This fantastic talk by Jesse Schell explores the current and future state of the game industry by exploring how games use the psychology of consumers and break through into the real world. A great watch for both game designers and new business owners alike.
I am currently at Naka-Kon, Kansas City’s anime convention.
I made Ckicken Tikka Masala today for dinner, based off of a recipe I found on youtube by vahchef.
It turned out amazing, and was fairly easy to make.
“Enhance section… A-6″
Having worked in Social Media monitoring for the last several years, I spent a good deal of my time researching how ideas and memes spread online. This fantastic video from Derek Sivers cleverly illustrates the concept in an entertaining and concise fashion.
I have run this site for several years now as a occasional place to journal my life, and looking back through the archives it is astonishing to me just how much I have changed over that time. During the last few years my site grew to a modest amount of popularity, at least more so that I would have thought it could, mostly due to the galleries of photos I had posted from various events I attended during that time. It hasn’t been enough to justify advertising, but enough to allow me to use my site to experiment with SEO techniques, experiment with web frameworks, and learn several new technologies. Recently, I finally returned to the realization that despite everything I learned, building and maintaining my own site and framework for a personal journal was no longer worth it when I could just install Wordpress. After many iterations of the site design, content, and code behind, I am now relaunching the site again to better reflect what is important to me, what I have learned in the past few years, and to serve as an outlet to discuss the projects I am currently involved with. Posting will still be sparse and infrequent, but will hopefully be richer.