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• The Half Life Saga Story Guide
  The Half-Life Saga Story Guide was created in order to provide a concise, accurate, user-friendly overview of the events dealing directly with the events of the Half-Life Saga, allowing users to get a better understanding of the story behind the games.
  (tags: games guide half-life)

• Does-Nothing-o-Matic
  Too much spare time? Try this.
  (tags: video fun)
• A Visual Guide to Version Control
  Version Control (aka Revision Control aka Source Control) lets you track your files over time. Why do you care? So when you mess up you can easily get back to a previous working version.
  (tags: development guide subversion versioncontrol)

I never like it when a computer tells me I have no friends. Get Steam and maybe you can be my friend!

Major Nelson reports on a charity Halo 3 auction, including:

• The entire Halo Trilogy: Two copies of Halo 3 (Legendary Edition and Standard Edition), plus the Halo Triple Pack for Xbox® (Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2 and the Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack)

Hmm, it’s odd that there are two copies of Halo 3 in the auction - perhaps the standard one is included “just in case.”

As for me, I’m not going to get sucked in by the hype; I’m going to go back and finish Half-Life 2 and pick up the Orange Box via Steam in a couple of weeks. Hopefully by then I’ll have fixed my WoW UI after today’s patch as well…

• iTunesDB
  This page details the format of the binary files used on the iPod to keep track of the music it contains as well as its play history.
  (tags: ipod development)
• Pack And Find
  Pack And Find is an easy to use web application that allows you to create a personal inventory online. Never wade through the dust of your storage spaces again without knowing exactly where you are going.
  (tags: house storage)

• WoW Fishing and Cooking Guide
  Some NOOBs don’t realize that Fishing and Cooking are made for one another. If you do one without the other you’ll be wishing you hadn’t later on.
  (tags: worldofwarcraft guide)
• Windows RSS Platform
  The Windows RSS Platform is an API that enables applications to access and manipulate the Common Feed List, a collection of Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds to which the user has subscribed.
  (tags: development .net syndication)

I cycle to work every day and this morning, apparently, I cycled through a tornado in Farnborough.

Hard as nails.

A couple of years ago I made the decision to use MbUnit as my unit testing framework. At the time, NUnit had appeared to be stagnating for quite a while, whereas Peli was regularly pushing MbUnit forward with new features. But to be honest neither framework has really made big strides since then. So I was happy to read about xUnit.net the other day, and even happier to read Andy Stopford’s response reminding us that MbUnit Gallio is still under development (sorry, couldn’t find a decent overview to link to). It’s been talked about for a while, but I think the fact that xUnit.net binaries are already available is going to squeeze some binaries out of the MbUnit Gallio team very soon.

Good luck to both teams, and although I’m sure there’s room for both frameworks (and MSTest I suppose, especially when it’s in Visual Studio Pro) it’s nice to have a bit of competition!

• RPS-101
  A 101-gesture version of Rock-Paper-Scissors. A game so complex, I highly doubt anyone will actually even want to attempt to play it.
  (tags: fun games humour)

• TVTonic
  Using TVTonic is easy. Once you have downloaded and installed the TVTonic software, you simply subscribe to channels via the TVTonic Channel Guide and then kick back and watch.
  (tags: video podcast entertainment vista)