Site Archives for April 2008


Sunburned at a Chess Tournament

Posted on April 14th, 2008

Well, this certainly isn't something that happens all that often, but after spending all day at a chess tournament (at Wellington Elementary in Woodinville) on Saturday, I ended up with a sunburn on my face and arms! It turned out to be a really nice day, which was good, since the waiting area for p […]

Another chess tournament this weekend, last one before the state championship

Posted on April 12th, 2008

A new father-son activity for Connor and me […]

Sidebar Gadgets for Channel 9, Channel 8 and more

Posted on April 4th, 2008

We recently had Donovan West (LiveGadgets.net) build us a set of sidebar gadgets for Windows Vista. These gadgets use the RSS feeds from each site and let you see all of our new content as it gets posted, then (using Silverlight) you can even play our videos right there on your desktop.   Yo […]

Using my Xbox Live data service?

Posted on April 4th, 2008

If you've written an app, private or public, using my data feed of Xbox live info I'd really appreciate it if you'd let me know. This isn't a required 'sign-up', but I want to start to keep track so that I could possibly create a page listing all the sites using it, and it may also be useful to be a […]

New Xbox Friends Gadget released and a Silverlight Gamercard Generator

Posted on April 3rd, 2008

Adam Kinney, Silverlight dude and my colleague at work, has released an updated version of his Xbox Friends Watch gadget and a new standalone gamercard gadget for your website that uses Silverlight 2.0. […]