I could have also named this post “how in god’s name did I not know about this game earlier”.

Rev 10-12 years ago, I used to play this nice Nintendo game called E.V.O.. I absolutely loved this game.

I would start with you (the player) as a small fish trying to eat your way through evolution. You would later get to be a dinosaur….. and so on.That was very nice. I played this game almost half of my life, just like StarCraft…

Fast forward 2008, enter Spore…. oh my god. Actually, what I am talking about… you can be your own god.

And how did I find this game? Browsing SpaceCollective and finding a TED video of Will Wright (part of my pantheon of e-gods) present the game. Just fell into my lap, literally.

If you like Sci-Fi, science, computers and games, you really must see this video of Will Wright describing Spore.

If this is old news for you… you could have told me earlier.

Oh yeah, “Happy new year!”

This week I had the pleasure of reading Brian Tracy’s Eat That Frog!, one of the best productivity shorts I’ve ever read. I’m not that into reading self-help books, but I do enjoy reading short ones on how to improve personal productivity.

The book isn’t fresh (2002 vintage) but it does cover a lot of aspects in a funny way, starting from the title and ending with the chapter quotes.

One example of a funny parallel is the one that gave the book it’s name:
“If the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long!”

You can find it on Amazon (Eat that frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time), I found mine in a mall bookstore I buy my SF books from and managed to read two-three chapters a day on my way to work.

I just found out today that the folks at Blizzard finally decided to publicly announce that they are working on the next version of Starcraft. I mean, that was to be expected, 10 years have passed since Starcraft appeared and it looked like they were never going to give us a sequel.

The good news is that all the wonderful races are still here. The bad news is that the Zerg, Protoss and Teran are alone, no other races have been announced.

The official site has screenshots, movies and information about the next release of Starcraft. The website also hosts an extremely good game trailer, in good old Blizzard style and quality.

I for one can’t wait to play Starcraft II, although I think I’m gonna have to buy a new PC.

The game will be released sometime next year (or so they say) and a beta will be available at the end of this year.

Until then, see you on Battle.net (in the rare occasions when I have time for a quick game).

Finally the weekend! I know it’s Sunday, I just lost one day .
I had a ruff week, not that all my other weeks are all that okay, but this one was a .7 on my “when it’s time to move to another company scale”.

Anyway, last night I thought I’d find a nice way to spend today, so I went out and bought a Tycoon style game – Activision’s “Donald Trump’s Real-Estate Tycoon” that is.

It’s a good game, featuring some of 1999′s best technologies . I recommended it with all my heart because of it’s wonderful gameplay and the nice feeling when you win.

Here’s a screenshot with the game menu:

Tomorrow I’m hitting the workplace again, earlier than usual, to fine-tune the thing that I’ve been working on and put it in production, so wish me luck.

As openclipart.org is down, I am going to publish my clipart here.
All my clipart is released in the Public Domain, so feel free to use it however you find fit. I will of course upload it to OpenClipart after they fix it .

This is an ancient anchor clipart created using Inkscape 0.45, which i really recommend as it’s the best open-source vector graphics editor available on Windows.
Enough with the blabber, here is the clipart.

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If this helped, have a look at some more free anchor clipart.