Will be heading to Enderby, BC tomorrow for a family reunion. Should be there for about a week. I have finished porting all of this sites content over to my new BlogEngine.NET based website, but I am still fiddling with the code for the gallery. So with any luck in around a few weeks I will replace this site with the new one.

OK this has got to be the last time I do this! I have ported over my website content to the new site and have added a few new pieces of content. I know I have said this before but I have got to stop doing this.

XNA

• Updated the Stream content reader/processor to support xna 2.0
• Updated the Text File reader/processor to support xna 2.0
• Updated the XMLDocument content reader/processor to support xna 2.0
• Added a new project called ZexMenu (See the videos section for a preview of my Zider engine)
• Added new project called Pluunty
• Added new project called zeeAni
• Added new project called CBXInputBindings
• Added new project called CBXInput4XNA
• Added new project called xCollectiveXNA
• Added new project called TiledBackground
• Added new project called XNAGameCodeKit
• Added new project called Waazly
• Added new project called AvatarDialogBoxes
• Added new project called XNAAchievers
• Added new example project Stenciling

Projects

• Added xDocs to the projects page - Blogengine.net/asp.net usercontrol
• Added xGallery to the projects page - Blogengine.net/asp.net usercontrol
• Added xImageLink to the projects page - Blogengine.net/asp.net usercontrol
• Added ADVBlogger to the projects page - Blogengine.net extention
• Added Simbegal to the projects page - Blogengine.net/asp.net usercontrol
• Added xPagePathNav to the projects page - Blogengine.net extention

Other Updates Include

• Added XML comments through out many of the Zider related projects
• Most if the projects I have now have documentation pages associated with them. The documentation pages are auto generated using xDocs
• My previously owned ScamInformation.com domain is now going for $14,500 :(
• Added ALL my pictures to the gallery page. But it could be organized better :P There are over 3000 pictures!

As well as various other additions and changes.  To many to remember them all. :P

 Firefox constanly crashing!!!  Geeze I upgraded to firefox 3.0 and it seems to crash constantly! It's like russian roulette web surfing you never know when it's going to crash. I must have submitted like 50 error reports so far.

Stupid asp.net password system got messed up some how and could not log in to this site. Grrr.

Anyhoo, just making a post cause I have not made any recently. I am still working on my zider project and am making progress but as usual progress is very slow going. I have not felt like programming this last week and have only wrote about a dozen lines of code.

I have also been working on moving the content from this site to a new site I am setting up. The new site will use Blogengine.net to power it.

After seeing what Jonny Lee had done with the Wiimote desktopvr software I decided to write up a quick article on how to create your own wii headgear so you do not need to use the wii sensor bar. You can read the article here.

The xna team just announced on Feb 20, 2008 that they will be finally making it possible to publish your home brew games on xbox live.

But wait that's not all. They are also bringing the xna platform to the ZUNE!!!  Un-freaking believable!!! Two thumbs up! WAY UP!

As I was looking on the neat for ways to hook up my wiimote controll to my bluetooth laptop I came across Jonny Chung Lee's wii projects page. In a word it's freaking awsome! Ok that was more than one word but still you should check out the amazing possibilities that are cheap to implement and make you realize just how much more versatile a wiimote can really be. Click here to visit the site.

I just finished watching The Last Mimzy again and I have to say that I think this movie truly re-captures those feelings I felt as a kid watching movies like Back to the Future, The Goonies, and Explorers. It holds that same sense of adventure. So if you were a kid in the 80's remember to check out The Last Mimzy the next time you are in the video store or renting a movies from Zip.ca or NetFlix.

I have posted a RPG objects example application on the projects page. The example code was written so that I could use it as a thinking tool. It implements a very basic RPG item system. Click here to get more info.

I just finished adding a projects page to the site. You can find it here as well as the xImageSV image browsing application.

I have not abandoned this site I'm still here and still playing wow, as a lvl 54 hunter named landasoar. I have also, believe it or not, started to write a little bit of code again. This time I have written some mmo related code for handling items and character knowledge (aka skills). It's just some code I wanted to write to get the feel for how complicated or simple it would be to write an item and character knowledge system. Turns out it rather easy and simple. That was until I broke the code earlier today trying to move it over from vs2008 to vs2005 and xna as well as add a few more features.

I will try to finish the port and get a simple working demo uploaded to this site ... whenever I can stop playing wow for a few hours.

Also, I still keep forgetting to upload the remaining 2 gigs or so of 4mp pictures I have taken these last two years. You can see what I have uploaded so far on the gallery page.