Thinking about Pluggedout Blog
A few years ago Pluggedout was popular, not as a blogging site but as the home of an open source development project known as Pluggedout Blog.
This was a time when wordpress did not have quite the market share it does today and pluggedout was at least to me, a shining beacon of a well thought out application. I loved it’s look, it’s simplicity, the templating engine - pretty much everything about it.
Sadly, as time went
Racing around Google Maps with Real world racer
Many years ago I was insistant that it would be great to have a racing game where you choose your start and finish on a real map and thats the route you race (it would also have live traffic to avoid from satelite).
This idea became more of a reality with Metropolis Street Racer on the Sega Dreamcast, it allowed you to drive around a few of the worlds capital citys, if you completed it