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![<div class='d-flex align-items-center'><img class='media-img mr-2' src='https://uploads.gamedev.net/profile/photo-15.png'><div class='d-flex flex-column justify-content-between align-items-start' <h4 class='text-white'>johnhattan</h4><div><i class='fas fa-heart mr-1'></i>2354</div><div>Joined June 15, 1999</div></div></div> Profile](https://uploads.gamedev.net/profile/photo-15.png)
Imparting game development wisdom of dubious quality a ridiculously long time.
![My fave fonts](https://uploads.gamedev.net/profile/photo-15.png)
Today it's fonts. As you can see from my games, I don't like to get too flowery with my fonts. A couple of the games (Pop Pies, Double Twel…
![Sumo Urban Lounge Gear!](http://members.gamedev.net/johnhattan/reviews/sumo/sumo1.png)
A while back you might remember that I posted a review of a Razer mousepad and headphones. . .I mean "Destructor" and "Piranha" (gotta love Razer's marketing department). I also mentioned that I'd be posting reviews to the Bargain Basement Blog of fun gadgets that weren't necessarily gaming related…
![Retro Games Build](https://uploads.gamedev.net/profile/photo-15.png)
It took a bit of doing, because everything dated to 2001. The underlying class library (a pre-Sun-acquisition version of the OpenO…
![new coverage is up](https://uploads.gamedev.net/profile/photo-15.png)
![Act now!](https://uploads.gamedev.net/profile/photo-15.png)
It's Edraw Max, and it's one of those flowchart-diagramming tools, not unlike ConceptDraw or Visio 2007. To quote one of the comments, "this is what Visio 2007 should have been". It does all kinds of diagrams and has built-i…
![Got an interesting situation](https://uploads.gamedev.net/profile/photo-15.png)
![New machine install fun fun fun](https://uploads.gamedev.net/profile/photo-15.png)
Sorry, but I ain't putting up 30 URL's. I'm far too l…
![Friday update](http://members.gamedev.net/johnhattan/diary/spongebob.jpg)
Back from Casual Connect last week. Most of the coverage is written. I plan to hand most of it off to Drew today. Hopefully he can start cobbling it together into something resembling coverage so it can get posted next week.
Until then, here's a preview of us be…
![Update on the wide world of me](https://uploads.gamedev.net/profile/photo-15.png)
I'm going in a dozen directions here. I promise to give you more details on my life as I can, and this time I really mean it.
1. I'm spending most of my time on the top-secret-uber-important-project-that's-name-cannot-be-spoken. And the security is really high and you'll ne…
![Stay away from my Y2K beans.](https://uploads.gamedev.net/profile/photo-15.png)
![me gently ushers you](http://members.gamedev.net/johnhattan/theprize.jpg)
And don't suck up to me by posting a link to one of my reviews. They're completely useless…
![Memory and my personal conspiracy theory](https://uploads.gamedev.net/profile/photo-15.png)
I remember the old 386MAX/QEMM days. Those were apps that…
![Let the language war begin](https://uploads.gamedev.net/profile/photo-15.png)
C
C++
C or C++ (which is better)
Assembly
Pascal
Visual Basic
Java
Authoring Tools (Flash,…
![Yeah I'm still here](http://members.gamedev.net/johnhattan/diary/bb_ja.png)
And I gotta write a blog. Thus-far, I've been more f…
![We are widgetized!](https://uploads.gamedev.net/profile/photo-15.png)
![Freebie anyway](https://uploads.gamedev.net/profile/photo-15.png)
![Reviewing the reviews](https://uploads.gamedev.net/profile/photo-15.png)
And apart f…
![Razer Reviews](http://members.gamedev.net/johnhattan/reviews/razerpiranha.png)
I'm trying something a little different here.
You see, I get lots of products to review. And I'm loath to turn anything down, and that's for two reasons:
1. I actually rather like writing reviews. It keeps me from living under a bridge, and it keeps my writing skills sharp.
2. I like stuff.
Problem is,…
![I gots invitations](https://uploads.gamedev.net/profile/photo-15.png)
![Full moons!](https://uploads.gamedev.net/profile/photo-15.png)
About 6.5 years ago, Shelly and I were doing the "getting ready to make a baby" shtick, and we toured the babymaking ward of our local hospital to see all the rooms and the check-in procedure and all the i…
![Big News - Duck Tiles is now free!](https://uploads.gamedev.net/profile/photo-15.png)
As it stands, not all 216 levels are currently available. Like B…
![Friday Freebie Fest](https://uploads.gamedev.net/profile/photo-15.png)
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First up is free science fiction books! Well, not really books per-se, but Tor, the science fiction division of McMillan publishers, is giving away fre…
![I'm all a-twitter](https://uploads.gamedev.net/profile/photo-15.png)
If you're one of the millions who worship me and live vicariously through me and cannot go 24 hours without immersing yourself in the wonder that is me, then you can keep up with …
![New article is up](https://uploads.gamedev.net/profile/photo-15.png)
And here's the first review from that new schedule. It's the Chumby, which is an adorable little lumpy thing that displays widgets.
https://www.game…
![ordered the video card](https://uploads.gamedev.net/profile/photo-15.png)
1. nVidia 8800 video card = $190 - $30 rebate
2. Microsoft Windows OneCare = $30 - $30 reb…
![Machine build update](https://uploads.gamedev.net/profile/photo-15.png)
So I'm gonna review it. I…
![Building a new machine](https://uploads.gamedev.net/profile/photo-15.png)
Actually a little background. Shelly's the official AutoCAD witch around here. And the projects she does on AutoCAD (actually Civil 3D, which is a special super-extended version for Civil Engineering) are absolutely enormous. And they take up gobs o…
![Logo results](http://members.gamedev.net/johnhattan/logo/ukdm1.png)
While it's clearly just my little clipart spaceship with the border removed, I do like the big concentric circles in the back. Gives it a bit of a kitschy "outer…
![Rebooting the contest](https://uploads.gamedev.net/profile/photo-15.png)
And I'm rather at a crossroads about the whole thing. There wasn't an entry in the contest…
![Reminder](https://uploads.gamedev.net/profile/photo-15.png)
Just a reminder, I'm looking for cleverness more than just technical skill. If this is something you can initially rough out and can make an improved version later, then do so.
Also if you've already entered and you want to enter another one, feel free.
Shelly's on the last da…