the snoozeblog

I’ve moved

Nick — Sat, 19 May 2007 10:30:25 +0000

Nike + iPod = Big Brother

Nick — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:40:15 +0000

Or perhaps your little brother. Either way, hacking someone’s shoes is kinda cool no matter what the motive is. Read the Wired story and think long and hard about whether you want to buy the kit or not.

We won!

Nick — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:34:54 +0000

Indeed. Serious Games Interactive won an award. The KEK award (WoW players can laugh here if they want to), apparently also known as the Den Danske Kultur & Erhverv Award (The Danish Culture and Business Award), was given to the company for ‘Best Creative Product’, which of course is our outstanding game Global Conflicts: Palestine.

I’m not quite sure what to think of it, so I’ll refrain from commenting further.

On Second Media Life

Nick — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 20:18:28 +0000

Second Life is apparently the new thing. It’s been around for ages, of course, but clever heads of corporations (and, I suspect, in particular clever marketing people) have now suddenly discovered the online world and it seems there’s a mad scramble in positioning companies in the virtual world. Companies are having press meetings in there, media outlets are setting up shop and reporting from the virtual world and so forth. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Saddam Hussein trial would be moved there soon. Everyone’s apparently out to shop just how savvy and clever and cutting edge they really are.

Personally, I don’t get it. First of all, who cares about this? Really? Who cares that Reuters is now reporting from a virtual world? Don’t get me wrong - I truly appreciate the fact that media outlets are now taking an interest in virtuosity but why in God’s name are they reporting about the happenings in such a place? I must be missing the point somewhere because I’d rather see reports on the life of Chinese gold farmers, on sweatshops, on the consequences of EA monopolies regarding various unmentionable sport trademarks.

Why should I seriously be bothered to get an account, log in, screw around with creating an avatar and bother with the hassle of running around in a virtual world with tons of distractions coming from inside and outside said world - when all I want to do is attend a press conference?

Dear companies, media outlets and every other entity trying to cash in on this thing: It’s lovely that you’re trying. But I think you’re screwing the pooch here. You’re reducing the world to a fad. In a year, no one will care. Not really. Kind of like now - only more so.

Under Destruction!

Nick — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:05:41 +0000

Please be patient as I destroy all remnants of anything remotely intelligent here.

It’s Alive! Alive!!!

Nick — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:56:27 +0000

Yes, unbelievably the snoozeblog looks to be returning to life. The shock pads are smoking after having delivered more amps of power than the entire country of Canada uses in three weeks but there is life. The next week or so will be dedicated to updating things around here. Writing a couple of new sections, getting plugins up and running, working out the kinks and deleting spam. I will be weeding out old nonsense, removing some stuff and hopefully writing some new things as well. You may expect all kinds of things to go wrong here.But at least it lives. Even if it’s the life of undeath…