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iOS UI Patterns

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UI Design Patterns are an interest area of mine. They tend to get short shrift in comparison to Development Design Patterns. This site doesn't really do more than demo some good examples from various categories, but it's a good start if you aren't sure where to go with your mobile UI.

Developer Release of Diaspora

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I'm following this project. I dig the idea. Not sure about the execution, yet, but the idea is one I support. I prefer decentralized systems to centralized ones, and this Facebook replacement has potential.

I'd prefer that they had released it as software that ran on apache or IIS for any small host to stand up for others to join, because a user download is not ideal, but I get the reasons and reserve judgement on the architecture until I know more.

Games I need to check out

I love open source software and I especially enjoy playing open source games. On Linux I had many options, but haven’t really looked at all my Mac optimal,yet. Some games I want to check on to see if they have Mac versions include:

Hopefully, some of these will be Mac-ready.

In the meantime, I’ve bought Starcraft 2 and hope to get it installed shortly.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Gameplay Trailer

This is the first actual in-game trailer for Deus Ex Human Revolution. Taking place 25 years before the events of JC Denton, it shows the hero, Adam Jensen, on the hunt for someone called Tung in a nightclub in Shanghai. The trailer gives a decent sense of the mix of action, stealth, and plot that we should expect from the final game. I hope it lives up to the quality of the first Deus Ex.

It is supposed to be released early next year on PS3, 360 and PC. I don't yet know about Mac. Crossing my fingers, though.

The network

...Except for the network. Geez! Apparently, the builders built the room I plan on using as my home office to be all but unwirable! Ahhh! Work, dammit! I've set up a temporary office in what will be the guest bedroom while I try to get a jack wired in the office.

Wintel

Plugged in. Online
Jacked up. Fucked up.
T1 line-in. Media upchuck.
Mankind. MetalSoul.
Info Blackhole.
Lord Almighty,
Flood this rathole.
Byte-sized. ArkSafe.
Hi-Tech Street Waif
Who cares anyway?
Why should I pray?
Lead in. Lead out.
Have faith. Have doubt.
Talk loud. Don't shout.
Sine wave. Crest. Bough.
Christ when? Christ now!
Windows. Intel.
Dead soul. Oh well.
Hatred and sin.
Grow weak. Grow thin.
Love to hate me.
Ricki Lake me.
Let life linger
And infestate me.

   -Tom Caudron
   -Inspired by my job. Maybe I need a new one?