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259 days ago
I've gone all non-updatey again, sorry. I've been busy with a lot of future stuff, but I'm still around! So, if you didn't already know, the Xbox community types started up a blog last month, here: blogs.msdn.com/xboxvoices. You can catch me and the community team rambling on about various things quite often, so do take a look!
343 days ago
Seattle's getting a white Christmas this year. We're so hopeless in the snow! I changed my avatar accordingly... Hope your winter festivities are going well, and happy new year!
378 days ago
NXE is finally here! And to celebrate this momentous occasion, I have a new article up on Xbox.com. NXE: Are you Experienced? Do you have your avatar yet? Here's mine: I'm going to cautiously open comments again. Hopefully we'll have a little fun before the spammers strike.384 days ago
Dear reader, Hi! How are you? Long time no chat. I'm still here, if you're wondering. Been hard at work on a little thing called the New Xbox Experience. Through most of the year, I was working on UI, specifically the text for labels, buttons, etc. for the new dash and guide. When that wrapped up, I moved on to getting our help articles ready for the switch. Still working on that, actually. I just finished up my first Elle article in quite a while. You'll be seeing that next week. Any guesses on what it's about? ;) Let's see, what else. Oh yeah, today's my 8th year anniversary at Microsoft. Where are my presents? Not that you can answer that. I had to turn off comments on this site. I really like it when you guys post comments, but I've been getting way too much comment spam. Just the other week I had to delete spam on every single post on the site. 3 years of posts! So, until Windows Live Spaces comes up with a way to deal with it, I'm just turning them off. But you can still ...
459 days ago
So, I stopped by PAX today. It was freaking awesome, as expected. That exhibit hall keeps getting bigger and bigger every year. It's amazing how quickly PAX has become the go-to event for gaming. Hand-out-to-everyone swag was a little underwhelming, but I did score a skateboard and backpack from Champions Online. Bonus! A couple of notables for the day: I went to the female gamer communities panel (naturally), which my friend Trixie was moderating. Great panel and really good questions from the audience. I also stopped by the Microsoft booth when Josh Orgeta and Pete Hayes were signing Gears of War 2 posters. Josh and me go way back to... um... Viva Pinata... so he hooked me up with one. He's a swell guy, that Josh. I luffs him to pieces. A bunch of us wanted to go to the "is casual games killing core games" panel tonight, but by the time we got there, there was a huge line waiting to get in. We were puzzled for a minute, till we looked up who was on the ...
