Woke up this morning

and it was AWESOME. I went to check my Reader for the AWESOME feeds I subscribe to, and found two particularly AWESOME pieces of news:

• The Comics Code Authority is dead! Archie Comics, the last major publisher to announce that they are no longer participating with the CCA... has announced they are no longer participating with the CCA. Take that, government censorship!
• Sodium thiopental, the chemical used to institutionally kill people because an eye for an eye is what America is all about, is subject to a shortage. The only producer in the US essentially gave up because it's illegal in Italy and they'd like to continue their operations in Italy and certainly not because they have souls. Pharmaceutical companies have a lot of things, but not souls.
• Of course, this is very not awesome for people who need it for medical treatment. Not that we could trust the government to have it around until murder is illegal even for the man.
• This wasn't on my news feeds, but cool nonetheless: I remembered a bunch of Spanish all of a sudden. My Spanish is still awful, but now I can say things like ¡hace tres dias que lavarme, fue muy sucio! without having to use Google Translate!

Surely, this will set the tone for the rest of the day being FREAKIN SWEET.

creo que mi dia sera muy bien

Until next post,

Tengo un perro,

GO AWESOME IT UP!!!

¡taquitos!

Reader Returns!

Google is putting the Reader link back on the GMail screen!  No doubt this is a direct result of my vocal opposition to the move, of course.

Fear not: Whether you be casual fan or a stark-raving-mad stalker, I will ALWAYS be there to protect the RSS reader through which you get your daily recommended dosage of my awesome awesomeness.

ENJOY THE RSS FEEDS, AND MERRY CHRISTMAS

Google Reader moved?

Anybody else notice that Google has moved Reader into the "more" menu at the top of the GMail screen?

Something I've noticed after a few years of using the internet: Everything becomes exponentially more of a pain to access for each click it takes to reach it. You could even call it rule #1 of Clyde's Awesome Rulebook of Interface Design Rules and Guidelines That Should Be Taken As Seriously As Rules.

Two other noteworthy things that were/became a pain to access:

• Google Wave: You had two choices here, dig through a menu to find it or type in "wave.google.com"
• This resulted in significantly fewer people even knowing about the service.
• Google then ceased development on a service because nobody was using it, which was because Google was essentially hiding it.
• Facebook's logout button
• Seriously, Facebook. What brilliant person thought it was a good idea to hide the logout button in a menu? The whole idea of having a drop-down menu is so you can hide some features and make the space less cluttered so you can find more important things quicker. Important things such as the logout button. Good job promoting account security there, Facebook.

Moral of the story: Drop-down menus are a shitty artifact of when computer screens had shitty resolution, and should be used sparingly. By sparingly, I mean about as sparingly as you should spread arsenic on a piece of toast.

New games section!

Hello screaming adoring fans who have no doubt been waiting on the very edge of your seats for me to utter another awesome word!

I have added a new section devoted to my game development activities. It's actually a separate blog, because all this excellence is too much for one domain name. The Games link at the top of this blog will take you to the Secret Games Lair. There I'll be posting all things game-developy.