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The time has come to finally move away from hosting my blog on MSDN. There are a few reasons for this transition but the two main deciding factors were that posting personal posts on a MSDN blog seemed odd (at least to me) and that I already had my own
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As you have seen from posts in the past, I have been selling things on eBay alot over the years. With my recent inventory liquidation sale, I have gone back into being more of a full-time eBayer. So I have decided to take a look in some wholesale sources
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Near 1 am, getting tired. So it is indeed time to go to bed. But since I havn't posted in a few days, I thought I would post a quick update. House Life Actually started working more on the house with my wife. Not that we hadn't been doing anything before
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My ex-boss, Steve Lacey, who now works at Google posted an interesting tidbit about VC's (Venture Capitalists). ARTICLE HERE. "So, apparently there’s an event in New England where Venture Capitalists go and ski and entrepreneurs can pitch to them if their
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Still geting a bunch of questions about the HOA and how some of the bills are paid and why some missing. Somewhat earks me condiering i've dropped off the box almost one month ago. Any HOA questions from this point on will be kept siomplr on my end. Just
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Taking advantage of some of my time off, i've started writing out a more formal business plan for Paradoxal Press . From a general business point of view, most of the business plan details (what I want to do, where the business is heading,...) was already
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E3 Fallout, my thoughts about Xbox 360, PS3 and The Wii… Well I won’t go too deep in this as E3 has come and passed and there were already several post out there. But there has been some interesting developments in the console wars this year. Of course,
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Some of you may wonder about the new Paradoxal Press online book store. Does this mean that I am moving from publisher to retailer? Hell No! The idea behind the online book store is to provide added value to our customers. Why only buy our books on ParadoxalPress.com
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Is Amazon Biased Against Small Publishers? Seems that dealing with Amazon is hard, or near impossible. I myself do not know if this is the standard with them but as a small publisher, it is near impossible to reach a human being there. I have had several
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Our new title " Practical .NET2 and C#2 " has started to get great reviews by some big names. (and by the way, the 10% off amazon sale on ParadoxalPress.com has been extended indefinetly). The book has amazing breadth of knowledge. I'm very surprised
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I have been invited by Thomson (Course PTR) to conduct a secction at the upcoming Game Developers eXchange 2005 this May 6th. The topic of my talk will be the following: "Shaders for Programmers and Artists: RenderMonkey 101" – Sebastien St-Laurent The
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Also note that I will be a speaker at the following conference... Atlanta, GA; March 15, 2005 -- The Savannah College of Art and Design and Thomson Course Technology present Game Developers eXchange 2005, Friday, May 6, 9 a.m. to 5:15 p.m., at SCAD-Atlanta,
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For those of you who are subscribed to my blog, you may have seen a few of my posts about my will to self-publish my next book. But for those who may not know, having recently published my first book , I have been contemplating a different path for my
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One day after my first post on how after two months my new book still wasn't listed on Amazon.com, the listing has finally shown up ( check it out ). I'm sure my post had nothing to do with it but it sure feels good that my book is finaly listed out there
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Now why does things always have to be complicated when it is even a simple task? Guess a little background would be in order. Well I'm sure you know from my previous posts that I've recently release a book on shaders “ Shaders for Game Programmers and
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