Dee-Ann LeBlanc @ dee-ann.blog-city.com

Finding console games when you live in a small town

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 06:26:00 GMT

I used to avoid the Civilization games, because so many people I knew were completely obsessed with them and played constantly. However, the FreeCiv game in Linux finally sucked me in. After a few years of playing that on and off, I find myself repea

Site in transition

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:37:00 GMT

I'm officially transitioning this blog to postings about games and whatnot. Of course, I still use Linux, so games in Linux should appear here along with the PS3 games I mostly play, plus some Mac stuff too no doubt. I'm not removing any of t

Oratopigiphobia

Mon, 26 May 2008 03:36:00 GMT

Kenneth Hess has written an interesting article on what he calls Oratopigiphobia, or the fear of open source. I wouldn't say that there's anything particularly new here, but it never hurts to read about how other people are dealing with the

Pondering new directions

Wed, 07 May 2008 08:44:00 GMT

I'm thinking of making this blog more about games. I haven't lost interest in Linux, but I don't eat, sleep, and breathe it anymore since I'm no longer writing about it full time. I know I don't have a massive following but I hope

Care and feeding of the Press

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:23:00 GMT

I may not be a journalist at this point in time, but when I read Wired magazine 's EIC Chris Anderson's rant about how he's fed up with "PR Flacks," I had to shudder in sympathy. I've been an editor for a number of publicat

Mars needs PHP programmers

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:48:00 GMT

Well, Mars may not need them, but Splunk does! In fact, we need three or four of them. If you like the idea of working for me, we need some for SplunkBase. If you hate the idea of working for me, we need them for other projects too. If you're i

Study shows that gamers aren't antisocial gits

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 09:06:00 GMT

Those of us who like to play games that are social like MMORPGs now have something we can point to that shows that really, we're not antisocial losers. :) I know I've made some very good friends over the years through online gaming. New

Assessing the Cost of an Open Source Project

Sun, 05 Aug 2007 01:27:00 GMT

Ever wondered how much effort it would take you to duplicate a particular open source project? Check out ohloh, where you can feed in information about a particular project and let their software tell you how many man-hours or how many US dollars it