Hoop Somuah : Personal

XBox Live Video Market place

hoop — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 04:19:00 GMT

"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 from Blockbuster was nice.
Renting movies from Netflix was even better for my lazy but.
Renting movies without ever having to leave the couch is priceless...

.Net Framework 3.0 has Shipped!

hoop — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 04:18:00 GMT

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.

InfoPath SP1

hoop — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 22:10:00 GMT

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 features I felt were missing from it. Looks like I'll soon find out whether my wishes have been granted.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D5ADC839-73F4-4299-ABA0-E88C90B25144&displaylang=en

Theory of Relativity

hoop — Mon, 16 Feb 2004 13:50:00 GMT

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.

Let me put this to rest (Hopefully). Dorky is defined as someone who plays games or is involved in activities that others would consider, well, dorky. In the spectrum, dorky, is closer to dweeby than nerdy. Example of dorky things – Yugio, Pokemon, D&D, MAGIC.

In other words, Nick, you are more dorky.

Now when it comes to NERDY, Hoop takes the cake. Nerdy is someone who gets a rise out of technical information, enough to read it in his spare time, enough for it to take priority over activities which non-nerdy people would constitute as fun.

Hoop, you are a nerd, and be proud of it.

Nick, you are a dork, and be proud of it.

-Warrick McDowell

I see myself on covering this region of the chart:

Now if starting a blog to talk about my work and the amazing technology I get to be a part of creating makes me even more of a nerd then a nerd I am. I admit I get all geeky and sometimes my own co-workers raise their eyebrows at me but hey can I help it if technology makes me all warm and fuzzy inside? I'm a nerd and I shall be till the day that I die but now the question is, where does Nick fal on the chart? And if he ever gets his wish of becoming a level 3 Magic judge will that shift him in any way? (No offense to the game of Magic but when it takes my roomate away from me almost every weekend to judge a tournament I have the right to feel bitter)

Note: It goes without saying that our friend Rome(Warrick McDowell) and his co-worker Dan are smacks for taking the time to come up with this diagram. Our friend Sarita gets the title of geek for spending time researching this issue and for using the word Etymology in her comment

How long will this last...

hoop — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 05:13:00 GMT

I wonder how long I will keep blogging now that I've started? This blog phenomenon is really interesting but I don't know how much I have to say that hasn't been already said. Unlike one of my roomates I'm not opinionated. I'm also not much of a writer, when I do write it tends to be an unending disorganized ramble. In any case I hope people can look to this blog for random interesting facts that I happen upon in life.