2007 February

I am in the midst of a major family event happening all weekend, so I thought it appropriate to play this game since the event is similar to planning a wedding.
I’m an old married woman, but playing Dream Day Wedding had me reflecting back on my own wedding day, grateful there were no crises. Dream [...]

This is my first encounter with the Virtual Villagers, but not the first time I’ve played a SIM-style game. I’ve played Populous, Sim City, The Sims — years ago. This game’s objective is to complete the 16 puzzles with other tasks along the way. This game stands out from many adventure games in that every [...]

I have many fond memories using the Apple ][+ and Apple //e. Funny, I have little or no memories of early Windows PCs. Gnome's Gaming on the Go reports that those with Pocket PCs/Windows Mobile devices can play Apple games with the appleCE Apple II emulator. I dumped those Apple ][+ and //e programs long [...]

Users of most PalmOS devices have a simple fix for daylight savings time without downloading a thing. The instructions come from the Is Palm Help Forums:
1. Tap Prefs from the Home/Applications screen.
2. Tap Date & Time.
3. Tap Location.
4. Tap Edit List from the down down list.
5. Tap to select your location in the list.
6. [...]

Due to a big family event coming this month, I’ve been trying to get work done ahead so I can take a few days off. Alas, I came down with the flu and have been in slow mode all week. I only had one bad day where I stayed in bed all day — the [...]

The business style games just keep coming. In these games, we play an owner or a worker bee in a business, racing to fulfill customer orders and keep them happy. Stand O’ Food comes closest to resembling a big McFast Food chain.
Stand O’Food has two game types: Meal Quest (serve customers until completing the level) [...]

You’ve probably come across an email, a web site or a free download that talks about how setting up a niche site can bring in lots of money without using advertising from publishers like Google, Yahoo and so on. A colleague had been telling me that I should set up a similar site because I [...]

Fire and Knowledge has pulled together a nice guide on writing principles based on two of my favorite books, On Writing Well and Strunk and White. It answers four key questions many of us ask about writing. The appendices include Orwell’s Six Rules of Clear English and Mark Twain’s Rules of Story Writing.
One of the [...]

lifehack.org has an excellent (as usual) entry on efficient reading. I remember coming across classic book How to Read a Book, which covers the different levels of reading and how to reach them — “from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading, you learn how to pigeonhole a book, X-ray it, [...]