Turbine, my employer, and Vivendi Universal, our publisher, are announcing the game I’m working on later today. That’s a relief: it’s nice to be able to tell people what you’re spending your time doing. It’s OK being secret about details of things, but not being able to say what it is that you’re doing at [...]

And we’re off… It’s official, Turbine is working on Middle Earth Online, a massively multiplayer role playing game set in the Lord of the Rings’ Middle Earth. It’s due out in late 2004, so the long wait begins.

I love my Mini Cooper. Is good? Oh, yesssss. And the great thing is that the girls and their carseats fit in the backseat. I drove the girls around all weekend, and they had a good time and I had a blast. The thing is just Too. Much. Fun.

And how I’m currently being tortured to death? I bought a new car, and it arrived yesterday. It’s actually a used car, but only 3k miles on it, so it’s practically new. Mini Cooper S, it is, black with a black roof and grey interior. I got it from a dealership in Connecticuit, and initially [...]