Zombies, Everything Zombies

Zombies are becoming everywhere.
We've already had zombie movies.
Zombie video games, sure.
But now...
So many zombie movies have come out, that they've made parodies of them - Shaun of the Dead for example.
Video games are adding zombies, even when it doesn't really fit - see the picture of the Call of Duty Black Ops main menu.
Even anime is tending more towards zombies (and fanservice, as always), with the recent, summer 2010, Highschool of the Dead.
Spring 2011, there's an anime airing called "Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?" or in English "Is it a Zombie?"

I see two possible routes.  In a few years, we get tired of zombies, and the fad dies out.
Or, I fear, it becomes more and more popular, and it's just a matter of time before a "Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha vs. Zombies" movie comes out.

Another semester of game design completed

I'm not sure if the best version of the game is on the website currently, but here's the website: http://bionicblock.ranzhao.com/
(many titles, my favorites are UnBlockable and Grand Theft Block)

If you get the game, there is little guarantee that you will be able to play it, feel free to contact me directly if you have any difficulties with it, or if the music sounds odd (there might be a glitch with it), or if you wish to make your own levels/edit the levels, for some reason.

This was a tough semester.  I'd describe our game as:
A train wreck that fell off the tracks and onto another set of tracks which happened to head to the same destination.

Well, there's a few problems here and there, but overall I believe it's a very playable game (though a bit difficult).

AutoHotKey

AutoHotKey is an excellent free windows only program, and I would highly recommend it to the somewhat tech-savvy people who have windows.

Using it, and some online help http://www.autohotkey.com/, you can effectively make anything do anything.  This is a slight exaggeration, but the tool is very simple and very, very effective.  If you are on a desktop, and you have extra keys which you never use, like me (pause/break key, what is it even supposed to do?), then this is perfect for you.

All you need to do is keep one script running in the background (it doesn't take up much cpu) and you can have as many hotkeys as you want.  Alternatively, you can make scripts that just perform a series of actions when run but don't actually use a hotkey to trigger.  I use both types (the second one for automating tasks, such as a series of repetitive Photoshop functions).

I listen to music; I keep it all in one folder.  If I press scroll lock, it plays my music, this makes me happy.
ctrl+shift+w checks the weather, it is quite handy.
I don't use the numpad; setting the numpad + and - keys to increase and decrease the system sound is easy.
These are just a few hotkeys that I made myself.  If you look around on the internet, people have made much more impressive scripts which you can download and use for yourself.  For example, I got one that makes it so that a controller (such as a wired xbox 360 controller) can control the mouse.

You can also use it for much simpler ways of speeding up tasks.
I have it set so that pressing just 2 keypresses will type in "t/give stickfight2 " and anyone who's played minecraft with me should recognize that.

It is handy, it is easy, I don't know why more people don't use it.  Also, please feel free to contact me if you want some pointers on how to get started.