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Well, it's time, once again, to move this blog. I have not posted anything since my leaving Sun Microsystems in Febuary, 2010. The reason for this is, well, I have been taking some time off to be with my family, working on home projects, doing a bit of consulting and preparing my new website to go live, any moment now :)You can follow my work with the Smithsonian American Art Museum and my

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Well, the time has come for my 16 years of service to Sun Microsystems to come to an end. There will be more information to come this week and I can start to populate the blog with much more diverse topics. Basically, whatever the hell I want :) Thanks to well wishers and their support!

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One of the users at the JavaGaming.org forums, who goes by Kapta, is working on the port of the Jario64 Java emulator, ported it to LWJGL for play in the browser. Lots of work left to do, but it is a great start! Check it out!

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WHOOO!!!! It's been quite a long time since I have updated my blog (2 months? WTH?). Always lots of work to do, a bit of travel in between and, well, life in general. But, I am feeling the blog push again and will be updating more frequentlyI wanted to share a quick video I did of the Java Store BETA program. At JavaOne this year, we unveiled the first look at the Java Store to the developer

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As a follow-up to the presentation in an earlier post (which I will re-make with narration to add context), here are two video segments I did regarding my thoughts on the following subjects:Thoughts on video games and technology in education.Thoughts on technology accessibility and social impact.

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Hey! You there! Are you a game developer that is using Project Darkstar? Independent developer using it for experimentation or testing? Academic using it for school projects?If so, we want to hear from you! Please take a few minutes to take our survey:TAKE THE PROJECT DARKSTAR SURVEY

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The following video is the presentation I have been giving in various forms since Feb of this year. Feedback and comments are welcome but please post them here on this site (see link below) and not on the video hosting site.Enjoy (or not! let me know :) )

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My good friend Josh Slack over at Ardor3D has been working on a little project in his spare time to show off the features and performance of his Ardor3D engine. In a video series called "Ardor3D - L4D 'hobby project'", Josh starts detailing the process of importing Left4Dead maps into the Ardor3D engine. Josh has an excellent speaking manner that helps to simplify the explanation and is

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Ok. Fine. I have not been a huge fan of the iPhone as a game device. Sure, I have purchased a bunch of games on friend's recommendations and most were pretty good to ugghhh. I always thought of the tilt controls as awkward for the moving mechanic. I mean, could you imaging your television screen rotating with the action while you remained stationary? Always felt weird.However, I think I have

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This post has been a while in the making, but I finally got around to finishing and getting some photos posted. Now, the story.JavaOne 2009 was held the first week in June and my good friend Josh Slack was able to make it out to the conference after a bit of back and forth. Rather than incur the expense of the hotels in SF, Josh just crashed at my hotel and we had a great time at the conference

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Umm....what else can I say? It's Tron. It's coming in 2010. Time can not move fast enough.

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Back around 2002/3, Victor Lucas sent out holiday cards to his industry friends in the form of a DVD. This DVD contained about 90 minutes of footage from his TV show, Electric Playground. One of the best videogame shows ever on television.First rising to popularity in the US on G4TV when it was a 24 hour video game channel, EP was hosted by Tommy Tallarico and Vic. What made their show

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So, one of the interesting side effects of having a portable game machine with a full browser built in is the costant balance between the need to game and the need to be on the web. Of course, blogging from my DSi :)Ok, back to CT. It seriously rocks!

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By way of my friends over at GamePolitics.com comes this lovely article about the town supervisors in Amherst, New York who failed to approve the game room license for a local Chuck E Cheese establishment. Guess why. COME on....take a wild guess...Council Member Shelly Schratz said she was disturbed by several “action-packed shoot-and-kill games” that were accessible to children as young as 4.“

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While there has been a lot of discussion recently regarding the rise in value of print materials. Understanding that we may have written them off way too soon and, I would imagine, many people don't want to take their $400 Kindles or $500 iPhones into the john with them just to have an invisible layer of ABFM (Airborne Fecal Matter...eeewww) on their digital conduits, there are several efforts

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I know it's not the latest of the Nerd's videos, but fantastic as always. Also, can't believe the cassette tape for the C64 still works! Video Games | ScrewAttack | Angry Video Game Nerd: TransformersXBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

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For those of us who grew up in the real dawn of computer games, the mid-80's to mid-90's was one of the most magical periods EVER in the video game industry thus far. During that period, LucasArts published some of the best adventure games, well, ever. Chief among them were the Monkey Island series.Well, you can now download this classic remake for the iPhone. Cool thing is that you can switch

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So, I'm starting this blog space back up as a place for me to discuss my personal views on technology, the games industry and so on. Corporate blogs are fine, but I find myself having to be very careful and particular with regard to what I write about and choose to discuss. I think having my own chunk of the web, here, will allow me to vent a whole hell of a lot and can share my reall thoughts

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After, well, 2+ years of neglect, I am going to be restarting this blog space. More to come soon!

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