I’ve been playing this game for a while (I purchased it in August 2010) so this is not necessarily a review but my personal experience with the game.
Minecraft is a sandbox-style game in which there is no set purpose, other than to build. During the day, your objective may be to collect building materials to survive the dangerous creatures that spawn at night, or you might craft yourself a sword to attack said monsters. Read the rest of this entry
We’ve entered a time in the information age where our cyber lives have become just as important as our real lives. Our social status is no longer solely determined by our charisma or cliques, but our friend count on Facebook. We measure our influence not by our political power, but by how many followers we have on Twitter.
Social and aggregate websites have become the primary destination of news, controversy, and event updates. Paper has been replaced by the back-lit screens of monitors, laptops, smart-phones, tablets and a plethora of other devices that connect us to the backbone. We rely on a constant feed of electricity and data to ensure that our connection to this network is never lost. Our children are begging to be given devices that keep them connected to their friends not through physical means, but through the Internet. When our technology crashes, we panic.
We are so insanely obsessed with our online profiles that we will pay retarded amounts of money to stay connected when we are outside the home or office. Our MP3 players and cell-phones are now windows to the digital world. We are developing technical standards to keep up with this demand – and replacing older ones with these newer, better specifications.
I am not one to criticize this movement – I am a part of it. I saw this coming, as did a lot of other people. There are people out there making exponentially more money than I am through just being on the world-wide-web.
What will we be doing in a year? Two years? Ten years? Just some thoughts for today.
I’ve added a small Scripts page to my blog. It’s small at the moment (only one script), but I hope to add many more in the future. I hope this will, in some way, assist people getting started with PHP.
I had someone ask me why I use MediaFire for my downloadable files. It’s quite simple, really – I want to offer unrestricted access to files I want people to have, without breaking my bank. I originally used Box.net, but found their tight bandwidth and storage restrictions a bit of a pain, so I switched to MediaFire. They offer unlimited storage and bandwidth. If you want to track your files down to the click, you can upgrade your account (I haven’t, but I may) to get some useful statistics.
