I’ve been on a bit of a pork kick, recently, so when I found out about a new butcher that had recently opened up nearby, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. When I ate at Morimoto last year, one of the amazing dishes I ordered was a slow-braised pork belly served with a rice porridge… Marc of No Recipes had recently posted a great video about about black braised belly as well. Obviously, I needed to do something featuring the same, wonderful cut of pig. →

After months of speculation and anticipation, Apple unveiled their tablet computer — called the iPad — today. I had been curious about the device primarily from the standpoint of an owner of both an iPhone and a MacBook Pro. What, I wondered, would be the unique appeal of the fabled tablet to people like me? →

A few days ago, I was asked, “oh, you’re still doing tools programming? They haven’t promoted you yet?” It made me chuckle. →

If you’re reading this post, the DNS changes have propagated such that you’re now looking at this blog’s new home. I’ve switched to hosting with WebFaction — not because I had any serious problems with my previous provider, OCS Solutions, but because I hate both Webmin and cPanel. WebFaction uses a home-grown control panel interface that offers an excellent combination of “powerful enough to do what I need” and “simple enough not to tempt me with options I don’t know how to use properly.”

I’d been toying with using Tumblr as a replacement content delivery platform. It was new and sleek, but using it put me very much in the mind of a longer-form version of Twitter. The back-end management provided by the platform was just a bit too simple for my needs. So I’m still with WordPress, albeit on a different machine.

The recent “Rockstar Spouse” incident has, not surprisingly, caused some discussion about the IGDA and their role within the game development industry. Drew Sikora said, via Twitter, “Wake up people. Game devs who blame the IGDA for doing nothing blame themselves for doing nothing. Get it? Now do something.” →