No sooner do I buy and import “Dragon Tiger Gate” on DVD do I find out that it’s out on HD DVD in one month. BAH! On that front…I’m going to continue purchasing HD DVDs discs if I find a movie on it that I enjoy. Why? I have plenty of HD DVD players, spares are going to be inexpensive to purchase, and…content is going to drop in price. I only started purchasing DVDs in 1999 and I’m already upgrading to HD…I’m awaiting the next media format eagerly…early early adopter 🙂

Just a few hours ago I met one of the last goals for 2007 (the other goal for Winter 2007 specifically is uploading right now). I have a small prototype of the small game working as previously mentioned. The game is simple but with the lack of time these days it was important to make a push to get it done. I reached my goal a few hours ago but I wasn’t happy with it as it only ran at 6 frames per second at 1080p.

So…I wanted to share content to my 360 from my machines. I have a mix of Windows and Linux running throughout the house but most of my content comes from two main sources (one windows and one debian box). Sharing content from Windows to the 360 is quite easy with WMP but I have most of my content on the Debian server (set up specifically as a data repository). I tried to use EnableRemoteContentSharing (search google…but not really needed) to try and get the data to the 360 from WMP directly and although the content was listed I was unable to play any of it back.

End of year to have a prototype of that simple game that I posted about earlier. Time has been short but things should free up just enough soon.

Akshay skated for the first time in 15 years! Congrats! It’s time to take it to the next level.

For far too long I’ve been wanting two things: 1) To watch movies on my large TV downstairs. 2) To write code while I watch movies. I believe the only solution is to obtain a powerful enough laptop to work downstairs. Then over time to buy large monitors that will sit on the coffee table downstairs so I can write code and watch movies at the same time. This plan needs to go into effect soon because…to be honest…I need to watch movies/TV and I need to do work.

Well, been busy, a little busy but yes busy is the right word for this. A few weeks back (first weekend in November I believe) I had a movie/game night with Omar where we went over the game design of a small strategy game. This game is not Ahhh-choo as we’re delaying that until we have more funds and have a better demo. I’ve talked to a couple people about the game and while it is a very simple game people seem to like the idea.

Everybody remembers Chris Crocker and his statements about Britney Spears, right? If not then here’s a link to the video (language warning). Of course, what you may not know about is the response by Seth Green…here it is.

Sorry I haven’t posted in a while. Many interesting things to talk about over the next bit. I have to start getting a game done ASAP as there’s a design meeting this upcoming Sunday…hmmm…really should get going on that prototype…supra!

Yesterday I visited Fry’s for the first time. I visited the Sunnyvale location and I’m still a little bit awestruck. Frys is an electronics superstore where they have quite a few things…although that’s putting it lightly. They have a whole section (about half the size of my local Futureshop) that’s dedicated to electronics components like resistors, capacitors, soldering items… They have a live piano performance that’s piped throughout the entire store as opposed to having generic radio/top 40.