Duke Nukem Watch: New Trailer Posted - End Times Imminent

And, lo, I beheld 3D Realms opening the sixth seal, unleashing Duke Nukem unto the Internet...

Incredibly enough, 3D Realms has finally released evidence that we may see DNF completed before the heat death of the universe sets in. The video above links to a mirror on YouTube, but links to downloadable versions are available on 3D Realms website.

Original voice actor Jon St. John returns to reprise his role as Duke as does the original theme music.

Ol' Duke is eloquent as ever... "I'm lookin' for some alien toilet to park my bricks! Who's first?"

Thanks to The Sixth Axis for mirroring this to YouTube.

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Duke Nukem Watch: Duke Nukem Forever Trailer Releasing Tomorrow

Hail to the King, baby!

In what may be a sign of the apocalypse, shacknews.com (via Digg) is reporting that a trailer for the looooooog-awaited Duke Nukem Forever will be made available. The screenshot you see above is allegedly from the trailer.

DNF, one of the most prominent examples of vaporware in the games industry, has been in development for over *10 years*.

Being a big Duke fan, I can only hope that this is true, but after so long it's difficult to get excited about it... at least yet.

Ok, 3D Realms, put your money where your mouth is. Let's see the goods. As Duke would say, "It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum... and I'm all outta gum..."


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Happy Holidays!

Just a quick hello to say Happy Holidays to everyone.

Between work, elections, soccer and karate for the kids, work, *more* work, etc, I've dropped out of sight for a while. I'm hoping the New Year will end up being a little less hectic.

Looks like its shaping up to be a decent winter. Usually snow doesn't stay on the ground for more than a day or two, but we've had it now for the better part of a week. Hopefully we'll have a white Christmas for once.

Apple (finally) releases the iPhone

Well, it's finally here. The geek toy everyone's been waiting for, the Apple iPhone.

I gotta admit, this thing looks sexy. Flat screen, on-screen keypad, iPod capabilities, etc. I only hope it doesn't scratch as quickly as the average iPod.

While I'm not an Apple fanboy, I like a lot of the things they've done of late. I absolutely *love* my 30GB 5G iPod Video. And after looking at the latest Macs at the Apple Store in Denver I'd be seriously tempted to buy one were it not for me supporting Windows systems on a daily basis.

Despite this, I won't be buying an iPhone any time soon - two reasons:

1. $500 to $600 plus a mandatory two-year contract is *insane*.
2. Lack of provider choice - you get to deal with the singularity of suck (or should that be "cingularity" ;-) that is AT&T.

Sigh... I guess I'll just stick with my Blackberry...

Know Your Latin

Ever wanted to sound important? How about understand someone who does?

Neatorama has done a piece about famous Latin phrases and their meanings. Despite it being a "dead" language, we frequently hear Latin phrases in everyday conversation.

Of course, let's not forget my favorite pseudo-Latin phrase illegitimi non carborundum, which means "don't let the bastards grind you down"...

Another day, another dollar - server upgrade complete

Well, I finally got our general file/mail/list/web server updated to Fedora 7. I've been using Fedora for a while, and Red Hat before that. I've been interested in poking around with Ubuntu, as it looks pretty cool, but I keep coming back to Fedora for my production stuff.

It looks like I'm finally doing something useful with all this stuff. I've been running a mailing list on Mailman for the referee staff of our AYSO region, and now I've been asked by a friend to host a website for his mayoral campaign. Weeee!

My next project is to set up some forums using phpBB for both virtualoak.net and my friend's campaign (if he chooses to do so). I'll let you know once I get them online if you have an interest in playing along.

Blackberries Rock!

I've used a PDA for some time now - started with a Palm III and eventually got a Pocket PC.

Well, I just switched to Blackberry this month.

Serious pwnage.

As long as I've been in this industry I never realized how handy it was to have Internet access in my pocket, so I've been a bit of a holdout. No more though.

Now if I can just put the damn thing down...