Dance, Dance Revolution; and really it was, for some. Maybe you’re one of the dance dance geniuses that can that can read the speeding arrows easier than a book, and who has the stamina of a two year old and who isn’t afraid of tackling the fastest song on the hardest level. But for those of us who aren’t, there is a little flash game alternative. You don’t have to actually dance or feel like you’ve run a marathon afterward, and if you trip up, it’s the monkey on the screen who falls over, not you. Enter Dance Monkey Dance! A game involving only your fingers on the arrow keys. You still watch for the precise moment that the arrow on the screen is in the little box before hitting the corresponding arrow button, as you do in DDR. But somehow it’s less humiliating to mess up in this computer game. Continue reading →

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Toshiba made the call to drop their HD-DVD business a few weeks ago, and good on them. They learned from Sony’s mistakes.

For those in the dark, Sony pulled a similar move starting back in the 1970s. Back in 1975, Sony released an innovative new product called Betamax. Previous to the Betamax videocassete, the dominant format for movies was film. Film has it’s advantages, but portability and ease of use ain’t them. Betamax tapes were extremely portable, easy to use, and most importantly, a commercial success with home consumers. Continue reading →

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I only have a few abilities that I am confident enough to brag about. One is my foosball-playing skills, (I have never played anyone that I can’t beat) another is my astounding memory - it trumps that of an elephant - and thirdly is my Sudoku prowess!

For me it started about 2 years ago while a co-worker of mine and I stumbled through a newspaper sudoku together during lunch. After that I went through a few of the cheap Sudoku books and grew in speed and skill. I’m to a point now where I can pretty much finish any sudoku thrown at me by logicking my way through it. I used to think you HAD to guess when the puzzles got harder, but I have since reformed.

I now own an Electronic Sudoku. It’s supposed to look a bit like a Palm Pilot. It has the cute little stylus and everything. I think it’s great! You never finish all the puzzles and have to go buy another one, and you don’t have to remember to take a pencil around with it. Ah yes, this must be love. One feature I love is that it times you. Sometimes the puzzles set on hard take me 7 minutes to complete. Sometime they take me 50 minutes.

If you like Sudoku, spring for the electronic kind, (you can get them for pretty cheap) there’s no going back.

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Here’s a crazy looking game that could well give Paper Mario a run for his money. It’s called Fez, and is being built by Kokoromi. I have no more words. Just watch the video.

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I do a bit of web development on the side, and decided to learn me some object-oriented PHP. I recently took on an ecommerce project, and thought I’d walk you, the reader, through the process so we can learn object-oriented PHP together. I’m making few assumptions about your experience with object orientation, but I will assume you know a bit of PHP. If something is unclear, I’ll be happy to address it in the comments.

That said, we should probably start with a discussion of the concept of object orientation.

What is object orientation, anyway?

There are two big schools of thought when it comes to programming. Procedural orientation, and object orientation. They’re both methods by which programmers attempt to minimize how much code needs to be written, and each have their strengths and weaknesses.

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I learned to type with the Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. It was fun for me. A contest against myself, or a race against the computer with bugs splatting on my windshield. But I have learned how to type with greater speed by playing Typer Shark! The motivation is much stronger. In Mavis Beacon you try to beat your old adjusted typing speed; in Typer Shark you try to spell the word on the shark before he eats you! Continue reading →

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