Archive for February, 2010
Going with the flow
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Several months ago I took a 2nd, part-time, after-hours job doing sysadmin work for a company that I have a close relationship with. A large part of their business infrastructure is a 10-blade Dell Bladecentre system. It’s a mean beast. 20 CPUs, over 40Gb of RAM, and is set up as a VMWare ESXi cluster, [...]
Gaming in the modern age
Friday, February 5th, 2010I’ve been thinking for a while about writing an article pertaining to computer/console games. Originally, I wanted to talk highly about the ‘shift’ in the developers goals of creating mindless, violent First-Person Shooters where you go around killing anything that moves – to that of more ‘thought-inducing’ strategy based learning teaching games. Back when I [...]