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• [Jan 24, 2016] Happiness, Part 2
• [Jul 8, 2014] Change
• [Apr 27, 2014] Personal Buying
• [Mar 11, 2014] Happiness, Part 1

Log (archived)

• Fort Collins: The Choice City ... for Developers

CSU Specific

• CSU Math/Stat Lab FAQ
• CSU Maple Installation
• Avira AntiVir NOT at CSU FAQ
• Symantec Anti-Virus Issues at CSU: It Is What It Is
• Big Fun Times at CSU

Errata for O'Reilly books

• Sed & Awk (1st edition)
• Sed & Awk (2nd edition)
• Networking Personal Computers with TCP/IP

Errata for Video Game books

• The First Quarter by Steven L. Kent
• The Ultimate History of Video Games by Steven L. Kent
• The Medium of the Video Game edited by Mark J. P. Wolf
• chris crawford on game design
• The Video Game Theory Reader edited by Mark J. P. Wolf and Bernard Perron

Video Games

• Short review of Dragon's Lair 3D
• Robotron64: Relaxation, Rubbish and Relief
• Video game locations in Black Hawk / Central City Colorado
• Tri-Star 64 FAQ (very preliminary)
• Eclectic VG History Page
• How to play Taito's Pop 'n Pop in the US
• Short reviews for inexpensive SNES games
• Next Generation magazine and censorship
• Why Rick Dyer is a Hypocrite
• Rally-X and How Not To Do A Sequel
• Dearest Namco, Bite Me
• Why Video Game Magazines Kill Me
• The Great Debate from Mar 1983 Video Games Magazine
• Do the Donkey Kong, The Missing Verse
• Book reviews of
  • Game Over (new edition)
  • Phoenix
  • Mind at Play
  • Joystick Nation
  • Supercade
  • Arcade Fever
  • High Score! / Rules for Writing a VG history book
  • The Medium of the Video Game (part 1)
  • The Medium of the Video Game (part 2)
  • Lucky Wander Boy
  • Video Game Bible 1985-2002
  • chris crawford on game design
  • Power-Up
  • Trigger Happy
  • Digital Press Collector's Guides
  • A Theory of Fun for Game Design
  • On the Edge, the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore
  • The Video Game Theory Reader
  • Gameboys
  • Arcade Mania!
  • The Race for a New Game Machine
  • Racing the Beam

Pinball

• Book review of The Complete Pinball Book
• Book review of The Pinball Compendium, 1982 to Present
• Book review of Pinball Machines for Italy
• Flipnic: Et tu, Capcom?

Computer History

• Commodore Nowhere Near the Edge or Commodore before Commodore

Docs

• Various computer and video game FAQs
• Installing a Linksys EC2T PCMCIA (Ethercard) in a laptop running Win95 OSR2
• The Long Road to an Atlas Peripherals Rebate or Why One Should Avoid Atlas Peripherals.
• Two Informix termcap files: one for the PC and one for the WYSE-55, both using vt100 emulation.
• How to read and print CSU ILL e-mail files (TIFF group 4) on various platforms.
• Tech Support is Neither and How to Cope.
• Use hfnetchk when Patching NT⁄2000⁄XP Systems or You May be Sorry (updated to include the fiasco that is MS02-052).
• The IBM 17-year Time Warp.
• HP Pavilion 8160 Power Supply Woe.
• WinME, Tape Drives and msbackup.
• Scrubbing Drives for CSU Surplus.
• Gateway E-3400 freeze⁄hang problem.
• The IBM Thinkpad, The Dos Kermit and The Serial Port.
• Treat Your Hard Disks Carefully.
• Think Different by Doing Nothing.
• A Solution to the 4015 Problem on W2K3 Server *if* You Did Something Silly.
• Where are the ntbackup logs written on Windows 2003 when using at.exe?
• The Comprehensive Adobe Flash 7.0.70.0 Solaris Sparc FAQ
• Permanent Isn't, A Femlab License Warning
• Microsoft Defines 'Exploit'
• The Five Basic Rules of Tech Support
• A Solution to the 5722 Problem on W2K3 Server *if* You Did Something Silly.
• Adobe's Patch Schedule

Original Humor

• RIAA Sues Birds, Whales
• Microsoft Debuts Windows Update Update
• What Microsoft Has Done To Me
• Study Concludes that Computers No Longer Able To Do Useful Work
• City Discovers Huge Cache of Red Paint

Misc

• The Colorado DMV experience
• Computer funny stuff
• Book reviews of Silicon Snake Oil, High St@kes, No Prisoners and Beer Blast.
• A small bit of humor, courtesy of Mark Twain
• A small bit of humor, courtesy of MST3K
• An Impersonal Phrase
• Advice for One
• Death to Good Service by One's Own Hand
• Love of the Game
• Interpreting Small Town Politics
• Cold Comfort (by Comparison)
• What the Bar Means
• Life In Three Lines
• Just Walk Away
• Two Quotes
• Be Nice to Me, You ... You ... Professional!
• Leave The Idiots Here
• A Short Note About Manga from An Anime Fan
• Expectations and Web-based Forums
• FUNimation is Funny
• Best Quote of 2006
• Peachy v. Punch in The Face
• My IP
• Double Closed
• Extron and the Hard ... Buy
• That Slayers Song Is _Slapstick of Strange Peoples_
• Five Words
• Move Your Car
• Out of Stock? WTF?
• Moving Forward
• Three TV Sports Stories
• Oster Blade Size Mystery
• Nim and What To Do about It
• Better Living through Losing
• Fort Collins, The Mean-Spirited City
• _Amber's Homo Mix_
• The Air Bed Tire Test
• You Don't Know That?
• The Collector Rides Away
• Windows 8 in One Sentence
• The Pocket Watch
• Dear Authors, Please Don't Waste My Time
• Happiness, Part 1
• Personal Buying
• Change
• Happiness, Part 2
• Dollops of Truth