Ultima Online was one of the first MMORPGs and is still going strong (well, strong is a relative term). I played back in the day, but it's a really old school game that really doesn't offer the same friendly experience as World of Warcraft. What does this have to do with .NET? Well there's a community out there who develop alternative servers for these games and Ultima Online has one called SunUO that runs on .NET and Mono. How cool is that? Technorati tags: Mono, Ultima Online

This is a test of blogging from within Word 2007. I don't expect it to work, but here are my thoughts anyway. Creating posts using word seems to be quite nice and easy, and of course word makes a really good text editor. It's by no means as good as anything like Windows Live Writer, or any other dedicated tool so I can't see myself actually using it that often though. There's also no nice inbuilt way of doing Technorati links, but they're really just simple links anyway so that's not too much of a loss. To be honest I really...

First, read this. The pertinent section is: I started working on Mono.XNA today. For those of you that don't know what it is, it's a cross platform implementation of the Microsoft XNA framework. So in a good few months, it should be possible to write a game once and then play it on MacOS, Windows, Linux, Xbox 360 and if you're really lucky, the PS3 aswell. http://monotorrent.blogspot.com/2006/12/i-started-working-on-mono.html This is of course great news, I'm a big fan of XNA and getting it on more platforms is going to be really great. Getting it on the PS3 will have the...

My Sky+ (Think primitive Tivo, but with less crippling DRM features) box crashed earlier this evening. This isn't an unusual situation and it usually reboots just fine. This time though everything that I had recorded was deleted and it would no longer pause or record, instead it gave me a number to call for a service. Since I didn't bother paying for the extended warranty when it came up for renewal at the end of the first year I'm assuming that this call would result in an expensive situation. I had a little think and remembered that I work with data recorders...

After having been wiped out by a virus for nearly a week there are plenty of things I've wanted to comment on but just haven't had the energy to do so. Consider this a buckshot of a blog post where I'll try to hit everything that's spun through my fever ridden mind. WPF/E just doesn't seem as exciting as it could have been. Sure, it's a great technology but who's going to install it? Push the final windows version through windows update and then do a deal with Apple for the same and then I'll recommend that we make use...

The current beta of Parallels Workstation for the Mac does something rather cool. At the top of my screen is the Mac menubar. At the bottom is the Windows XP task bar. Yes, at the same time. In the middle I have a combination of Windows and MacOS applications running at the same time as seperate windows. It's almost seamless and really rather amazingly wonderful and usable. You can even use the clipboard between the two OS's (note: I haven't tried anything other than text). I haven't tried Visual Studio yet, but I'm going to. The pure usefulness of running...

I've probably mentioned that I'm a big fan of Office 2007 already. The UI is amazingly good, but that's not the feature that I've been playing with today. That feature is one of the really painfully missing features from the last version: synchronising OneNote workbooks between PCs. One of the benefits of my web host is sharepoint support. I don't use it that often, but that's about to change. OneNote 2007 can share notes over sharepoint and all of a sudden I'm really wishing my tablet still worked. I'm also considering how we can use it at work for sharing...