Dead Space: First Impressions
I had heard a lot of positive buzz about Dead Space, the new EA SciFi horror shooter, so my expectations were naturally high. When Steam finally had it (funny enough, I’m one of those odd folks who are up in arms against any form of too rigid DRM except when it’s Steam), and in English [...]
Sarah Palin, the Accessorizer
Apart from her being rather incompetent (“cramming a lot of information”, as if, she just doesn’t find her way around the notes others have prepared for her), Sarah Palin apparently really likes fashion. And hairdressers. And makeup. According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September and included bills from Saks Fifth Avenue [...]
Stop RFID in Swiss Passports!
The Swiss government has decided that our passports, like a few before ours, should store data on RFID chips. Meaning, the following data would be stored in that chip: fingerprints a digital photograph all the data that’s also available in printed form (name, gender, date of birth, eye color, and so on) All this data [...]
What’s Wrong With VBA? (3/3)
part 1 – part 2 – part 3 This is the third part of a three-part series, have a look at part 1 and part 2 first. So let’s go on ahead and jump into the final bits of my troubles with MS Access and VBA as environment for medium and larger IT projects – [...]
What’s Wrong With VBA? (2/3)
part 1 – part 2 – part 3 This is the second part of a three-part series, have a look at part 1 first if you haven’t read it yet. Let’s just jump right in and continue the list of problems I have with VBA as a programming language for medium and larger MS Access [...]
What’s Wrong With VBA? (1/3)
part 1 – part 2 – part 3 Visual Basic for Applications – the legacy language that Microsoft apparently still won’t drop even in future Office updates, although they’re working on it, and certainly hasn’t dropped in Office 2007. The plague with a lobby. Why is it so bad, is it so bad at all? [...]
Bad PSP Games
After only having written about awesome games so far, it’s time there’s some negativity on this blog as well. So I decided to write a list with the worst PSP games I’ve played so far. Keep in mind that as always, the list is subjective, and unordered. And, there are plenty of good PSP games, [...]
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