BrokenBlog

I reviewed a boatload of Linux media players a few weeks ago and the consensus was they all either lack key features, or were meant for KDE.

Anyway, I started following Banshee, which I had tried before but left me unimpressed. Recently though, the Banshee people went all out in improving the player for its 1.0 release. It’s got everything I need, except a file browser, but it’s odd little file system queue feature does the trick. It looks fantastic, and most of its unnecessary features can be disabled because they’re plugins.

They’ve just officially released Banshee 1.0 yesterday. Unless you’re perfectly content with Amarok, try Banshee, it’s probably better than what you’re using.

I’ve been running brokenfunction.com for four years now. Time flies.

My family didn’t really get a computer until 1999. It had Windows 98 and it was beautiful. I’ve come quite a way in less than 10 years I think. There was another computer though from my early childhood, and when I accidentally stumbled upon this page I instantly recognized it.

The IBM PC AT.

That computer is older than I am! I can still remember the incessent grinding it made whenever it accessed the disk, and the silly educational games I would sometimes play on it. I wish I had some cool programmer stories about figuring out how to program on the thing, but I don’t. And to be honest, I’m pretty sure I was more into my Super Nintendo at the time.

About two years ago this guy named Paul Robertson made a 12-minute film of a video game that didn’t exist. It was Pirate Baby’s Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006 and it was good.

Now, after all these years of waiting, he’s released a trailer of sorts for a game that, quite like his previous film, does not in fact exist. It’s Kings of Power 4 Billion %. This one is a lot more ridiculous, but tons of fun in a violent seizure-inducing way.