Misc

Minor thing, but I switched the search box here on the site from a blog-only search box to one of the Google ones, so that you can search the entire site, blog posts included. I keep seeing search results that are looking for things that are actually on pages in the Gaming section.

You’ll have to set the radio button to search this site only if you want to confine your search to here, but in my tests it’s picked up everything in the blog as well as elsewhere on the site.

Every year, an army of Boy and Girl Scouts descend upon the nation’s military cemeteries and plant one flag in front of every headstone. This morning, my kids did this at Cabrillo National Monument on Point Loma here in San Diego. There are 85,000 flags to place, and there are enough kids that it takes about an hour to do all the gravesites.

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It’s been ages, so it’s time for all you new readers to go add yourselves to the map.

I haven’t seen either of these, but I hear

• the May issue of Computer Games Magazine had some of the debate on instancing that went around the blogosphere a few months ago; apparently Brad McQuaid and my reply are featured; and
• the May issue of Game Developer has an article on self-promotion in the game industry that features a screenshot of this blog. No idea if it is a good or bad example. 😉 Scott Jennings tells me he gets around 5000 unique visitors a day, which means they should have had a screenshot of his blog instead!