Griffin Eternal! Heroes of Might and Magic V
When Heroes of Might and Magic V came out, Heroes fans had one question in their minds: will the game suck?
Author Archive for Jonathan Moeller
Jonathan Moeller is a help desk tech and freelance writer from Minnesota. He's written "Demonsouled" from Gale/Five Star, which was Amazon.com's #1 Early Adopter Item in Science Fiction and Fantasy for May 2005, "Worlds to Conquer", forthcoming from Mundania Press in August 2006, numerous short stories, and a few nonfiction articles.
Mobile Browsing: A Guide To Self-Inflicted Eyestrain
Recently, I had to spend a great deal of time configuring a number of PDAs, and soon came to loathe them wholeheartedly. A PDAs screen combines all the fun of tiny print with the thrill of a harshly-glowing screen. A stylus is great for menu navigation, but pecking a long URL into the pop-up keyboard [...]
Jun 22, 2006 | 2 comments | View Post
Windows Vista – Fatal Flop?
Windows Vista Beta 2 has come out, leading to much fevered speculation about its prospects, but predicting the future is still a fools game.
Jun 15, 2006 | 13 comments | View Post
Killing Hard Drives For Fun And Profit
Your hard drive is out to get you.
iPod Nano? No! (Part 2 of 2)
So last week we discussed the iPod nano, and why I didnt like it.
(We also learned that some folks are VERY attached to their iPods, to the point of flying into hysterics at any criticism. This is either loyalty to a quality product, or the result of incredibly effective brainwash-style marketing. But well set aside [...]
Jun 01, 2006 | 7 comments | View Post
iPod nano? No! (part 1 of 2)
So I bought a black iPod nano, and regretted it right away.
May 25, 2006 | 12 comments | View Post
Planescape: Torment – “What can change the nature of a man?”
Modern computer games are a narrative wasteland.
Oh, there are exceptions, I know. But nowadays most games emphasize better graphics, faster, more frenetic, gameplay, and a healthy dose of the old ultraviolence, to quote Anthony Burgess. An actual storyline more complex than kill the badguy has gone the way of the dodo and OS/2.
But a brilliant [...]
May 18, 2006 | 13 comments | View Post
Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2: Wreck or Wonder?
The Second Browser War
Microsofts Internet Explorer 6.0 reigned supreme at the beginning of the 21st century, its rival Netscape crushed, the Browser Wars of the 1990s over. The Evil Empire had won, to the dismay of Microsofts rivals. With Netscape gone, and most Macintosh users running IE for the Mac, IE had no serious competition [...]
