Grant and I are working on rewriting a game he created several years ago called “Grant’s Ants” (he later renamed it to “Battleopolis”). Originally it was a clone of a game called Ants by Miroslav Nemecek (which was itself a clone of Arcomage). Grant was mainly interested in the rewrite since he wanted to learn C#, and I’m in it because I found the game strangely addictive.
You can find Grant’s original version on his blog.
You can download Miroslav’s version at Gosfish Games or I have it hosted here.
Below I’ve posted an e-mail I sent to Tom Adams (the CEO of Rosetta Stone) a few weeks ago regarding my very disappointing experiences with his product, namely the entire deactivation process they have implemented. He never responded, so I thought I’d post it here and see what others thought.
If you too want to let Mr. Adams know what you think, send him an e-mail at tadams@rosettastone.com. I’m sure he would be very happy to hear from you (don’t hold your breath)!
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My buddy Steven over at the Mac Fam blog is getting hitched this weekend, so naturally we had a bachelor’s party to celebrate. I’ve learned a few things:
- I like Irish Car Bombs
- Three of them is too many
- I found no truth to the adage, “Beer before liqour…”
- Despite what it may seem at the time, it’s always better to be the DD in the end
Congrats, Steve – I wish you the best.
My friend Grant (whose blog is linked at the bottom) has been working pretty hard developing a music review site he’s named, “The Last Seven Minutes.” It was a pretty ambitious goal for his first real web development project, but he’s managed to pull it off. Check it out at http://grantrose.org/reviews.php.
It’s been a rough few weeks for the blog server. The router I had been using in the apartment was among the most unreliable I have ever seen. It needed to be reset daily, sometimes several times a day, port forwarding only worked when the planets aligned just so, and most of the time it completely ignored the static IP rules I set. I finally swapped it out with another router I had sitting around and it looks like everything is resolved, including the issue where I had to take the server offline to update from home. Sweet!
I’ve got a couple of posts that are still in the draft stage that I hope to have up soon now that I have more reliable access to the server.
