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  • Carcassonne – a great boardgame

    My personal favorites are (board)games which create complexity from simple rules, for example chess, go or FPSs in the virtual world. A boardgame which comes close to this ideal is Carcassonne. The rules can be explained in less than two minutes and it is great fun! See below the recording of a nine hour game:…

  • Freakonomics review

    I know, I know, I’m quite late to the game (Freakonomics was first published in 2005), but I still feel that this book deserves a review. What I like about it the most, is the fact that it tries to teach critical thinking, a thing which is lacking these days. The book provides vivid and…

  • Advanced Windows Debugging review

    Until recently I didn’t do kernel debugging, but recently I’ve toyed around with some code which executes before the the process is in a state which is agreeable for user-mode debuggers. So I borrowed this book from one of my friends (thanks D!) and read trough it. To get the bad stuff straight out of…

  • wpdesigner.com review

    wpdesigner.com is an other blog / resource targeted at WordPress users. It has the usual categories, like webhosting, themes, tips, tutorials and so on. I especially liked the “How to Get Help for WordPress Problems” section, mainly because it starts with “Search Before You Ask” (but the other tips it gives are also good). The…

  • Sunbelt Software VIPRE Antivirus review

    Full disclosure: for several years I worked in the AV industry for a company which can be considered a competitor to Sunbelt Software. However I don’t any more. Sunbelt Software started out as an anti-spyware company, however a few years ago they re-oriented themselves towards the more general anti-malware market, which is a really nice…

  • Selling my soul^H^H^H^H pagerank

    As you might have seen, I’ve published two reviews on my blog for various companies. These reviews were paid for by the respective companies trough ReviewMe. It seems like a good way to make a couple of bucks and it was recommended by a fellow blogger. What I like about their policy is that (a)…

  • glassesshop.com review

    As a snake-eye myself (this is a translation to the usual nickname given to children who wear glasses in Hungarian), I can certainly appreciate the need for an eye-glass which is right for you. They offer both normal glasses and Stylish Prescription Sunglasses. All you have to do is to complete a form with the…

  • flashdealer.com review

    FlashDealer.com offers personalized technology items for a low price. And they are not limited to plastic either! You can choose from wood, leather, aluminium and so on. You can even have USB sticks in all kind of funny shapes. Personalized USB Drive is a great gift for the geek in your life, but it will…

  • Book review: The IDA PRO Book

    Recently I’ve had the pleasure of reading trough “The IDA PRO Book: The Unofficial Guide to the World’s Most Popular Disassembler”. It is a well written book and definitely a “should read” for anyone working with IDA. The book is structured into 26 chapters which cover every aspect of IDA, no matter how exotic :-).…

  • Review: Polymorphic Podcast

    The Polymorphic Podcast is programming related podcast (think polymorphism as in object inheritance) which is somewhat Microsoft centric (.NET, Visual Studio, Silverlight, etc). That doesn’t mean however that there aren’t other technologies. For example the latest version talks about jQuery and managed to surprise me, with the mention of LiveQuery and SelectorGadget. An other interesting…