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Lasagne, pizza.

One for lunch, the other for dinner. The result? I'm suddenly wide awake at 4 AM.

Posted to Jim Blizzards Blog (Weblog) by jimblizzard on 05-07-2008
Silverlight streaming - getting simple

It took quite a while for me to create / produce / upload my first Silverlight streaming application . And the results were pretty low tech. After talking with Healy , I discovered the process can be simplified tremendously, and the output can be so much nicer (mainly because of a media player skin template...

Posted to Jim Blizzards Blog (Weblog) by jimblizzard on 11-08-2007
Odd Couple

On Wednesday evening I walked down to the Seattle waterfront, in search of some non-finger food. Unfortunately most (all?) of the shops and restaurants in Pike Place Market had already closed for the day. I eventually found a Tully's coffee shop that was still open. Bought a turkey & cranberry...

Posted to Jim Blizzards Blog (Weblog) by jimblizzard on 07-27-2007
DATE CHANGE!!! One more for the road...

Update: I have to change the date! We're flying out to Tampa on Tuesday the 15th. As a result, I'm changing the date of my last PND to THURSDAY, February 10 -- as in, THIS THURSDAY. Same location: Lloyd Center. I hope to see you there! Spread the word One more Portland Nerd Dinner. This one to...

Posted to Jim Blizzards Blog (Weblog) by jimblizzard on 01-19-2005
Portland Nerd Dinner recap - Jan 2005

Ah, another wonderful Portland Nerd Dinner. Very cozy. Very satisfying. 14 people or so made it out to the mall last night for some fun. Greg brought his ultra-cool Sony Vaio which was loaded with his pictures from his trip back from Hawaii on an aircraft carrier. 1) Nothing is as sexy as an aircraft...

Posted to Jim Blizzards Blog (Weblog) by jimblizzard on 01-14-2005
Top Gun

I took a stroll over to Ian's blog this afternoon and I saw this picture. Hm. That looks familiar. Ian's Top Gun picture I dropped into my TechEd pictures folder and there it was -- my own capture of the same sign. Heh. Everyone with a camera probably takes a picture of that sign when they eat...

Posted to Jim Blizzards Blog (Weblog) by jimblizzard on 05-29-2004
Dinner with the DEs...

On Tuesday night I had a chance to eat dinner with a bunch of the Microsoft Developer Evangelists and Developer Community Champions. It's great to be able to get together as a group from time to time to talk about how things are going, what exciting things are happening with the user groups we work...

Posted to Jim Blizzards Blog (Weblog) by jimblizzard on 05-28-2004
Dinner with these guys...

My stomach still hurts. On Wednesday evening I went to dinner with a few guys. The food was excellent, but the laughter… oh, the laughter was too much. I've never laughed so hard in my life. I took the following picture to record the event for posterity. Just before dinner with Cory , Carl...

Posted to Jim Blizzards Blog (Weblog) by jimblizzard on 05-28-2004
Envy

[ Update : apparently some people outside the US don't have Dove bars. What are they? A little piece of heaven on a stick. Very creamy vanilla ice cream covered with very rich and creamy chocolate. Click here for my other post about them. (But be careful, once you see one you'll never be the...

Posted to Jim Blizzards Blog (Weblog) by jimblizzard on 05-26-2004
PND in San Diego - recap

I met a few new Portland nerds (well, they've been in Portland for a while, and they're not new to Nerddom, but I'd never met them at a Nerd Dinner before, so that makes them a new Portland nerd (and no, that does not mean that the world revolves around me (although somtimes (OK frequently...

Posted to Jim Blizzards Blog (Weblog) by jimblizzard on 05-25-2004

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