Running faster to keep in place

When we compare strictly common, everyday, basic user tasks between the Mac Plus and the AMD we find remarkable similarities in overall speed, thus it can be stated that for the majority of simple office uses, the massive advances in technology in the past two decades have brought zero advance in productivity.

This is the summary of the Old Mac Plus / AMD Dual Core shootout. Huge surprise: the continued code bloat of modern computing isn't really improving our day-to-day experience.

Really, I'm struggling to remember what the last really new feature in Office was that I have used.

LEGO + Star Wars + Wii == Awesome

Just spotted this on Ars Technica while looking for other sources posting about the latest fuckup from CCP (Long story about EVE Online which I'll blather about later):

Lego Star Wars to come back with all six movies in one game

Traveller's Tales is also tailoring the game to take advantage of each system's features. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions will have online gameplay with drop-in and drop-out capabilities, while the Wii and DS editions will make use of those systems' unique control interfaces.

Lightsaber battles with LEGO guys? Count me in.

Power Overwhelming

Well, they finally did it--in case you were living under a rock, Blizzard announced StarCraft 2 over the weekend. As one guy on the SA forums, it's the announcement that launched a thousand reinstalls, as people play through the original games again.

There are those who think the screenshots and video make the game look too cutesy. I will agree that Siege Tanks now look a little strange (Tomy should launch a follow-up line called My First Battle Tank as a tie-in), but the Zerg now look a whole lot more like cockroaches than they ever did in 16-bit 800x600 resolution and that is cool.

I never really uninstalled the game, so I was able to launch immediately into the opening Terran campaign.

What still works:

• Game is extremely balanced
• The storyline of hicks in space fighting aliens continues to amuse
• Irradiating your own Siege Tank to kill off attacking Zerglings
• Dark Templars
• Four words: Spawn Broodlings on Templars

What looks a bit dated:

• The TINY resolution
• Can't assign units under construction to a group
• Still no cow level
• No command or unit queues

No idea when the new game will be out, though I am eagerly awaiting it. I am also curious to see what the GNP will do in various countries when it arrives.

Free Comic Book Day

Saturday was Free Comic Book Day, so I went on down to my local shop. It's been too long since I was there, sorta like how it's been too long since I posted in here.

Funny how ever since I actually have things to do at work, my personal posting goes way down. There's got to be a balance somewhere. Right now it's more in favor of blowing up fake spaceships on the internet.

Comics in this haul included a Rocketo trade, a some free comics (including the awesome Canadian book that had both Scott Pilgrim and Dinosaur Comics), and a signed Spider-Man book written by Kurt Busiek.

The other nice thing is that somebody finally recognized the characters in my Oddica sweatshirt. I guess not everybody played Dig Dug as a kid.