Site Archives for October 2006


Xbox 360 Wireless Headset video up

Posted on October 31st

As I mentioned before, I had a chance to chat with the PM for the Xbox 360 Wireless Headset and now that interview is up on on10.net. Remember, the headset is releasing just in time for Gears of War (November 7th). Coincidence? I think not! […]

How to Shoot Video

Posted on October 31st

For all you wanna-be ENG folks, video interviewers, YouTube/Soapbox producers, etc... you need this video. I need this video... we all need this video. […]

Halloween dashboard update for the Xbox 360

Posted on October 30th

Have you seen this list of features? […]

Become a Gold Xbox Live member to get your ads quicker

Posted on October 30th

Interesting news, content that is only for Xbox Live Gold members... which even Tycho thinks is understandable, but I agree with his comments about what kind of content is being restricted. they made a serious misstep with the content they chose to inaugurate Silver's descent into squalor: a traile […]

Rory joins the team...

Posted on October 26th

If you don't already know Rory, well... keep watching Channel 9... I'm sure you'll be hearing more from him through that venue soon. […]

Wireless Headset for the Xbox 360

Posted on October 25th

Jesse and I headed over to the Xbox buildings and interviewed Deb Louis about the new Xbox 360 Wireless Headset... video coming soon! In the meantime, here are some frame captures for your enjoyment :)   […]

Code Monkey by Jonathon Coulton

Posted on October 22nd

Ok, if you are a programmer... or even if you just can relate enough that you think Office Space is one of the best movies in the world (doesn't everyone?) then I need you to do this: […]

Brian is "Gamer Dad" on Xbox.com

Posted on October 17th

My buddy (and co-author on Xbox 360 For Dummies

The Deverry Novels by Katharine Kerr

Posted on October 16th

I've recently begun re-reading the Deverry novels; I just went through Daggerspell, Darkspell and I'm onto The Bristling Wood (basically 'Act 1' as the author has described the books as being the various parts of a long play). This is an excellent series, but one that I found quite by accident. Bac […]

Soapbox Invites available from on10.net

Posted on October 13th

As you may have noticed, I've been playing with Soapbox lately and it is rocking. Yep, there are other sites out there, but I've been finding the quality (it is all flash video folks, but there is still a range of quality) of the videos I've uploaded to Soapbox to be a few steps above the other site […]

Connor Getting Out Of School

Posted on October 11th

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Dig Dug hits the Xbox Live Arcade

Posted on October 11th

Fairly mixed response over on MajorNelson.com to this game, mostly either people who love it or people who are wishing we'd stop with the 'retro' games already... I'm a bit on the fence here myself, I […]

Browse content from the Xbox Live Marketplace online

Posted on October 10th

Sometimes it is hard to know what you are getting on the marketplace, especially with themes and gamer pics, but in general there is a lot of content and it isn't always easy to find what you are looking for. Well, it seems that will be less of a problem, thanks to the launch of the "Xbox Live Pipel […]

In honour of her 2nd Birthday... another Jada video!

Posted on October 10th

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Gears of War Propaganda arrived today

Posted on October 10th

I loved this email from Xbox Live today: […]

Trying out the embedded Soapbox player

Posted on October 6th

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Yay Vegetables!

Posted on October 4th

Having finished my first week in the 20/20 weight loss program, and having lost 5lbs (or 2.7% of my weight, to put it in more relative terms), they've graciously allowed me to add veggies back in. Not too much of course, but a couple of cups of lettuce go a long ways towards making a chicken breast […]

Amazon Web Services talk in Winnipeg

Posted on October 4th

I love Winnipeg, but it doesn't normally get all that many developer focused talks... so if you live there and you are interested in .NET based web development, you should really get down to this event. […]

Downloading TotemBall for my Xbox 360 now!

Posted on October 4th

TotemBall, the gesture-based game that works with the Xbox Live Vision camera, just shipped to the Xbox Live Marketplace. It is a free download, but you need to have the camera to play. While you are waiting for it to download, check out my video demo of TotemBall up on 10. […]

Adventures in Zune Land

Posted on October 3rd

Visited the Zune buildings today to film an interview for on10.net... I'd show you a few screen captures from the tape, but I had nothing to do with the camera work so I don't have anything to grab from yet. Since I'm a bit of an Zune enthusiast, Laura and Jesse ran camera and I handled asking the q […]

Began a serious weight-loss program last week

Posted on October 2nd

I've talked about losing weight before, and I managed to lose a fair bit via the South Beach diet about a year and a half ago, but my weight recently started creeping up again and I decided to do something 'big' to get on the right track (which is something I've considered before). So, on Tuesday o […]

More on Halo Wars

Posted on October 2nd

Since my initial post on this upcoming game, I found the site www.halowars.com, which has (among other things) some great desktop wallpaper :)