Gord runs a videogame shop. Gord is to retail sales as the BOFH is to the IT field. Gord is Canadian, so it carries the surreal (to an American) not-american-but-close feel like BOFH.

The Book of Gord!

My favorite entry:

The Book of Wrath
Chapter 3

Don't Touch! Its Dangerous!

Once upon a time Gord ha…

The Austin Game Conference was great. I met some of the gamedev.net "crew" at the booth and panels, and I made a metric ton of contacts. Not to mention learned a lot that directly applies to what I'm doing.

I think I spent a whole $650 on travel, hotel, and con badge (I drove)- not a huge investme…

Never write a manifesto spelling out exactly what you want.

Especially if what you want involves software. You end up writing it yourself.

If you take a look at the Engine Manifesto that I wrote about this time last year, updated once or twice, and cleaned up for the public, you will notice that I d…

I'm one of those people who just gets facinated with ideas; especially when they're stated well and put into some sort of context. As such, the content of Nerd TV is usually especially interesting to me.

I thought it would be a good idea to watch the latest episode whilst I wrote up some XML DTDs f…

Writing a single blog/journal/whathaveyou and participating in the community around it takes a lot of my precious time. So much so, I occasionally don't update it for months, thus shaming me into spending 90 minutes composing a really good update.

Welcome, hapless journal readers, to my second blog…