World War II-themed first person shooters: They’ve been everywhere on the PC since the boxoffice success of Saving Private Ryan, to the point of almost becoming a cliche. For a while there, a few Vietnam shooters were tried, until people figured out that hey, the Vietnam war wasn’t exactly all glory for the U.S. So [...]

It all started with an entertaining drive to the office. Being that Labor Day is coming up, the county sheriff has pulled about 70 deputies from their usual jobs and has assigned them to traffic patrol around the area. For the last couple of days, I’ve passed police car after police car, and every single [...]

In the fall of the year 2000, a small company in New York by the name of Hi-Tech Records released the so-called “first volume” of Knight Rider: The Original Television Soundtrack, as scored by Don Peake. I happened to discover this quite by accident, since as you can imagine, word of this product didn’t exactly [...]

Walked out of the local Gamestop at noon yesterday with a new copy of Soul Calibur II (and a limited edition art book) in hand. Yesterday evening, I popped the game into the Xbox for the first time and took a look. Right away, I was astounded by the visual quality. The game can [...]

Our network administrator at the office was fired this morning.
I saw it coming a mile away. Okay, no. Maybe a few yards away. Mostly because it practically takes an act of God to hold a job at my company. But also because I could tell that his job performance just wasn’t going to cut it [...]

Had some fun this past weekend. A trip to the mall netted some nice goodies, including a couple of new cellular phones and re-upped service from Verizon, but more importantly for me, a couple of new games. Well, one new game, and a deposit slip guaranteeing me a copy of a second game when [...]

Heh…as soon as I got done grousing about the seemingly difficult-to-customize nature of the pMachine weblog system, I discovered a gem of a hack that does something extremely nifty.
You’ll notice that most of the entries on this site display only the first few paragraphs before providing a link to a page where you can read [...]

A couple days ago I had temporarily disabled new member registrations to Oddball Update, given that I wasn’t sure I was going to continue using the pMachine weblog system. Well, after having tried out three different packages of blog software, I’ve decided to delete them all and come back to pMachine. Thus, new memberships have [...]

It was a pretty wild day at the office. What’s really sad is that it wasn’t wild because I was cranking away on a high-profile assignment or an ultra-important project. No, it was wild because I was given a heap of data entry materials at the last minute and told to whip ‘em out in [...]

In light of the big northeastern blackout last week, I’ve heard some jokes spread around that maybe the infamous LoveSan computer virus took out the grid. Not bloody likely—or so we thought. According to SecurityFocus, the SQL Slammer worm of a few weeks ago nearly did just that…at Ohio’s Davis-Besse nuclear power plant.

The [...]