Thursday, December 11, 2003 - Posts

Thursday, December 11, 2003 10:31 PM

• Learning responsibility

  If you don't read Slashdot, then you may have missed this great lesson in planning ahead. I feel kind of sorry for the guy, but totally understand the position taken by the people who are refusing to sell him fuel, thereby leaving him stranded in Antarctica. Read More Rory | 11 Comments Filed Under: Little nothings

• Why does Mr. Tetris work for MS?

  It looks like I may have helped at least one person find that Chris Sells Tetris post. It's a good thing too, because Paul Nicholls thought to ask the one important question here: [W]hat does the inventor of Tetris do for MS? I don't want to make any Read More posted Thursday, December 11, 2003 8:45 PM by Rory | 7 Comments Filed Under: Enter the Nerd

Thursday, December 11, 2003 6:44 AM

• Chris Sells caught up in Tetris copyright nightmare - gets arrested, posts $3M bail, goes home to relax with a cup of warm Ovaltine

  Chris Sells showed Wahoo (his .NET Tetris clone) to the inventor of Tetris, and the results were rather amusing. I wouldn't ordinarily link to Chris since I think I probably acquired about 95% of my traffic from him (meaning that most of you already read Read More Rory | 11 Comments Filed Under: Enter the Nerd

• Wow (as in "scary wow")

  I've screwed up at work before, but nothing quite like this. Read More posted Thursday, December 11, 2003 3:28 AM by Rory | 4 Comments Filed Under: Enter the Nerd

Thursday, December 11, 2003 3:00 AM

• New PocketPCs under $500 that don't suck

  I just picked up the latest copy of PocketPC magazine, and am much relieved to find that affordable PocketPCs with integrated WiFi are finally coming out. This is big news to me because I decided back in June that I wouldn't buy another PocketPC until Read More Rory | 3 Comments Filed Under: Enter the Nerd