In: General

• How Facebook could have avoided all the fuss

  Facebook Privacy issues have been all over the News, in the Blogs and all over Twitter for some time now. If you use Facebook it’s hard to avoid the issue and chances are you know at least a little about all the chatter. There’s one way Facebook could have avoided all this fuss a long time ago.

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• In the end you’ve still got to build your Flash correctly

  Fellow internet dwellers will recall the Apple open letter about Flash support on it’s mobile platform, the inevitable Adobe follow up and a world of News coverage. I’ve made my opinion known on Twitter a couple of times. If your project calls for Flash or if you just choose to use it, there are some best practices which can help everybody out.

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• Valve has taken an important first step, now we need to follow through

  This week Valve, the creator of the legendary Half Life series of games has been releasing some teaser images hinting that it’s Steam platform may soon be on the way to an Apple computer near you. This is an important first step for the gaming community as a whole, one in which we the gamers need to follow through on.

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• The facts about bottled water

  Caught this today on Twitter via @invisiblepilot. I’m sure information like it has gone around in the past but this infographic is really nicely produced and highlights some of the things people forget about bottled water.

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• Nick Pike Juggler parts 2 and 3

  Nick is back again with two new videos in his dangerous juggling series and this time he’s going crazier than walking on broken glass while juggling. Did you know there’s such a thing as a flaming unicycle? I didn’t…

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• Nick Pike Juggler

  Our friend Nick, another Brit who married an American girl, just so happens to be a mighty fine juggler. He’s juggled all over the world on ships and at gigs, you may have even seen him before. Now he’s back with some new, more crazy tricks and there’s video!

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• Extra Life charity event this weekend

  This weekend is the Extra Life event. That’s right, it’s time for some 24 hour charity gaming action!

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• Updating the blog address

  Some advanced warning for my readers and RSS users: today I’ll be switching my blog over to it’s new permanent URL http://www.designergamergeek.com.  With the way my server is setup you shouldn’t actually notice any difference and you’ll still be able to access all the content (including the RSS feed) from the current url.  I can’t promise it’ll always be that way though, which is why I’m giving you fair warning!

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• Barack Obama on the Economy

  Today president elect Obama made his views and plans for the economy known in a press conference. I have to say I’m presently surprised that it all seems to make sense.

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• Baking with Dad: Pear Glazed Pie

  Wherein Dad and I find some pears deep within the fridge, then bake an awesome Pear Pie with them. Now with pictures!

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• Ad Minimizing: would you use it?

  Would you like/want/use an Ad minimization function like the one located at the top of this site – if you have cookies enabled that is – here I discuss the idea in more depth.

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• Just not too much change (a prop 8 comment)

  All states that voted on banning gay marriage vote YES. Which, considering who America just voted in, boggles my mind. NO on prop 8.

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