Tag Archives: technology

How Important Is Your Keyboard?

July 20, 2008 – 22:41

As a programmer I spend a significant amount of my time punching keys on a keyboard while writing code, and even documentation. Over the years I have also accumulated a wide variety of shortcut key combinations that I use for everyday tasks. Because of this, a keyboard’s layout and physical design is very important to [...]

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Looking Forward to the Future of Gaming Graphics

July 17, 2008 – 00:59

I am not easily impressed by the technical aspects of graphics in computer games, but every few years a game comes along that really blows me away. In 1993 it was Doom, in 1995 it was Descent, in 1996 it was Quake, in 1999 it was Quake 3, in 2004 it was Doom 3 (and [...]

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On the Future of WinCue

May 9, 2008 – 21:47

Some of you may wonder, what happened to WinCue? The web site has not been updated for over four years, and there has been no activity whatsoever on the SourceForge project.
I recently received an e-mail from a user who wanted to report a bug. Here’s my reply:
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:16:27 +0200
From: “Anders Sandvig” [...]

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