May 2009

Our first Warmachine figure.

May 27, 2009

Albeit late, we’re finally coming around to posting pictures of our first Warmachine figure, a Khador Destroyer that we completed in late April to early May. It’s the first wargaming figure that we completed from scratch, and though we can see room for improvement, we’re quite happy overall with how the figure turned out. For [...]

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Twitter’s simplicity outweighs Facebook’s complexity.

May 9, 2009

A day doesn’t go by when we log into Facebook and don’t get frustrated with its user-interface. Arguably, what drove us from MySpace into Facebook’s arms is the same thing that makes us use Twitter instead of Facebook’s status update. MG Siegler at TechCrunch put the issue simply: The number one reason I started using [...]

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More obstacles for eBook adoption.

May 8, 2009

By chance, shortly after writing our take on the status of eBooks and the Kindle movement, we hopped online to buy a bunch of books that we’ve been meaning to acquire. The books themselves aren’t specifically relevant to this discussion, but what is relevant is the type of books we were after. To clarify, the [...]

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On Amazon’s Kindle and the eBook format.

May 5, 2009
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The very idea of an eBook reader is the stuff of the future. One device to store a library of information? Just imagine – clearing up household clutter by being able to get rid of all one’s books (and bookshelves!) and replacing them with one small device. A device that, so conveniently, is about the [...]

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