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XNA Studio Express Beta is ready
Wednesday, August 30, 2006 11:52 AM

The XNA Studio Express beta for creating games on both Windows and Xbox 360 is now available for download here. Related Resources XNA Developer Forums XNA Game Studio Express Beta Readme XNA Developer Center Microsoft Visual C# Express 2005

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I want to be the one in the pool
Sunday, August 27, 2006 10:53 PM

I am in Redmond WA (Microsoft HQ) this week for meetings. I am staying in one of my favorite hotels - Residence Inn Marriott at Redmond Town Center. This hotel has some very nice features. In fact it has most of what I look for in a hotel. Nice clean,

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YouTube Video on How to make a video using Windows Movie Maker
Saturday, August 26, 2006 11:24 PM

With the advent of digital video equipment, digital auto equipment and computers software, often free software, a lot more people are interested in doing interesting things with video. It has probably never been more easy for regular people to create

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Programmer's Bill of Rights
Friday, August 25, 2006 11:04 PM

I found this list at Jeff Atwood's blog. The items he things every programmer needs and has a right to are: Every programmer shall have two monitors Every programmer shall have a fast PC Every programmer shall have their choice of mouse and

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Geek Test
Thursday, August 24, 2006 5:45 PM

Interesting test. I think it is dated in some ways and it could/should include other questions. I really need to write my own one day.I scored 39.84221% which seems low to me.

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Windows Mobile Starter Kits
Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:11 AM

Yes, what you have all been waiting for has arrived. OK maybe not all of you have been waiting for this. Some of you haven't known until know that you want/need these starter kits. But they are here anyway. There are now a number of starter kits for programming

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It's all about the comments
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 2:13 PM

I realized today why I can't give up blogging at theSpoke. In a word comments. I took a look at the stats on my blog here today. Some 14 of the last 20 posts here have comments. The posts with comments average just over 3 a piece. Even averaging in the

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Nice Clean Machine
Tuesday, August 22, 2006 2:19 PM

A while ago I upgraded my Tablet PC to Windows Vista. Upgrading is not the best way to go generally but this is especially true with beta versions. Plus I just did not have all the latest drivers and what not when I did the install. The result is that

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What is not for noobs?
Friday, August 18, 2006 11:02 AM

The website is http://www.notfornoobs.com and there seems to be some question about a) if it is a Microsoft promotion (I believe it is) and b) what it is a promotion for. I have no idea the answer to (b) but I've signed up at the website to find out.

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What do you do when your TV crashes?
Thursday, August 17, 2006 12:14 PM

My friend Philip talks about the new HDTV he bought and how it crashed when he tried to set it up. A cautionary tail of how expensive it can be to fix software (or firmware) problems.

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Diets
Tuesday, August 15, 2006 9:12 PM

I went to the doctor today to get the results of some tests I had done as part of a physical. Long story short - I have to lose weight. A bunch of tests including sugar and some other things I can't spell are too high. So my options are lose weight or

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Xbox 360 programming for everyone
Monday, August 14, 2006 9:49 AM

Well the big announcement is out. XNA Express is a great new development environment that lets ordinary programmers write games for the Xbox 360. For as long as there have been dedicated boxes for game programming it has required a lot in the way to resources

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Big Game Development News Coming!!!
Monday, August 14, 2006 12:15 AM

Rumor has it that Microsoft is announcing something big around game development tomorrow. News will appear at the XNA blog. I'm subscribed because I am excited to hear what is announced. OK I know some of it but it's not for me to tell. So I want to see

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Windows Live Writer
Sunday, August 13, 2006 9:46 PM

I've been using Word to write most of my blog posts for a while. It supports the APIs for two of my blogs but not for some other sites that I have blogs. Today Microsoft released Windows Live Writer (blog here - download here) and I thought I would try

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How to bash a product in a blog
Friday, August 11, 2006 12:42 PM

I read this post by Mark Cuban this morning. He is really upset about some product packaging and held back nothing in his post. At the same time the post is a very interesting one to read. It's like a short story that grabs you and makes you want to finish

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I need my Imagine Cup Fix
Thursday, August 10, 2006 11:55 AM

I know there are now 6 teams left in the running but no one whose blog I read has reported on which teams made the top 6. I imagine that the trip from Agra to Dehli is probably responsible in part. But I'm really wondering how it is going. I did read

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New Erik Meijer Interview on Channel 9
Wednesday, August 09, 2006 11:22 AM

Erik Meijer has a new interview up on Channel 9. Erik is one of the people at Microsoft who I have a ton of respect for. Erik is a brilliant computer scientist (he used to be a university computer science professor) who is currently working in a product

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Where are the Blue Angels of Software Development?
Tuesday, August 08, 2006 5:39 PM

[Note: The Blue Angels are a demonstration team of pilots and fighter planes who do areobatic stunts at airshows and other special events. They are among the best pilots in the world - some would aargue THE best.] From Josh Ledgard’s blog comes

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Surfing
Monday, August 07, 2006 10:30 PM

Well we finally made it to the surfing lessons today. Last Friday it was raining. Last Saturday there were no waves. But today was just fine. There were lots of small waves just right for beginners. My son got up the very first time. It took me a couple

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Imagine Cup Blogging
Sunday, August 06, 2006 10:29 AM

While a number of our local theSpoke bloggers are at the Imagine Cup finals (including Bernard who is doing a great job of covering the event) there are also other bloggers there who may be less well known to my readers (at least with regards to events

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August CTP for Microsoft Robotics Studio
Saturday, August 05, 2006 10:48 PM

I read an announcement that the August CTP (Community Technical Preview) of the Microsoft Robotics Studio software was released for (free) download. You can get the bits here. There are a bunch of new features which you can read about in detail here.

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Robotics Papers Worth Checking Out
Saturday, August 05, 2006 12:00 AM

The RoboBusiness Conference and Expo was held back in June in Pittsburg. I found out that the papers that were given there are now available online here. There is a large number of conference papers there including papers on the Microsoft Robotics Studio,

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Surf's Up!
Thursday, August 03, 2006 1:29 PM

Tomorrow is my birthday and my son thought of something different to give me. We're going for surfing lessons together. Surfing is something I have wanted to try for years and my son and I have talked about it for quite a while. I never seem to get off

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Free Software from Microsoft
Tuesday, August 01, 2006 11:37 PM

You know it seems like a lot of people think that Microsoft hates free software. Well Blake Handler has an amazing list of software that Microsoft gives away for free. OK there isn't a lot of source code here (although there is some intersting source

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Should Teachers Blog?
Tuesday, August 01, 2006 12:11 PM

Kevin Schofield over at the Education at On10 blog asks the question over there. If you have opinions on the subject that would be a great place to weigh in on the issue. Specifically I think it would be great if some of you who are students would drop

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