Just looking through our Apache server logs… Ivory has been downloaded 10,000 times in the last 24 hours alone (and it’s been almost 3 days since we made it onto Apple’s software site). It’s only October 4th and we’ve blown through 75% of our bandwidth for the month. Trying to quickly figure out what to upgrade our hosting package to in order to avoid disaster. Stay tuned, it’s quite possible that all of our sites may go down tomorrow, including this one.

We submitted our 1.0.0 release of Ivory to Apple this week, and lo and behold here it is!

What the hell is Apple doing?

EA Games is one of the worst game developers out there when it comes to DRM (and treating their employees well too, from what I hear). Their new much talked about game Spore is the latest victim in their DRM rampage—if you install the game more than 3 times it renders the install CDs useless. Think that deterred the pirates? Think again.

“There are two types of gamers - paying customers, and pirates. No matter what kind of security measures a company puts on softwares, the pirates will pirate, and the paying customers will pay. There really is very little swing to this. There may be a few iffy people who go, “Meh, it’s unhackable and I really want to play. I’ll buy it. ” But very, very, rarely. And, it doesn’t even matter now because Spore is cracked anyway. Pirates win.”

Congratulations to Kevin and Jane on the birth of their beautiful baby girl, Caia Jane Broome!

Thanks for the $100 Gord! Way to make a pathetic token effort!

Retro gaming on real backgrounds. Cool.

What the hell is going on in our airports? You can’t even wear a Transformers t-shirt or a pistol pendant without fearing arrest. Is this what we think is reasonable screening? And are terrorists wearing Megatron t-shirts or pistol pendants? And can I manage one more gratuitous question mark in this post?

A quick shout out to Becca, who linked to me the other day from her blog. Becca just may be my dark-haired blue-eyed long lost sister, if nerdery is genetic. 

Him name is hopkin green frog.