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Zeebo: Gaming for the next billion

Zeebo: Gaming for the next billion

During GDC Mobile yesterday, Qualcomm's Mike Yuen and Zeebo's John Rizzo officially announced the launch of the Zeebo console. Given that I work at...

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Quick note

Quick note

It's been a LOOONG time since I updated this, but if anyone is interested, I started keeping a blog again at WordPress. You can also follow me on...

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E3 booth babes

E3 booth babes

I spent nearly all of E3 in meetings with developers, so I didn't have any material to do a full write up, but I did manage to take some booth babe...

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Hiring

Hiring

So, the handheld ISV team at ATI is looking to hire some engineers. We have an immediate need for someone who is entry/junior level (we'll be hiring...

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Job change

Job change

It's been a while since I updated this, and this isn't exactly new news, but I thought I should post to let anyone who is interested know that I'm no...

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Portal trailer

Portal trailer

We demoed Portal at ATI's 3D Developer Days last week, and we'll be showing it again in Austin this week. We had a trailer made, and since a few...

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The Future of Mobile

The Future of Mobile

One of my coworkers just directed me to this article on IGN. The Slingshot is the device that most of my efforts for the past two-plus years have...

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One year anniversary

One year anniversary

A year ago today, I weighed 265 pounds. I was wearing size 40 pants. My ankles were starting to give me problems from the strain of the extra weight....

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quick update

quick update

Weigh-in: 206.0 lbsYeah. August was a good month for weight loss.I'm in the home stretch for More OpenGL Game Programming. It was due on Monday, but...

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Paradigm shift

Paradigm shift

(Whatever) weigh-in: 215.0 lbsI'm supposed to see a sports medicine specialist in a couple of weeks, but because I'm that way, I spent a great deal...

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Incompetence

Incompetence

Damn I'm frustrated right now.Two months ago, I hurt my shoulder while bench-pressing. It didn't seem too major, so I took some time off of...

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Not quite as funny, but...

Not quite as funny, but...

I just got this from a Russian email address. The subject was just "Article correction":Quote:Can you correct article? ( I'm about English language )

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Mobile games

Mobile games

I was browsing our news the other day, and again encountered something I've seen fairly often. When we have news posts about mobile gaming,...

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Hmm...

Hmm...

Someone just sent this to webmaster@gamedev.net, and I just had to share:Quote:Hi guys could you help me out. You know Im a fresh graduate of...

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Climbing the ladder

Climbing the ladder

Yesterday, I had a meeting with my manager to go over my review feedback for the past six month period. I'm happy to say that I was promoted from...

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Review rant

Review rant

My books have received a number of reviews, mostly good, some bad. I don't really have a problem with most of the bad ones, as long as the person has...

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Quick update

Quick update

I took 21 pages of notes at the full-day OpenGL tutorial on Tuesday, but due to the number of meetings I had yesterday, I haven't been able to find...

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Settling in

Settling in

I've been in San Francisco since Saturday night. The GDC started a day early for me. QUALCOMM and ATI put together a half-day training session for...

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To use a cliche

To use a cliche

Old and busted:New hotness:Oh, and Weekly Weigh-in: 226.0

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Finally converted

Finally converted

I started using Netscape back at version 2 or so, and I've followed it through its various evolutions through Mozilla. I've always used the...

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