Section: Blogs

Book is making its way to local stores…

Feb 6, 2006 1 min.

I was in a local Barnes and Noble, the one in downtown Bellevue (WA), and I spotted our book on the shelves. It wasn’t at the Woodinville B&N as of yesterday, but at least it is showing up in some stores!

Odd Language element in MSN Spaces feeds?

Feb 6, 2006 1 min.

Perhaps a little bug left over from when they first launched in Japan, but the MSN Spaces feeds seem to specify a language code for at least one english language feed (Brian’s)… but it does return en-US for some others. Hmm… it also seems to specify en-US for some feeds that are quite obviously not… perhaps choosing your language is a per-blog setting that people aren’t aware of? I’m not sure if it matters all that much, other than to blog indexers, if the character set and encoding is correct, the lanugage element isn’t really important to aggregators or browsers, but since it changes from feed to feed it must be based on some sort of per-blog or per-user setting.

What will they think of us?

Feb 1, 2006 1 min.

Kent blogs about the Name Registry that was sent up with the launch to Pluto… If only Futurama was still on, they’d do a good job of writing the ‘what if’ story about this one.

Yay! I have an Xbox 360!!

Jan 29, 2006 1 min.

Ok, you’ll be glad to hear that I won’t be whining any more about not having an Xbox 360. My pre-order from EB Games still hasn’t come in, but a friend of mine knew someone who had waited in line to get a 360 on launch day and then had their pre-order come in… so they were willing to sell me their second Xbox 360 at cost. Lucky me, I picked it up yesterday and took it home, then set it up after the kids were in bed.

Book spotting…

Jan 23, 2006 1 min.

Our new book, Xbox 360 for Dummies, has hit the stores… or so we’ve heard. So far, Brian and I haven’t seen it in any actual retail stores, just online. If you see it in a store near you, or better yet… if you buy it in a store near you… let me know!