The latest media update at the Firearms 2 website includes a gameplay teaser trailer (see below). Check it out, its going to be a great game:

Monday night I was working on our latest SSD assignment. The internet is the primary means of communication amongst our team members; we have an FTP share, a wiki, and a mailing list. Well, conveniently enough, my internet cut out. Repeatedly. I fought with it for about an hour before I gave up and walked [...]

There’s an article over at TorrentFreak, and here’s the article text: The Canadian police announced that it will stop targeting people who download copyrighted material for personal use. Their priority will be to focus on organized crime and copyright theft that affects the health and safety of consumers instead of the cash flow of large corporations. Around [...]

I found this at matthewgood.org; a great clip that speaks to some of the religious arguments surrounding stem cell research. Gone From Her Forever On a note related only in that I also saw this on matthewgood.org, I found the following to be a really powerful image that made me die a little on the inside. From the [...]

The University of Toronto Engineering exam schedule has been posted at the undergrad registrar’s website. The exam period runs from December 7th through to December 21st of 2007. My exam times are as follows: December 13 @ 2:00pm AER501 - Advanced Mechanics of Structures December 17 @ 9:30am AER525 - Robotics December 21 @ 2:00pm AER506 - Spacecraft Dynamics and Control While [...]

Tabula Rasa Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa (the video game) was released yesterday, November 2nd, to retailers. I saw a preview for this game a while back and it looked quite intriguing, though I must admit I haven’t been following its development since. Frankly, a game has to completely sweep me of my feet if they expect [...]

I recently installed the latest release of Ubuntu, version 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). So far, I have to say that I am pretty impressed with it. I hadn’t upgraded since Dapper (6.06), which means alot of my apps were out of date (I was using Firefox 1.5, Gaim 1.5, Azureus 2.5, Amarok 1.4.3, etc) and it [...]

I finally got around to purchasing Radiohead’s new album In Rainbows (for the curious, I chose to pay 5£ for it). I’ve been listening to it fairly consistently over the past week, and I’m thinking that this is quite possibly my favourite Radiohead album to date. The first song that really struck out at me [...]

I think that’s going to be my slogan for the rest of the term. I missed two very important events today due to Spacesystems Design: the Slashdot party at Einstein’s, and the release of Gutsy Gibbon. Let me put it this way: I’m ready for this course to end. On a totally unrelated note, I still [...]

For many years I have scoffed at the idea of backing up my hard drives. Why should I need to do that? Hard drives don’t lose data anymore, they are fine-tuned machines! While this is true, there are a lot of reasons to implement a good backup policy. The most obvious of course is hard-drive failure; [...]