My favourite feeds

Nothing out of ordinary lately. EU3 has been running a lot lately, so not so much free time left.

I'd like to share my favourite feeds, in case someone doesn't already read these:

The n00b comic: Excellent comic about the WoW generation gaming etc. Lots of fun about online roleplaying games (MMORPGs), lately it has gone down a notch, but mostly because the start is so HILARIOUS its hard to top later!

Ctrl-alt-del: Ctrl-alt-del is another excellent comic about gaming, life, IT. Featuring Ethan the umm, dork :) and Lucas the rational as main characters and best buddies & roomies, their views are constantly clashing and it creates interesting views into everything.. Just hilarious. Read from the beginning to not miss anything!

Slashdot: ./ is the number one site for following the Open source, Linux, IT, media industry etc stories. Very good moderation system, insightful discussion, a must for any IT person.

Worse than Failure: Former What-The-Fuck. Posts WTF cases from IT industries, potpourri of funny errors, WTF'd code and so on. Just hilarious if you are a coder or work in the IT industries. Lots of insider jokes referring to the older posts etc, just hilarious.

Doh!: Oh the humanity. Mostly posting mistakes and absurdies in news, such as BBC, CNN, webstores etc.

Pokernews: PokerNews has improved a lot over the last year, and it has the best coverage of the WSOP this year. Kicked Bluff magazine hands down in accuracy, speed, quality... despite that Bluff was the official WSOP reporting mag.

In addition to those, I have many "private" boards I follow and discuss on. If you have any other good webcomics, post them, I could occasionally use something new :)

Napolens Ambition

If you like turn based strategy, you must try out Paradox Interactives Europa Universalis. It has evolved to version III already over the years. Couple of days ago, they published an extension for it called Napoleons Ambition.

As you can guess, Im going to praise the extension. Adding a lot of things to a already superior game isn't easy thing to do, but they've done it. The game offers even more balanced game play, advanced AI, extended timeline and so on. The computer isn't the same walkover opponent it was back in EU3 v1.0 a year ago (well, the v1.3 actually managed to fix it properly already...)

Anyways, now shoo, if you are a bit into this type of game, go buy the game and the extension ASAP. Paradox is a rarity in todays gaming world, their games do not include any DRM or stuff that hinders you playing experience. The game does not span multiple DVDs and hog you HD on install. Its just the game, a HUGE set of historical accurate data and lovely gameplay.

Do you need more reason than that? I don't. Now I'm having hard time deciding which one to use my spare time to: Civ4 with Beyond the Sword, or EU3 with Napoleons Ambition :)

Got my hands on N800

I got a pair of N800's related to my next assignment. Quite a toy! I was part of N770 development team, and we cussed about a lot of things in it, the lack fo memory and flash capacity as our prime targets. 64mb for memory and another 64mb for storage was way too little for a embedded Debian.

N800 does it different: double the memory and quaruple the storage, and another flash card slot for even more storage: one internal and one removable. Stereo speakers instead of mono, yummy. Faster OMAP processor, about twice the speed; oh the luxury!

Anyways, if you have any interest for this kind of device, I can recommend it warmly. New software versions are coming out frequently enough and community has ported and developed hundrers of applications for it. Just google for Maemo Mapper (and purchase GPS with Bluetooth) and you have a navigator! The list goes on...

Shoo, go get one! :D