The current crop of teens and early 20-somethings in Ontario (and perhaps elsewhere, but i can only comment on Ontario) is being derided for its poor work ethic and its sense of entitlement. In my notorious articles What’s Wrong with Ontario Colleges? (Part 1 and Part 2), i boiled it all down to certain decisions [...] Keep Reading

Big news today as Adobe evangelist Lee Brimelow points out that the iPad version of Sissy’s Magical Ponycorn Adventure has been featured by Apple in their New & Noteworthy section: Heck yes! I’ll Buy THAT For a Dollar i’ve heard a little murmering about the game’s price point. For your education and edification, here is [...] Keep Reading

Dear RIM Blackberry Playbook People, Thank you for sending me a Playbook. i like it very much. i didn’t very much like the steps involved to put my work on the device, though. It was the most needlessly complicated thing i’ve had to do in all my life. i’d like to see the Playbook succeed, [...] Keep Reading

Tom Brokaw calls the folks who survived the Great Depression and went on to fight in Word War II “the Greatest Generation”. That’s fine – i’ll give them that. When they make movies based on the Greatest Generation, we get Saving Private Ryan. When they make movies based on my generation, we get Dude, Where’s [...] Keep Reading

Allow me to stray a little from my usual spate of game development posts and zombie videos to briefly comment on the Bill Nye incident in Waco. While he was giving a series of lectures, [Nye] brought up Genesis 1:16, which reads: “God made two great lights — the greater light to govern the day [...] Keep Reading