September 2003

September 29 - Four of my games have been ported to QNX!

September 21 - The kind folks at the Zaurus User Group website have offered to take over my crusty old FAQ. Update your links!

September 18 - I started working full-time at Nerdbooks.com up in Roseville this week. Luck would have it I catch the flu within days. >:^( I had a temperature of over 102F last night!!! :^P

September 13 - I just recieved photos of some of my games runnings on the GamePark "GP32" handheld video-game console! Check out Circus Linux!, Defendguin and Vectoroids.

September 11 - I've put my talk slides and source code online for the talk I did at Sonoma State University today on "Basic Video Game Development." Enjoy!

September 10 - I just discovered that two of my games are available for Symbian OS, which runs on some 'smartphones' and, I believe, PDAs! Specifically, someone e-mailed me asking about Gem Drop X, and while I was digging around, I found a port of BrickOut. I wonder if anything else of mine is out there!? Update: I tried it on a Symbian-based Nokia phone. Apparently, these versions of my games are only for an Ericsson. :^(

September 9 - Although I didn't feel very prepared, my talk on The Gimp at NBLUG went well tonight! Lots of people showed up, they really liked my 'Cheat-Sheet' handout, and some of them even seemed to learn something! :^)

September 5 - My talk next week at my alma mater is now listed online! I'm very glad I'm going first, seeing as the next talk is on 'Discrimination of single base pair differences among individual DNA molecules using a nanopore,' and the one after that is a 3D programming talk by someone from LucasArts! ;^)

September 5 - These photos from Atari's now-closed headquarters in Milpitas (where I had the chance to work back in 1998) brings tears to my eyes. :^(

September 2 - Wow, I've shrunk my inbox 10-fold. Less than 50 messages are still sitting in it, waiting to be dealt with. (The oldest from July 2001.) Of course, now I have a ton of smaller mailboxes with messages I still need to respond to. But, at least they're sorted!

September 1 - This Slashdot article points out a site put together by various Nordic countries to promote Open Source software, Nordicos.org. I checked it out, and found this page describing Tux Paint! Cool!