Category Archives: Technology

LucasArts – You Will Be Truly Missed

  It was announced today that Disney is closing down the LucasArts studio.   So no more first party games.   Depending on how they license out the games, the properties may still live on.  However, I have a feeling that they will only leverage the Star Wars franchise and leave the rest to live …

April 3, 2013 – 11:26 pm | By Creeva | Posted in Technology, Video Games | Comments (1)

Watch Doctor Who Sell Computers in the 80′s

  For those looking for modern who – pish posh, go grab yourself a Jelly Baby.   Tom Baker is always the first that comes to my mind when you ask “Doctor Who?”.   I grew up watching him on the local PBS station WVIZ channel 25.   I found the clip below on Youtube …

March 29, 2013 – 2:38 pm | By Creeva | Posted in Technology, TV Shows, Videos | Comments (0)

R.O.B. Saved But Now Will Suffer Life Imprisonment at Best Buy HQ

    This is my R.O.B.  I love my R.O.B.  I waited literally decades to get this robot and happy that I have him.   Heck, getting him was one of the last blog posts I did before I went hiatus.   Yesterday one of his brother’s took Reddit by storm.   People might have even …

March 28, 2013 – 4:53 pm | By Creeva | Posted in Technology, Video Games | Comments (0)

The Surprise of the Day – RIM (Blackberry) Turns a Profit

  The news is so incredible I almost don’t believe it.   RIM the manufacturer of Blackberry devices (you know the one that almost no one you know uses) announced today that they turned a profit.   Granted, I still don’t know anyone who wants to use a Blackberry.  Unfortunately some people I know are …

March 28, 2013 – 2:12 pm | By Creeva | Posted in Technology | Comments (0)

The Day The Internet Broke

    There have been numerous reports of the 300 GBs DDoS going on in the last week.   This morning Gizmodo discredited the effect this is really having on the Internet.    I know I didn’t notice any overt problems myself.  I have experienced plenty of network outages at work or at home over …

March 28, 2013 – 10:55 am | By Creeva | Posted in Personal Writing, Technology | Comments (0)

And Here is Where Microsoft Ruins Skype and Google And Apple Win VOIP

  Today Microsoft updated Skype to now included “Conversation Ads”.   Looking at the review on Ars Technica, this is all sorts of terrible.   I think Microsoft shot itself in the foot big time with this one. The idea is that when both participants see they advertisement, they will start discussing it.  These are …

June 13, 2012 – 3:30 pm | By Creeva | Posted in Technology | Comments (0)

Happy IPv6 Day!

Today is the day that major internet companies will be turning on IPv6 permanently.   I remember in the 1990′s that IPv6 was going to be coming by the year 2000.   I remember the mandate that the government would be converted by 2005 (NASA at least hadn’t by the time I left in 2010).   …

June 6, 2012 – 10:15 am | By Creeva | Posted in Personal Writing, Technology | Comments (0)