Section: Blogs

The on10/Channel 9 Dev team have another dev focused video up

Aug 16, 2006 1 min.

I even got to be the ‘preview’ image! Check this out to hear a bit more about our design and implementation of on10.net, and for some more info on our plans around on10.net going forward and for moving Channel 9 on to this new code base.

Windows Live Writer

Aug 16, 2006 1 min.

on10.net has a good interview up about the new blogging tool from the Windows Live team. What’s cool about this app? For a developer, there is tons to be excited about, including a very easy to use SDK (wrote some plug-in code last night, super easy) and it ships with a bunch of .NET assemblies that I’m about to go spelunking through…

Pez Dispenser as a Hot Shoe attachment

Aug 14, 2006 1 min.

Ok, so I am so going to do this for taking pictures of my kids… but wait… I could probably do this on top of the video camera for Channel 9 shoots too! Now if I can only get my son’s collection of Star Wars Pez Dispensers away from him and put them under the knife.

Pimp my Xbox 360

Aug 14, 2006 1 min.

I’ve been stoked for some time by the completely black case replacement for the 360, but now I’ve found out that I can potentially switch my controllers (even the wireless ones) to custom colors as well… very very sweet.

Feeling like it is time to get rid of the flab…

Aug 4, 2006 2 min.

Last year I managed to go from 205-ish down to around 175 … just by following the South Beach Diet and working out more consistently (shooting for 5 days a week, generally hit 4 at least)… but then I switched jobs to work on a new project (http://on10.net, a site that has featured Chris a few times) and totally fell off the wagon. Now I’m 187 (for months I’ve been putting 180 into the treadmill, but I actually weighed myself Monday night) and I’m really depressed about it.

Glamour shots of dolls

Aug 4, 2006 1 min.

I love this; Shots of dolls in full-on fashion photo shoots. This would be a great way to practice your photography skills. Who needs models? Check out the rest of her photos under the fashiondoll tag, great stuff.

Microsoft Gamefest

Aug 3, 2006 1 min.

Met with Dave Mitchell from the Xbox team today to talk about Microsoft Gamefest. If you are going, drop me a line… I’ll be there with a camera along with one or two other folks from on10.net.

A site about taking photos of kids…

Aug 3, 2006 1 min.

But with a really cool name: http://shootingthekids.dpblogs.com This site is definitely my latest happy discovery on the old series of pipes we call the Internet. As someone who takes lots of photos and almost every one of them ends up being one of my kids… this site is perfect.

Atari CEO: No PS3 games before 2007 – Joystiq

Aug 3, 2006 2 min.

I was surprised early to hear that God of War II was a PS2 game… and now this? I think it just the price that is scaring developers… scary to develop for a console that seems out of the price range of your target audience. I say “seems” because despite my own (biased) negative thoughts about the PS3, I expect it to be a pretty impressive machine… one that quite a few people will pick up.