Section: Blogs

Windows Live Writer is a spammer!!

Sep 11, 2006 1 min.

I think we have a real design flaw here… one of those ‘neat ideas on your dev box’ that maybe shouldn’t have really been implemented. Check out this Technorati search for Temporary Post Used For Style Detection to see what I’m talking about. It isn’t even something I get a choice about (every time I go to a different machine and configure my blog, I get a test post…). For more on the Window Live Writer, check out this video on on10.

Pageviews are Obsolete

Sep 11, 2006 1 min.

For quite some time I’ve thought Pageviews were a mostly useless number to be tracking for any web site. This was very clear at MSDN, where such stats are tracked very carefully… spreadsheets are created… charts are made… and yet, none of us really believed in the Pageview #s. Instead we used to focus more on unique visitors or an odd calculated value we called unique page views (not everyone’s definition of that # is the same, but suffice it to say that is an attempt to more accurately represent real site visits by real people).

Chromehounds on the Xbox 360 has consumed my free time!

Sep 9, 2006 1 min.

As I’ve mentioned before, I have a Gamefly subscription and I get new games every few weeks… a great way to play a lot of games without the risk of paying $60 for a stinker (OverG Fighters for example… oh so happy I rented that instead of buying). Anyway, my most recent game is Chromehounds and I’m really enjoying it. It plays way more ‘real’ than a game like MechAssault, but isn’t attempting to be a simulator and force you to control all the details a real mech would need dealt with.

WPF/Avalon seems so easy, it might be time for me to try it out :)

Sep 6, 2006 1 min.

I was browsing on www.xamlog.com and I found this tutorial on “Reflection using Visual Brush and Opacity Mask”, which shows you how to produce this effect: with very little code/markup. Hmm… now that I finally have Vista up and running, it might be worth giving it a try.

Spam is out of control on my blog

Sep 6, 2006 1 min.

Not that it affects you, the reader, all that much… but I’m getting around 9000 spam comments a day now. It is crazy. I’d add code to avoid them, but I’m just finishing up a move to some new blog software that Adam and I wrote (you can see it running on Adam’s site already) and I don’t really want to spend any more time in the .Text code base…

Web-only episodes of Battlestar Galatica?

Sep 6, 2006 1 min.

This is crazy, I watch SciFi channel all the time and I never saw an ad for this! (of course, I skip all the commercials 🙁 ) Click here for episode details about some web only episodes that supposedly bridge the gap between the last season and this one.

Documentary coming about MC Frontalot

Aug 31, 2006 1 min.

And the general geek-focused music world in general I suspect… but I only see Frontalot’s name on there now. Check out the description and trailer here

MC Chris and Fette’s Vette

Aug 31, 2006 1 min.

Sampy and I were looking at some photos of the MC Chris concert from PAX05 and I had to go dig up the song. Easy enough to find the MP3 on MC Chris’s site, but I remembered a video … not this one, but close enough.