Tag: geekery
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Attention, Dork Nation of Seattle!
For those of you who didn’t see me say this on Facebook or Twitter: There’s a Harry Potter exhibit coming to the Pacific Science Center on October 23rd! And, AND, the very same weekend, a Battlestar Galactica exhibit arrives at the Sci-Fi Museum! Including full-sized prop ships! In short: GEEK WEEKEND OF AWESOME. Tix for…
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Can any other Nook users with Macs repro this?
Standing down from silent running for this, because I gotta admit, I’m intrigued by this problem. This is how you tell I’m a QA engineer, people: I’m intrigued by the problem to solve, rather than pissed off that a product I’ve purchased is not behaving as it should. 😉 Here’s the backstory. The other day,…
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WordPress geekery (and also books) for the win
I’ve been playing around with WordPress 3 for the last few days, as y’all might have guessed from a previous post. I am pleased to report that with some help from the folks on the wordpress.org support forums, I’ve successfully set up a mini-network of blogs all based off of annathepiper.org. More importantly, I’ve learned…
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Want a free game? C’mon, you know you wanna
I would be remiss as an employee of Big Fish Games if I didn’t tell you all that we’re handing out our very first Mystery Case Files series game, Ravenhearst, for free until the end of August. All you need to do if you want to scarf the free game is to go right over…
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WordPress and Apache help needed!
So Murkworks.net, my and ‘s home network, now hosts a small number of WordPress blogs. Up till now I’ve been handling this by copying separate installs of WordPress around to various accounts on the system. Which of course means that for every new WordPress blog we host, that’s another mess of WordPress files to keep…
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Need help with a repro before 9am Pacific
Anybody got a moment to doublecheck a problem for me? If you have visited the Big Fish Games website before you may have noticed we have a feature called Tomorrow’s Game Today. We’ve had reports of the TGT vanishing for an hour on our Japanese site–and since as of 8am our time the TGT was…
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Lulzy Star Wars geekery
gave me a heads up to this: one fan’s tribute to what Star Wars might have been like if it had been an Icelandic saga! This is geekery I absolutely have to salute. Check it out. 🙂
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And now, the Nook report!
Nookish goodness arrived at my house today! Therefore, as promised, here’s my overall initial review post. First and foremost, y’all may have heard that the Nook comes with insanely complicated packaging. This is absolutely true. When you first get into it, there’s a little slip of paper that has–I kid you not–a seven-step procedure for…
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I was going to do this anyway
But the Amazon vs. Macmillan brouhaha over the weekend has pretty much bumped up the priority on this: I just dropped my first round of shiny royalties on a Nook. The actual device and a pretty cover to put it in pretty much comes to roughly the amount of royalties I got, and that’s quite…
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The obligatory iPad reaction post
And now, for my answer to the question much of the rest of the Internet has been asking: will I buy an iPad? (y/n) Immediate near-term answer: no. I am of course an Apple user. Maybe not a hugely ardent Apple devotee per se, but I do quite like my MacBook and my iPhone, which…