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Catch Up

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

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Childhood Life Lessons Learned From Playing Oregon Trail

Friday, November 16th, 2007

Starting tonight at 6 PM, I'll have two days to create a game from scratch for the XO laptop at the Pittsburgh Game Jam. Since these laptops are primarily being distributed to children in developing countries around the world, I'm going to try to make something that's both fun and ...

Ain’t No Party Like A MyHome2.0 Block Party

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

So last Saturday, despite the bitter cold, I dropped by a MyHome2.0 Block Party that Jim and Lloyd invited me to. Above is a roughly edited video of the event (uploaded using YouTube's new Multi-Video Uploader, hooray for the increase from 100 mb to 1 gig!) and you can find ...

Happy Birthday Pittsburgh Bloggers and Developers!

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Last night I went to two very well-attended geeky events celebrating simultaneous momentous occasions. Yesterday was Pittsburgh Bloggers' third birthday and the birth of DevHouse Pittsburgh. While our celebratory cake was not quite as geeky as the one pictured above, the room was packed and we even had some new faces ...

World Pinball Championships in Pittsburgh

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

I bet most of you don't know that Pittsburgh now regularly hosts the World Pinball Championships. Even though the organizers have been running it locally for almost a decade now (after relocating it from New York and Las Vegas), it doesn't receive much attention or press, which is a shame. ...