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• Silverlight Rehab

  Just loved the team's latest Silverlight video. Props to Adam, Laura, Nic, Monica, Dan, Scott and Tina. Read More... Posted Monday, March 31, 2008 4:47 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: humor, offtopic, silverlight, silverlight 2.0

• MIX08 for Non-Attendees

  At last, the mad rush is over. The run-up to a conference like MIX is always frantic: for me, the first three weeks in February involved a constant juggle of competing priorities. With the exception of one last-minute firedrill, the worst was over by late Friday afternoon. Now it's the calm before the storm; it's too late to fix bugs, to rewrite labs, to rearrange the schedule! Instead, it's a perfect time to write a few blog entries. I'm looking forward to meeting a number of you at the event (do stop me and say hi if you see me!), but I know that the vast majority of folk reading this aren't able to join us in Las Vegas for various reasons. It's therefore my goal over the next few days to relay as many of the highlights as schedule permits. So what's worth looking out for over the next day or two? Firstly, if you haven't seen Scott Guthrie's blog over the last week, you should check out his two most recent posts on Silverlight 2. I never understood how Scott managed to write such in-depth Read More... Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 3:01 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: humor, Expression, screencast, silverlight, lab, silverlight 2.0, mix08

• Watch Jackass 2.5 - Free and Exclusive on Silverlight!

  Although we're all too proud to admit it, I doubt there's anyone reading this who doesn't love to while away the odd bit of free time perusing sites like YouTube and break.com for funny videos of stupid people doing dangerous things. However, there are few individuals who have been more successful at combining funny, stupid and dangerous than the team behind the popular MTV show Jackass , and the several blockbuster movies based on the same premise of a few guys doing everything they can to humiliate and physically damage each other in the name of entertainment. With their latest movie, Jackass 2.5 , the studio is trying a transformational new approach to movie distribution. Instead of relying on box-office revenue, they have partnered with Blockbuster to make it available for free directly over the Internet, funded through advertising. This is an Internet first - an online premiere of a full-length feature film, distributed exclusively using Silverlight and a rich media content distribution Read More... Posted Friday, December 14, 2007 1:14 AM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: humor, silverlight

• A Silverlight Greetings Card

  Thanks to Adam Kinney (again!) for this awesome Halloween greetings card, brought to you by Silverlight and Silverlight Streaming. The full source code can be found on Adam's blog . Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 5:06 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: humor, Sample, silverlight, silverlight streaming

• Shopaholic

  You know your significant other is really into this whole online shopping thing when you come home to this: Read More... Posted Thursday, March 08, 2007 10:04 PM from Even a chimp can write code | 0 Comments Filed under: humor, Online shopping

• The Daily Show's Take on Windows Vista

  The BillG appearance was very funny... Stewart: What does the F12 button do - does it do anything? Gates: I'd stay away from it if I were you - start with F1 and work your way up... Stewart: Is it a joke button - does the F12 button do something to someone else's computer? Gates: Er...no. Gates : [Early adopters] can use the beta version... Stewart : What's the 'beta' version? Will that in any way make them sterile? Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2007 2:17 AM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: Vista, humor

• The Microsoft Office Prank

  It's a long-standing Microsoft tradition that when someone goes away for an extended period of leave, they're at risk of having a prank played on their office. The great Larry Osterman filmed a hilarious video a while back listing many of the examples he's seen, and if you're ever on campus and get the chance to go to the Microsoft Visitor Center , there's a small photo album of some of the better ones. As regular readers will know, I took four week's paternity leave recently after the birth of our third child. The day I came back, I stumbled back down the corridor to my office, thinking to myself how it felt like I'd only been away for a day, when I abruptly stopped at my office door to see a sign that clearly indicated that my office had been given over to a new starter. My nameplate was gone too. What the heck? I know office moves are as regular an aspect of working at Microsoft as the changing of the seasons, but I was still surprised that they'd gone ahead and moved everything while Read More... Posted Thursday, December 14, 2006 12:32 AM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: humor, prank