Section: Blogs

Hit the fountain and fair at Seattle Center this weekend with the kids

Jul 17, 2006 1 min.

Good times were had by all, although mostly by my son (Connor)! Played in the fountain, ate some hotdogs and did a few rides (very few) at the fair that sits below the Space Needle (you can see the needle in the back of this shot). My high-point of the trip? When my son looked over a perfect stranger in line (a guy, probably around my age… no kids with him) and asked for a bite of his cotton candy.

Into comics but also like books with more words?

Jul 13, 2006 2 min.

I’m a big comic book fan, or at least I was. Now I generally pick up a graphic novel or a compilation every once in awhile (just read this and this, great writing and visuals) mostly Marvel although the Watchmen and some of the Dark Knight stuff can’t be passed up… Recently though, my wife read a book and strongly recommended it to me: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (also the author of Wonder Boys, Summerland and more)

Source Code formatting/coloring (colouring!) for your ASP.NET web site

Jul 11, 2006 1 min.

Kent points us to a free ASP.NET control that pretties up any source code you output to your site… most systems I’ve used convert the code into html, but this one lets you leave it in its proper form (for downloading or copying to the user’s clipboard) and does the coloring at runtime.

I’ve finally found a good way to rip DVDs to WMVs for Portable Media Center… thanks to Jake Ludington…

Jul 10, 2006 2 min.

As a few folks already know, I like portable media devices… and I have a couple myself (I had the Samsung, it got smashed… now I have a iRiver PMC and a Creative Labs PMC.. if you are interested in getting one for free… check this out)… and I use them on trips with the kids. My normal usage is to just pull TV onto them from Windows XP Media Center Edition, but the kids often want to watch one of their DVDs… so I decided to rip all of our family-friendly DVDs to WMVs.