I am an unabashed fan of Batman and DC Animation. If a show or movie has been released that has anything to do with Bruce Timm, Paul Dini or Alan Burnett, I own it. That bias aside, I was very excited when DC Animated announced Batman: Under the Red Hood. I’ve not read all of the Batman comics, but the series involving the Red Hood was always a gripping yarn of a tale, so I knew the movie would be good. I had no idea, however, that it would be THIS good…
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I talk to a lot of people on any given day, whether in person at work, or through various technological implementations. While back in my day — which was a Tuesday — there were only a couple of methods to communicate with people not in the same room with you…namely the telephone or a written (gasp!) letter, these days we have so many more options. Email, IM, text messaging, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, chat rooms and so much more. I’m finding that, for example, I’m using the actual phone part of my phone so much less and less than texting, instant messaging, email and so on.
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According to an article on Ars Technica entitled, Apple loses big in DRM ruling: jailbreaks are “fair use”, the Library of Congress has added a bevy of new exceptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act altering the way we’re allowed to use much of the digital media and devices we have.
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There’s one main reason I went to see The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. I mean sure it was done by the same folks who did National Treasure — which I loved — but that wasn’t it. I wanted to see how Dresden Filesey it was. What do I mean by this? Well, look at this still from the movie and this book cover from one of the Dresden Files books. See where I’m going? It was with these moderate expectations in mind that I went to see The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, so please read on to read what I thought.
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Once again, my site was hit with malware, but I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled WordPress AGAIN. Hopefully it won’t happen again. Sadly I think I lost a story in the process. Boo.
For the past year or so, a new type of location-based social networking has been growing in popularity. Services like Foursquare, Gowalla and recently Yelp all allow you to “check in” to a local place, allowing everyone to read about not only what you’re doing, but where you’re doing it. I know a lot of people who use these, and while they may seem fun to some, they’re freaking annoying to others, like me.
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After writing yesterday’s article about being on Facebook more than Twitter, I kinda started feeling bad. Why? Because while a lot of my friends are on Facebook regularly, some of my best friends (you know who you are) are pretty much solely on Twitter, and I’ve kind of fallen out of touch with them as a result. Now, one can (and should) say that one shouldn’t NEED to use Twitter to keep in touch with close friends, but times being as they are, it’s one of the best ways.
That being said, I’ve resolved to try and get a better handle on Twitter in order to keep more in touch with more of the people that mean the most to me. I’m going to start by using solely the lists that I’ve made. Also, if y’all have any suggestions as to a program — like Tweetdeck, but maybe better — to use to monitor Twitter more effectively, I’d love to hear it. Thanks for reading, and I’ll be Tweeting at y’all soon. 
Over on 1Up, they talk to Hello Games about why their game Joe Danger is a Playstation Network exclusive. According to Hello Games’ Sean Murray, his figures report that many XBLA games, forty-seven percent, sell less than 25,000 copies, which isn’t a lot for any game, indie or not. Now I only have a PS3 so I can’t confirm the validity of which game distribution is better, but I think that having these methods of getting indie games overall is excellent. If you have an Xbox, do you buy a lot of indie games over XBLA? I’d love to read your thoughts. Thanks!
So as you may know, I’m something of a social network whore. I’m somewhat addicted to them, because they make it easy to have conversations (or snippets thereof) with many of my closest friends. However, the more I’ve used them, the more I noticed my habits have changed in their use, and I’ve developed a preference. Whereas once I used to be on Twitter most of the time, now I’m on Facebook much more often. Why is that? Well, I’ll tell you…
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Anyone who knows me know that my biggest love in gaming is space combat simulations. I’ve sunk more hours into games like Freespace 2, Tie Fighter, all of the Wing Commander games and so on. Sadly the genre really took a dive around 2000, with many companies pulling away from the genre. Thankfully there have been Eastern European developers making space sims, as well as independent developers such as StarWraith 3D Games.
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