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Happy 21st Birthday id Software

It's that time again! The good news is that the company is still intact and working on projects (DOOM 4 for sure). The bad news is that id laid-off a batch of people earlier in January, probably because they didn't need 100 people to sit on a brand-new team. Also, it's unfortunate that this birthday hasn't been recognized anywhere, not even on [...]

Making Mail.app Act Like Gmail

I use GMail a lot, and love the Archive feature. The problem is that when I use Mail.app on my iMac it doesn't have an Archive button or Archive the messages when I delete them. It actually DELETES THEM, which is not what I want. So, I figured out how to do this in a real easy way. In Mail.app: 1) Near the bottom, expand your GMail [...]

Unintended Acceleration

I was reading CNN today and there was a story about a guy whose Toyota randomly started accelerating and he crashed into two cars at 70mph. This was back in 2006 before all the recent Toyota issues. The man has finally been freed as the court found it wasn't his fault. It brought back the memory of how the same thing happened to me back in 1991 [...]

WordPress Hacked

My Wordpress install got hacked a week or more ago, and I couldn't work on figuring it out until tonight. Well, it looks like some hacker found out my wp-config.php file had some bad permissions set and he inserted some code in there that basically scanned every php file on my site and injected every php file with code that will redirect users to [...]

Surprise

I just randomly found this site while searching for a different one, LOL. Also, someone alerted me to this website that lists my site as #10 of the top English language sites in the .ro domain.

A Visit to id Software, 1993

A Visit to id Software from john romero on Vimeo. Joe Siegler IM'd me a couple weeks ago and said he found a VHS tape that had some DOOM footage on it before its release and if I didn't want it he was gonna throw it out. I said, "Send it to me immediately." So now I finally got it, ripped it to digital and then used iMovie to present it [...]