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Wednesday, April 26, 2006 12:43 AM

iHD Authoring Support

The HD DVD Authoring Forum is live on MSDN, and you can download a couple of samples on the HD DVD page -- http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/hddvd/ . Watch this space (or rather, that space) for more downloads coming soon...
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 7:40 PM

HD DVD -- Live in Las Vegas

Seems like only yesterday we were here at the Las Vegas Convention Centre talking about how HD DVD was "coming soon". Now we're here again just a few short months later for the NAB trade show ( National Association of Broadcasters ), but this time the
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Friday, April 14, 2006 8:08 PM

I'm with Stupid - Part 2

Now the video is up . Of course, it makes a lot more sense (and is very clever) if you are familiar with the Can You Forgive Her? and Go West videos ...
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Friday, April 14, 2006 7:21 PM

Hello, World Part 3: Dealing with State

In the last post , we looked at a very simple (and useless) animation. Today we will look at state and how that can be used to trigger slightly more useful animations. We'll also move from simple "Hello, World" text to have something a bit more practical
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Friday, April 14, 2006 4:35 PM

Updating Firefox as non-admin

Firefox , like all web browsers, needs to be regularly updated to keep up with security patches . Version 1.5 has an auto-update feature built-in, but unfortunately if you're not running as a local Administrator (at least in Windows), it doesn't work.
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Tuesday, April 11, 2006 11:23 AM

I'm with Stupid

I'm a little behind the times, but the amazing new Pet Shop Boys single I'm with Stupid is available on their web site (unfortunately you have to click the blinking coloured square before the page will load; then the music will load in the background
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Friday, April 07, 2006 8:26 PM

When facts get in the way of a good argument

I've wanted to write this blog for a long time, but never gotten around to it. It's a very simple observation, but one that too many people fail to make. Maybe something will come of it :-) Oftentimes you will see something like the following on a web
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Tuesday, April 04, 2006 9:41 PM

Hello, World Part 2: Simple Animation

In the last Hello, World example , I showed you how to place a simple text label on the screen. In this next instalment, we will add a very basic (and somewhat underwhelming) animation to the text label by modifying the markup file. Hello.xmu Here's the
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