If I’ve been quiet, it’s because I’ve been busy with Pugsley, our rescue boxer. Oh, and work has kept me busy too.

I bought three books which arrived today: Game Programming Golden Rules and Massively Multiplayer Game Development volumes 1 and 2. I’ve been reading Thor Alexander’s blog and decided the books would be a worthwhile purchase. I haven’t had time to do more than glance through each, but I’ve already found exciting and new (to me) ideas (my favorite: ephemeral channels for movement messages in MMOs to cut down on bandwidth utilization). The social and design articles are intriguing and I keep wanting to point my wife to articles and graphs–she’d like to talk about dog collars and obedience classes.