Archive for the ‘News’ Category

PC Gaming is NOT Dead!

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

I read this article on ExtremeTech today and it moved me. The author makes so many great points, especially:

  • PC gaming is NOT dead and us gamers need to let the industry know this!
  • Arguing about whether console or PC gaming is better is completely pointless.

Maybe you’ll enjoy it too.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,2286801,00.asp

How AOL Makes Money

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Darryl and I were wondering how AOL manages to make money these days, since neither of us knows anyone using their rather obtuse desktop software or dialup service. I may have stumbled upon the answer: not unlike Google, AOL is doing Internet advertising (sneaky sneaky!) and they apparently have a rather large market share.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/14/not-a-misprint-aols-platform-a-is-the-top-advertising-network-by-reach/

We’re Back!

Monday, December 10th, 2007

After a brief hiatus to play with failover and load-balancing we’re back online! I’ll be doing some more testing to quantify the feasibility of hosting a website from two geographically disparate servers without having a single centralized database or filesystem – both common points of failure. Stay tuned for updates on this project!

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