Archive for February, 2010
Oh, now I remember, that’s what I wanted to be when I grew up17 February 2010

If you ever wanted to be an astronaut, check out the tweets by Astro_Soichi. He’s an engineer on the International Space Station, and whenever he gets the chance to take a picture of something cool on the planet below, he posts an image via Twitter for our enjoyment. If you don’t use Twitter yet, maybe [...]

About Star Trek Online, from a guy who’s never seen it9 February 2010

So I’ve been reading some stuff and talking to people about Star Trek Online. It’s appealing to me in concept. Eric Burns wrote a nice lengthy article about what Cryptic needs to do to retain the very impressive million players it gained upon release. These thoughts are in no small part based on reading his [...]

That felt surprisingly good3 February 2010

For a couple years, I was part of the leading PvE progression guild on Aggramar. (Yes, this is World of Warcraft stuff.) We got most of the server-first kills — I think we were beat to only two or three in the time I was with them. Not that it was an extraordinarily competitive server, [...]