Travelogue

All i will say is it was an amazing trip :) We had a blast and I managed to get some nice snaps:)

For details and snaps read my wife's blog :)

Yea I have been lazy to update this blog. Quite a few things happened over the last couple of weeks.. We went to a wine and art festival here in Santa clara (nothing extraordinary) and a few snaps that I took at the festival can be seen here. Also while trying to install my new motherboard/graphics card I managed to slice my finger badly which converted me into a one hand typist for a week or so and still a 9 finger typist. Will take a couple more days before my finger heals fully!. In the meanwhile I am being pampered and spoilt by my wife:)). But I did manage to get the motherboard/graphics card installed and now I have a brand new flashy ATI 2600 XT 512 MB graphics card on my machine.

But the reward for the effort of building a new box( playing Supreme Commander) will have to wait as I am still trying to get a cheap copy of windows:)...I am not willing to pay 200$ for Windows! especially when ubuntu works for almost everything else that I do and is free!. The only reason to use windows for me is to play games:p and use the damn webcam as enabling video4linux requires a kernel rebuild which I am lazy to do.

But in the meantime, I have explored a lot of linux gaming options and may I say linux as a platform is ready! its the damn game developers who need to get their act together and release linux clients. Guild Wars runs smoothly under wine except for the fact that it has to be run in DirectX8 mode and with no shaders. The other free games that I explored include Regnum Online , Planeshift and recently Savage: The battle for Newerth. The problem with all the free games is as always content. Technologically they are close to commercial games but the gameplay gets boring really fast due to lack of interesting content. As a result I am just going to play a bit of Guildwars till I can get a windows license.

On the War of the cubes:) I haven't made much progress. I need to get back to it and now that my new box is ready and I still don't have any games to play so its time to get back to development. Also I have been meaning to process more of our San Diego trip pictures and hopefully I will get around to it now and upload more of them.

Thats about it for now! hopefully I will update this blog soon with some War of the cubes news:)

A forward I came across on bangaloreshutterbugs rather hilarious:) more behind the cut.