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31 Jan, 2009

My Unfortunate Xbox360 Experiences

Posted by: Carl In: toys

I love the console–and that’s why I keep coming back, but, unfortunately, I’m on my fourth machine due to the past three dying via the “red ring of death” (RROD).  Each time I had the Best Buy warranty, so, I wasn’t very frustrated, just a little inconvenienced.
I put together a quick graph of my Xbox360s’ [...]

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20 Nov, 2008

I want my augmented-reality games!

Posted by: Carl In: toys

The concept of augmented-reality (AR) is not all that new.  A few years back I remember reading about an AR Pacman game that used cameras, goggles, and GPS (find out more here). Even more recently, as of a few weeks ago, Gizmodo had a short video of a Japanese AR girlfriend (check it out here).  [...]


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I'm an ASP.NET developer who loves learning new frameworks, and methodologies, and I absolutely love simple, yet elegant solutions (don't we all?). Since I'm constantly picking up new things, I'm always asking myself how I can use the new knowledge in my current app to make it better, or more user friendly (or even more developer friendly). In my free time I typically am coding, reading tech books or spending time with my beautiful bride. And that's about it. Hope I didn't bore you too much.