Kyle McNally http://www.kmcnally.net I'm an IT consultant, web developer, and computer connoisseur Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:07:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 XNA http://www.kmcnally.net/2009/04/05/xna/ http://www.kmcnally.net/2009/04/05/xna/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 01:56:56 +0000 Kyle McNally http://www.kmcnally.net/blog/?p=39 I’ve been thinking about getting involved in programming of some sort for the past few months and I think I’ve finally decided what I want to do. Currently, I have a couple of choices for an alarm clock for waking me up in the morning: My radio, my phone, and my new Nintendo DSi. My radio doesn’t work half the time and my Nintendo DSi has the most annoying alarm in the world. So I’m stuck using my phone, which I have to remember to set every night. This past week, messing with my Zune, I found out that you can install user programs on it. The current solution for an alarm clock on the zune is zAlarm, which I installed but found to be annoying to get to work with my Zune dock. So I’ve started learning XNA so I can write a new alarm program that is simple to use. I started writing a program in C# yesterday.

EDIT: for some reason the image isn’t showing up: www.kmcnally.net/stuff/2009/04/myfirstgame.jpg

EDIT2: Fixed

myfirstgame

Everyone cheers when the balls hit the corner… :-)

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Artifical vs. Natural
(Man vs. Nature)

Man has created buildings, electricity, light, and many other amazing things. But, if we take a step back, and turn off all the electronics, the gadgets and gizmos, we see what we haven’t created. We see how it is much more beautiful and amazing than anything we could ever make. We can look to that for inspiration in our lives, our projects, and our jobs.

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