Every self-respecting strategy gamer knows Empire, the mother of all war strategy games, as well as its updated version Empire Deluxe. Far less well known is their ill-fated sequel Empire II: The Art of War, which departed from the originals considerably by concentrating on smaller-scale operations rather than “global” warfare. Read the rest of this entry »

I have updated the post that lists the Firefox extensions that I use. See Firefox extensions you cannot surf without.

For some reason, my Firefox (2.0) has been acting up today. The problems seem to be related to reading CSS style sheets and other additional content properly. At first, I had trouble accessing some forums, which showed up as far too wide for my screen, and then later on with font colours that were identical to the background colour of the site. Then, I lost the ability to read my Bloglines account, which I could access, but where I could not see a single feed — neither in the “updated feeds” section, nor in the “edit feeds” are. When I then accessed my personal blog (which you are currently reading), I was shocked to see that the design was all over the place. Read the rest of this entry »

A new study has indicated that if a website takes more than four seconds to load, an average Internet user will lose interest and go elsewhere. I would imagine this to be somewhat modified by your default connection speed, but in general it sounds about right.

I would just like to draw your attention to the fact that I have updated the list of Firefox extensions that I use.

Is it just me, or is the virtual world Second Life all over the place these days? You try to read some music industry news, and what you get is an article about Duran Duran performing in Second Life. You browse technology news, and there it is again: Toyota and Adidas are the latest companies to jump into the Second Life bandwagon. Dodging reports about business consulting in Second Life, conventions in Second Life, Universities opening courses in Second Life, and everything else Second Life related has in fact become so difficult that it makes me wonder what all the buzz is about.

Fortunately, there was a rather good article on Second Life at Popular Science that I read today. If I had more time – indeed another life – I would probably try Second Life. As it is now, however, there’s way too many things to do in this life for me to try and handle another one, as well.