Site Archives for July 2006


An interesting web problem, duplicate //s in a url

Posted on July 27th

Ok, so this is interesting to me, maybe not to everyone. Go to this page on on10.net, and notice the lack of CSS...  We are using ASP.NET themes and the CSS for the theme gets inserted as a relative reference (../../../themes etc.) ... well IE does the calculation based off of the URL and doesn […]

The iCup Arrives at on10 (The Show On 10)

Posted on July 27th

A bit of an odd video on 10, sorry... but I couldn't help myself, I was (and continue to be) so excited about the arrival of the iCup :) 

Microsoft Humanitarian Systems (The Show On 10)

Posted on July 27th

This is so very cool... I wonder if they need any programmers? Of course, my wife wouldn't like it if it meant lots of travel! […]

on10 visits Penny Arcade

Posted on July 27th

Yesterday, Laura and I headed over to the offices of Penny Arcade to interview them about... well, about a variety of things, it was a very interesting interview. […]

Assassin's Creed for Xbox 360 gets previewed - Joystiq

Posted on July 26th

Ok, so I have to admit something... when I saw Assassin's Creed in the various E3 videos, I was sad. The game looked amazing, but I'm not going to buy a PS3 ... you can see my dilemma. […]

Parental Control Software (ComputerTime)

Posted on July 21st

I saw this on Techie Diva today... and it was immediately appealing, but the attraction dimished quickly. This isn't any fault of the software, as far as I know it does its job perfectly, but I just don't think this is the way to deal with this problem. I have given parental control over technology […]

We've release yet another update to on10.net

Posted on July 19th

This one appears to be a bit special, as we are labeling it 1.0, which I guess means the site up until now was in Beta... I had no idea :)

Yahoo now has a video site... called "The 9"

Posted on July 18th

Now, I'm not saying they are copying anything we are doing, and I get where the "9" comes from (they show 9 videos a week), but still... it is hard to not to wonder why they ended up with a name like that for their site...  Link to The 9 for Monday July 17th […]

Where 2.0 Am I? (The Show On 10)

Posted on July 17th

UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) coming soon to on10.net

Posted on July 17th

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

Posted on July 17th

Good times were had by all, although mostly by my son (Connor)! […]

LCD Screen plus TabletPC == electronic menu

Posted on July 14th

Spotted today at lunch... […]

Ok, so I hate mismatched socks as much as the next guy...

Posted on July 14th

But is this really necessary?

Into comics but also like books with more words?

Posted on July 13th

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 […]

Sometimes I just have to blog the same things as everyone else has ... Zidane video from YouTube

Posted on July 13th

Of course, you can get videos of the actual event from YouTube, but I found this much better than the real thing;

Frogger, Galaga and Street Fighter II coming to the Xbox Live Arcade

Posted on July 12th

Very cool news from Major Nelson and a variety of other sources... […]

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

Posted on July 11th

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...

Posted on July 9th

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 […]

Just a small frame capture from my interview with Ed from GeekTragedy

Posted on July 6th

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Flew over to Toronto to do a Channel 9 interview with Jamie, creator of the C9 Patrol

Posted on July 6th

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"Meet the 10 team" interview/video thing up on on10.net

Posted on July 5th

Hmm... the Sony PSP saga continues

Posted on July 3rd

Update on the bricked PSP... So I spoke to a someone at the local Sony retail store... $120 (CDN) to fix the PSP. Keeping in mind that all that my nephew did was turn it off when he saw a dialog he didn't understand, that is a lot of money. I'm especially unhappy because I know that this must be a c […]

Firmware Update results in a Bricked PSP

Posted on July 1st

I’m at my nephew’s place for a bit and he just ‘bricked’ his PSP. He put in a game and it started to do a firmware update... he didn’t understand what it was doing and was worried it was going to mess up his PSP, so he turned the power off. […]