Posted in All Tech, Canada, Ireland, Microsoft, Personal on Oct 22nd, 2007 6 Comments »
I have long suspected that the Irish are mad, and now I have proof.
At some point during the National Productivity Centre crunch time, I received a mail from Irene Dehaene, informing me that I’d been nominated for the Best Blogger award at the IIA and Enterprise Ireland Net Visionary awards next month.
I was overwhelmed, and [...]
Posted in All Tech, Artificial Intelligence, Canada, Gaming and XBox, Microsoft, Personal, XNA on Sep 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Congratulations to Sci ‘11 for their one-hour, 47-minute conquering of this year’s greasepole!
Can we all just take a moment to reflect on the academic year called “Sci ‘11″? Man, I feel old all of a sudden.
Just for giggles, here’s the current list of achievements for Legend of the Greasepole. I wonder how the crowd around [...]
Posted in All Tech, Canada, Gaming and XBox, Microsoft, Personal, Photography, XNA on Sep 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Just 2 days before her surname will no longer be correct in the credits of the game, here’s my sister Elizabeth, who designed the Frosh character, playing Legend of the Greasepole on the XBox360!
Posted in All Tech, Artificial Intelligence, Canada, Gaming and XBox, Microsoft, Personal, XNA on Sep 18th, 2007 5 Comments »
I’ve posted Windows and XBox360 versions of Legend of the Greasepole 2007 to the Queen’s EngSoc website!
The new version is built with XNA and includes the following new features:
Controller support for either the mouse or the XBox360 Controller attached to the PC
3D sound
Modestly enhanced graphics (although we realized it was ultimately a choice between a total revamp [...]
Posted in All Tech, Artificial Intelligence, Canada, Gaming and XBox, Personal, Photography, XNA on Sep 8th, 2007 No Comments »
… in fact it’s probably happening as I type, but I’m three-and-a-half hours down the 401 in Toronto. Sigh.
A huge thanks to the folks who have beta tested the re-release of the game. I had hoped to have it ready for today, but I’ve received some great feedback about a few things to tweak, and particularly [...]
Posted in All Tech, Artificial Intelligence, Canada, Gaming and XBox, Microsoft, Personal, XNA on Sep 4th, 2007 No Comments »
By my reckoning, it’ll be next Saturday when Queen’s University frosh week will culminate this year for a new batch of fresh-faced Engineering students. Surrounded by upper-years dyed purple with gentian violet, they’ll struggle to form a pyramid and climb a lanolin-covered pole to liberate a Scottish tam that’s been nailed to its top, and officially [...]
Posted in Canada, Nikon, Personal, Photography on Aug 13th, 2007 2 Comments »
I was up at Mazinaw Lake over the weekend, where my sister’s fiancé and his family have a cottage. This is proper Ontario, where you head out to the lake and scurry across by boat to your getaway.
Go on hikes, watch the meteor shower, swim, chill with the other lads in the wedding party, have [...]
Posted in All Tech, Canada, Gaming and XBox, Ireland, Microsoft, Personal, Travel, Where on Aug 8th, 2007 19 Comments »
I’m writing this post in case anyone else out there wants to know what will happen to a European XBox 360 (in my case, from Ireland) if it’s moved to North America (in my case, Canada). [update] The story started out not particularly great, but now, a few updates later, it is significantly better. By [...]
Posted in Canada, Moose (Random), Personal on May 26th, 2007 No Comments »
The north of Norway is so cool that they have albino moose (with pic).
On an unrelated note, as a windsurfer and a wanna-be kite-surfer, does this kite-surfer dude from Brighton not have the coolest commute to work ever?
Georgian Bay, north of Toronto, has some of the best kite surfing conditions imaginable in the summer: Stretching [...]
