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October 13 Updating Photos...I have finally started updating my photo albums with more recent pictures. Things have been pretty busy around here, and in case you didn't know, we shipped another big update to Spaces. This time, we even launched a new product called Windows Live Events. You can read more about it on our team space, The Spacecraft. The official blog entry is here.
I have really been delinquent about getting photos uploaded, despite the large volume of them that I have actually taken in recent months. We have been busy enjoying the changing of the seasons, celebrating Christopher's 2nd birthday, and visiting the more rural areas around Seattle in hopes of taking in the fall colors. The photo albums give some context for where we have been, but most recently, we went back to Snoqualmie Falls to check it out. We have this unofficial goal of seeing the falls in every season. Apparently, it looks pretty cool after a wicked snow storm.
So that has been the jist of what's going on. I will try and get back into a more regular posting rhythm. :-) August 22 An afternoon at Rattlesnake LakeWe took a few hours this afternoon and went for a walk at Rattlesnake Lake. Since we have been home most of the week not feeling well, this was a great way to get back into the swing of things, relax, and enjoy the outdoors on a northwest summer afternoon. If you are in the Seattle area and want to check this place out, it's worth the drive, and offers a decent place to picnic, hike, or swim. I posted a few photos of the trip, and plan to post a few more later. As you can see though, it was a pretty quiet day on the lake. My little pal certainly enjoyed the seemingly unlimited supply of rocks to throw into the lake. I really enjoyed watching him do that. What a picture... August 19 Under the weather...It's funny how life catches up to you, just when you think you have a leg up on her. For the last 4 months, I have been working pretty hard... and I am not just saying this because there is a high probability that my boss reads my blog. I think even he would agree with that assessment. The truth is, whenever you push yourself a lot, for an extended period of time, eventually you reach a saturation point... and that's when things start coming apart. I started feeling lousy about 3 days ago, but it really hit me on Saturday morning. I started with the usual headache, stuffy nose, etc., and then it just blossomed from there. Lousy germs... Anyway, I was planning on taking some time off this week to spend with the family, as a bit of an informal vacation around the house. As it turns out, the first part of that will likely be spent sleeping a lot, and trying to return my body to full health. After I am feeling better, I will start getting more hardcore about my eating, sleeping, exercising regiment. Hopefully that will prepare me for the inevitable winter months and the corresponding flu season that comes with them... Let's hope that I can get a couple days of actual vacation in this week... :-) August 10 Dev Fishing for Photos on Spaces...Many of you that know me, also know that I rarely post entries about what's going on with Spaces. Typically, I manage another blog at http://spacesplatform.spaces.live.com where I will occasionally post some info about how to do things programmatically using Spaces APIs, Feeds, and Gadgets. However, Joe Healy (AKA "The DevFish") recently posted a blog entry about programmatically retrieving photos from your space using RSS, and graciously supplied a link to my space. So, I thought I should post something that might help augment the cool stuff that Joe is evangelizing to the dev folks down in the land of the "hanging chads", sunny south Florida.
First off, I am really excited to see Joe driving folks to Spaces. This service has some really great things to offer, and it's only getting better. So, thanks for that Joe. As I elluded to, I work on developing APIs and other developer integration vectors for Spaces. We came out this year at Mix07 and started talking about basic ways to integrate with our service, but quite honestly, we are barely scratching the surface at the moment. However, that doesn't mean you can't do some cool stuff now. Here are a few things that are currently available...
Scott Lovegrove, for example, recently developed a cool aspx page handler that aggregates the comments from your Space. He made his project available on CodePlex for other devs to party on...
There are also a number of other Spaces related projects on CodePlex:
Gadgets: http://www.codeplex.com/WLSGadgets
Live Writer photo plugin: http://www.codeplex.com/WLSPhoto
Beyond that, there are over 750 gadgets available in the Windows Live Gallery that people have built already... and that is not including Vista side bar gadgets that use Spaces RSS feeds...
So, if you happen to be stopping by after reading Joe's post and are interested in jumping on the Spaces bandwagon... send me a message or leave me a comment if you have any questions about getting started. August 05 Blowing the dust off...I have really been meaning to get some updates out on my space. As you can plainly see, my last update was nearly 3 months ago. That is just unacceptable for a guy who actually works on this product. Nevertheless, there are a number of good excuses for why I haven't been posting, but in truth, I should try to find more time to post updates.
After my last post, I took a trip to Maker Faire in San Francisco to represent Windows Live Spaces. It was a good trip, and I posted some photos of the experience. We published a Maker Faire Space for the occasion as well.... and that is definitely worth checking out. If you have never heard of this event (as I hadn't), it is definitely worth researching.
After the trip to SF, I took an emergency trip to FL to be with my Dad who needed open heart surgery. He had gone into the hospital after not feeling well, and ended up with a triple by-pass. He is recovering well now, but it was tough to see him have to go through that. He has had difficulty with his heart since he had a heart attack on Christmas day 05. Two heart attacks and 8 arterial stents later, and he required the by-pass. The hope is that his arteries will be sound for 15 more years after this surgery. You see, my Dad is a diabetic, a disease he acquired in his late 40s from extensive agent orange exposure during the Vietnam war. Much of these problems are directly related to the disease... but that is a story for an entirely separate post... The important thing is that he is getting better.
After the trip to FL, we did find time to do some vacationing locally, and I will be posting some photos of that soon enough. Christa's family was in town for about 10 days in June, so we took a trip to Victoria, B.C. as well as the typical tourist spots in and around the Seattle area. Fun was indeed had by all...
Now here we are in August, and I am having some trouble recalling what we did in July :-). I am certain that we stayed busy though, and as we move into September, we will likely remain busy. Nevertheless, I will get back to being more regular with my posts so I don't get this sort of bloggers block again. It would be great if my friends that read this, would actually leave me a comment or a message, instead of sending me an email wondering what has been going on with me. :-) That way, I know who is being left in the dark by my lack of posting...
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