Performance Comparison of Lighting Models

Steve Jobs is Just an Icon

As soon as Steve Jobs took a leave for 6 months due to his health problem, Apple stock was hit heavily. A lot of news was pretty much saying "without Steve Jobs, Apple is fucked" As you can guess, the Apple stock declined for some days. So I bought some Apple stocks.

Free Tax Return Software

I have been using QuickTax so far, which costs around $20 per return. And I recently heard about this free tax return software called StudioTax from RedFalgDeals.com, but was not sure how good it is even if it has been around for years.

Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts

So apparently a book called, Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts, was published a couple of months ago. You might like it if you were a big fan of Monkey Islands or Maniac Mansion like me. To be honest, I do not care about their Star Wars games….

The Soul of a New Machine

Engineers are aesthetes - Tracy Kidder So are game developers… well… at least some of them are…. well… almost… - Me

Do Something

This is what Al Gore said in the movie, An Inconvenient Truth: There are a lot of people who go straight from denial to despair without pausing on the intermediate step of actually doing something about the problem. Although he said this to urge people to act on the global warming issue, I think this statement can be applied to anyone who just likes to make excuses about their lives.

Free DX10 Shaders Book

I found it on recent gamedev.net news:

No Magic Numbers Please

A Real-world Example Why Magic Numbers Are Witchcraft

Unprofessionalism Pisses Me Off

I'm known, or notorious, for getting pissed at unprofessional people. My definition of professionalism doesn't involve acting nice, or fake, or always wearing big grin on the face: this kind of people are just super unprofessional, so they have to pretend professionalism in that way.

NEVER Use PIPE with Python popen

I do use Python at work time-to-time, mostly for build tools and pipelnie stuff. This is the problem I ran into a week ago, and thought I should let other people know too. (I assume a lot of game programmers use Python? Well, not in game code, though)