Earlier today I stopped by a Starbucks in Albany, NY while waiting for my girlfriend’s class to end. Not far from where I sat, a twenty-something-year-old man sat at a table with his Apple laptop, scribbling on some sheets of paper.

Certainly that describes a large percentage of the Starbucks clientele, but I’ll risk it and [...]

If you’ve ever played a Blizzard game, you might know that the data is stored in .mpq, or MoPaQ, files.

Over on Q & Stuff, Justin Olbrantz has posted a nice overview of how the MoPaQ format compares to standard filesystems and archive formats, assessing the pros and cons of each of its tricks. It’s a [...]

If you can get Frets on Fire working on Mac OS X through some voodoo, here’s a tip on how to play with your Guitar Hero III Les Paul controller for Wii:

Grab the latest revision of DarwiinRemote, which lets you map the Wiimote’s buttons to key combos. You’ll want to grab WiiRemote.framework from the same [...]

I won a contest in my Computer Science II course. I’ll admit it though: I cheated.

For a homework assignment, we were given graphs where vertices represented cities and edges were railroads between them. An evader would move between the cities, trying to avoid capture by one or several pursuers; if the evader and a pursuer [...]