http://andrewbusey.com Where are we going? Games, Thoughts, More... Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:50:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Check out the first ever Duels comic: It's really cool and gives a great overview of the backstory behidn Phyrra, the world of Duels. http://andrewbusey.com/duels-comic/ I rented No Country for Old Men this weekend on Apple TV. It was my first attempt at renting. It wasn't ideal. I let it download for a bit before I started watching it and it still stopped midway through. So I watched some other ... http://andrewbusey.com/apple-tv-experimenting-with-movies/ Microsoft (MSFT) desperately needs to acquire Yahoo (YHOO) to gain a significant foothold in the media world. To me, at least, this is very clear. Yahoo also needs Microsoft, although I'm not sure they know it yet. I think the merger force a level of clarity to ... http://andrewbusey.com/microsoft-and-yahoo-shotgun-wedding/ So the day after my post, Alienware added an nVidia 9800GT2 SLI option. So I decided to go for it, even though the SSDs were not available. I did go read a lot of reviews on SSDs and they are still a little mixed. I mostly ... http://andrewbusey.com/alienware-redux/ I can't tell you how much I want to buy an Alienware. Their cases look amazing, they have acoustic dampening (which may or may not be a scam like undercoating, but I want quiet), and they are usually on the cutting edge. I've been planning to buy a really high-end ... http://andrewbusey.com/alienware-is-making-me-sad/ This is a really good article on capital gains from the WSJ: Obama's Capital Loss The fact that it is in response to an Obama position - that raising capital gains to 20-25% is ok - is not what makes this article interesting. It actually has some pretty interesting stats that ... http://andrewbusey.com/capital-gains/ Another brilliant example of our government at work: Banks: Planned Net-gambling curb could disrupt e-commerce My favorites: The 2006 law forces banks and other financial intermediaries to police money flows that could be related to Internet gambling. It never received a formal up or down vote in the entire Congress; instead, ... http://andrewbusey.com/sigh/ This is good: The Whitewater Proxy I recommend reading it. Especially if you support Hillary. http://andrewbusey.com/wow-2/ I just upgraded to a new version of Wordpress (2.3.3) from a really old one (2.0.x). Mostly because the old one was giving me issues embedding a flash app for Duels Defense. It's mostly been good. I only have two issues: It randomly inserted  all over ... http://andrewbusey.com/wordpress-upgrade/ I am rapidly beginnging to feel like there is no possible good outcome in the upcoming election. I'm also beginning to feel like government bureaucracy and inertia is going to kill our country. This article about the $53 trillion asteroid is a pretty depressing look at our grand retirment ... http://andrewbusey.com/disappointments-and-elections/