Posted in Personal, Photography, Scuba, Travel on Nov 4th, 2007 2 Comments »
This is my beach-front cabana on Caye Caulker in Belize. I sent the photo to Flickr using my wireless connection here - because the really cool guy who runs the cabanas at Ignacio’s offers wireless for free. So don’t believe anyone who tells you Belize doesn’t have the internets. Or gorgeous beachfront cabanas that go [...]
Posted in Personal, Photography, Travel, Where on Nov 1st, 2007 3 Comments »
Long before they served as the Rebel moon base at Yavin IV, the skyscrapers of Tikal were part of an important Mayan urban area that sprawled over 100 square kilometers. The Temples that remain today, which date from as early as 600 BC, poke through the jungle in the lowlands of El Peten, about an hour’s [...]
Posted in Personal, Photography, Travel, Where on Oct 29th, 2007 4 Comments »
Arriving at Lake Atitlan from Guatemala City was an adventure in itself. I was the only foreigner on one of the jam-packed “chicken busses” owned by Rebuli, a company that ploughs the route between the capital city and lake town Panajachel with repurposed American school busses. The trip made for a great introduction to the [...]
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 All Tech, Personal on Aug 31st, 2007 No Comments »
Have you seen Google Earth’s new Sky feature? It is a distilled example of one of those ideas, once you’ve seen it, that seems so perfect, so natural, that makes you wonder why it wasn’t OBVIOUS for all of us to wonder why it wasn’t already in Google Earth, Live Local, and their geography-rendering [...]
