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Konstructenlust

Thursday, January 28, 2010

It builds, slowly.  It could be anything.  A stutter in framerate.  A texture tear.  Just the feeling that things could look better when I’m shooting Skaggs in the wilds of Pandora.  (Yep.  Still playing Borderlands.)  So I think about my current setup, and I have to wonder if there’s anything else I can do, other [...]

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Microsoft Tag – Linking real life with the digital world

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Microsoft Tag.  It’s a way for your phone to interact with a physical object, in this case printed material.
In a nutshell, you aim your Microsoft Tag iPhone app (bizarro world, here we are) at one of these “tags” and then it does. . .  something.  If it’s a website, then it browses there, if it’s [...]

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We’ll turn this team around 360 degrees

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

I really do enjoy the xbox 360.  To be honest, it’s one of the better things to come out of Redmond, Washington. When given the choice, it’s my console of choice when it comes to titles that appear on more than one console.  Mainly for multiplayer, but sometimes because I am an achievement whore seeker.
It [...]

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Device Ownership

Monday, July 9, 2007

Yesterday was a bad day if you were an electronic device owned by me.
Total casualties:

Logitech PlayStation2 USB Headset
This headset just will not be recognized, no matter which USB port I plug it into. Other headsets work fine. Thankfully, I had a spare, so impromptu City of Heroes / City of Villains session [...]

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Everybody’s favorite price point

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Aegis Wing is free if you have an Xbox 360 and a connection to the internet.
Crafted by three interns at Microsoft, this is the sort of thing that redeems my Xbox 360 experience after I lose some gameplay due to a disc read error.
The game is fun, features cooperative multiplayer (both local and over Xbox [...]

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