Section: Blogs
Kent Sharkey’s been a busy guy
Apr 5, 2007 1 min.
Kent’s blog is back online and in one of his recent posts he updates us on all the projects he’s been working since he left Microsoft (where we were both working at MSDN as content strategists)… tons of cool stuff, definitely worth reading through and following some links. Wednesday, April 04, 2007 # What has been occupying my time It’s been about a nice round 17 months (give or take) since I left Microsoft.
Feeling nostalgic for my Intellivision for some reason today…
Apr 2, 2007 1 min.
I think it was playing Chargeball in Meet the Robinsons, but for whatever reason I started thinking about this I loved the breaking glass sound when I broke an enemy’s disc or threw my disc through the recognizer’s eye… mmm…. good times 🙂 Tron Deadly Discs for the Intellivision on Wikipedia
My weight loss results after 20 weeks
Mar 28, 2007 1 min.
In September of last year I signed up for the 20⁄20 program at the Pro Club, a 25 week weight-loss program that includes personal training, dietitian appointments and even group therapy (yay!). Well, I’m pretty much wrapped up on the program, and a few weeks ago they had me in to take measurements and a photo… they took a photo at the beginning as well, so we end up with the classic before and after comparision.
Something I’m working on for Channel 9 and on10.net…
Mar 28, 2007 1 min.
Search based RSS… http://www.mscommunities.com/MixItUp/Search/Default.aspx?s=c9&q=TechFest set s=c10 (or s=on10) for searching http://on10.net instead, or remove it altogether to search both sites (using s or q twice won’t work) q=…. multi word terms need to within quotes, like this; http://www.mscommunities.com/MixItUp/Search/Default.aspx?s=c9&q=“Visual%20Studio” Thoughts?
Mar 26, 2007 1 min.
I was on the blog of Tim Aidlin, a design evangelist in our same group, and I saw a post today about using a webcam and live messenger to see his new baby while he is at work. Of course, any use of technology for a family purpose ends up involving a certain amount of tech-hassle, but still… the outcome is worth it.
Jetpac Refueled hits Xbox Live Arcade
Mar 23, 2007 1 min.
On Wednesday, a new Xbox Live Arcade game from Rare will be hitting the Marketplace… Jetpac Refueled. I have to say, from the moment we started shipping retro games onto the Xbox 360, this is what I’ve been waiting for. Not this game itself, I’ve never heard of it before to be honest (but wikipedia delivers the goods as always), but I always figured that the retro games would be re-developed to take advantage of the 360’s graphics and sound… and this one has been.
More on that 3-Day script I wrote…
Mar 22, 2007 1 min.
Darn script removing code on AOL! One woman, Nicolle, has a blog with AOL, but it won’t let her add script to any part of the UI… or even into a post. The only way I could think of to try to work out a way around the problem was to make myself an AOL screen name and then an AOL blog and try to do the customizing myself… no go, they don’t strip all script tags, but they only allow script tags that are pointing back at certain sites (such as AOL, I’m assuming).
Mar 21, 2007 2 min.
I was interested, and I guess I still am, but I’m not sure yet… For one, they seem to be WMV files… protected with our standard DRM, but yet they don’t use Windows Media Player to play them back? I’m not sure why this is, but if they supported playback in a normal video player then I’m pretty sure these videos would work through Media Center (and therefore my Xbox 360) without any hassle.
Walking in the 3-Day and interested in promoting your donation page?
Mar 15, 2007 1 min.
My wife is going to be in the 3-Day walk for Breast Cancer and I thought it might be useful to build a widget to display your donation info on a website. So if you are going to walk in the event, or if you know someone who is, then you might be interested in this. To get this Just add this text to your page: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/ThreeDay.ashx?donationurl=http://www.the3day.org/Seattle07/lauramackenzie"></script> (replace the donation url with the link for the appropriate person… or leave it as Laura’s 🙂 )
Laura is going to do the Breast Cancer 3-day walk
Mar 14, 2007 1 min.
from their site: The Breast Cancer 3-Day is a 60-mile walk over the course of three days. Net proceeds benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the National Philanthropic Trust, funding important breast cancer research, education, screening, and treatment. Laura will be walking for 3-days, and I’ll be hanging out with the kids… we all must do our part 🙂 If you’d like to donate to the cause, check out Laura’s fundraising page where you can find out more info and/or sign up to donate whatever amount of money you feel comfortable with…