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  Steve 10:28 AM on February 8, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: snow (13), traffic (2), weather (13)   

  It’s definitely a mess out there on the roads in the Washington, DC area. At least, it certainly is in many areas in the Northern Virginia region.

  If you don’t need to be driving outside, please don’t: leave the roads open for emergency vehicles and the snow plows.

  We all know that there are many individuals in the area who enjoy driving during the morning rush hour just for the heck of it: they’re not commuting to work, but they just enjoy congesting the highways and byways to occupy their time, as a twisted sort of pastime. Today is NOT the day to do this, folks.

   

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  Steve 4:50 PM on February 6, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: snow (13), weather (13)   

  Snow Interruptus? Where’s the Beef, Mega-Snowstorm? 

  It seems that the snowing has stopped!

  Unbelievable! Incredible!

  But does that mean I should set aside Dragon Age: Origins now, and pick up my snow shovels?

   
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  Steve 11:39 AM on February 6, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: snow (13), weather (13)   

  The snowfall coming down now seems much more dense, but the snowflakes have now taken on a larger size overall. This may indicate a “drier” type of snow– with less moisture– leading to a lighter density.

   
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  Steve 11:35 AM on February 6, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Javamancy (13), Javamancy mini (11), snow (13), Tell.IM, weather (13)   

  The mega-snowstorm inclement weather today is also a good opportunity to focus on a lot more Web application projects here…

  Remember the Tell.IM URL shortening service? Well, the work on it has been proceeding quite well since it was launched a few weeks ago, and I suspect we’re getting very close toward a closed beta launch. Some of you have mentioned that you’ve seen a test tweet go out already: yes, that was from the public-private test bed, and if you had followed the URL, you probably noticed that it works, leading to either Javamancy proper or here to Javamancy mini, depending on which URL you received.

   
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  Steve 10:34 AM on February 6, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: snow (13), weather (13)   

  The snow continues to come down in a whiteout type of torrential continuum, seemingly.

  There is very little road traffic this morning, mostly consisting of tow trucks and ambulances and fire trucks.

  All seems quiet on the Mega Blizzard of 2010 morning side, even sirens are tremendously muted by the sound wall effect of the snow.

  And even children are not gullible enough to venture forth into the vast, deep snow!

  Is it time to go shoveling? Or perhaps curl up to enjoy a few remedial Borderlands and Modern Warfare 2 sessions?

   
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  Steve 2:39 AM on February 6, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: snow (13), weather (13)   

  Mega Blizzard-y Snow Still Coming Down… 

  Yep, the torrential snowfall is still coming down over the entire Washington, DC region.

  It is still expected to be a continuous downpour of snow until sometime around 10:00 PM today.

  What is left on the gaming schedule, I wonder?

   
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  Steve 6:00 PM on February 3, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Borderlands (6)   

  Borderlands: Got All Achievements Again! 

  After completing the last of the larger tournaments, I realized that I’ve re-completed (once again!… how’s that for redundancy?) the totality of the Borderlands achievements.

  Of course, this is just in time for the expected THIRD Borderlands DLC, coming soon.

   
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  Steve 4:35 PM on February 3, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Borderlands (6), Xbox 360 (5)   

  Borderlands: Underdome Trio of Larger Tournaments– Completed! 

  After several grueling hours spread across a couple of days, I’ve managed to complete the trio of Mad Moxxi’s Underdome’s larger arena tournaments.

  It certainly was quite an ordeal with a single Level 50 character, without the support of a comrade who would be able to revive you when you get downed (and that happens a LOT!), especially with a lot of the indirect fire from the baddies– or if the baddies are super-souped-up on speed and able to zip in and out of cover faster than even you can fire…

  Unfortunately, I may have also encountered something unsettling: somehow, I managed to lose my favorite ivory (NOT white!) colored repeater pistol prior to exiting the last of the tournaments. I’m not sure if it is a bug that occurred during the exiting process, or I had inadvertently dropped it in the heat of combat. Hopefully, I’ll have a chance to find something like it again…

   
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  Steve 6:15 PM on January 27, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: customization, iPad (11)   

  Even slicker: use the iPad as the primary input device for a Mac/Mac Pro… like, say, the keyboard and touchpad… and allow the iPad to dynamically change the interface it presents, based upon the active app. So, something like a video player would trigger a specific set of controls on the iPad surface.

   
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  Steve 3:49 PM on January 27, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Apple (38), iPad (11), Mac Pro, MacBook (3)   

  Here’s a curious thought:

  Wouldn’t it be cool if the iPad could be configured to act as a second, or even replacement, display for a MacBook or Mac Pro?