Grant Robertson
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Grant Robertson is a born geek. Having worked in nearly every facet of the IT and software industry at one point or another, Grant has served as Lead Blogger for Download Squad since the departure of Jordan Running in February 2007. He has appeared on several NPR radio talk programs, been quoted in several national publications, and he still gets a tiny thrill every time he sees software he wrote in action.
Filed under: Fugly Friday
Fugly Friday: Cybertown
Do you tire of your humdrum, meatspace world? Does Sony's PlayStation Home look too real? Are there too many flying penises in Second Life for your taste? Well, strap on your hippie goggles and...
Fugly Friday : Yvette's Bridal
My optometrist was insistent that I not remove the bandages for another 24 hours. He also said I ...
My buddy Dave once shared with me a bit of computing wisdom which I've since found invaluable.
"Proper troubleshooting requires a Teddy Bear."
As it was told to me -- long ago in a university computer lab not so far away -- there was a sysadmin who became frustrated with the number of questions he was asked by student developers. It wasn't that the questions were invalid, or that the ...
by Grant Robertson Oct 8th 2009 {16 comments}
I got a message yesterday directing me to some groundbreaking post on Ars Technica, in which the long-winded and storied tale of an in-development 128 bit version of Windows unfolded like something out of a geek spy novel.
Robert Morgan is working to get IA-128 working backwards with full binary compatibility on the existing IA-64 instructions in the hardware simulation to work for Windows 8 and ...
by Grant Robertson Oct 6th 2009 {31 comments}
It's all over the place; Verizon is embracing Android. Google loving apologist geeks everywhere are heralding the 85 million new customers -- who are obviously ready to try Android, if only Verizon would let them -- as the beginning of a new era in mobile phone competition. The cries of panacea are all I've heard all day:
"It's going to be a floodgate of new users! "
"Death to the iPhone!"
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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