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My bad, folks.  If anyone tried to visit my blog this weekend, you were very likely greeted with either a white screen, or the WordPress default (aka ugly) theme.  I had been attempting to change themes on Friday when everything up and broke on me.  It is all back up and working now, and hopefully [...]

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That’s probably because when I wasn’t busy doing other things this weekend, I was wasting away the time playing the new Dragon Age: Origins game from Bioware. I know, I know, lame. But seriously folks, this is wicked fun and also mighty addictive. For someone like me, who likes my games to be story driven, [...]

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Using some old test photos of a friend of mine from a shoot I did last year, I managed to whip up an image with some interesting effects using a combination of Illustrator and Photoshop. It turned out better than I expected actually, given that I had to substitute a few things due to not [...]

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Well, maybe except for my friend Scotty, who is more of a Star Wars nerd. Nonetheless, he was kind enough to get us tickets to the advance screening of the new Star Trek movie. Now, being someone who never really watched the original series, having preferred Next Generation over it, I still found myself critiquing [...]

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On April Fool’s Day every year I scour the internet for all sorts of fun April Fool’s pranks. Google is usually a good source, as is thinkgeek, but this year there were a few others that grabbed my attention. Being a huge Joss Whedon fan, this article made me chuckle in a bittersweet way. For [...]

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