Have I been remiss in posting?

Well, yes. But I've actually been working on gamesey stuff! I'm helping an artist with an entry to the Dream-Build-Play XNA game competition hosted by Microsoft.

You can check out some screen shots and a video here: http://www.the-cloud-game.com/

Also, I recently wrote a rather long rant on some application performance sins that contribute to a simple reboot of a system taking 20 minutes these days. It's a bit Windows centric, but the central concepts actually hold for Linux and MacOS X, too. http://www.enchantedage.com/node/40