Kelly's First Snowman

  This is Kelly’s very first snowman. I’ve mentioned before, we don’t get a lot of snow up here in Seattle. Before here, we lived in Phoenix, Arizona. And obviously we never got any snow there.    She made it herself and spent HOURS on making it perfect. I have to say, it was the most [...]

2007 Wind and Snow Storm

We had the strangest winter here in the Seattle area. I haven’t lived here that long (relatively) but in the time I’ve been here I’ve been under the impression that it really doesn’t snow or get that cold here. Since 1998 the weather has pretty much agreed with that statement until this winter. Strangely, it [...]

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 [...]

Test Post from Writely

I’m writing the entry from a cool online word processor at writely.com. It says it can post right to my blogger blog. Let’s give it a shot! -snip- Yup. It works. I don’t know if I can necessarily manage my postings from there. It didn’t appear so but the text editor is fairly rich. Their [...]

Atkins Diet: 2 years later

In summary, for those that don’t want to read the whole thing, in total I lost 51 pounds. If your thinking about trying it… read on. Roughly two years ago, after hearing various successes from a friend or two about their experiences with the Atkins Diet I decided to give it a try myself. At [...]