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XBox Live Video Market place

"To celebrate its first birthday on November 22, Xbox 360™ becomes the first and only gaming console to provide HD and standard-definition TV shows and movies direct to you." http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/marketplace/moviestv/default.htm Renting movies Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 22, 2006 5:19 PM by hoop | 0 Comments
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.Net Framework 3.0 has Shipped!

The first product I worked on here at Microsoft has shipped. http://www.netfx3.com/blogs/news_and_announcements/archive/2006/11/06/.NET-Framework-3.0-has-been-released_2100_.aspx It's a great feeling. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 22, 2006 5:18 PM by hoop | 0 Comments

Bluetooth on your wrist

I've been waiting a long time for someone to come out with something like this . Read More...
Posted Friday, March 03, 2006 8:08 AM by hoop | 2 Comments
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How SharePoint works

This is an amazing article on the difference between WSS (Windows SharePoint Services ) and (SPS) SharePoint Portal Server and how it all works. I've always been a huge fan of SharePoint but I have had a love hate relationship of sorts. I love the fact Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 29, 2004 11:25 PM by hoop | 2 Comments
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InfoPath SP1

Chris Anderson led me to this: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2004/feb04/02-23EnhancedInfoPathPR.asp I haven't got a chance to play with this yet but I recall talking with Eric just this past weekend about InfoPath We talked about some of the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 24, 2004 3:10 PM by hoop | 3 Comments
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Getting Dumped

Craig just dumped Dot . He did it publicly too. It's sad but the letter does have decent comic value, it made me laugh. The question now is does anyone know why GDN workspaces have such bad perf? Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 24, 2004 11:12 AM by hoop | 2 Comments
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XML Schema Constraints

It's been a while since I looked at the XML Schema spec but some work I was doing last week caused me to go brush up on it. While going over it I was reminded of how bad my last encounter with it went. It turns out that if you read the XML Schema spec Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 11, 2004 11:58 AM by hoop | 1 Comments
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Roaming at Home

My MPx200 Smarphone has been on the fritz for a while now. it misses more calls than it used to and it refuses to sync over USB. This morning my replacement phone (a refurbished one) came in the mail. I popped my SIM card in the phone and turned it on. Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 04, 2004 11:06 PM by hoop | 5 Comments
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Theory of Relativity

A few Weeks ago my roomate Nick and I had a minor disagreement over the fact that I recently purchased Jim Miller's new book (The Common Language Infrastructure Annotated Standard) which I was reading in my spare time. This disagreement gained notoriety through a weblog post he made. Since then an e-mail thread on the subject produced this diagram and the following explanation of it. Read More...
Posted Monday, February 16, 2004 2:50 AM by hoop | 5 Comments
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Social Networks

Chris Anderson voiced a concern I've had with social networks for some time. The bring more SPAM. Apps like Friendster , tribe.net , Tickle by Emode and Orkut worry me because they tend to increase the amount of friendly spam I get once I join. I still Read More...
Posted Friday, February 13, 2004 4:32 PM by hoop | 1 Comments
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This is more Like it!

With a tool like BlogJet I'm more likely to post to my blog when I have something to say... Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2004 8:32 PM by hoop | 0 Comments
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