Archive for March, 2011

11 Years and Still Going Strong!

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

I love that people are still using Bitmap Font Builder after all this time and want to thank everyone that sends me an email telling me what they’re using the application for. I’m just tickled to know that in the 11 years since I wrote it (it’s been six years since its last release!) that [...]

Xbox Live Support Woes Followup

Thursday, March 17th, 2011

After writing my blog post about issues I was having with my son’s Xbox Live Gold account, I used social media to my advantage and tweeted a link to my story to @xboxsupport, and started a thread in the Chatty on Shacknews.com (where I regularly hang out … I’d link to my profile, but … [...]

PSA: When Signing Up for Xbox Live, Lie About Your Kid’s Age

Monday, March 14th, 2011

My nine year old son and I play video games together. A lot of video games. So many in fact, that I decided a while back to buy him his own Xbox 360 so we could play System Link games together. Halo co-op is a lot more fun when every player doesn’t have to share [...]