http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=250758Musings of a GameDev.net founder, book author, and game programmer.en-ushttp://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=250758&reply_id=3425960During GDC Mobile yesterday, Qualcomm's Mike Yuen and Zeebo's John Rizzo officially announced the launch of the <a href="http://www.zeeboinc.com/">Zeebo console</a>. Given that I work at Qualcomm, with Mike and Dave Durnil, two of the people that initially...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=250758&reply_id=3346158It's been a LOOONG time since I updated this, but if anyone is interested, I started keeping a blog again at <a href="http://myopicrhino.wordpress.com">WordPress</a>. You can also follow me &#111;n <a href="http://twitter.com/myopicrhino">Twitter</a>, or a...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=250758&reply_id=2605744I spent nearly all of E3 in meetings with developers, so I didn't have any material to do a full write up, but I did manage to take some booth babe photos with the new digital camera, so I may as well share them here:<BR> <BR> <a href="/_staff/dave/pics/e3...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=250758&reply_id=2599924So, the handheld ISV team at ATI is looking to hire some engineers. We have an immediate need for someone who is entry/junior level (we'll be hiring more senior people soon). None of the resumes I've seen have been very impressive, and I *know* that there ...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=250758&reply_id=2540560It's been a while since I updated this, and this isn't exactly new news, but I thought I should post to let anyone who is interested know that I'm no longer working for Qualcomm. As of March 1st, I'm an ISV engineer in the handheld group at ATI. For the mo...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=250758&reply_id=2317307We demoed Portal at ATI's 3D Developer Days last week, and we'll be showing it again in Austin this week. We had a trailer made, and since a few people expressed interest in seeing it, here you go:<BR> <BR> <a href="/_staff/dave/pics/Portal.wmv">link</a>http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=250758&reply_id=2297048One of my coworkers just directed me to <a href="http://wireless.ign.com/articles/657/657041p1.html">this article</a> &#111;n IGN. The Slingshot is the device that most of my efforts for the past two-plus years have been centered around. I was involved wit...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=250758&reply_id=2259815A year ago today, I weighed 265 pounds. I was wearing size 40 pants. My ankles were starting to give me problems from the strain of the extra weight. This is what I looked like at the time:<BR> <img src="/_staff/dave/pics/fatty.jpg"><BR> <BR> Then I made a...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=250758&reply_id=2242218<b>Weigh-in:</b> 206.0 lbs<BR> <BR> Yeah. August was a good month for weight loss.<BR> <BR> I'm in the home stretch for <i>More OpenGL Game Programming</i>. It was due &#111;n Monday, but since I'm working with 20+ authors &#111;n this, a few of them are l...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=250758&reply_id=2181939<b>(Whatever) weigh-in:</b> 215.0 lbs<BR> <BR> I'm supposed to see a sports medicine specialist in a couple of weeks, but because I'm that way, I spent a great deal of time over the past week doing some reading (much of it at <a href="http://www.t-nation.c...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=250758&reply_id=2167731Damn I'm frustrated right now.<BR> <BR> Two months ago, I hurt my shoulder while bench-pressing. It didn't seem too major, so I took some time off of weightlifting to let it heal, which has worked for similar injuries in the past. After a month, I tried be...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=250758&reply_id=2160541I just got this from a Russian email address. The subject was just "Article correction":<!--QUOTE--><BLOCKQUOTE><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><table border=0 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0 width="95%"><tr><td class=quote><!--/QUOTE--><!--STARTQUOTE-->C...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=250758&reply_id=2155255I was browsing our news the other day, and again encountered something I've seen fairly often. When we have news posts about mobile gaming, particularly &#111;nes mentioning speculation about the growth of mobile gaming, there's invariably a few people who...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=250758&reply_id=2153437Someone just sent this to webmaster@gamedev.net, and I just had to share:<!--QUOTE--><BLOCKQUOTE><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><table border=0 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0 width="95%"><tr><td class=quote><!--/QUOTE--><!--STARTQUOTE-->Hi guys could yo...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=250758&reply_id=2024410Yesterday, I had a meeting with my manager to go over my review feedback for the past six month period. I'm happy to say that I was promoted from Senior to Staff Engineer, with a healthy raise and bonus to go along with it. Yay me.<BR> <BR> Anyway, as a fe...