A very interesting piece of information was revealed on last Sunday's episode of Derek Mooney's "Secrets of the Irish Landscape" *. It seems that there was something of a global deluge around 2350 BC. Soil records from Ireland around this time show that farming activity stopped and tree ring records show …

Well, wasn't I pleased to see Half-Life 2 and its episodes show up in Beta form on my "Linux Games" list? From now on, I need never boot up Windows again! Well, okay, that's an exaggeration, I'll still need it for coding games and playing Portal 2 for the moment …

I just found out that Portal 1 seems to have been moved to SteamPipe, and therefore received a GNU/Linux port. This means that Aperture Ireland is closer to having a more efficient install mechanism and the Content Porter is closer to having a more viable replacement. Just a small …

Well, Ubuntu "Raring Ringtail" was released today, so that can only mean one thing: it's Madagascar reference time! Skipper, the commanding penguin, refers to King Julien as "Ringtail", because he is a ring-tailed lemur, and Private, the youngest penguin, once played mini-golf under the name "Mr. Tux". Now, an OS …

Coincident with the second anniversary of Portal 2's release (at least in this timezone!), this blog is finally operational, after ten days in limbo! Around this time, I am starting an unofficial attempt to port Xash3D to GNU/Linux - I find it pretty strange that the actual GoldSrc engine has …