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Mike's Discount Software

Fri, 04 May 2007 19:25:28 -0700

My good buddy Mike Vastarelli from way back, and when I say way back I mean when I was about half my current height and prepubescent, opened up a discount software shop (http://www.vdiscountsoftware.com) selling applications at near wholesale rates.

If you're in the market, keep him in mind. You'll save yourself a fistful of cash and in the process help him pay for his Master's degree. :)

I wish you lots of luck Mike'y!

Microsoft Game Studios - Live Anywhere

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:36:27 -0800

Apartment 2.0

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:59:46 -0700

Working on Live Meeting at Microsoft.

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:09:15 -0700

Before we shipped Live Server Beta 2 on Thursday, I hung this from my cube:

Switch -- The command line alternative to A

Sat, 05 Aug 2006 09:57:51 -0700

This little beaut is a way to switch to other processes by simply keying in a regular expression of either the PID, process name, or window title.

So for instance, this command:
sw firefox

Would grab the first instance of firefox in your tasklist and make it the active window.

Even better, if you happen to remember that you were just looking at CNN, you could instead type:
sw cnn

And probably have a better chance of getting switched to the right Firefox window.

This gets really powerful when you put sw.exe in your path. Then you can simply hit [Windows Key]+R to pull up the run dialog, type in: sw {Process You're Interested In} and be there in no time flat.

Automate a bunch of machines ... automatica

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:15:42 -0700

RemoteExecute.bat
@echo off setlocal setlocal enableextensions setlocal enabledelayedexpansion


FOR /F "eol=;" %%i in (machines.txt) do (

	ping %%i > nul

	set ERROR=!ERRORLEVEL!

	FOR /F "tokens=1,2,3* delims=: " %%a in ('time /t') Do (

		set HR=%%a

		set MIN=%%b

		set TOD=%%c

	)

	if !TOD!==PM set /A HR=!HR!+12

	set /A MIN=!MIN!+1

	echo Scheduling an update at !HR!:!MIN! for machine: %%i ...

	if !ERROR! EQU 1 (echo Error: %%i is down! ) ELSE (

		echo Running update.bat on %%i

		FOR /F "tokens=9*" %%a in ('at \\%%i !HR!:!MIN! /interactive cmd /C C:\update.bat') Do set NEWPID=%%a



The ROL Belgian ROFL exclusive!
Fri, 04 Aug 2006 10:01:03 -0700
I'm proud to bring you DanjaminCups exclusive Rise of Legends comic starring, the one, the only, *drum-roll* the Doge!!





Dummies for Outlook
Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:58:45 -0800
Microsoft normally means business, but yesterday it reverted back to its rather hilarious two years old self. 
It all started so quiet too... 
Most everyone straggled in late (except for me of course, but then who said I was normal?), a little under-the-weather from having drank too much pumpkin-nog. Then a perfectly innocent email appeared in my inbox addressed to a company wide email alias. 
The contents read:
"I wanted to see if you would be calling me [something about setting up an email address for some new hire]
Please advise.
[A table with a column of values labeled CS Requisition Number, CS Position Number, Reports to Manager, Requestor, Estimated Start Date, Position Start Date, Position End Date] 


Shiny
Thu, 08 Sep 2005 21:28:06 -0700
After years of being completely out of contact, blissfully wrapped up in our own projects, my good friend and old buddy Steven Huber stumbled on to this site and in to the #abzaar EFNET IRC channel. 
We laughed, we cried, we got reacquainted and then Steve showed off his latest work; a rather amazing music video that's being featured in the November issue of American Cinematographer.
David Fincher eat your heart out.


WOW: Aritfacts, Trust, and a Whole lot of F
Sat, 03 Sep 2005 12:30:47 -0700
Is this the next big thing for World of Warcraft? Give it a look and decide for yourself!


Excel Pivot Functions
Fri, 04 Aug 2006 10:03:14 -0700
While trying to improve the way I track my teams' progress here at Microsoft Game Studios it dawned on me that I needed a way to conditionally pivot on cells in a range and then return the column headers of the cells that matched the condition. Ideally I wanted it to be a module so I could use it as a function (ie =GetColHeader(...) or =GetTableHeader(...)). 
A few minutes and some coffee later, my fingers brought in to being these VBA snippets:



Car meet Post
Thu, 25 Aug 2005 04:09:56 -0700
I have the classiest neighbors.



I of Borg
Sun, 08 Apr 2007 00:07:06 -0700

 Eye laser implants will soon follow!


Keeping up with the Jonses.
Mon, 18 Jul 2005 22:46:56 -0700
This DSL connection is slow and I have a 700 MB ISO that I downloaded while I was in NY to prove it. In retaliation I've setup a torrent tracker in a vain attempt to alleviate the heinous pain that is my up speed. 
If you're hunting for the link, look no further, click here (and please seed!). For future reference the URL can also be found in the appropriately labeled "Links" block on the right hand margin. 
On the subject of seeding I should probably say what's hopefully obvious to everyone reading. Torrents.Razing-The.Net is in no shape or form to be thought of like Suprnova. :) 
The files being hosted at the moment are of my own making, meaning *gasp* legal. The plan is to stick any files over five megs on the tracker to theoretically cut down bandwidth usage (ha!) with the added bonus of improving download speeds for visitors. 


Strongbox Entertainment
Sat, 09 Dec 2006 02:03:08 -0800
It takes  gargantuan guts to start a company. Luckily the the founders of StrongBox Entertainment are in no short supply of stomach (just kidding!). Having recently released their debut game, Booster Logic, the team has clearly shown they're willing, capable, and ready for the challenges that lie ahead. 
So go on already, play the demo! When you're done I think you'll agree with me when I say, "Garage games are alive, well, and a heck of a lot of fun."