I’ve been playing Settlers 7 for a few weeks now. I’m on the last campaign level now. It’s immensely frustrating at times because it’ll often crash on launch repeatedly, requiring a restart of the whole computer before it’ll get going. It’ll also crash occasionally when in the game. Nonetheless it is entertaining. It’s been a… Read more
Who delivers an iPad 3 at 2:45 PM on release day? I mean really… And then it takes two hours to sync all my crap to it. Makes it a little awkward to really enjoy that “oooh shiny!” moment. But it’s here, and done, and good to go. It is noticeably heavier than my iPad… Read more
Last week Ted Kremenek added support for container literals and subscripting to Clang. This was noted in various places, though mostly only as a statement and maybe an example of the new container literals. But I wanted to know how they’re implemented. The answer is pretty easy to find. The relevant code follows a similar… Read more
My iPad 3 – yes, it’s an iPad 3, get over it – shipped today. From Ontario – the Californian variant, apparently, not the Canadian one. Which means it’s only a few hours drive away. Yet it’s on hold ’til the 16th for delivery. Damnit! So close! The security at a Fedex distribution centre can’t… Read more
I’ve made my photos from Squaw, and a few others from prior adventures, available on Flickr.
I was quite excited, after install iTunes 10.6, to see that a fair few of my TV shows show up as being available for “re-download”. Silly me for assuming that meant they were available in 1080p as promised. Some are. Most aren’t. iTunes happily downloads them again, with no way for me to tell ahead… Read more
Each year my department at Google runs a ski trip. Just for fun. Well, there’s a obligatory dinner with a raffle and the usual sort of stuff like that, but otherwise actual fun. This year it’s at Squaw. I’ve been to Squaw once before, but only for dinner; never skiied, on the basis that it’s… Read more