January 2012
8 posts
The Terrific Game of Thrones Board Game is Full of... →
Kirk Hamilton at Kotaku reviews one of my favorite board games:
The challenge of writing about this board game is that it is very, very complicated. I’d say “Don’t let that scare you off,” but if the idea of a super-duper complicated board game that requires four to six hours to play and many more to master turns you off, well, then maybe this isn’t the game for...
“Pointy-headed football-lovers are a beleaguered crew, despised by pointy-heads...”
– Martin Amis
Money and the App Store: a few figures that might... →
Emeric Thoa offers a glimpse at the numbers behind The Game Bakers’ iOS game, SQUIDS:
In this article, I will present all of the post-mortems and figures I’ve found interesting, and I will also explain how SQUIDS fits into the overall picture. But first, I would like to quickly give my opinion on few of the App Store myths you may believe if you’re not an experienced iOS developer. There are...
Goals For 2012
Goals? Don’t you mean resolutions?
No. Resolutions are almost always phrased as the kind of absolute that is impossible to achieve—I will never do such and such, or I will lose all the weight. Goals are about setting achievable and realistic plans for the coming year.
Last Year’s Goals
Last year I had three goals and I achieved them all. They were to get married, run a half marathon, and read...
Reading 2011
I like to keep track of what I read from year to year, both to challenge myself to read more, and so I can look back at previous years and see what I was reading at the time. In 2008 I read 39 books with a total of 12447 pages. In 2009 I raised the bar to 65 books and 19455 pages. In 2010 I read slightly fewer books—56 total—but they were longer on average, so my page count stayed around the same:...
Non-geek Tech Usage 2011
Like many geeks, I have a lot of non-geeks in my family, and Christmas is my best chance to see how the less geeky side uses technology. Here are my observations for 2011:
Non-geeks know certain brands really well. Everyone knows about the different iPhone models, although they are usually referred to as the “3”, the “4”, and the “new one that you talk to”.
The Kindle is very popular. The...