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We got back in town on Saturday from our cruise to Alaska. The weather was pretty rainy, but accomodations were made to keep us occupied during the bad storms. I will have to say that the staff on board the Golden Princess were very friendly and accomodating. The land based excursions were the prize attractions. [More]

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Let me start off by saying that I have a sincere respect for the majority of women that I have met in my own pursuits of Technology. During my stay at the University of Minnesota I have met several females who have paved their way through a curriculum that usually 'weeds' out rather than promotes development. The difficulty is in how society defines Computer Science, Technology and education in the sciences. In my opinion the problem stems from an inability to break free of learned helplessness. If we take this term and apply it to this situation we can formulate a hypothesis that females just start out with a huge unfair disadvantage. [More]

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If you have having issues connecting with people in Baldur's Gate 2 you will need to read the FAQ carefully. They used DirectPlay (from Direct X) to do the multiplayer. It requires both inbound and outbound ports forwarded for both sides of the game. Additionally, It requires these port settings on anything higher than Windows XP SP 2. [More]

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I integrated GalleryServerPro into BlogEngine.NET using the ASP.NET SQL Server Membership. Here are the steps that I went through to accomplish this. [More]

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It looks like the wizard class might be primarily the area of effect spell caster. Some of the new spells shown on the trailer and game play look really nice. [More]

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I first wanted to say thank you to my friend Anbon for coaxing myself and my wife Pam to show up to Convergence this year! I saw many interesting people and sat through some pretty amazing sessions. Some people that I met were John Kovalic, Kenneth Hite and James Kakalios. I ended up learning a lot about gaming and role-playing that I did not even consider. As being a newbie to Convergence I would like to mention that I felt that the hotel they used for the Convention was too small to accommodate the amount of people that showed up. I will post photos from this when I get my photo gallery extensions figured out. [More]

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I will be at this years Convergence convention in Bloomington, MN. I plan on bringing various games such as Munchkin, Lunch Money, Knightmare Chess and whatever else I fancy. If you plan on being there, you should comment or something. It would be nice to connect with people in the blogsphere.  

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I will be attending Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) for 2008 in Los Angles. It will be interesting to see what Microsoft has to offer as far as insight on the new tools goes. I am excited for the pre-conference session I signed up for also titled Performance by design using the .NET Framework. I plan on blogging about this when ever I can. So keep your eyes glued to my crappy blog and you may learn a thing or two.

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Well it appears that the folks at Blizzard decided to scoop up individuals who were sick of playing World of Warcraft. It appears that Diablo III has already hit wikipedia (that means it's official right?) [More]

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I have always enjoyed games developed by Square Enix. The story line tends to be well thought out and the replay value actually exists. Last night I even picked up my Final Fantasy VII game and played a little bit around with it. I do not own any sony products though, so yes I am talking about the Final Fantasy VII for the PC. [More]

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My wife's IPod nano (first gen) just decided to call it quits. The battery said "NO MORE" and decided it would not hold a charge. I sent in a price quote to the folks at Apple and they had stated that it would cost $90.00 and three weeks without the IPod to replace it. I personally had a IPod classic (second gen) and the two of us determined to just buy me a new Zune and to transfer my IPod over to my wife. So far I have very little complaints about the Zune. For instance, I had to write a scri... [More]

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If anyone was curious on what Gout feels like, this image explains it all.   Picture provided by Wikipedia

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I have changed my default theme for BlogEngine. I am using a variation of the "Bright Side of Life" theme. I plan on creating a few extensions too like my RandomHeader (look at the header image) control.

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One major thing that has caught my eye (and thoughts) in the past 10 years on the internet is the direction it appears to be going. It used to be the way to keep people informed about news and events was through BBS boards that you would dial into and read a list of posted items (much like a web forum). Then the next big thing to communicate online with other people was IRC channels. You could log into a server, type in /join <channel> and chat away in real time with friends and family (... [More]

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I am providing a "pre-release" version of my photo gallery control for BlogEngine. There were a few things I considered when making this control (and not going with other solutions that exist). No third party assemblies (that means everything written from scratch). Keep business logic and control logic inside one contained .DLL file. The interface with BlogEngine will be through an extension. Follow the BlogEngine method of abstracting data types and resource files. ... [More]

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Many of the online comics that I read every morning decided to take a moment to dedicate one strip to Gary. I think this just shows how important of an influence he was for many imaginations out there. http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp03042008.shtml http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0536.html http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/03/04 http://archive.gamespy.com/comics/dorktower/archive.asp?nextform=viewcomic&id=1347 http://xkcd.com/393/  I am su... [More]

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Today while looking for information about Dungeons and Dragons 4.0 I found some sad news that I feel is very news worthy. Gary Gygax passed away today. May his inspiration and talent shine through on all of us each day, and may he find solace in his new place of rest.    

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The XBox 360 Widget that I use on this site was fairly straight forward to build thanks to mads and the team for making such an awesome framework for widgets. This post will run you through how to create such a widget. It is fairly easy to create a widget as all you need to have is an edit.ascx to handle the edit fields and a widget.ascx to handle the display of the actual widget. More...

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The latest build of BlogEngine now supports multiple scalar extension settings. This is great news as now you can build a much more robust extension without creating a custom administration screen! I love the work that mads and rtur does with BlogEngine. You can read more about it at http://rtur.net/blog/post/2008/02/25/Using-multiple-settings-in-Extension-Manager.aspx

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I guess they finally came out with the movie. It was released pretty much under the radar on January 15th 2008. This is crazy, I have been watching the progress on the official website for some time now. I guess I will be researching good places to buy it as it has not hit the main stream stores yet. You can see more about it at imdb.

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