Technology Kills The life and times of Ben McClure

24Apr/090

Portland, the city of weirdness

Well, my girlfriend and I finished our move to Portland, OR. So far we're having a great time in the and exploring around the neighborhood.

Now that I'm back at work again, and actually working from the office, I'm anxious for the weekend to get here. I have a lot of work to finish up.

FOMS (The Fallout 3 Mod ) is being rewritten, as I've said, and as a I'm working on completing my in AutoHotKey. Expect that next week, and hopefully a new FOMS version shortly thereafter.

After that, and several other currently in-development AHK classes, hopefully my heavily-neglected and SteamLab rewrites will be underway.

Look for more news about that soon.

10Feb/090

FOMS – Fallout 3 Mod Sorter

I have recently released an AutoHotKey utility for Fallout 3 called FOMS (Fallout 3 Mod ).

Links:
FOMS on Fallout3Nexus
FOMS Wiki
FOMS Trac site (Development and bug tracking)
FOMS Source Code (SVN)

Current major beta release is 0.5.0, which support mod sorting, and dependency tracking and resolution, user messages, backups, and more.

Coming soon: GUI and tray features, a Backup manager and Template manager, and more!

24Oct/080

Forthcoming reviews at PC GameSource

In the coming days, I will be reviewing a number of games in detail over at PC Gamesource.

Though the site is still heavily under construction, I think it's important I get my thoughts down. The data will still be there when the site is up in its full cakePHP-powered glory soon.

A few of the games you can expect to see reviewed by me in the coming days:

I'm already part-way through both and Far Cry 2, and will report my findings ASAP. Exodus from the Earth is released today, so depending on how long that takes to complete, I will post that review soon as well. Fallout 3 is due out on the 28th of this month, which is only four days away!
And don't forget; in less than a month, expect a full review of Left 4 Dead, the upcomingÂ