http://www.massena.com/darrin You get what you pay for Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:45:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Word is out on Picnik, the web-based photo editor I've been working on for over a year now. With Picnik we plan to achieve three goals: Provide the best photo editing experience. Easy, powerful, and fun. Take advantage of everything the web can bring to photo editing and everything that photo editing ... http://www.massena.com/darrin/2007/02/06/picnik/ If you haven't been reading News That Vexes by Mark D. Taylor you are missing out on some of the most entertaining scientific research going on, like this: Girth adds to extra gasoline consumption. http://www.massena.com/darrin/2006/12/12/news-that-vexes-moves-to-a-new-location/ Hey look what Jonathan found! Back in 1986 we worked together with Hayes Haugen on a fun shoot-em-up game for the Amiga called Sidewinder. It was a moderate hit. Hayes and I coded and Jonathan did the in-game artwork. This is a scan of the retail box Sidewinder was packaged ... http://www.massena.com/darrin/2006/11/10/sidewinder/ For many years I hosted massena.com on an old '386 box connected via ISDN at my home. I enjoyed having complete control over the software installed on the machine but didn't like the site going down in the event of power failure, HD crash, or whatever. I also didn't like ... http://www.massena.com/darrin/2005/07/11/welcome-to-the-beach/ Some time ago during a hotsync operation with my PDA Outlook ended up with duplicates of most of my contacts. I finally got fed up and wrote this little Python program, removedups.py, to delete the duplicates. It could easily be adapted for duplicate notes, tasks, etc but I didn't end ... http://www.massena.com/darrin/2005/06/27/remove-duplicate-outlook-contacts/ While I was away this summer brother Jay Massena was building a new business here in Seattle, Aris Editions. Aris Editions is a digital printmaking studio specializing in Giclée reproductions from original artwork. They also provide a full range of digital imaging services and prices.     One thing I can tell you ... http://www.massena.com/darrin/2004/12/23/jays-new-business/ Shaula is big into BookCrossing. The problem with BookCrossing, IMO, is that hardly any gadgets are required to participate. All you need is an Internet connection and a book. Geocaching is more my speed. Required gadgets: GPS, PDA (to run favorite mapping/logging software), digital camera (to record the happenings), compass, ... http://www.massena.com/darrin/2004/07/23/geocaching/ I thought it would take a while to sort out all the mobile phone options here but it in the end it only took a couple hours walking down Oxford popping into the many phone shops lining both sides of the street. If you're going to be here for less than ... http://www.massena.com/darrin/2004/05/11/uk-phones/ Shaula has tried every trick in the book to avoid the effects of jet-lag. As the control subject in this experiment I haven’t done much except stay up late most days the past week finishing multiplayer Warfare Incorporated and preparing for the Big Trip. Here we see Shaula on the plane ... http://www.massena.com/darrin/2004/05/11/were-off/ So dasBlog allows me to email new entries to my blog but how well is it going to work? I'm composing the message in Outlook, actually Word 2003. What font will show up? What about the rest of the formatting? For example, the image below is on its own line ... http://www.massena.com/darrin/2004/04/29/mail-to-blog-test/ I need a good way to integrate travel photos into my blog. Rumor has it that nGallery is being integrated into dasBlog but when? http://www.massena.com/darrin/2004/04/25/travel-test/ Keeping in touch will be one of the big challenges of being away from home for 6 months. Maybe a web log would be a good part of the solution? We'll see. I've installed dasBlog on www.massena.com and converted over my www.massena.com/darrin page to give dasBlog a shakedown. The 'darrin' ... http://www.massena.com/darrin/2004/04/24/getting-ready-for-the-big-trip/ This one has been a long time in the making but I think you'll understand why when you play it. Warfare Incorporated is a no-compromises Real-Time Strategy (RTS) game for PalmOS and PocketPC compatible handhelds. Developed by my other company (co-owned with Scott Ludwig), Spiffcode, and published by Handmark. Learn more, ... http://www.massena.com/darrin/2003/09/12/warfare-incorporated-released/ I have just completed my latest creation, QuickBits, a utility to enhance the performance (speed) of Palm and PalmOS compatible handhelds. Here's a quick blurb and a link to my company's web site: Your Palm will SCREAM with QuickBits!. QuickBits Make your Palm (or PalmOS compatible handheld) run faster! QuickBits optimizes several common ... http://www.massena.com/darrin/2000/10/12/quickbits-10-released/ http://www.massena.com/darrin/1999/06/12/hello-world/