Posted in Belize, Location-based, Moose, Photography, Travel on Nov 9th, 2007 1 Comment »
I was wearing my I-Kuh-Fish t-shirt as I boarded the ferry from Caye Caulker to neighbouring San Pedro on Ambergris Caye. The captain of the ferry asked me where I’d found my shirt. He was surprised to hear it was from Dahab, in Egypt, where the shirt’s classy, timeless design is available at every tourist [...]
Posted in Gaming and XBox, Moose, Personal, Photography on Aug 26th, 2007 No Comments »
I’d better take a moment to explain the most recent photos on my Flickr photostream, which feature folks dressed as Star Wars characters, playing Guitar Hero behind their backs, and getting autographs from sci-fi celebs, sometimes all at once.
I’ve just returned from Fan Expo Canada 2007, which was undoubtedly the geekiest event I’ve ever attended. [...]
Posted in Moose, Personal, Tech on Jul 27th, 2007 3 Comments »
I’m not really a cat person, honest. But there’s something about these “Lolcats” that makes me LOL.
If you’re uninitiated, or in need of a fix, visit icanhascheezburger and you can has a flavor.
Lolcat is a compound word that joins “lol” (”laugh out loud”) with “cat,” as in the tasty kitty pictured above. The idea is to [...]
Posted in Gaming and XBox, Microsoft, Moose, Personal, Tech, Tech Events, XNA on Jun 16th, 2007 3 Comments »
If you have the Guitar Hero X-Plorer controller for the XBox360, here’s an XNA application that will let you play Ireland’s Call (a.k.a. “The Rugby Song”) on your PC or XBox360. This was my finale at Rob’s Last Stand last week.
This game is a bit more “free form” than the real Guitar Hero, in that [...]
Posted in Moose, Personal on Jun 9th, 2007 2 Comments »
Here was my XBox Live Gamertag this morning:
According to Dave, that makes me a sad git, and he’s probably right, but according to Guitar Hero, it also makes me:
Rock on.
Posted in Ireland, Microsoft, Moose, Personal, Research, Tech, Tech Events on Jun 8th, 2007 6 Comments »
When the XNA-fuelled fireworks were over at yesterday’s Last Stand in Dublin (literally and figuratively) I was totally lost for words. When does that ever happen?!
What I really want to say most is thank you - especially to Clare Dillon, Philip McKeown, Fergal Breen and everyone else at Microsoft, MTUG, IrishDev and beyond who made [...]
Posted in Canada, Moose, 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 [...]
