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Gamesindustry.biz reports that despite losses associated with the Playstation 3 launch, Sony profits not only beat estimates, but Sony was also able to raise its annual forecast. This all comes on the unexpected strength of sales of Sony Bravia HDTVs and Cybershot digital cameras. Did all of the media attention associated with the PS3 launch […]

Keeping up with the latest in games and tech is not an easy task. After absorbing a lot of hype about Second Life (*cough*CNet*cough*), I finally decided to take a look for myself. So last night I created an account, chose an avatar and jumped into Second Life. Before doing this, I’d taken a look […]

I’m not sure if it is just a coincidence or not, but since the World of Warcraft expansion pack, The Burning Crusade, came out, my Final Fantasy XI server, Shiva has been very quiet. The last couple of nights, during what is usually a fairly busy period of the night (after 9:30pm US Central Time), […]

Remember the William Shatner Saturday Night Live sketch in which as a guest at a Star Trek convention, he tells the very nerdy conventioneers to “Get a life!”? Now the media hyped (I’m talkin bout you Cnet!) online playlot that is Second Life is getting a bit of that in the form of parody site […]

Getting older cannot be avoided. It’s a universal law, the arrow of time points in one direction only. But does that mean that we have to give up all of the things that we have fun doing? Maybe not. An informal poll is being conducted on Cosplay.com in a thread entitled, “Average Cosplayer’s Age?“, and […]

I heard about this via the news box at mangaKabob. A free manga magazine is launching in Japan, Comic Gumbo, which will be entirely supported by ads. The only surprising thing here is that it had not happened already. The Japanese and US markets are different, but if an ad supported manga mag can make […]

I have Photoshop envy. Yes, I admit it, but not because Photoshop is so much better than Fireworks MX, which BTW has served me very well, but only because it seems that everyone else uses Photoshop. Sadly, the high price of Photoshop is the main thing that keeps me from making the move. And because […]

Back in the day, I used to be an OS Cowboy. I loved loading up new operating systems when they came out with their promises of improved this and improved that. I even installed the betas, months before the release to get a sneak peak and to help sniff out bugs. I am a veteran […]

Just a little something I put together for mangakabob this month.
Manga artist Ken Akamatsu is probably best known for the Love Hina manga series in which a loser guy is surrounded by a harem of beautiful young women who have a habit of somehow ending up naked. […]

Once again another lesson has been given on what to do in order to make sure that even more people see a video on the internet that you do not want them to see. This all started with CNet doing an interview of Second Life land mogul Anshe Chung in a continuation of the strange […]

In a sign of the times, Google has just rolled out Google Patents, a patent search service, in beta, of course. Now perhaps it will be easier for us little guys to avoid being trampled by bottom feeding patent holding companies! If only reform of the generally messed up patent system (in the U.S. at […]

I started this blog mostly to learn about blogging, the software involved, etc.. I also thought it would be an easy way to add some dynamic content to other sites of mine via the rss feed. I’ve learned a lot and have had a lot of fun with it, and honestly haven’t thought much about […]

Once again it was nice to get out for my 2 mile lunch time walk. The weather was a lot warmer than I had expected, so I was a little overdressed. On the way back it struck me that even though I generally try to behave in a logical fashion (Mr. Spock is my hero!), […]

Innovative devices usually spawn innovative ways of using said devices. I’ve already seen some speculation about using the accelerometer in the iPhone to create a Wii-mote for use with Nintendo’s Wii games console. But why not go one step further? There is a growing library of games for the current generation of iPods, that will […]

As if there weren’t already more toys than I can afford, Steve Jobs just went nuclear with his announcement of Apple’s iPhone during his Macworld keynote address. Calling this device any kind of “phone” is a true insult to it. This is the thing that I’ve been wanting for a long time now, a device […]