Gaming
So its been 5 months since my last post... My wife is expecting! We'll be a family of 4 sometime in November Work is still cruising along pretty well One of my sites, http://halocharts.com, has grown significantly in the last 5 months. It is now getting 2000-2500 unique visitors a day and is tracking over 45,000 Halo 3 players and counting! Been learning WPF and Silverlight and really like it a lot. Not so sure I want to do anymore Flash work when I can write C#. I'm sure there will be a ton of integration...
I was at Wal-mart last night and found a Belkin wireless bridge for the xbox 360 for $60. I took it home, set it up on one of my PC's and plugged it into the xbox. Worked like a charm. I'm now online, part of xbox live and have my media center and xbox talking to each other. I absolutely love how you can download demos of games and download other things like movies and themes and stuff. Its not all free, but a lot of it is. The media center integration is going to be very nice too. I highly recommend...
My wife surprised me with an xbox 360 system (with a HD and headset, very cool). Its been a lot of fun so far playing "Call of Duty 3", especially in 1080i awesomeness. One BIG complaint though: How lame is it that Microsoft didn't include a wireless network adapter in a $400 console. Nintendo's $250 Wii has a wireless adapter built in!!! Now, I have to go out and spend $60-$100 more to get my xbox online. LAME. With that said, I'm still extremely impressed with the system and thankful at the same...