Dee-Ann LeBlanc @ dee-ann.blog-city.com

10 things BioShock has taught me

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:33:00 GMT

Everyone in Rapture carries a lockbox, which oddly is not locked.You can never have too many plasmids.When people are zapped for attacking you, it's fun to just stand there and let them hit you. You're not paranoid if everything really is out

BioShock on the PS3

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:08:00 GMT

For two nights the spouse and I have been playing BioShock on the PS3.

PS3 can haz BioShock

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:41:00 GMT

Woo, we pre-ordered BioShock for the PS3 and even in our small town we got it today. We're waiting to try it out until after sundown for the proper creepy atmosphere. Will report later.

When times get tough, the tough get tuning (Linux Webcast)

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:56:00 GMT

On Tues, Oct 21 at 10am PDT (17:00 GMT) I'm doing an O'Reilly Webcast, "When times get tough, the tough get tuning: Improve the performance of your Linux systems." Hope to have you there!

Spore's a good travel companion

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:50:00 GMT

As much as it was a pain actually getting Spore and getting it fully functional (after the other stuff I've mentioned, I had to contact customer support for a new serial number because the one associated with my copy had "already been regis

Spoooore

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:16:00 GMT

Okay, Spore for the Mac is available if you buy the box or if you go to a third party site. Why the Spore site still only mentions pre-ordering I have no idea. Took me quite a while to download it once I bought it, haven't had a chance to play ye

As anticipated

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:52:00 GMT

... Spore for the Mac isn't available on release day. This is a huge annoyance about companies that don't write a direct version, they have an emulated version made by a 3rd party. Thing is, I know the company that makes them and I like the

Spore for the Mac

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:38:00 GMT

I'm trying to decide if I'm excited that Spore is being released on September 7. When they released the Spore Creature Creator they only released the Windows version, and took over a month to get out the Mac version (of course, no Linux vers

Civilization Revolution: Game of the week brittle networking

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:01:00 GMT

Civilization Revolution offers a feature they call "Game of the week." Each week they pick a civilization for the players to be, and a map, and everyone plays the same game with their scores going up onto the great leaderboard in the sky. I

Finding console games when you live in a small town

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 07:28:00 GMT

I used to avoid the Civilization games, because so many people I knew were completely obsessed with them and played constantly. However, the FreeCiv game in Linux finally sucked me in. After a few years of playing that on and off, I find myself repea

Site in transition

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:37:00 GMT

I'm officially transitioning this blog to postings about games and whatnot. Of course, I still use Linux, so games in Linux should appear here along with the PS3 games I mostly play, plus some Mac stuff too no doubt. I'm not removing any of t

Oratopigiphobia

Mon, 26 May 2008 03:36:00 GMT

Kenneth Hess has written an interesting article on what he calls Oratopigiphobia, or the fear of open source. I wouldn't say that there's anything particularly new here, but it never hurts to read about how other people are dealing with the

Pondering new directions

Wed, 07 May 2008 08:44:00 GMT

I'm thinking of making this blog more about games. I haven't lost interest in Linux, but I don't eat, sleep, and breathe it anymore since I'm no longer writing about it full time. I know I don't have a massive following but I hope

Care and feeding of the Press

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:23:00 GMT

I may not be a journalist at this point in time, but when I read Wired magazine 's EIC Chris Anderson's rant about how he's fed up with "PR Flacks," I had to shudder in sympathy. I've been an editor for a number of publicat

Mars needs PHP programmers

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:48:00 GMT

Well, Mars may not need them, but Splunk does! In fact, we need three or four of them. If you like the idea of working for me, we need some for SplunkBase. If you hate the idea of working for me, we need them for other projects too. If you're i

Study shows that gamers aren't antisocial gits

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 09:06:00 GMT

Those of us who like to play games that are social like MMORPGs now have something we can point to that shows that really, we're not antisocial losers. :) I know I've made some very good friends over the years through online gaming. New

Assessing the Cost of an Open Source Project

Sun, 05 Aug 2007 01:27:00 GMT

Ever wondered how much effort it would take you to duplicate a particular open source project? Check out ohloh, where you can feed in information about a particular project and let their software tell you how many man-hours or how many US dollars it

Linux for Dummies 8th Edition is out!

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:42:00 GMT

I know, your life is just not complete without a new version of Linux for Dummies. :) Well, I can help with that!