I have to say when I first heard of the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) Project I didn’t really see how this was a great idea. I can understand the whole teach them so they can do more there lives, but when you are in need of food and clothes and a place to live… [...]

A few days back a friend asked me if I had seen anything about hooking up a classic controller for nes or snes to the Wii. Well it has landed and you can buy them over at RetroZone.

Seems someone with a fair amount of time on there hands created a good little clip of the Big Lebowski with the Nintendo Wii. Check it out over at GameTrailers.com.

Google is slowly starting to take over more and more of my life. Today marked another day of it comming into another part of my every day usage. For a long while now I have been using bloglines for all my news reading needs, but today I decided to play around with google reader. [...]

Racket Boy has a nice article on how to change a snes game save battery. It actually makes me want to dig through all my classic games to see what ones actually still work.

For a very long time now I have been using Gnome for my desktop at work and home. Before that it was all blackbox, fluxbox, and openbox desktops. The move to gnome was more a need to just get work done and gnome made it quicker to do some stuff than fluxbox would. I was [...]

I have been reading a fair amount of the whole Novell / Microsoft Deal.. I actually had a talk with someone at work who is a KDE fan and they suggested that I switch from my beloved gnome because of this and the whole Mono (.Net) merger…. I dont think I will be switching anytime [...]