blueZhift Blog

Sorry Symantec, these days when I see “360″, I usually think of Microsoft’s game console, not PC security software suites such as Norton 360. Honestly, I haven’t been that happy with Norton’s products lately because on my PCs at least, they seem to have an unquenchable thirst for system resources! I’m not quite ready to […]

I don’t have a Wii yet, but I plan do before the year is out! Kotaku reports that the N64 classic, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, will be available for download via the Wii Virtual console on Monday in North America. I’ve always wanted to play that one, but didn’t get my hands […]

This morning for some reason the kids are all cranky! They’re just screaming their heads off, and I don’t have a clue as to what the problem is…Ugh. Sometimes I think of them as little bits of code I wrote based on my own. So it’s fun to watch them interact and go at it […]

In the midst of all of the uproar over Tim Hardaway’s anti-gay remarks, George Takei has created a public service-like announcement that could be Hardaway’s worst nightmare. But don’t worry Tim, gay people don’t hate you, oh no no no!

Games have always been a part of the PC software landscape. And in the era of the PC compatible and the Macintosh, computer game publishers have not been required to pay anyone royalties to publish PC games, as they would have to do to publish a console based game. So Windows PC games sold by […]

I remember a few years ago, when I was between jobs, feeling very much like a housewife. I started doing all of the wifey sort of things like picking up the kids from school and more housework. Well it may be disputed whether or not I was doing all that much more LOL, but clearly […]

I just watched one of the most exciting Daytona 500 finishes I’ve ever seen, and after a week of scandals, one that will only add fuel to the NASCAR rules fire. I like the winner Kevin Harvick and I like runner up Mark Martin too. But why, oh why didn’t NASCAR throw the caution flag […]

Last night my son came across the 2nd controller I bought for the Xbox 360 attached to my computer monitor. My Xbox 360 was bought mainly because I was fed up with trying to run Final Fantasy XI on the PC. So it has never been in the living room or played with by the […]

Things are starting to roll with the announcement of the Microsoft XNA Game Studio Warm Up Challenge! The Warm Up Challenge requires you to build a new game based on the Spacewar sample project included with XNA Game Studio Express. I think this is a clever way to start out because it essentially levels the […]

After weeks of checking the original XNA Game Studio Contest web page, I thought it strange that the contest, scheduled to begin in January, had not appeared to have started yet. As it turns out, the contest apparently started at the end of January, but no one has as yet pointed the old page to […]

In software circles, you hear a lot about buffer overflows and protecting against them. Depending on what tools you use, protecting the buffer from overflows could be like trying to stamp out ants. It’s funny how some of these structures seem to be replicated in real life. For years now, it seems that my household […]

Now I’m in an even more dreadful mood as my first attempt to post about being in a dreadful mood, crashed! desu desu desu desu desu desu desu desu desu desu desu desu desu desu desu desu desu desu desu desu desu desu desu desu desu desu desu desu desu desu desu desu desu desu […]

Of late, stories of civic idiocy usually come out of Florida (sorry Florida…), but I guess Boston’s officials wanted a piece of that action when they totally over reacted to a publicity campaign promoting Adult Swim’s Aqua Teen Hunger Force. I guess no one on the public payroll in Boston has ever seen a Mooninite. […]