When we last checked in with SWAT 4, it had decided to:

Decide I’m a Pirate and install securom.
Deactivate Windows

Now securom has decided that I’m a pirate, again:

Check out this great article from Mike Russell on trends and keeping your QA staff from cycling, now!

As you can tell, I’ve switched to wordpress. Thanks once again to Aaron Gyes for helping with the site code. Various things are still broken, they will be fixed.

So today I bought SWAT 4’s expansion pack, and ran Windows Update beforehand.
Windows Update detected a new version of the nForce SATA driver for my motherboard, I agreed to install it, rebooted, began installing SWAT 4 (which I hadn’t previously installed.) when the SWAT 4 installer got around to installing securom (I assume) Windows Vista [...]

Michael Russel has an article in the September issue of PC Gamer (Star Siege on the cover) covering his time at Ritual. Go pick it up, only 5 bucks!
While you’re reading that, you should also read the of his blog for a straight look at the life of a software developer/tester.

It is almost impossible for me to describe how deeply frustrating it is to not be able to stop observing continuity errors in films. Last night while watching Bonnie and Clyde there were errors in just about each camera swap. Usually in the stances or positions of characters.

Just click the link for Sam’s deconstruction of the Seattle Weekly article.
Also, with regard to VMC/Volt/etc, it was explained to me during one of my interviews there - during the more stringent hiring process for more regular contractors than the bull pen clown car - that VMC/Volt exists solely so Microsoft doesn’t get pwned by [...]

Here, of which my favorite quote is:
I get up and use the women’s rest room, which is empty and spotless.

Oh man, what a terrible bug in The Darkness, if you sit down on the couch and watch “To Kill a Mockingbird”, after awhile you won’t be able to rise again. I’ve had this happen twice now in the PS3 version and so have other people, in the 360 version as well!

Well, since my arms and wrists and fingers hurt, I was going to post some research but pretty much everything I needed I got from this internets. First I installed AntiRSI after reading about it on jwz’s blog, then a friend brought up how he was about to play God of War, and it dawned [...]