I confess, I’m completely addicted to Dragon Age: Origins this game is both beautiful and fun to play.  I have a few very minor UI complaints, but the game itself is solid and REALLY well done.  I also think BioWare was clever to introduce the concept of quests from NPCs that may link to downloadable (using BioWare points with the PC version) content.  What a great idea to seamlessly sell add-on content!

It’s an early Christmas present from my wife, and boy oh boy what a GREAT gift!!

There, I confessed it.  That explains my lack of posts as of late.  The next few weeks will be quiet posts or perhaps me going on about Dragon Age. :)

Thanks for the great game BioWare!  Dragon Age ROCKS!  Just would like to get my hands on the person who decided the Right Click button would be select in the PC Version.  Never mind that in Windows it’s always been completely the opposite!  Please fix this if you read this post, or at very least give the user the option of swapping.  Thanks! :)

During my years of software development I’ve gone from working with fantastic QA people and having NO QA what-so-ever.  It amazes me how good a skilled QA person is at finding the strangest of defects using steps I never thought to try during my own testing and unit test development.

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Anyone that knows me knows that while I’m objective, I’m also a VERY big Microsoft fan.  That is until you talk about Windows Mobile.  How can a company like Microsoft miss the boat as much as they have? More...

Today a good buddy of mine sent me a link to an article on Slashdot that talked about Apple refusing to work on a PC because it was in the home of a smoker.  Is this a violation of first amendment rights or is it just me?  More...

I recently ran across a post asking about how to setup BingPaper as a scheduled task on CodePlex.  I figured I’d create a post to assist.

If you’re running Windows 7 (if you’re running anything pre-Win7 do yourself a favor and upgrade.  Need convincing?  Check out my other post: 7 Reasons why Windows 7 is better and there are lots of people raving about how great 7 is on the net.) More...

I recently made contact with the fine gentleman that created the Bing Image Archive web site located here.  This web site is very cool looking and also displays Bing images from the different regions as well.  Thanks to him, BingPaper will experience a nice re-factor here soon that will GREATLY improve the method of image retrieval as well as allowing the ability to retrieve the images from the various regions.  A very big thanks to Long Zheng!

Over a month or so ago now I re-installed Windows 7.  I used Mozy to do my restore but for some reason this time around I had to re-upload to my entire backup.  It’s about 98gigs in size and for the last month or so now it’s been trying to upload with nothing but problems.

BingPaper sees over 300 downloads in just over two weeks!

BingPaper has been released for just north of two weeks now and it’s seen 302 downloads as of this blog post.  With this type of interest, it’s worth going over what I have in store for this application moving forward. More...

Sometimes installing software can be problematic…

For a while now I’ve been using Bing.  When Microsoft first announced it, I decided I would force myself to type the Bing URL instead of the Google one for a week.  At first it was VERY difficult for me.  It was such a habit to open IE and type the Google URL into the browser and even did a few times.