Things have slowed to a crawl around Nuketown, and I can blame a lot of that on two failing computers. The first to go was Sue’s Vaio, which had been freezing up and hibernating unexpectedly since the day she first powered it up. Within the last few weeks however, things got much worse; where as … Read more
A List Apart has redesigned their Web site, and I’m liking the new and improved version. The new take is less constrained than the previous incarnation, and allows the site to spread out across more of the browser screen (the previous versions seemed designed for 640 px wide screens, which led to some very long, … Read more
If you are looking for photos of the 2005 flood, please read this entry — The Editor The Delaware River flooded its banks after the remnants of Ivan — combined with another storm — dumped a huge amount of rain on the Lehigh Valley. Sue, Jordan and I walked down town to snap a few … Read more
Bill Gates says that ultimately, cellphones will kill the iPod as they invade its music-playing market. It’s possible, but three big things have to happen first: 1) Storage: Cellphones need as much storage capacity as an iPod. Don’t point to a 512 mb cellphone and say that’s going to get me to ditch my iPod; … Read more
Fortune.com has a column up called “We’re a Nation Helpless to Save Ourselves” railing against America’s rampant consumerism, which author Geoffrey Colvin claims is leading us to ever higher levels of personal debt, which in turn will bring about crushing collapse when it all finally catches up with us. I agree with some points — … Read more
While surfing for information about styling tables using CSS, I came across “css vs. tables”, on which one very anti-CSS layout web designer argues in favor of using tables to control page layout. I’m sympathetic to his argument … up to a point. When I re-designed Nuketown last year, I went to a CSS-only layout … Read more
Being fat (or at least, just overweight) won’t kill you. And it might even let you live longer. Last year, the Centers for Disease Control announced that obesity was the number #2 preventable cause of death among Americans, coming in right behind tobacco-related deaths. Coming after the release of Super Size Me, two lawsuits against … Read more
Nuketown’s 2005 Reader Survey is now over, and I’m pleased to announce the winner of the contest: David Weathers. David will be receiving a $10 gift certificate to Amazon.com. I didn’t get a huge number of responses to the survey (less than a dozen) but the ones I did get were informative. Just as importantly, … Read more
The third day of MEPACon saw dozens of people walking around in that state of happy exhaustion that can only come from playing games for 48 hours straight (or at least, for what felt like 48 hours straight). Refreshed after heading to bed early (the others finished up their dungeon crawl at 4 a.m.) I … Read more
The long, brutal game of Risk: Godstorm that kept me up until 5 a.m. also kept me from hitting the 9 a.m. gaming slot at MepaCon, despite the fact that it was for a game I really, really wanted to play: InSpectres. Unfortunately, while chasing ghosts around for fun and profit is appealing, sleeping was … Read more