Today I showed one of the guys in my lab this picture, to prove that I once had long hair. He commented that I looked 5 years older in the picture. The picture itself dates from 4 years ago. So apparently shaving my head has caused me to look 9 years younger. Maybe it [...]

This year’s ongoing Game Developer’s Conference has seen the announcement of OnLive, the self-proclaimed “future of gaming.” There has since been much interest, particularly in the feasibility of the service. I provide my analysis.
The basic concept
OnLive is a video game-centric take on a general computer architecture concept known as ‘dumb terminals’, ‘thin clients’, or more [...]

Preparations are underway for my trip to the FCCM conference in two weeks. I’ve booked a hotel room and plane tickets to San Francisco; it still remains to be seen how we will get from SF to Napa. I completed the last revisions on the paper, but now I need to start crafting working on [...]