I really need to go to bed.  I found another mention of the Christian Coders Network on this site.  Only a page with links (including a cool looking site running a Nuke portal -- sorry, haven't perused the content yet), but one of them just so happened to be the Christian Game Developer's Conference 2003.  Christian tech workers unite!

Although it appears to cover more than Christian game programming, the Christian Coders Network site contains information about writing Christian games.

The whole genre always puzzled me.  How do you write entertaining games without pandering the same sex and violence that mainstream games offer?  Where's the captivating concept, the heroic implementor, the effective distribution network, the proper motive, and the desired result?  I hope that there is indeed room for relevant games with Christian themes in today's world.  I hope that there are those out there with the talents that God can use on such works.

Even though older generations may not understand or appreciate the importance of video games to today's youth, there is still a need to explore this arena.  I hope to make this a subject of some research in the future.

China closes over 3,300 cyber cafes. "China has closed down over 3,300 Internet cafes nation-wide during the past six months for safety reasons, a senior Chinese official has said."... [Lockergnome's Bits and Bytes]

What are schemas for?.

• Contracts: agreeing on formats
• Tool building: know what the data will be before the first instance shows up
  • Database integration
  • User interface tools
  • Programming language bindings
• Validation: make sure we got what we expected

Source: Noah Mendelsohn [PPT, page 9] [Sam Ruby]

Goodbye Slashdot.  It was fun.  I'm puzzled over whether I should mourn the loss of such a cool news feed.  Right now, though, I'm freeing up room for some compelling content.  Much more worth my time.  Sam Ruby's on the bubble too.  Validate this and that.  Blah, blah, blah.  I like you Sam, but you haven't really been passing the relevance test for me.  It's not your fault.  It's your blog, isn't it?