Robert Janelle
Happy Birthday Pac-Man
Pac-Man, the iconic yellow circle that runs through mazes gobbling up white pills, saying nothing more than “waka waka,” while being pursued by ghosts turns 30 today.
The game spawned sequels, a cartoon show and even a breakfast cereal!
As one of the the most recognizable video game brands, Pac-Man in a way came to be [...]
How many Cheezburgers until the Internet breaks?
So, in 2007, I Can Has Cheezburger? was launched and those involved made buckets of money.
Turns out, lots of people wanted a central site to get their fix of cat pictures with amusing captions.
Now there are 50 sites in the network, all acting as repositories for amusing pictures.
I’m suddenly left to wonder, [...]
Windows Live Writer is awesome. That is all.
I think my favourite Microsoft product is actually one of their free offerings.
Windows Live Writer
Essentially, it’s a word processor for bloggers. You enter your blog’s URL and your password and you’re ready to go.
Open it up (it loads pretty quickly on all my computers,) write then post. Done.
It pulls in your blog’s [...]
Think about what you’re posting online…
I’ve written before that some folks really need lessons on how the Internet works. Nothing you post is completely private and even once deleted, it’s not necessarily gone.
This more true now than a few years ago, too.
Facebook, which was originally a fairly private network where only people you’d authorized as “friends” could see [...]
SEO killed the witty headline
There used to be a very depression realization many journalists came to one day.
The realization that they aren’t writing for readers, but writing to satisfy their editor.
But now there’s a new and even more depressing reality to hit.
You aren’t even writing for your editor anymore, you’re writing for Google’s search algorithm.
David [...]
I miss that sound
I’m going to come off some like some old writer lamenting that using a computer doesn’t feel as “right” as using a typewriter.
But with that out of the way, I will say: I think modern keyboards are too quiet.
I miss the clickety-click, while typing along.
Well, I suppose it was for someone like [...]
Weekend Reading 15/05
Although I’ve already mentioned it once on this site, James Fallows has a fantastic piece on Google and the future of news in this month’s issue of The Atlantic.
Meanwhile, The Oatmeal shows us 8 Websites You Need to Stop Building.
And Wired suggests that Facebook has gone rogue.
On subscription options
I picked up the latest issue of The Atlantic, mostly to read James Fallows’ feature on Google and the future of the news but as soon I opened the issue, as with any print magazine, a pile of those subscription cards fell to the floor.
Glancing at the cards, I soon found myself slightly confused [...]
City of Ottawa launches open data site
Just a quick post to note that the City of Ottawa voted last night to open up city data that doesn’t violate privacy to the public – providing an easy way to build new and better applications using city information.
As way as adopting the principle, the city has also opened their data catalogue to [...]
Alright Mac users, you’ve got some games
For many years, one of the biggest weaknesses of Apple’s Macintosh computers was the severe lack of games.
Well, today that starts to change as Valve Software is opening up their online game store and platform Steam to Mac users.
There aren’t too many games available for Macs yet, but there’s one big thing.
Valve’s [...]
