Technology
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As someone who is slightly outside the usual demographic for video gamers, I periodically get asked what the appeal is. Of course, it’s usually phrased more like, “Don’t you have anything better to do with your life?” That depends on how you define better. The short answer is, “Nope.” Told you it was short. That’s…
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If you read this regularly, you may recall that I’ve adopted my daughters orphan net-book. Windows Vista was dead slow on it (go figure), so I installed Ubuntu Linux as a dual boot. After some tweaking and poking, I convinced it to do most of what I wanted. Mind you, part of that success depends…
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The nice people at Electronic Arts (commonly know as EA) are rolling out a new service called “Legend”. Sounds impressive right? Well here’s the thing, it’s not. At least not for gamers. Or is it? Confused? Sorry. I’ve got some mixed feelings about this one myself. First, let me tell you what “Legend” is. It’s…
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Christina Blizzard, writing in the Ottawa Sun is slamming David Suzuki and Dalton McGuinty. One for being a “pompous ass”, and the other being praised by a pompous ass for wanting to build wind turbines where the wind blows. Before I go any farther, I want to make it clear that this is not to…
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As I mentioned yesterday, I really like Portal 2. I enjoy gaming, watching movies and reading. The commonality? They all take me out of reality for a while. Not that my reality is even sightly terrible. In fact, it’s pretty darned awesome. I’ve got a wonderful wife, a great daughter, and the world’s best dog. …
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A couple of years ago, we bought our daughter a netbook to use for school. She was thrilled and happy as a clam… for about a month. Just long enough that we couldn’t return it. It seems she might have been mistaken in what she needed from her portable computer. As well as running office…
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This information is indicative of a more open position on the part of the APA. As such, I felt it important to post it in the interest of balance and fairness. In doing some further reading, I discovered the APA (American Psychiatric Association) classifies video-game addiction and Internet addiction as “reward driven behavioral disorders”. It…
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So I’ve been reading again. This time, it was an article about the perils of video-game addiction. I actually found it sort of refreshing. In amongst the drama of neglected family and career, there was an item rarely seen in such an article. Turns out, the American Psychiatric Association (the organization that literally writes the…
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