Really looking forward to this one with my friend @adkinn presenting.
Josh and I are in the front row promising to keep our heckling down to a minimum 
HTML5 with Stephanie Rewis
Enjoying a great talk on HTML5 here at MIX11 with Stephanie Rewis. Wonderfully knowledgable speaker.
MIX Registration – The line
Some things you can depend on to not change and that’s the ridiculous line for registration every year. Perhaps we could open registration the night before?
Word Clouds for MIX11
I love these things. Getting excited to attend MIX11 next week in Vegas!
Word clouds of the first names and cities of MIX11 attendees:
I’m registered to attend MIX11 in Vegas, are you?
The awesomeness that is Silverlight Spy
I’ve gone far too long without adding my two cents about the awesomeness that is Silverlight Spy. If you are a Silverlight/Blend/UX guy like me you’ll understand how this tool is indespensible to doing your job. Being able to Ctrl+Shift over elements on the page and navigate the tree to find things in a large solution is a massive time saver. Here is the other thing that is amazing; at runtime you can manipulate properties and see them reflected immediately. Are you kidding me?? So much wasted time with tweaking/building/tweaking/buidling. It’s been an epic time saver for me.
Props to the creator of this app Koen Zwikstra. I had a question one time and emailed his contact info on the site not expecting an reponse soon, if at all and he replied within 15 minutes. Maybe I got lucky but that was crazy goodness. Silverlight Spy you rock!
I won an Xbox 360 with Kinect!!!
Today I won an Xbox 360 with Kinect at the Silverlight Firestarter conference on the Microsoft campus!!!
I was out of the room when it was announced and just happened to be glancing at a list of people later and saw my name. I asked what it was about and they handed me this. How much does this rock?!?!!
Thanks Microsoft!
World Usability Day and Kinect
Had a really enjoyable day today at Microsoft for World Usability Day. One of the best talks was John Davis with Xbox talking about the User Research that went into Kinect. Can’t wait to get one of these bad boy!
ATT: “problems with WP7 SD card”
So I guess this isn’t breaking news but it was news to me. I was the first person in Bellevue to purchase a Samsung Focus Windows Phone 7 this morning. About halfway through the paperwork she told me:
“We found out this morning that there is a problem with the external sd card. Please don’t install one untill you hear from Microsoft or ATT because it could “cause problems” with your phone.”
I asked when they knew about this and she said we just found out this morning. I guess news to her as well!
@timheuer sums it up nicely!
