Digigirlz Rock!
I gave a talk to the Digigirlz yesterday and it was a blast. It was 25 high school girls that were on the Microsoft campus all week learning various...
Digital Video Camera and Editing S/W for a Kid?
My youngest likes to record video, but has been doing so on busted equipment and doesn’t have anyone that knows what to do with it once he’s got it....
Oslo talks at the PDC
After 3.5 years, my team’s work in Microsoft’s Connected Systems Division will finally see the light of day! Here are the related talks we’re giving...
George Carlin, Rest In Peace
When I was a teenager, some kids were sneaking out to get drunk or have sex. I was sneaking into my parents’ record collection to listen to George...
Losing weight the old fashioned way: tonsilectomy
Today is my last day of time off work from a tonsillectomy a week ago Thursday. I’m down to about 20mg of OxyContin/day (from 60mg) and hope to have...
Bill’s Last Review
The last coupla months have been crazy. We’ve been warming up our PDC message with a series of SDR (Software Design Reviews) where we invite folks...
$200 Off Early Registration for PDC2008!
I love the smell of the PDC in the morning...
The Next Generation
When I was in high school, “game programmer” meant at best BASIC or at worst 6502 assembly language, but either way, lots of text manipulation....