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XBOX DAD post -- the power of Windows Home Server with an Xbox 360

As you may have seen in some of my other gaming posts, I love it when my favorite things overlap - e.g. Star Wars and Video Games. In this month's Xbox Dad article , my Windows Home Server hooked up with my Xbox360 and effect was beautiful (literally),

Game Recommendation - Scene It? Lights, Camera, Action

My wife and I recently unwrapped one of my Christmas presents to ourselves - the Scene It? Lights, Camera, Action game for Xbox 360. And the only complaint we had was that we wished we had opened it sooner. The kit comes with four controllers, each featuring

I am going to miss HD DVD

Farewell friend -- we hardly knew ye . Yes, with the news that Toshiba is pulling out and Microsoft has announced that it will discontinue the HD-DVD player add-on for Xbox360 , the format war is over. And that is a good thing. While we early adopters
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HEROES happen here

In case you are of the very few IT professionals who haven't heard yet, Microsoft has an exciting launch coming up next month: Windows Server 2008 SQL Server 2008 Visual Studio 2008 And I am very jazzed to get to attend the global launch event on February

My Xbox 360 has its own blog

Everybody is blogging . I've been blogging myself (here) at Microsoft for almost a year -- with my sincere thanks to all of you who read this . Recently, I started contributing to some larger blogs within Microsoft, including: SYSTEM CENTER - the family
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Go make a Snowflake - and other Christmas gadgets worth checking out

I love the Internet gadgets that come out around the holidays.  My favorite so far has to be the " Go Elf Yourself " from OfficeMax... where you insert your own headshots on little elf bodies and they dance for you.  It will literally

It's time for some fun - in High Definition

Okay, with DPM's launch now complete, I am committed to getting some geek-fun back into my world. And it started with the epiphany that the video projector that I use for my gaming supports 1080 and I wasn't using it to its fullest capability. FYI - if
 
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