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Entries from August 2008

Wii Fit branded fitness supplies

August 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Tonite when I was at Bestbuy checking out the Acer Aspire One and picking up Madden 09 for the 360 I saw a few shelves of Wii Fitness material which cracked me up.
In case you need to fill Nintendo’s coffers even more you can pick up Wii branded water bottles.

Or you can go for Wii [...]

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Tags: Games

Sly Mongoose is a great adventure with depth!

August 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I had the opportunity to read an early copy of Tobias Buckell’s latest novel, Sly Mongoose, which is a kick ass adventure novel with loads of action. Sly Mongoose mixes together several cool ideas including zombies, autonomous robot creatures and a man with internal technology fusing with rusting misshapen technology to become whole again all [...]

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Tags: Reviews · books

The solar powered apocalypse

August 20th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve been reading quite a bit of post apocalyptic fiction lately, becoming completely enthralled by Jeff Carlson’s Plague Year and the followup novel Plague War in which any piece of land below 10,000 feet has become uninhabitable due to a nasty bit of nanotech. The nanotech pulls apart humans in order to create replications of [...]

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Tags: Reviews · Tech · books

Seeds of Change confronting our future through fiction.

August 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment

When I realized that Seeds of Change a new anthology by John Joseph Adam, the man behind Wastelands, had come out I was already excited and as I explored the books site and its topics I became even more ecstatic. Seeds of Change is an anthology described as, “confronts the pivotal issues facing our society [...]

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Tags: Tech

Make the most of your small screen in Firefox

August 5th, 2008 · No Comments

The Download Squad has a great article up which covers several ways to make the most of your small screen. While the article is aimed at those using netbooks, often limited to 7″ screens I have found that it is full of good ideas for getting the most out of my 12″ tablet screen.
I’ve already [...]

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Tags: Tech

I won the ICAA Newcomer award

August 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Last week was a busy week. Amber and I took a trip to Ft. Wayne to visit some friends and had a great time. We even “won” their daughter in a bowling match! Shortly after that I went to Maumee Bay State Park for an ICAA conference where I was in charge of A/V for [...]

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