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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Mark Johnston's Blog : Fun</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/markjo/archive/tags/Fun/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Fun</description><dc:language>en-GB</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>My Xbox Live Avatar - get yours!</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/markjo/archive/2008/11/21/my-xbox-live-avatar.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:47:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9131739</guid><dc:creator>markjo</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/markjo/comments/9131739.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/markjo/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9131739</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/markjo/WindowsLiveWriter/MyXboxLiveAvatar_A5E3/avatar-body-XBL_2.png"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px 40px 0px 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="240" alt="avatar-body-XBL" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/markjo/WindowsLiveWriter/MyXboxLiveAvatar_A5E3/avatar-body-XBL_thumb.png" width="120" align="left" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I am loving the new &lt;a href="http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/live/NXE/"&gt;Xbox Live Experience&lt;/a&gt;. And the first thing everyone does when they update their console, I'm guessing, is spend ages creating their digital self as an avatar. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Not sure that is too close to what I look like, but it's not a bad start! &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScottHanselman/~3/8shvj1ofDeI/Xbox360NXEForgetGamesTheXboxIsAMediaCenter.aspx"&gt;Scott Hanselman has the skinny on NXE&lt;/a&gt; - and I'm now using it instead of the MCE UI&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;To get your Avatar on your PC: &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatarGAMERTAG/avatar-body.png" href="http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/GAMERTAG/avatar-body.png"&gt;http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/GAMERTAG/avatar-body.png&lt;/a&gt; (replace gamertag with your actual gamertag)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9131739" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/markjo/archive/tags/Fun/default.aspx">Fun</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/markjo/archive/tags/Xbox+360/default.aspx">Xbox 360</category></item><item><title>Expression...nah...its all about MSPaint for designers</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/markjo/archive/2008/03/31/expression-nah-its-all-about-mspaint-for-designers.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:10:30 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8345817</guid><dc:creator>markjo</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/markjo/comments/8345817.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/markjo/commentrss.aspx?PostID=8345817</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;embed height="355" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Hxx2KcPWWZg" wmode="transparent" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Looking forward to attending &lt;a href="http://www.futureofwebdesign.com/"&gt;Future of Web Design&lt;/a&gt; in London in mid-April. The Academic team will be there in a &amp;quot;Student Zone&amp;quot; inside the MS stand area wanting to talk to designer students about how they use software and if we can help them or their lecturers (like we do so well with the CS crowd)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;(Hat to &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/justsean/archive/2007/08/14/we-ve-got-a-million-ideas-if-not-two-million.aspx"&gt;Sean Lyndersay&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8345817" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/markjo/archive/tags/Expression/default.aspx">Expression</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/markjo/archive/tags/Student/default.aspx">Student</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/markjo/archive/tags/Fun/default.aspx">Fun</category></item></channel></rss>