Madalyn Twinkle Toes

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Celebrating Holly’s 13th Birthday at Disneyland

Today is Holly’s birthday and we’re celebrating at Disneyland.

Lost 14lbs w/my iPhone

I’ve been using Lose It! on my iPhone to simply monitor how much I eat and exercise. I stick to my budget and find food I like to eat and stick to my budget.  Sometimes I’m over my budget but I try to make it a rare occasion. I also make sure the food I [...]

Kelly’s latest work on realistic painting

Kelly was practicing painting realistically using Painter 9. This is actually her first attempt and its really good. She used a photo reference of Miyavi, a Japanese rock star.

Microsoft JScript -vs- GameMonkey

I’ve been working with the PopCap game development frmework. It’s pretty sweet but I would like to have some kind of scripting ability for tweaking various game parameters. JavaScript seems like the logical answer since I’m a big fan of it and have lots of experience integrating the engine into my apps. I had heard [...]

Kinda funny

If you have a sec, this is a pretty good blonde joke and is a quick read.

How many hours does a programmer need…

This was a response by Joe P. on the Casual Games mailing list to a query on “How many hours does a programmer need…” Joe really hit the nail on the head with his response: Crash course in programmer wrangling; – Accuracy of time estimates is proportional to developer experience. Even(especially?) highly skilled programmers with [...]

Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin

3Impact ActiveX Control

I’ve created an ActiveX control to embed the 3Impact 3D game engine into Internet Explorer. I’ve wanted to do this for a while and finally whacked it out Thursday morning at Starbucks. I used to work full time at Microsoft on the Internet Explorer team and also have quite a bit of COM/ActiveX experience so [...]

Disneyland 2006

A Crazy Idea I think it was a Thursday afternoon late in February when my cell phone rang. It was Carol and she had an idea. Nothing unusual for Carol but what I typically expect is a request to go to an early dinner or perhaps a plan to head out to Port Angeles to [...]