Hopefully none of you have had this problem but I wasn't able to post or respond today. The new (ahem) logon system is buggy and unfinished apparently. I couldn't even log off to fix the problem. I had to delete my cookies and then close my browsers and then reload and then relogon. Now it works.
Sometimes running a blog site is almost not worth the effort. I can see why so many blog sites are moving to charging money to use them. The amount of technical support I'm starting to receive in email from users is becoming problematic. What's worse, is that an increasing number of people are demanding technical support responses that are simply not realistic in something that we are providing for free. Let me give you an example. Someone named "Andrew" emailed me a couple of days a...
The store server crashed twice this weekend. Grrr.
I'm not sure which email made me decide to do it but at some point, a threshold was crossed. I think it was when I saw the third or fourth reviewer ask me "Do you think your right-wing leanings are affecting the objectivity of The Political Machine?" That question shouldn't even be asked. It's not appropriate in my opinion. Play the game should be the answer. And I find the question problematic on so many levels. 1) Those who think I'm "far right" need to back up that statement. I bet t...
The new logon system is nearly complete. But if you're having any problems posting or anything at all, you will want to try logging out and logging back in so that the system can enable all your features for you.
In many ways, JoeUser is an experiement. It is the only blog site on the Internet that combines the strengths of all the individual bloggers together. When you make a post or comment on someone blog, it is distributed across the thousands of blogs here on this site. And, because JoeUser.com is so popular, your article is likely to get picked up on search engines. Which, needless to say, creates a temptation for abuse. People who intentionally try to humiliate others by taking advantage of the...
People on-line seem to have a...need to give their opinion regardless of whether it's relevant or not. I see this particularly in the tech world where a new product gets announced and someone who wouldn't even use the program feels the need to comment "I wouldn't use that." Whenever I see that, and it's often, my initial thought is, "Well who cares?" I just don't get it. I have no use for greeting card making programs, for example. When I see a news item about one, my first thought i...
What an awful day it was today. It started well. One of our key developers is leaving to go to Microsoft whic is a bummer but we had a last day lunch and movie (saw Van Helsing which was pretty good). Then it all went down hill. Various technical problems - Stardock Central messing up, can't make news items via our internal news syndication system, and other minor mishaps. And then the contract negotations with publishers on one of our upcoming games. I'm faced with some unpleasant choices...
We were in the Detroit News today. The article was for The Political Machine mostly but was ultimately a profile on our company. If you're interested in it, you can read it here: Detroit News Stardock article
My wife and I had a great time last night. One of my co-workers got married and it was a great night. They had a terrific reception with good music, dancing, etc. My wife and I boogied all night together. But the guy who got hitched, he's our lead cartoonist on The Political Machine. We realized yesterday that we don't have an image of Dick Cheney in the game. During the reception, they were asking people to sing a song to get them to kiss. Here's what I came up with: (sung to "Close to yo...
It's now time for another episode of: WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER PUT YOUR IMAGE ON THE INTERNET. (see link below)
Tonight I'll be on CNBC's "Bullseye" show. It's on at 6pm EST (my segment will be on around 6:30). I'll be driving into Detroit for the satellite hook up. With the political season ramping up, it's going to be pretty exciting to see how things turn out. Things are so close and could go either way. Perfect timing for the game. The Political Machine is a strategy game in which players take on the role of a campaign manager of a US presidential candidate. &...
I was on NPR this afternoon doing an interview with regards to The Political Machine ( www.politicalmachine.com ). As soon as they have the RealAudio archive up I'll post a link.
I often enjoy John Dvorak's columns. He's probably my favorite technical columnist out there. But at the same time, he is one of those people who makes rash predictions that are sometimes dead wrong. In fact, he's made so many bad predictions that he gave me the idea for a website - www.badpredictions.com that I registered almost 4 years ago. The idea was to let people submit entries that were either predictions already shown to be bad or ones likely to be bad: Who made a pred...