Posted in Microsoft, Photography, Silverlight, Tech, Visualization, WPF on May 14th, 2008 No Comments »
For my money, this Channel 9 Video is so impressive, I think this is the closest we’ve come to enabling a creative team to invent and then implement a futuristic interface like the ones imagined for blockbusters like Minority Report and Iron Man.*
* minus the holography bits. although maybe some awesome researcher could come up [...]
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Canada, Gaming and XBox, Microsoft, Personal, Photography, Silverlight, Tech, Windows Live on Mar 24th, 2008 4 Comments »
The Legend of the Greasepole is a game that began its life on July 1st, 1996, when a group of Engineering students from Queen’s University in Canada decided they’d create a way to re-live their unexplainable annual tradition from the comfort of their long-suffering computers.
The release of the Silverlight 2 Beta has allowed the game [...]
Posted in Microsoft, Photography, Silverlight, Tech, Tech Events, WPF, Windows Live on Mar 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Just got back from the Steve Ballmer / Guy Kawasaki keynote at this year’s Mix.
Is Guy ever not on form? He did a great job asking Steve the tough questions, making it fun, and getting a few candid answers, along with some “PR” answers as well, including Steve’s cautious response to “What about [...]
Posted in Canada, Photography, Tech, Tech Events on Dec 11th, 2007 No Comments »
I’m back in Canada. I’ve gone from 28 degrees and kitesurfing to -2 and this:
…Kitesurfing, anyone?
In addition to snow, life here already involves code and consulting. So, after being quite involved with the developer community in Ireland, I’m looking forward to attending my first Canadian .NET Usergroup meeting tomorrow night.
I’m in the middle [...]
Posted in Location-based, Mexico, Personal, Photography, Travel on Nov 19th, 2007 No Comments »
They say the hard part is controlling the kite. Focus on the kite, they said, and the board will follow.
But I have wind experience (windsurfing, sailing), and not board experience (skateboarding, snowboarding), and so for me, the hard part came when I tried to get up on the board in the water.
My instructor, Gerardo [...]
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 Belize, Location-based, Personal, Photography, Scuba, Travel on Nov 8th, 2007 No Comments »
The Blue Hole was, without a doubt, my single most memorable scuba dive to date.
Thankfully, one of our fellow divers, Australian Rohan Ashton (facebook / email: rohanashton(at)yahoo.com.au) was shooting photo and video footage during the dive. I am very grateful for his permission to post some of his footage here, because otherwise, I wouldn’t expect [...]
Posted in Belize, 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 Guatemala, Location-based, Personal, Photography, Travel 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 Guatemala, Location-based, Personal, Photography, Travel 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 [...]
