Did you know that QBASIC Gorillas was created by IBM, and not Microsoft?

Answer: a device just as capable as the iPhone, but the same price as an iPod touch and comes completely unlocked.  It appears that’s exactly what Google may be doing.

Okay, now that I’m done with school for the year it’s time for me to find something fun to do on this Saturday.  Any ideas?

Also, I should now resume my regular blogging/tumbling/twittering/facebooking schedule.  I’ve got lots of ideas up my sleeve for topics so I should be able to keep at least a little busy here.

Yes, I’ve been silent the last couple weeks.  Work and school has been kicking my butt, but I’m about wrapped up.  Poker on Friday, then I’m not going to know what to do with myself on Saturday!

I’m still working on my Marketing final, but I have until 11:59pm on Friday, so what’s the rush?

I remember when this first came out and playing it in college.  This definitely makes me feel old.

I’ve recently had some flakey behavior with my Hackintosh, and some of that has been traced back to incompatibilities between my Drobo using USB (FW800 is REALLY slow on it for some reason) and the version of OS X I’m running (10.5.7).  The best fix would be to do a reinstall and get it back on 10.5.6.  Even then, I know that it’ll just be a matter of time before something else pops up.

Luckily I was able to grab a refurbished 1GB 2.0GHz Mac Mini off of the Apple Store for cheap.  Even better is the RAM I just took out of my MBP will bring it up to 4GB.

I’m looking forward to having a Mac server that will do everything (Bonjour, Back to my Mac, working video, fast FW800, security updates) and won’t require constant babysitting.  Also, this now frees up the Atom hardware from the hackintosh to do my firewall project.  It’s a win-win!

I’ll probably do another Hackintosh at some point in the future, but I won’t have it be something that I rely on daily, as it just requires too much care and feeding.

Look for some future posts on using the Mac Mini as a server and setting up pfSense on the Atom hardware.

Last week I hit a wall of frustration trying to run several VMs and always being at or near 100% memory and the swapping that resulted.  Usually just one VM and the typical applications I ran in OS X were enough to bring everything to it’s knees.  Well, I decided enough was enough and placed an order for an 8GB kit from Newegg.com.  This is the result:

Just testing it out, I launched 2 XP VMs and a Windows  7 VM, along with every app I typically use.  I didn’t hit 100%, but I did make it over the 6GB barrier:

Before doing this, I was really torn between a SSD drive and this upgrade.  However, this appears to have solved all my woes.  I’m sure SSD would be even better, but this is amazing as is.

Would I recommend this upgrade?  If you use VMware Fusion heavily on your Mac, and especially if you do demos in VMs with your Mac, I would say with no reservations.

I love my Drobo.  If you’re in the market, the new models look like excellent additions.

I’ll be very interested in finding out what they do.  I both love and hate skill trees.  I understand the purpose of trying to get me down a certain path, but it can also be very limiting.  There may be strategies that I can dream up that the developers never did that would be possible without the skill tree.

According to Blizzard’s official Twitter, the revision of Diablo III’s skill system is in full swing, with an announcement that skill trees are completely gone from the latest iteration.

“Diablo: The skill system revision is in full force. Trees begone! I think it might be a winner. Jay says hi.”

My Google Reader feed just started working again (went public) and realized that it may be a bit spammy on twitter.  Do you guys want me to disconnect it?