As some of you might know, I have spent a good chunk of the past year working with an amazing team on a product called Kinect for the Xbox which launched today. If you haven’t hea rd about it yet, I am sure you will by the time the holidays are in full swing since it’s [...]
One of the newest Xbox LIVE Arcade games is a old-school style puzzle platformer called Super Meat Boy. Originally planned as a Wii game, it is fantastic and extremely addictive on the Xbox and I highly recommend it to other gamers out there. The reason for this update, however, is that I came across an [...]
We got my little sister a nice Acer Aspire One for her birthday this year, the newly designed AO532H-2588 that has better battery life and runs faster. However, due to an unfortunate accident this summer, the LCD cracked, rendering it almost useless as a portable computer. And with that, I inherited a broken netbook! (And if you were [...]
If you remember, I wrote a post about Virtual Environments in Xbox LIVE a while back for the Xbox Engineering Blog. This time, I’m glad to share a new article co-authored between my friend/co-worker John McPherson and me regarding how game developers are able to enable custom, game-specific features for Xbox LIVE using something called XLSP! [...]
As a follow-up from my last post, here is the update on what you might have guessed as my touchscreen picture frame PC. I’m glad to say that it is now happily mounted on my wall and running! Here are some more pictures to show the remaining work I did to make this work: If [...]
It’s been pretty quiet over here so I thought I’d give a sneak peek into what I’ve been up to lately. Currently, I’ve been super-focused @ work with some really exciting stuff that maybe I can talk about in some distant future, but along with that, I’ve got several projects rolling! Tennis season is in [...]
Happy post-tax day! As some of you may know, I work on the Xbox team at Microsoft. Last month, I wrote a blog for our team’s Xbox Engineering Blog on our virtual environments and how our engineers go about developing and testing Xbox LIVE features. Check it out! http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/engineeringblog/virtually-xbox-live.htm
This was too funny not to share. While some guy named Greg was sleeping, his dog decided to chew on his Xbox 360 controller and managed to purchase some Microsoft Points (Xbox LIVE currency) and went on to spend $60 through Greg’s account. The happy ending: Microsoft refunded the money from Oscar’s purchases and sent a [...]
Hey all! It’s been a while since I last updated! It’s been a pretty hectic two months and is now already September. Unbelievable… A tremendous chunk of my time has been dedicated to improving my skills in tennis, including working with three different coaches, each focusing on different aspects of my game and was playing [...]
Two updates in one day! Imagine that. So I wanted to update everyone on one more piece of technology that I was skeptical about and decided to try today, and that is Bing.com. Wow was I impressed. So the thing that made me decide maybe I should try this new search engine over my former google [...]
