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Best description of twitter I've seen

Posted on July 2nd, 2008

From Dave Winer:

Marvel Digital Comics, not perfect, but worth the money!

Posted on June 21st, 2008

A month or so ago, I went looking to see if there was any way to read back issues of Marvel Comics online… and discovered a complete site around providing exactly that service. With a subscription to the digital comics section, you can view any issue of any series that is available on their online c […]

Three Cups of Tea is a great book…

Posted on June 12th, 2008

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The new and improved Channel 9 has shipped!

Posted on June 11th, 2008

When I joined my current team, it was called the Channel 9 dev team, because Channel 9 was the big site that they had built and was the center of all of their efforts. You certainly wouldn’t have known that from how we spent the last two years though :) We built a whole new code base for a video bl […]

At home, recovering from surgery

Posted on June 7th, 2008

It has been a crazy past few months for my health, or at least the appearance of my health. […]

Sunburned at a Chess Tournament

Posted on April 14th, 2008

Well, this certainly isn't something that happens all that often, but after spending all day at a chess tournament (at Wellington Elementary in Woodinville) on Saturday, I ended up with a sunburn on my face and arms! It turned out to be a really nice day, which was good, since the waiting area for p […]

Another chess tournament this weekend, last one before the state championship

Posted on April 12th, 2008

A new father-son activity for Connor and me […]

Sidebar Gadgets for Channel 9, Channel 8 and more

Posted on April 4th, 2008

We recently had Donovan West (LiveGadgets.net) build us a set of sidebar gadgets for Windows Vista. These gadgets use the RSS feeds from each site and let you see all of our new content as it gets posted, then (using Silverlight) you can even play our videos right there on your desktop.   Yo […]

Using my Xbox Live data service?

Posted on April 4th, 2008

If you've written an app, private or public, using my data feed of Xbox live info I'd really appreciate it if you'd let me know. This isn't a required 'sign-up', but I want to start to keep track so that I could possibly create a page listing all the sites using it, and it may also be useful to be a […]

New Xbox Friends Gadget released and a Silverlight Gamercard Generator

Posted on April 3rd, 2008

Adam Kinney, Silverlight dude and my colleague at work, has released an updated version of his Xbox Friends Watch gadget and a new standalone gamercard gadget for your website that uses Silverlight 2.0. […]