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Sunday, June 22, 2008 5:01 PM

PDC2008: A Day in the Life #2

[You can skip to the last two paragraphs if you’d like to offer suggestions] Here we are…one month later with the second post in a series about the PDC2008 Content Owner role. If you don’t know what a Content Owner does, I’d recommend reading PDC2008:
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Monday, June 02, 2008 9:23 PM

How I Make My Wallpaper Images

I’ve put this one off for way too long. For everyone who has sent me e-mail over the years asking how I create my wallpaper images, I’ve finally taken the time to write down my thoughts, techniques, workflow, tips, and tricks . Wow…I never realized how
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Sunday, June 01, 2008 11:50 PM

How I Make My Wallpaper Images

Almost every week, I receive e-mail asking how I create my wallpaper images ; this is an attempt to answer those questions. Until I sat down to outline this article, I didn’t realize how many steps I actually go through! For context, I’ve been a photography
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:29 AM

PDC2008 Registration Opens with Preliminary Sessions

The wait is over! The public PDC2008 site just went live, and you can now register for the conference (and save $200 if you register early). We've published a preliminary set of topics that represents only a fraction of the over 160 sessions you'll see
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Monday, May 19, 2008 10:22 PM

PDC2008: A Day in the Life #1

As the PDC2008 Content Owner and a member of the Core Team, my days are filled with PDC-related activities. I thought I'd blog about some of these activities in a series called A Day in the Life . My hope is that I'll be able to post more of these as
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Monday, May 12, 2008 7:58 PM

Being Green at PDC2008

As the Content Owner for PDC2008, I'm now a member of the Tier 1 Events Council at Microsoft. This is a group that meets a few times a year to share ideas and best practices around our largest events (like Tech·Ed , MIX, and PDC). We met all day today
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Saturday, May 03, 2008 8:48 PM

PDC 2008 Conference Scheduling Using a Genetic Algorithm

If you read my What Do I Do post, you'll know that I'm the Content Owner for this year's PDC 2008 in Los Angeles. MIX08 is behind us, and I've just recently transitioned away from my Web GO role. This means that I can now focus 100% of my time and attention
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Friday, April 18, 2008 8:42 PM

Internet Sharing with the Samsung BlackJack and Windows Vista

I was waiting for a flight out of Orange County Airport earlier this week, and after I fired up my laptop, I couldn't find any publicly available wireless networks. So, I decided to try using my Samsung BlackJack (SGH-i607) for internet connectivity,
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Monday, April 14, 2008 10:04 PM

Over One Million Wallpaper Visitors

I watched the stats for my wallpaper page tick past one million a few days ago. Wow! If you'd have told me when I posted my first macro photo years ago that it'd be the most popular page on my blog (by a long shot), I wouldn't have believed it. I haven't
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Sunday, March 23, 2008 11:39 PM

Donkey Kong at MIX08: Behind the Scenes

In the two weeks since our MIX08 event in Las Vegas, I've been asked many times about Steve Wiebe's attempt to re-claim the Donkey Kong world record at our TAO attendee party on March 5th, 2008. So, I thought I'd document what happened "behind the
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 9:21 PM

MIX08 Show Off Winners

It's hard to believe that MIX08 is over. I was involved in so many aspects of the event that it seems like I attended in some parallel universe! At least I got to see many of you there. Thanks to everyone who submitted an entry for Show Off . Thomas and
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Friday, February 29, 2008 10:06 PM

What Does “Sold Out” Actually Mean?

You’ve probably heard that next week’s MIX08 conference in Las Vegas is sold out. But do you know what that actually means? Does it mean that we decided months ago to cap registrations at an arbitrary number of attendees? Or perhaps we picked
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Thursday, February 07, 2008 9:12 PM

The King of Kong and Show Off at MIX08

We're only one month away from MIX08 in Las Vegas , and I hope you've already registered! In addition to our new MIX UX track for designers , we have a lot of great sessions on the schedule. But MIX isn't just about pumping your brain full of raw content.
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Monday, January 28, 2008 6:07 PM

SEAMonster Loosed to CodePlex

Well, I had good intentions. Ever since my first post about SEAMonster in October, 2007, I've wanted to refactor and clean-up the code for release. In the meantime, I've received many, many e-mails asking when that would happen. To everyone who has patiently
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Saturday, January 26, 2008 8:47 PM

Helvetica: The Documentary

I ran across Jeff Atwood 's blog post, Typography: Where Engineers and Designers Meet , about a week ago. Like Jeff, I've been interested in fonts and typography for a long time. As a matter of fact, I used to create bitmap fonts for the TI-99/4a, Commodore
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