The Problem with Third-Party Apps?

I’d been extremely resistant to adopting third-party tools in my development efforts for a very long time. I liked owning my tools end-to-end and I liked writing my own code just for the sake of knowing exactly how it worked. I didn’t even have a Gmail account because I was running my own mail server […]

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Video Games and Charity

I’ve written about one of my favorite charity events on DetroitHockey.Net before but with Mario Marathon on it’s sixth iteration this weekend, I thought I’d say something here. Mario Marathon features a group of guys playing their way through the core Super Mario video games, streaming their efforts online in a telethon-like fundraiser for Child’s […]

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The Rebellion Strikes Back?

I’m a big alternate history geek and I recently stumbled onto a thread at AlternateHistory.com asking “What if Mark Hamill had been killed in the car accident that occurred between the filming of Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back?” “Gone The New Hope” covers more than just the possible development of the Star Wars saga, branching […]

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Friday Morning Irony

A friend was just installing Ad Block Plus on a new machine and sent the following screenshot to me: There’s something I find highly ironic about the maker of software that limits publishers’ ability to make money asking for donations to continue doing so. There are a lot of sites out there that use horrible […]

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