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[5 Aug 2009 | No Comment | 117 views]

I hung out with my brother last night, a rare experience since he moved to Florida not that long ago. My brother is a member of Intuition Games, an independent Flash developer collective. We’re working on a game (called Spirit of the Staircase) together right now (it’s almost finished), and we’ve also begun to work on a second unannounced project.
We plan to use a Flash Game License for Spirit of the Staircase, the game we’ve almost finished. However, we’re not quite sure yet how we want to approach the …

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[2 Aug 2009 | No Comment | 70 views]
To twitter or not to twitter

I have recently been asked if I will be starting my own twitter account. Before giving my answer I would like to fully explain the situation. Whenever I’m faced with a technological “advancement” for social networking, I go through 7 Stages. This was true with pagers, cell phones, email, facebook, online dating (which did not work out as I’d hoped), and finally blogging.
7 STAGES OF ACCEPTING TECHNOLOGY:
Stage 1: SHOCK & DENIAL: “YOU MANIACS!” Of course a cat is morally against creating “tweets” The very name is repulsive.
Stage 2: PAIN and GRIEF: …