{"id":630,"date":"2004-12-07T22:21:09","date_gmt":"2004-12-08T01:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=630"},"modified":"2004-12-07T22:21:09","modified_gmt":"2004-12-08T01:21:09","slug":"crappy-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=630","title":{"rendered":"Crappy software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>T<\/span>he other day I noticed a couple things when playing the XBOX version of Jedi Academy: first, the game is based on the Unreal-Engine. Secondly, the gameplay is pretty linear. Linear.\n<\/p>\n<p>For example at a certain stage in the game I thought I was stuck.  It only took me a second to find the solution to get me (or rather the character) out of the predicament: I couldn&#8217;t go left, right, forward or backward, <em>so I had to go up<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n<p>The other thing is anti-spyware software. I&#8217;m not going to name names, but there&#8217;s a program out there that does not want to close down using normal means. So much for calling itself &#8216;anti-spyware&#8217; software. It&#8217;s crap.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s good news too. <a href=\"http:\/\/instiki.org\/show\/HomePage\">I like Instiki<\/a> and I&#8217;m using it right now for personal means. I don&#8217;t like the fact that it&#8217;s a <a href=\"www.ruby-lang.org\/en\/\">Ruby application<\/a>, but I predict a grand future for the wiki. I can only hope.\n<\/p>\n<p>Also, I&#8217;m impressed with <a href=\"freemind.sourceforge.net\/\">FreeMind<\/a>. I can&#8217;t stand Java, but I do like FreeMind. Sure it&#8217;s a bit of a Java-blend-like, but it suits the needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I noticed a couple things when playing the XBOX version of Jedi Academy: first, the game is based on the Unreal-Engine. Secondly, the gameplay is pretty linear. Linear. For example at a certain stage in the game &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=630\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}