{"id":286,"date":"2009-02-27T09:43:27","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T14:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/?p=286"},"modified":"2009-02-27T09:43:27","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T14:43:27","slug":"playing-in-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/2009\/playing-in-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing in the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-287\" title=\"mirrors_edge_2d\" src=\"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/mirrors_edge_2d.jpg\" alt=\"mirrors_edge_2d\" width=\"436\" height=\"291\" \/>There has been lots of talk lately about &#8220;the cloud&#8221; &#8211; I was a little taken aback by this blog posting from Google which <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/rowboat-and-cloud.html\">implied that Google is <strong>the<\/strong> cloud<\/a>.\u00a0 Pat also <a href=\"http:\/\/pmuellr.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/web-ui-progress.html\">recently posted about web UIs<\/a> that I&#8217;d recommend people check out.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been keeping an eye on some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2007\/11\/06\/phoenix-technologies-launches-hyperspace-instant-on-embedded-o\/\">instant on OSes,<\/a> and it turns out a friend of mine is involved with one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simtone.net\/\">companies offering a cloud solution<\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll admit that the cloud concept is very cool &#8211; but what I really want is to host my own cloud (and yes, that does seem a bit backward).<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s get back to what computers are good at &#8211; entertaining us.\u00a0 If you haven&#8217;t seen this yet, you need to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirrorsedge2d.com\/\">mirrorsedge2d.com<\/a> &#8211; a pretty neat flash based game that is a 2D take on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mirrors_edge\">Mirrors Edge<\/a>.\u00a0 It only take about 30mins of toying around to exhaust the content on the beta site right now, but if you enjoy 2d platformer games this will hook you.<\/p>\n<p>The other night my internet connection was down for about 30 minutes.\u00a0 How annoying will that be once all our data is in the cloud?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been lots of talk lately about &#8220;the cloud&#8221; &#8211; I was a little taken aback by this blog posting from Google which implied that Google is the cloud.\u00a0 Pat also recently posted about web UIs that I&#8217;d recommend people check out.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been keeping an eye on some of the instant on OSes, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/2009\/playing-in-the-cloud\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Playing in the Cloud&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-culture","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}