got speeches to write for Toastmasters, and story ideas I want to convert into actual stories. I’m keeping up on my programming as well – perhaps not to the extent I was coding in my Taskerrific days, but still making sure that I’m up to date on what’s going on in the field. Considering my plans for Taskerrific’s revival, well…
I’m going to try writing on here more often. I’ve created a repeating task to remind me to actually blog something at least once a week, and while it probably won’t always be technology-related, hopefully it’ll be something of interest to someone. As usual, though, most content will be through Twitter,
