Archive for March, 2007

Tuesday 2pm - Will Wright Keynote

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

I must start this by stating that I'm going to rush out and buy Spore the moment it hits the shelves. This game is as innovative as Sim City and The Sims were for their time. Will started out with a great talk about story and plot development and the ...

Tuesday 11:30am - After Bust 2.0: Next Ten Years

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

We skipped out on this one when it became apparent the room was crowded and too warm.  Instead we went to Rio Grande for lunch and a mini margarita before heading to the Will Wright keynote. Moderator: Lane Becker , Satisfaction Inc Lane Becker  Satisfaction Inc Michael Sippey   ...

Tuesday 10am - Browser Wars

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

It was very interesting to hear all four browsers battle it out in this type of forum. Here's the basic rundown. AOL didn't say much, Microsoft wouldn't say much, Mozilla said a lot but wouldn't say a few things and Opera talked them all under the table. They all pretty much ...

Pentax K10D Review at Steve's Digicams

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Steve's Digicams has a review of the Pentax K10D up now! It's available at Amazon now for $919 with kit lens. This is the camera I was set on until Scott offered to sell me his Rebel cheap. It still looks pretty good, but I'd have to take a much closer ...

SXSW 10 Years - Ask A Ninja Special Delivery

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Finally :)

Monday 5pm - Death of the Desktop

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Interesting but somewhat prophetic. Elsewhere in the conference I heard someone say that the best way to prevent the future is to predict it. Raskin is definitely predicting his version of the future. He had a few good ideas and many that I didn't agree with. The good ...

Monday 3:30pm - Tech Tools for Film Artists

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Almost interesting.  Sorry, but I only attended because there wasn't much else happening and the 25 minutes sessions were proving to be all fluff. There was a viewing of some videos, flash animations, and samples of rendering tools.  Most of it I'd already seen and some of it was downright old ...

Monday 2pm - Growth of Microformats

Monday, March 19th, 2007

An interesting talk about something I didn't understand because it's just too simple.  I've always wondered: "Isn't this just a pile of attributes on html elements?" and yes, that's all it is.  There's nothing to understand, it's that easy. All that being said, it's simply a way to publish information (that ...

Monday 11:30am - Being a Coppola in the "Brookers" Era

Monday, March 19th, 2007

I didn't pay much attention to this session. I was more intent on catching up on some email and feeds since I was finally able to get a reasonable connection on my table. Mark took some notes so hopefully he will post something when he gets time to ...

Monday 10am - Getting Girls Into Games

Monday, March 19th, 2007

The only panelist that I was familar with was Jane Pinckard and that's only through occasionally reading her articles. This session appealed to me because I have a 10yo daughter who's into gaming and I was interested in understanding her attraction to the games and hopefully help me pick ...