http://geekularity.com Sean O'Steen's attempt at a well-balanced geek lifestyle. Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:45:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On Saturday night I joined at least four hundred other geeks at the San Francisco Apple Store to watch Will Wright, the creator of the online games "Sim City" & "The Sims," as he demonstrated his new game, Spore, which is scheduled to debut on September 7, 2008.  In addition ... http://geekularity.com/2008/06/22/spore-will-wright/ I can't believe I missed this last month. Shortly after Garry Gygax passed away, Adam Rodgers of Wired Magazine posted this great op-ed piece complete with a brilliant flow chart of geek passions. The article is well worth a read, and the flow chart is a fun one to trace ... http://geekularity.com/2008/04/11/gygax-geek-love/ I couldn't have said it better myself! http://geekularity.com/2008/03/30/star-wars-according-to-a-3-yr-old/ I spent the better part of the day and night yesterday recovering from a power failure at one of my client’s data centers; a failure that we did not have a contingency plan for. A transformer inside of the building, one that we thought was solid-state and not a ... http://geekularity.com/2007/10/10/know-your-single-points-of-failure/ There may be a day in the not-too-distant future where a you need only hum a few bars before your bio-media-comm implant automatically checks all the online music stores, buys, downloads, and plays the song directly into your cerebral-cortextual-whoozawhatzit. Until then, there will be at least a few moving ... http://geekularity.com/2007/09/26/amazonmp3-vs-itunes-game-on/ For those who bought the iPhone at its original price of $600.00, Apple has released the details on how to claim your $100.00 credit. There are two tips I'd like to pass along so that you don't pull your hair out while you sit on the phone for 20 minutes ... http://geekularity.com/2007/09/15/the-iphone-100-credit-no-instant-gratification/ OpenID is an up and coming authentication standard that allows you to log into participating web applications using the same credentials for each. No more having to remember different usernames and passwords. You can authenticate with an OpenID compatible web service using a unique URL instead of a username and ... http://geekularity.com/2007/09/03/openid-rocks/ I am very fortunate to be on the ground floor of a new coworking facility in Berkeley, CA. It has been aptly named Berkeley Coworking! We are having our open house party tonight and links to party photos are to follow. Here is a slideshow of how it's been ... http://geekularity.com/2007/08/03/welcome-to-berkeley-coworking/ Ignoring that faint voice in the back of my head that tells me that Google may indeed be Skynet, and that our robot overlords are just a few years away from their planned invasion, I decided to hand Google the keys to my kingdom. I have moved several of my ... http://geekularity.com/2007/07/31/i-did-it-i-signed-my-soul-over-to-google/ I didn't know that RAID was a bad word, much less a bad acronym, unless you are an insect. But after reading the Drobo product literature and watching Robert Scoble's interview with the Data Robotics, Inc. management team, it became clear that Drobo's marketing machine wants nothing to do with ... http://geekularity.com/2007/07/06/drobolicious/