Last week I was walking home from the train station and I saw the walking man sing light up at the cross walk, so I was in a hurry to cross the road. As I was jogging this picture (above) grabbed my attention and made me stop in the middle of the road for a moment.  Yes, it was the North Korean flag outside of the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem! Now, I really don't know what the hotel's logic is when

I don't know how I missed this - an 8-bit version of Assassin Creed II...with a pretty funny twist (no, it's not that it's 8-bit)

A familiar take on what toys do when you're not around (see Toy Story for example), but with video games as the protagonist.  Pretty awesome!

A few weeks ago I completely (by my own error) erased my contacts on my Mac, which erased all my mobileme contacts, which erased all my contacts on my iPhone...major #facepalm moment. In any case, through a combination of having backed up my contacts on Yahoo a couple of years ago, and by virtue of not having my iPod Touch connected to the network I did manage to retain the textual information for

This past summer I borrowed quite a lot of books from my school's library. Since I am a staff member the loan period is quite generous, so I could take out a box full of books and have them due back in October. Pretty sweet. So I decided to look at my GoodReads list and get as many books as I could find at my school which has the generous loan period.  After reading quite a few books from

άπαιχτο! (awesome!) What is Google+ (Google Plus) and do I need it? from Epipheo Studios on Vimeo.

I remember when "the internet" was a big thing and everyone was first talking about it Those graphics and operating systems are an awesome blast from the past! I wonder if there is an alternative universe out there where MacOS 8 (Copland) ever took form and the Apple Newton reigned supreme :-)

I seriously love the Assassin's Creed Universe, I can't wait for Revelations! Perhaps I should get the two PSP games in the meantime ;-)

In the form of traditional Club Admiralty, where I had a change log page for my site (man, those were the days), here's a change log resulting from the getting rid of the digital tumbleweed :-) So gone are the references to jaiku, to mySpace and to Plaxo from the jumper page. Adieu old networks :-) From the Articles page I got rid of the Google Reader widget of shared items and I created a page

OK, so this past week I took the opportunity to take care of some digital tumbleweed - online social services that I signed up for in order to try and I've just not used in a while. While  going through these services I also discovered that some of them had gone belly up (or were closing shortly!)  So first of all, a very quick adieu  to Radar (the picture sharing service, ember (a service