A funny thing happened yesterday: I found myself wishing for an opportunity to use Pages, a part of Apple’s iWork suite I recently bought. Pages is not a game. It’s not a non-linear video editor, a graphics manipulation application, or a 3D modeler. It’s a simple word processor, designed to aid in the writing and [...]
Yes, that’s right; computer gaming is actually good for you. How can this be? It’s easy to dismiss games as just “how to blow up aliens,” but this is a mindset that is terribly uninformed about the medium, focusing instead on the subject matter. An apt comparison to books would be the charge that a [...]
Today I officially announce my separation. It’s been a long two years, filled with triumphs, setbacks, and shouting myself hoarse. We’ve gotten an awful lot done together, and we’ve been as close as I’ve been angry (and about as often, too). Maya and I are getting a divorce. We’ve come to a reasonably amiable agreement, [...]
A friend once thusly described the primary difference between the way your choice of operating system affects how you think: Windows is like a door painted shut. You say, “do I really need that door? No, it’s fine, I can do without it. Really, why do I even need that room at all?” While OS [...]