I've been at Microsoft, working on video games, for 10 and a half years. For 10 of those years I've worked on one Flight Simulator title after another, lastly holding the Art Director position for ACES studio-- makers of Microsoft Train Simulator, Combat...

I'm not back yet. But I did clear out some of the comment spam. ugh.

A blogpost, that I might add, which has nothing to do whatsoever with free money in any way shape or form. In the bunco squad we call this "bait and switch." Sim-Outhouse got a few screenshots of FSX the other day, and one of the fellows who frequents...

Niniane's had a blog around for a while now, I just keep forgetting to add it to the roll. I was reminded of Niniane's blog by former ACES team member Steve Lacey (wow! now there's a blast from the past!) who sent along this link: http://www.valleywag...

I'm hoping we get more than one post out of this fellow... :) http://blogs.technet.com/p-12c_pilot/archive/2006/02/21/420153.aspx Also added to the blogroll (and Lacey has been moved to the alumni roll)

This time over at Sim-Outhouse ... http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?t=14412

This time over at Simflight.com http://forums.simflight.com/viewtopic.php?t=49582 (notice how I started naming the screenshots with a little more info?) I wonder where they'll pop up next... ;)

As we move into the six month of ACES team members writing blogs and interacting on Flight Simulator user community boards, I thought it appropriate to point people to this gem from Guy Kawasaki (former Apple evangelist): http://blog.guykawasaki.com...

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70179-0.html

We released some new screens of FSX lately, and as I read over the reactions, one of the things I see are folk asking for shots of this and that. I'd like to take the opportunity to point out that we're not done yet! :) We try not to show stuff off...

http://fsinsider.com/screenshots/default.htm

Better living through video games?

Remember the coyote I talked about in this post from September: http://blogs.technet.com/pixelpoke/archive/2005/09/30/411829.aspx ? Well I think he may have followed me home. I saw another coyote about two blocks from my house. I live right in the...

Happy Valentine's day... http://www.allsaintsbrookline.org/celtic/saints/valentine.html

I hate reusing titles, and I've used the one up above ( Testing, testing, 1.. 2... 3... ) before. But ah well... I'm lazy. Sometimes Mike Gilbert ( tdragger ) and I talk about various posts we intend to write. Mike, being both a better write and a...

We recently got permission (in the last 3-4 months or so) to both blog and reply in some small way in the forums of Flight Simulator enthusiast websites. Because I already have a a lot of work to do, :) I find it hard to do both with regularity. Anyway...

Perusing Roy's blog , I came across a brand new free flight simulator: New Sim My best distance record was 78 feet. I have no idea how I got that, as the best I was able to do after that (consistently anyway) was 68-69 feet.

The guys at Sim-Outhouse find the best links... Car facing a 747 backwash - Google Video

To Owen Hewitt. Proud new father. It appears that Blogger is down, but try this link at your leisure... http://owenhewitt.blogspot.com/ Congrats O!

Caught your attention, didn't I? :) Based off much of the feedback seen from our autoresponded alias: tell_fs@microsoft.com, and at forums like those at Avsim , Mike Gilbert wrote a very nice article: Where Am I? that's worth a look. Even...

While this is a book I've enjoyed tremendously ( The Mother of Storms) The real mother of storms is to be found at the link below: http://www.extremeinstability.com/storms.htm Found via Sim-Outhouse

I've posted this in one of the main Flight Sim user forums (Avsim), but haven't seen an answer. Any takers here? Anybody have any images of a ski retraction lever? Preferably from a Maule, but anything from a single prop'd be helpful. Thank you so...

...I knew him, Horatio. As a good deal who follow the ACES team members blogs are aware, team members Steve Lacey and Joe Stacy are off to join the scary world of the start up. Steve's been pretty cagey about exactly *what* they're up to, but both...

Although the ACES team members are pretty much stuck here in Redmond (with one or two telecommuting exceptions), we build a product that simulates the whole planet. Team members come from all over, and we've done a lot of world travelling, but we still...

I recently went to the optometrist to get my prescription updated, and if you have glasses or contacts, I'm sure you've gone through the little dance: "Okay... which is better, the first one? or... the second one?" as he or she flips through various lens...