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Zombie walk in Seattle sponsored by XBox team!
03 July 09 12:53 PM | PhilWh | 0 Comments   

So if you’re tired of shooting Zombies in Left4Dead on your XBox, or have beaten the “I, Zombie” level on Plants vs Zombies one too many times, and you’re in the Seattle area – try the live action event! http://blog.seattlepi.com/digitaljoystick/archives/172804.asp?from=blog_last Read More...

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Microsoft Hohm enters Beta
25 June 09 03:26 PM | PhilWh | 0 Comments   

Some of you may have already seen the Hohm site – but if you haven’t you can take a look over at www.microsoft-hohm.com (and sign up while you’re there.)  I’d also recommend taking a look and possibly subscribing to the team blog – http://blog.microsoft-hohm.com Read More...

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Bio Post
04 May 09 05:51 PM | PhilWh | 1 Comments   

Philip Wheat started out in development back when you learned from Compute Magazine (by typing in the code) and had to know something about soldering to expand your memory with most computers. When he entered college he had his eyes set on Aerospace Engineering, Read More...

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Signs of life.
28 April 09 07:31 PM | PhilWh | 1 Comments   

Did ArcReady Austin today, CloudCamp on Saturday.  Look for some more blog posts later this week. Read More...

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GameCamps coming to Austin June-Aug.
17 April 09 12:04 PM | PhilWh | 1 Comments   

With me living in Austin, I get to hear (and talk) about game development a lot.  If you don’t know, Austin is the MMORPG development capital of the world.  (To go along with the Live Music Capital thing.)  Well, there are game design graduate Read More...

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ArcAttack does the Dr Who theme like it deserves!
13 April 09 07:33 AM | PhilWh | 0 Comments   

Giant Tesla coils, the Doctor Who theme, a parking lot in downtown Austin.  It’s it great when things come together like that?  (Yep, it’s the Orbital remix of the theme if you were wondering.) Read More...

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Design your Dream PC
10 April 09 07:01 AM | PhilWh | 2 Comments   

Asus has introduced a new challenge – tell them what you want in a PC and they’ll look at the entries and build the winning design!. http://www.wepc.com/ Read More...

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Amazon sells downloadable games – for XBox 360!
08 April 09 09:03 AM | PhilWh | 1 Comments   

Amazon is really working hard to become the first place you go to find digital content.  We all know what the Kindle is doing for eBooks, and the Amazon digital music service is my favorite today.  Well, I just found out that they’ve just jumped Read More...

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Nonstandard interfaces
02 April 09 09:13 AM | PhilWh | 1 Comments   

Just as a note, recently I've been talking to a lot of people about nonstandard interfaces.  For the next bit I'm willing to test out one of the current “nonstandard interfaces” available to us right now by dictating my blog posts using the native Read More...

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If you’re not already in town for SxSWi (or may be if you even are.)
12 March 09 12:05 PM | PhilWh | 1 Comments   

Amazon has a free sampler of the Music you'll hear at SxSWm - you can grab it here and put it on your Zune for that flight down.  (Well I guess you could put it on another MP3 player as well... Like your Kindle or something.) Read More...

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I’ve always loved the Vision videos.
03 March 09 07:50 PM | PhilWh | 1 Comments   

You might have figured that out about me, I’ve been a fan since even before the original .Net launch vision videos.  Well, Office Labs dropped out another one of them last week – you can see the envisioning video here or the full series here .  Read More...

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Delicious Tags
02 March 09 07:23 PM | PhilWh | 1 Comments   

Chris has convinced me that Delicious is useful – not just for me keeping track of my own bookmarks but to get information out without re-posting or having things get stale.  For that end, I’ve re-discovered my account and have put up a tag cloud Read More...

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University classes on YouTube
16 January 09 04:06 PM | PhilWh | 0 Comments   

I've been meaning to dig in, but I got a ping earlier today and took another look.  With everything going on right now in the world, it's always good to try to keep up and continue building a strong base of knowledge.  I use The Teaching Company Read More...

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OK, nothing to do with tech, but I had to post it in honor of the new episodes coming out on Friday.
14 January 09 03:43 PM | PhilWh | 1 Comments   

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OK, I am old
17 December 08 08:59 PM | PhilWh | 0 Comments   

I remember when games like   ( http://www.retroist.com/2008/12/17/the-video-game-systems-of-the-1983-sears-wishbook/sears-wishbook-video-games-01/ ) were really neat! I don't see my old trusty VIC-20 there, but I think that's because these are from Read More...

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