I recently downloaded a Vista clock gadget. It is kind of nice, but as with most things claiming to a binary clock, it really is not one. I am bothered by ThinkGeek's binary clocks as well as pretty much all of others I've seen. Don't mistake me here I love the nerdniness factor. They are quite amazing devices to marvel your friends with. The ...

So one thing I've always loved about Google is the I'm feeling lucky search feature. Most of the time I know that the top result is the one I need. Earlier today, I was googling for how to link directly to the Google results using an ''I'm Feeling Lucky'' search, and I found one interesting thing. I am not sure how accurate the information is, but ...

One of my favorite recent movies was Batman Begins. I thought it was very well done. The next movie in this new series of Batman, The Dark Knight, is coming out next year. The Dark Knight trailer has been released. We're back to my favorite villain, the Joker. How could anyone not enjoy a villain who can joke around and smile all of the time. A ...

So I've dropped the ball on XNA. I've been meaning to read and learn about XNA for a while now. Microsoft has done something truly revolutionary here. They're taking efforts to encourage the little guy to write games for their console. As far as I know, they're the first console to do this. Please correct me if I am wrong about that. I'll get to ...

Yes, you read that correctly, because Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year is w00t. Most of you have probably heard this interjection often exclaimed by geeks winning some sort of competition usually a multiplayer game. I know not where the word originated. I would assume an online computer game. Perhaps counter strike. I am quite impressed ...

It is amazing some of the relics that can be found while code reviewing old code. Sometimes developers do things without thinking and make some great code. I am of course referring to some really funny code such as what I found a few minutes ago. I am always annoyed when boolean values are checked explicitly in conditional statements like the ...

One web comic I commonly read is xkcd. It is a great comic that has a lot of good computer as well as just nerdy jokes. It has a great comic about SQL injection attacks and why you need to sanitize your database inputs. This is a lesson in what to not name your child. I hope that everyone who reads this gets this joke. Quite amazing. This ...

Over the weekend I received some awesome birthday presents from people. I received Halo 3 and Gears of War. I consequently spent the weekend playing Halo 3 on Xbox Live. They seem to have 2 different sets of level in the online play. They have experience which determines a rank; corporal, private, etc. and they also have a skill rank. I am pretty ...

While I was at DevConnections last week, I watched an interesting demo showing off Visual Studio's extensibility. In the demo the visual studio shell is being used to edit Lua script; the scripting language used by World of Warcraft for designing custom interfaces. The demo showcased Visual Studio's flexibility and captured the ...

There is a test I took a long time ago, and I went back to take the test again. I am talking about The Geek Test. It has been around for years and is an interesting test. I am just wondering how developers score on that test, because it incorporates several areas of geekness. A high ranking person is geeky in many ways. What does worry me is that ...