March 4, 2008: Microsoft’s East Coast Launch Event

Today is the New York City launch of the Microsoft 2008 product line. The official initial launch was held in Los Angeles last week but today was the kick off of the east coast tour. For those of you who have never been to a Microsoft launch event it includes all day seminars and classes …

March 3, 2008: Furlough Surprise

I managed to get up and get moving this morning and get in to work on the early side. Just to find out that I am getting furloughed in about two weeks. (For those not familiar, a furlough is a layoff that is supposed to be temporary.) So in roughly two weeks (date to be …

March 2, 2008: Playing on AsoBrain

Dominica’s first thing this morning was playing MySims on the Nintendo Wii. She is starting to get into it a bit. It is a cute and simple game but it looks like it might be a bit of fun. It adds some new twists to the Sims family of games. The graphics are definitely good. …

March 1, 2008: Potty like a Rockstar

We slept in a little this morning and then hooked up the Nintendo Wii (it has been disconnected since we took it to dad’s house just before Christmas) and I played through the first chapter of Dragon Quest Swords. That took between ninety minutes and two hours. My first impression is that DQS is good …

February 29, 2008: Happy Birthday to Eric Millen

Eric Millen, born on leap year day 1976, today celebrates his eighth ever actual birthday. It is hard for people who have birthdays every year to think about how strange it must be to not actually have a day to call your birthday except for every fourth year. And, because of the phasing between the …