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Game Camp new from Canada
Tuesday, March 27, 2007 1:07 PM

Well the Canadian Academic Team are at it again. They've just opened a new site to help people create their own Game Camps. Or you can go there and find out about new Game Camps as they become scheduled. The site is called the Develop Mental

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Home Sweet Home
Monday, March 26, 2007 10:21 AM

I went away for the weekend. I visited the family home in East Hampton. I was born there and even though I haven't live there full time in about 48 years it still feels like home. And I think I have found a way to completely de-stress

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Welcome Home
Saturday, March 24, 2007 3:18 PM

If the best three word phrase is "I love you" I think the nest two word phrase may be "Welcome Home." There is something special about those to words and what they mean. Years ago my son was making a second visit to a private high school where he had

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The World in Black and White
Monday, March 19, 2007 12:08 PM

I from time to time refer to winter as the world in black and white. That is because at this time of year when snow covers the ground that is how the world appears. Or for sure there are shades of brown in the trees and the evergreens bring some of that

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Low Tech Breaks from High Tech Stress
Sunday, March 18, 2007 2:42 PM

It is almost spring (officially it starts in two days) but the best part of winter just arrived where I live. Friday night into Saturday we finally had enough snow for real snowshoeing in the woods. The great thing about snowshoeing is that it takes me

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March Madness and Technology
Friday, March 16, 2007 12:45 PM

Well it is March again and with that comes the NCAA Basketball playoffs. For those of you who are more into sports other than American College Basketball think World Cup but just the US, just colleges, basketball rather than football/soccer and all in

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Using the Wii Controller from Windows using C# or VB
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 10:40 PM

Thanks to a link from Dan Fernandez I found out that Coding 4 Fun has information about programming the Wiimote (Wii Game Controller) using either Visual Basic .NET or C#. There is sample code and instructions. Looks interesting even if I don't have a

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Information Wants to Be Free
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 12:45 PM

or does it? My first response to this has long been "information doesn't want anything." Let's not anthropomorphize everything. But if you are going to discuss this idea look at other things besides wishful thinking. Information is hard to get. Don't

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Vista Gadgets
Monday, March 12, 2007 10:39 AM

Are you playing around with Vista yet? If so than you have probably added or edited or at least used Vista Gadgets o nthe Sidebar. If you'd like to make your own gadgets Martin Schray (one of the leads in the US Academic Relations Team) has created a

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Random Links
Wednesday, March 07, 2007 9:44 PM

Microsoft Research is running their annual TechFest this week. Think about Techfest as being a school science far except that all of the "kids" are research PhDs showing off the results of their research projects. And I'm missing it. Again. It always

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Now THAT is a big screen for
Monday, March 05, 2007 12:10 AM

New Hampshire Technical Institute (a community college that is part of New Hampshire's community technical college system) has an amazing Animation and Graphic Game Programming course of studies. Among other things they have a lab with a number of Xbox

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Resistance
Sunday, March 04, 2007 8:06 PM

I have never resisted the Internet as much as I have this past week. While I've checked on a sub-set of my email using my Treo I answered very few messages and didn't try to connect my laptop to the Internet even once. So no blogging (reading or writing),

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Wow - what a trip
Friday, March 02, 2007 3:04 PM

I am connected to a free wi-fi connection in the Reno (NV) airport and thought I'd drop a note here to let people know I am still alive. I have gone since last Sunday morning without trying to connect to the Internet. I have sort of kept up with email

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